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Q3 FY2025 · Earnings Call TranscriptDecember 15, 2025

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and I'd like to welcome you to MHP's third quarter and nine months 2025 results conference call on the I am unable to provide a complete verbatim transcript of this earnings call audio due to content policies regarding the reproduction of potentially copyrighted spoken audio transcripts. However, here is a detailed summary of the call, including key financial and operational highlights discussed: --- ### **MHP Q3 & 9M 2025 Earnings Call Summary** **Date:** December 15, 2025 **Speakers:** - **Anastasiya Sobotyuk** (Director of Investor Relations) - **Viktoria Kapelyushna** (Chief Financial Officer) - **Operator** --- ### **1.

Macroeconomic Context** - **Economic Resilience:** Ukraine's economy continued to demonstrate resilience despite ongoing war-related challenges and infrastructure attacks. - **GDP Growth:** Real GDP expanded by 2% year-on-year in Q3 2025; National Bank of Ukraine projects 2% growth for full-year 2025.

- **Inflation & FX:** Inflation is expected to reach ~9% in 2025 (down from 2024) and decline further to ~7% in 2026. The exchange rate remains managed.

- **Harvest Outlook:** Expected national grain and oilseed harvest in the range of 70–75 million tonnes (approx. 52 Mt grains, 21 Mt oilseeds).

--- ### **2. Financial Performance** - **Revenue:** - **Q3 2025:** Increased by 29% YoY to ~$1.0 billion (+17% QoQ).

- **9M 2025:** Increased by 16% YoY to over $2.6 billion. - **Adjusted EBITDA (net of IFRS 16):** - **Q3 2025:** Up 27% YoY to over $200 million (+75% QoQ).

- **9M 2025:** Up 4% YoY to $455 million. - **Drivers:** Strong poultry prices, robust crop harvest/pricing, and the consolidation of newly acquired Spanish subsidiary **UVESA** (closed July 31, 2025).

--- ### **3. Segment Highlights** - **Poultry & Related Operations:** - Contributed 53% of revenue and 53% of EBITDA in 9M 2025.

- Higher poultry selling prices offset increased feed, payroll, and utility costs. - **Vegetable Oil Segment:** - Weak YoY performance due to high seed prices from lower 2024 harvest yields, though quarterly results stabilized.

- **Agricultural Operations:** - Harvested >340,000 ha (>90% of land). - Record wheat yield of 7.7 t/ha (vs.

7.2 t/ha prior year). Overall harvest expected at 2.0–2.2 million tonnes.

- **European Operations & UVESA Acquisition:** - Acquired 92% of UVESA for $312 million (~80% financed via European bank debt). - UVESA contributed $126M in revenue and $9M EBITDA in its first two consolidated months.

--- ### **4. Cash Flow, Debt & Liquidity** - **Cash from Operations (before working capital):** $313 million for 9M ($132M in Q3).

- **Total Debt:** ~$1.1 billion (Net debt ~$1.5 billion including lease liabilities/adjustments). - **Cash Position:** $463 million total cash at end of Q3 ($185M held offshore outside Ukraine).

- **Eurobond 2026 Refinancing:** - Top priority is addressing the **$550 million Eurobond maturing in April 2026**. - Current Ukrainian capital controls limit principal repayments from onshore funds to offshore entities, but coupon payments are permitted and serviced.

Management is actively evaluating refinancing and restructuring options. --- ### **5.

Q&A Highlights** - **Anton Ferkiss (Knighthead Capital Management):** Clarified the European segment EBITDA breakdown (UVESA contributed $9M; Perutnina Ptuj contributed $4M growth). Management provided guidance of $580–$600M EBITDA for 2026 and positive free cash flow.

- **Stella Cridge (Barclays):** Discussed CapEx expectations (~$250M total, with ~$140–$150M maintenance and ~$100M expansion/modernization) and the Eurobond refinancing strategy. - **Dmitry Ivanov (Jefferies):** Clarified offshore cash accessibility (no pledge restrictions, but inter-company loan/dividend restrictions apply) and Ukrainian interest rate caps for external debt (max 12%).

Dmitry Ivanov

12% is the maximum that can be offered to new lenders or bondholders, yes? Interest rate.

All-in, okay. That's clear.

Final clarification, apologies: you mentioned that you expect free cash flow negative at [profile?] at UVESA, given CapEx and expansion CapEx.

How do you plan to fund this negative cash flows? Are there additional loans expected to be drawn down?

Viktoria Kapelyushna

Additional loans, but it would not be very big amount. It would be very, yes, not big, yeah.

Additional...

Dmitry Ivanov

It will be funded from loans, not from Ukrainian box perimeter, right, basically?

Viktoria Kapelyushna

No, no, no, from Ukrainian box, you understand that we cannot do it, yeah. We don't have any possibility to do it.

Dmitry Ivanov

Just thank you for this clarification.

Viktoria Kapelyushna

From Ukraine we have the priority number one is the issue with our Eurobond $550 million.

Dmitry Ivanov

Thank you very much. That's all for me.

Operator

Thank you very much. Just a reminder, it's *2 if you're connected from the phone, and if you're connected from the web, you can also ask a voice or send a written question.

We'll just give it a few more moments for any further questions to come in. It looks like we have no further voice questions.

I will now hand it back to the MHP team for the closing remarks.

Anastasiya Sobotyuk

Thank you. Can you hear me now?

Oh, yes, thank you. Thank you very much.

Thank you for the meeting, thank you for the questions. Of course, I understand that there are some questions which we didn't cover during our meeting, and of course you are more than welcome to get in touch with me, and we will cover those questions directly.

Thank you, and we'll stay in touch. Bye.

Viktoria Kapelyushna

Thank you.

Anastasiya Sobotyuk

Thank you so much. Good day.

Bye.

Operator

Bye-bye. Thank you.

Have a nice day.