皇冠体育-克利夫斯报告2024年第一季度业绩并宣布新的15亿美元股票回购计划

皇冠体育——（皇冠体育官网商业资讯）——CLEVELAND- cliffs Inc.（纽约证券交易所代码：CLF）今天公布了截至2024年3月31日的第一季度业绩。

2024年第一季度

• 回购了3,040万股股票，占总流通股的6%
• 收入52亿美元
• 钢材净出货量390万吨
• GAAP净亏损5300万美元，调整后净收入8700万美元
• 调整后每股收益为0.18美元
• 调整后EBITDA2为4.14亿美元
• 调整后EBITDA2同比增长70%，环比增长48%
• 截至2024年3月31日，流动性为40亿美元
• 收回所有剩余的担保票据

2024年第一季度收入为52亿美元，而2023年第四季度为51亿美元。

2024年第一季度，公司净亏损5300万美元，摊薄后每股亏损0.14美元，调整后净利润为8700万美元，摊薄后每股亏损0.18美元。结果包括总计2.02亿美元的费用和损失，主要与韦尔顿马口铁设施的无限期闲置和债务清偿损失有关。相比之下，2023年第四季度净亏损1.39亿美元，摊薄后每股亏损0.31美元，调整后净亏损2500万美元，摊薄后每股亏损0.05美元。

2024年第一季度调整后EBITDA2为4.14亿美元，而2023年第四季度为2.79亿美元，2023年第一季度为2.43亿美元。

在2024年第一季度，公司回购了3040万CLF普通股，充分利用了之前授权的10亿美元股票回购计划下的6.08亿美元剩余余额。整个计划的平均股票购买价格为每股18.79美元。在该计划完成后，Cliffs董事会已授权一项新的股票回购计划，该计划将为公司回购高达15亿美元的已发行普通股。公司将有足够的灵活性，通过公开市场收购或私下谈判交易购买CLF股票。公司没有义务进行任何采购，该计划可在任何时候暂停或终止。这项新计划从今天开始生效，并没有明确的截止日期。

cliff董事长、总裁兼首席执行官Lourenco Goncalves表示：“我们第一季度的业绩突出体现在皇冠体育官网汽车生产的弹性，这有助于抵消1月和2月服务中心临时买家罢工的影响。随着汽车业务的增加和服务中心业务的减少，第一季度的组合比原先预期的要丰富，这使得我们的平均销售价格和生产成本都高于预期。”

贡萨尔维斯补充说：“第一季度，我们以极快的速度向股东返还了资本。我们的股票在整个季度都很便宜，而且一直如此，这促使我们耗尽了之前10亿美元的股票回购授权，并开始了另一个更大的回购授权。在目前的估值水平下，购买我们自己的股票显然比任何并购机会都更能利用资金，因此这是我们的主要关注点。”

贡萨尔维斯继续说道：“本季度，我们在绿色钢铁生产方面的努力得到了前所未有的认可。由于我们在减排和劳资关系方面的良好记录，我们成为皇冠体育官网历史上最大的联邦脱碳拨款接受者。这些投资将用于两个改变游戏规则的项目，不仅具有巨大的碳减排前景，而且具有强劲的回报和可管理的资本承诺。”

Goncalves先生总结道：“展望未来，在我们的指导下，我们预计第二季度将从较低的成本中受益。我们最大的终端市场——汽车行业，预计将保持强劲。我们服务中心客户的订单已经开始增加，现货价格也在上升。我们很幸运能与我们的员工建立如此卓越的合作伙伴关系，我们将与我们的工会合作伙伴一起驾驭这个充满机遇的世界。”

炼钢部门业绩

2024年第一季度钢铁产品销量为390万吨，其中32%为热轧，31%为涂层，17%为冷轧，5%为钢板，4%为不锈钢和电气，11%为其他产品，包括平板和钢轨。

50亿美元的炼钢收入中，有16亿美元（32%）来自汽车市场的直接销售；14亿美元，占基础设施和制造业市场销售额的28%；14亿美元，占分销商和转换器市场销售额的28%；对钢铁生产商的销售额为6.06亿美元，占销售额的12%。

流动性和现金流量

展望未来，公司的既定目标是将净债务维持在公司过去12个月调整后EBITDA的2.5倍以下。同样的杠杆目标也适用于未来潜在的并购。截至2024年3月31日，公司净债务为36亿美元，远低于目标水平。截至2024年第一季度，公司总流动资金为40亿美元。

前景

公司维持之前对2024年全年的所有指导性预期，包括：

• 钢材净出货量1650万吨；
• 钢材单位成本同比降低约30美元/吨，与2023年相比，调整后EBITDA收益约为5亿美元；和
• 资本支出为6.75亿至7.25亿美元。

皇冠体育-皇冠体育斯公司将于2024年4月23日皇冠体育官网东部时间上午8点30分召开电话会议。电话会议将进行现场直播，并存档在皇冠体育斯的网站：www.alphaetomega.net上。

关于皇冠体育-皇冠体育斯公司

皇冠体育-克利夫斯是北美最大的扁钢生产商。皇冠体育斯成立于1847年，是一家矿山运营商，也是北美最大的铁矿石球团制造商。公司从开采原料、直接还原铁、废铁到初级炼钢及下游精加工、冲压、工装、管材等垂直一体化。皇冠体育-皇冠体育斯是北美汽车行业最大的钢铁供应商，并因其全面的扁钢产品而服务于各种其他市场。皇冠体育-克利夫斯总部位于俄亥俄州皇冠体育，在皇冠体育官网和加拿大拥有约28,000名员工。

