Viper Energy Partners LPNASDAQ: VNOM

VNOM Q3 earnings gain year over year on higher oil equivalent production volumes, while revenues decline over lower realized commodity prices.

Viper Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ:VNOM ) Q3 2024 Earnings Conference Call November 5, 2024 11:00 AM ET Company Participants Adam Lawlis - Vice President-Investor Relations Travis Stice - Chief Executive Officer Austen Gilfillian - Vice President Conference Call Participants Neal Dingmann - Truist Securities Betty Jiang - Barclays Leo Mariani - ROTH Operator Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Viper Energy Third Quarter 2024 Earnings Conference Call.

MIDLAND, Texas, Nov. 04, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Viper Energy, Inc., (NASDAQ:VNOM) (“Viper” or the “Company”), a subsidiary of Diamondback Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ:FANG) (“Diamondback”), today announced financial and operating results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2024.

Viper Energy (VNOM) might move higher on growing optimism about its earnings prospects, which is reflected by its upgrade to a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy).

Viper Energy, based in Midland, Texas, aggregates and manages royalty interests, unlike traditional oil and gas producers. Viper is a $9.7 billion market cap minerals company that is 40% owned by Diamondback Energy. At 2Q24 base plus variable dividend rates annualized, it is returning 5.0%, on par with Treasuries and higher than many equities.

MIDLAND, Texas, Oct. 01, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Viper Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ:VNOM) (“Viper” or the “Company”), a subsidiary of Diamondback Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ:FANG) (“Diamondback”), today announced it and its operating subsidiary Viper Energy Partners LLC (“OpCo”) completed the previously announced acquisition of certain mineral and royalty interest- owning subsidiaries of Tumbleweed Royalty IV, LLC (“TWR IV”) under the previously reported purchase agreement, dated as of September 11, 2024. The total consideration for the acquisition consisted of approximately $459.0 million in cash, the issuance of approximately 10.1 million OpCo units to TWR IV and an option granted for TWR IV to acquire the same number of shares of Viper's Class B common stock as the OpCo units. The cash consideration for the acquisition was funded through a combination of cash on hand, borrowings under OpCo's revolving credit facility and proceeds from the previously reported underwritten public offering of Viper's Class A common stock. The purchase agreement for the acquisition also provides for a potential additional payment in Q1 2026 of contingent cash consideration of up to $41.0 million, based on the average 2025 West Texas Intermediate (WTI) price.

MIDLAND, Texas, Sept. 25, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Viper Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: VNOM) (“Viper”), a subsidiary of Diamondback Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: FANG) (“Diamondback”), today announced that it plans to release third quarter 2024 financial results on November 4, 2024 after the market closes.

Since the announcement of an acquisition agreement on Sept. 11, Viper Energy Inc.'s VNOM stock has experienced a slight decline of 0.6%.

MIDLAND, Texas, Sept. 11, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Viper Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: VNOM) (“Viper”) announced today the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 10,000,000 shares of its Class A common stock at a price to the public of $42.50 per share (the “Primary Offering”). Viper's offering of 10,000,000 shares of Class A common stock represents a 1,500,000 share upsize to the originally proposed 8,500,000 share offering. The underwriters have a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 1,500,000 shares of Class A common stock from Viper at the public offering price (less the underwriting discount).