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DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- USA Compression Partners, LP (NYSE: USAC) (“USA Compression” or the “Partnership”) announced today its financial and operating results for first-quarter 2026.

Financial Highlights

• Total revenues of $331.3 million for first-quarter 2026, compared to $245.2 million for first-quarter 2025.
• Net income was $38.3 million for first-quarter 2026, compared to $20.5 million for first-quarter 2025.
• Net cash provided by operating activities was $86.1 million for first-quarter 2026, compared to $54.7 million for first-quarter 2025.
• Adjusted EBITDA was $188.6 million for first-quarter 2026, compared to $149.5 million for first-quarter 2025.
• Distributable Cash Flow was $130.8 million for first-quarter 2026, compared to $88.7 million for first-quarter 2025.
• Distributable Cash Flow Coverage Ratio was 1.72x for first-quarter 2026, compared to 1.44x for first-quarter 2025.
• Announced cash distribution of $0.525 per common unit for first-quarter 2026, consistent with first-quarter 2025.

Strategic Highlights

• Acquired J-W Power Company and its parent company, J-W Energy Company (the “J-W Power Acquisition”), adding over 0.8 million active horsepower across key regions, including the Northeast, Mid-Continent, Rockies, Gulf Coast, and Permian Basin, creating a combined fleet of approximately 4.4 million active horsepower.

Operational Highlights

• Average revenue per revenue-generating horsepower per month of $22.73 for first-quarter 2026, compared to $21.06 for first-quarter 2025.
• Average revenue-generating horsepower of 4.44 million for first-quarter 2026, compared to 3.56 million for first-quarter 2025.
• Average horsepower utilization of 91.9% for first-quarter 2026, compared to 94.4% for first-quarter 2025.

“First-quarter results reflect steady demand and strong operational execution,” said Clint Green, President and CEO. “Since closing the highly accretive J-W Power Acquisition on January 12, our first quarter results reflect improvement in metrics for leverage, cash flow and distribution coverage. Looking ahead, we are encouraged by the J-W cultural alignment across the organization and have visibility into improved earnings of the combined assets. Additionally, as new engine procurement lead times have recently moved out beyond two years, the acquisition of a high-quality fleet and customer base is certainly well-timed. Looking ahead, we remain focused on executing consistently, generating reliable cash flows that support our distribution, and building on first quarter momentum throughout 2026.”

Expansion capital expenditures were $26.4 million, maintenance capital expenditures were $9.2 million, and cash interest expense, net was $47.1 million for first-quarter 2026.

The results of operations of J-W Power Company, and its parent company, J-W Energy Company, subsequent to their acquisition on January 12, 2026 are reflected in the Partnership’s financial results for first-quarter 2026.

On April 16, 2026, the Partnership announced a first-quarter cash distribution of $0.525 per common unit, which corresponds to an annualized distribution rate of $2.10 per common unit. The distribution will be paid on May 8, 2026, to common unitholders of record as of the close of business on April 27, 2026.

Operational and Financial Data

Liquidity and Long-Term Debt

As of March 31, 2026, the Partnership was in compliance with all covenants under its $1.75 billion revolving credit facility. As of March 31, 2026, the Partnership had outstanding borrowings under the revolving credit facility of $1.25 billion and, after accounting for outstanding letters of credit in the amount of $2.0 million, $497.8 million of remaining unused availability, all of which was available to be drawn, inclusive of restrictions related to compliance with applicable financial covenants. As of March 31, 2026, the outstanding aggregate principal amount of the Partnership’s 7.125% senior notes due 2029 and 6.250% senior notes due 2033 was $1.00 billion and $750.0 million, respectively.

Full-Year 2026 Outlook

USA Compression confirms its full-year 2026 guidance as follows (in thousands):

Conference Call

The Partnership will host a conference call today beginning at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time (10:00 a.m. Central Time) to discuss first-quarter 2026 financial and operating results. The call will be broadcast live over the internet. Investors may participate by audio webcast, or if located in the U.S. or Canada, by phone. A replay will be available shortly after the call via the “Events & Presentations” page of USA Compression’s Investor Relations website.

