Star Group, L.P. (NYSE:SGU) Q2 2024 Results Conference Call May 2, 2024 11:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Chris Witty - Investor Relations Adviser
Jeff Woosnam - President and CEO
Rich Ambury - Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Tim Mullen - Laurelton Management
Michael Prouting - 10K Capital

Operator

Good day, and welcome to the Star Group Fiscal 2024 Second Quarter Results Conference Call. All participants will be in a listen-only mode. [Operator Instructions] After the today’s presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] Please note this event is being recorded.

I would now like to turn the conference over to Chris Witty, Investor Relations Adviser. Please go ahead, sir.

Chris Witty

Thank you, and good morning. With me on the call today are Jeff Woosnam, President and Chief Executive Officer; and Rich Ambury, Chief Financial Officer.

I would now like to provide a brief safe harbor statement. This conference call may include forward-looking statements that represent the Company's expectations and beliefs concerning future events that involve risks and uncertainties and may cause the Company's actual performance to be materially different from the performance indicated or implied by such statements.

All statements other than statements of historical facts included in this conference call are forward-looking statements. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to have been correct. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the Company's expectations are disclosed in this conference call, the Company's annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2023, and the Company's other filings with the SEC.

All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements attributable to the Company or persons acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements. Unless otherwise required by law, the Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise after the date of this conference call.

I'd now like to turn the call over to Jeff Woosnam. Jeff?

Jeff Woosnam

Thanks, Chris, and good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us to discuss our second quarter and fiscal year-to-date results. Temperatures in the second quarter were 15.2% warmer than normal throughout Star's footprint. While slightly colder than the same period last year, it was unfortunately not enough to drive higher delivery volumes. However, we were able to move the impact on adjusted EBITDA, even with a lower weather hedge benefit and some ongoing inflationary pressures, by improving per gallon margins and employing solid expense control.