前瞻性陈述

This release contains statements that constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the federal securities laws. All statements other than historical facts, including, without limitation, statements regarding our current expectations, estimates and projections about our industry or our businesses, are forward-looking statements. We caution investors that any forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results and future trends to differ materially from those matters expressed in or implied by such forward-looking statements. Investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Among the risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ from those described in forward-looking statements are the following: continued volatility of steel, iron ore and scrap metal market prices, which directly and indirectly impact the prices of the products that we sell to our customers; uncertainties associated with the highly competitive and cyclical steel industry and our reliance on the demand for steel from the automotive industry; potential weaknesses and uncertainties in global economic conditions, excess global steelmaking capacity, oversupply of iron ore, prevalence of steel imports and reduced market demand; severe financial hardship, bankruptcy, temporary or permanent shutdowns or operational challenges of one or more of our major customers, key suppliers or contractors, which, among other adverse effects, could disrupt our operations or lead to reduced demand for our products, increased difficulty collecting receivables, and customers and/or suppliers asserting force majeure or other reasons for not performing their contractual obligations to us; risks related to U.S. government actions with respect to Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (as amended by the Trade Act of 1974), the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement and/or other trade agreements, tariffs, treaties or policies, as well as the uncertainty of obtaining and maintaining effective antidumping and countervailing duty orders to counteract the harmful effects of unfairly traded imports; impacts of existing and increasing governmental regulation, including potential environmental regulations relating to climate change and carbon emissions, and related costs and liabilities, including failure to receive or maintain required operating and environmental permits, approvals, modifications or other authorizations of, or from, any governmental or regulatory authority and costs related to implementing improvements to ensure compliance with regulatory changes, including potential financial assurance requirements, and reclamation and remediation obligations; potential impacts to the environment or exposure to hazardous substances resulting from our operations; our ability to maintain adequate liquidity, our level of indebtedness and the availability of capital could limit our financial flexibility and cash flow necessary to fund working capital, planned capital expenditures, acquisitions, and other general corporate purposes or ongoing needs of our business, or to repurchase our shares; our ability to reduce our indebtedness or return capital to shareholders within the currently expected timeframes or at all; adverse changes in credit ratings, interest rates, foreign currency rates and tax laws; the outcome of, and costs incurred in connection with, lawsuits, claims, arbitrations or governmental proceedings relating to commercial and business disputes, antitrust claims, environmental matters, government investigations, occupational or personal injury claims, property-related matters, labor and employment matters, or suits involving legacy operations and other matters; supply chain disruptions or changes in the cost, quality or availability of energy sources, including electricity, natural gas and diesel fuel, critical raw materials and supplies, including iron ore, industrial gases, graphite electrodes, scrap metal, chrome, zinc, other alloys, coke and metallurgical coal, and critical manufacturing equipment and spare parts; problems or disruptions associated with transporting products to our customers, moving manufacturing inputs or products internally among our facilities, or suppliers transporting raw materials to us; the risk that the cost or time to implement a strategic or sustaining capital project may prove to be greater than originally anticipated; our ability to consummate any public or private acquisition transactions and to realize any or all of the anticipated benefits or estimated future synergies, as well as to successfully integrate any acquired businesses into our existing businesses; uncertainties associated with natural or human-caused disasters, adverse weather conditions, unanticipated geological conditions, critical equipment failures, infectious disease outbreaks, tailings dam failures and other unexpected events; cybersecurity incidents relating to, disruptions in, or failures of, information technology systems that are managed by us or third parties that host or have access to our data or systems, including the loss, theft or corruption of sensitive or essential business or personal information and the inability to access or control systems; liabilities and costs arising in connection with any business decisions to temporarily or indefinitely idle or permanently close an operating facility or mine, which could adversely impact the carrying value of associated assets and give rise to impairment charges or closure and reclamation obligations, as well as uncertainties associated with restarting any previously idled operating facility or mine; our level of self-insurance and our ability to obtain sufficient third-party insurance to adequately cover potential adverse events and business risks; uncertainties associated with our ability to meet customers' and suppliers' decarbonization goals and reduce our greenhouse gas emissions in alignment with our own announced targets; challenges to maintaining our social license to operate with our stakeholders, including the impacts of our operations on local communities, reputational impacts of operating in a carbon-intensive industry that produces greenhouse gas emissions, and our ability to foster a consistent operational and safety track record; our actual economic mineral reserves or reductions in current mineral reserve estimates, and any title defect or loss of any lease, license, easement or other possessory interest for any mining property; our ability to maintain satisfactory labor relations with unions and employees; unanticipated or higher costs associated with pension and other post-employment benefit obligations resulting from changes in the value of plan assets or contribution increases required for unfunded obligations; uncertain availability or cost of skilled workers to fill critical operational positions and potential labor shortages caused by experienced employee attrition or otherwise, as well as our ability to attract, hire, develop and retain key personnel; the amount and timing of any repurchases of our common shares; and potential significant deficiencies or material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting.

有关影响Cliffs业务的其他因素，请参阅第I部分第1A项。截至2023年12月31日的10-K表格年度报告中的风险因素，以及向皇冠体育官网证券交易委员会提交的其他文件。

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媒体联系人：Patricia Persico高级主管，企业传播（216）694-5316

投资者联系人：James Kerr董事，投资者关系（216）694-7719

资料来源：Cleveland-Cliffs Inc。

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