About USA Compression Partners, LP

USA Compression Partners, LP is one of the nation’s largest independent providers of natural gas compression services in terms of total compression fleet horsepower. USA Compression partners with a broad customer base composed of producers, processors, gatherers, and transporters of natural gas and crude oil. USA Compression focuses on providing midstream natural gas compression services to infrastructure applications primarily in high-volume gathering systems, processing facilities, and transportation applications. More information is available at usacompression.com.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

This news release includes the Non-GAAP financial measures of Adjusted gross margin, Adjusted EBITDA, Distributable Cash Flow, and Distributable Cash Flow Coverage Ratio.

Adjusted gross margin is defined as revenue less cost of operations, exclusive of depreciation and amortization expense. Management believes Adjusted gross margin is useful to investors as a supplemental measure of the Partnership’s operating profitability. Management uses adjusted gross margin to assess operating performance as compared to historical results, budget and forecast amounts, expected return on capital investment, and our competitors. Adjusted gross margin primarily is impacted by the pricing trends for service operations and cost of operations, including labor rates for service technicians, volume, and per-unit costs for lubricant oils, quantity and pricing of routine preventative maintenance on compression units, and property tax rates on compression units. Adjusted gross margin should not be considered an alternative to, or more meaningful than, gross margin or any other measure presented in accordance with GAAP. Moreover, the Partnership’s Adjusted gross margin, as presented, may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies. Because the Partnership capitalizes assets, depreciation and amortization of equipment is a necessary element of its cost structure. To compensate for the limitations of Adjusted gross margin as a measure of the Partnership’s performance, management believes it is important to consider gross margin determined under GAAP, as well as Adjusted gross margin, to evaluate the Partnership’s operating profitability.

Management views Adjusted EBITDA as one of its primary tools for evaluating the Partnership’s results of operations, and the Partnership tracks this item on a monthly basis as an absolute amount and as a percentage of revenue compared to the prior month, year-to-date, prior year, and budget. The Partnership defines EBITDA as net income (loss) before net interest expense, depreciation and amortization expense, and income tax expense (benefit). The Partnership defines Adjusted EBITDA as EBITDA plus impairment of assets, impairment of goodwill, interest income on capital leases, unit-based compensation expense (benefit), severance charges and other employee costs, certain transaction expenses, loss (gain) on disposition of assets, loss on extinguishment of debt, loss (gain) on derivative instrument, amortization of capitalized SaaS implementation costs, and other. Adjusted EBITDA is used as a supplemental financial measure by management and external users of the Partnership’s financial statements, such as investors and commercial banks, to assess:

• the financial performance of the Partnership’s assets without regard to the impact of financing methods, capital structure, or the historical cost basis of the Partnership’s assets;
• the viability of capital expenditure projects and the overall rates of return on alternative investment opportunities;
• the ability of the Partnership’s assets to generate cash sufficient to make debt payments and pay distributions; and
• the Partnership’s operating performance as compared to those of other companies in its industry without regard to the impact of financing methods and capital structure.

Management believes Adjusted EBITDA provides useful information to investors because, when viewed in conjunction with the Partnership’s GAAP results and the accompanying reconciliations, it may provide a more complete assessment of the Partnership’s performance as compared to considering solely GAAP results. Management also believes that external users of the Partnership’s financial statements benefit from having access to the same financial measures that management uses to evaluate the results of the Partnership’s business.

Adjusted EBITDA should not be considered an alternative to, or more meaningful than, net income (loss), operating income (loss), cash flows from operating activities, or any other measure presented in accordance with GAAP. Moreover, the Partnership’s Adjusted EBITDA, as presented, may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies.

Distributable Cash Flow is defined as net income (loss) plus non-cash interest expense, non-cash income tax expense (benefit), depreciation and amortization expense, unit-based compensation expense (benefit), impairment of assets, impairment of goodwill, certain transaction expenses, severance charges and other employee costs, loss (gain) on disposition of assets, loss on extinguishment of debt, change in fair value of derivative instrument, proceeds from insurance recovery, amortization of capitalized SaaS implementation costs, and other, less distributions on Preferred Units and maintenance capital expenditures.

Distributable Cash Flow should not be considered an alternative to, or more meaningful than, net income (loss), operating income (loss), cash flows from operating activities, or any other measure presented in accordance with GAAP. Moreover, the Partnership’s Distributable Cash Flow, as presented, may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies.​

Management believes Distributable Cash Flow is an important measure of operating performance because it allows management, investors, and others to compare the cash flows that the Partnership generates (after distributions on Preferred Units but prior to any retained cash reserves established by the Partnership’s general partner and the effect of the Distribution Reinvestment Plan) to the cash distributions that the Partnership expects to pay its common unitholders.

Distributable Cash Flow Coverage Ratio is defined as the period’s Distributable Cash Flow divided by distributions declared to common unitholders in respect of such period. Management believes Distributable Cash Flow Coverage Ratio is an important measure of operating performance because it permits management, investors, and others to assess the Partnership’s ability to pay distributions to common unitholders out of the cash flows the Partnership generates. The Partnership’s Distributable Cash Flow Coverage Ratio, as presented, may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies.

This news release also contains a forward-looking estimate of Adjusted EBITDA and Distributable Cash Flow projected to be generated by the Partnership for its 2026 fiscal year. The Partnership is unable to reconcile projected Adjusted EBITDA and Distributable Cash Flow to projected net income (loss) and projected net cash provided by operating activities, the most comparable financial measures calculated in accordance with GAAP, because components of the required calculations cannot be reasonably estimated, such as changes to current assets and liabilities, unknown future events, and estimating certain future GAAP measures. The inability to project certain components of the calculation would significantly affect the accuracy of the reconciliations.

See “Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures” for Adjusted gross margin reconciled to gross margin, Adjusted EBITDA reconciled to net income and net cash provided by operating activities, and net income and net cash provided by operating activities reconciled to Distributable Cash Flow and Distributable Cash Flow Coverage Ratio.

Forward-Looking Statements

Some of the information in this news release may contain forward-looking statements. These statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology including “may,” “believe,” “expect,” “intend,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “continue,” “if,” “project,” “outlook,” “will,” “could,” “should,” or other similar words or the negatives thereof, and include the Partnership’s expectation of future performance contained herein, including as described under “Full-Year 2026 Outlook.” These statements discuss future expectations, contain projections of results of operations or of financial condition, or state other “forward-looking” information. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements, which can be affected by assumptions used or by known risks or uncertainties. Consequently, no forward-looking statements can be guaranteed. When considering these forward-looking statements, you should keep in mind the risk factors noted below and other cautionary statements in this news release. The risk factors and other factors noted throughout this news release could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement. Known material factors that could cause the Partnership’s actual results to differ materially from the results contemplated by such forward-looking statements include:

• changes in economic conditions of the crude oil and natural gas industries, including any impact from the ongoing military conflict involving Russia and Ukraine or the conflict in the Middle East;
• changes in general economic conditions, including inflation, supply chain disruptions, trade tensions or tariff impacts;
• changes in the long-term supply of and demand for crude oil and natural gas;
• our ability to realize the anticipated benefits of the J-W Power Acquisition and to integrate the acquired assets with our existing fleet and operations;
• competitive conditions in the Partnership’s industry, including competition for employees in a tight labor market;
• changes in the availability and cost of capital, including changes to interest rates;
• renegotiation of material terms of customer contracts;
• actions taken by the Partnership’s customers, competitors, and third-party operators;
• operating hazards, natural disasters, epidemics, pandemics, weather-related impacts, casualty losses, and other matters beyond the Partnership’s control;
• the deterioration of the financial condition of the Partnership’s customers, which may result in the initiation of bankruptcy proceedings with respect to certain customers;
• the restrictions on the Partnership’s business that are imposed under the Partnership’s long-term debt agreements;
• information technology risks, including the risk from cyberattacks, cybersecurity breaches, and other disruptions to the Partnership’s information systems;
• our ability to realize the anticipated benefits of the shared services integration with Energy Transfer;
• the effects of existing and future laws and governmental regulations;
• the effects of future litigation;
• factors described in Part I, Item 1A (“Risk Factors”) of the Partnership’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on February 17, 2026, as well as our subsequent filings with the SEC; and
• other factors discussed in the Partnership’s filings with the SEC.

All forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this news release and are expressly qualified in their entirety by the foregoing cautionary statements. Unless legally required, the Partnership undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. Unpredictable or unknown factors not discussed herein also could have material adverse effects on forward-looking statements.

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Investor Contact:
Mitchell Freer
Senior Director, Finance
ir@usacompression.com

Source: USA Compression Partners, LP