Annual report [Section 13 and 15(d), not S-K Item 405]

Acquisitions

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Acquisitions
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2024
Business Combinations [Abstract]  
Acquisitions

4. Acquisitions

SpeedyQ Acquisition

On April 9, 2024, the Company acquired certain assets from a third-party, including 21 SpeedyQ Markets convenience stores and nine additional landbank sites located in Michigan (the “SpeedyQ Acquisition”). The consideration at closing was approximately $56.0 million, including the value of cash and inventory in the stores on the closing date, of which $6.0 million was financed with the Capital One Line of Credit (as defined in Note 12 below) and approximately $45.0 million was paid for fee simple ownership in 19 of the properties by Blue Owl under the Program Agreement (both as further described and defined in Note 8). At the closing, pursuant to the Program Agreement, the Company entered into a master lease with Blue Owl for the sites Blue Owl acquired under customary lease terms. For accounting purposes, the transaction was treated as an asset acquisition, and the transaction with Blue Owl was treated as a sale-leaseback and the Company recorded right of use assets and operating lease liabilities of approximately $45.1 million in connection therewith. The Company leases one site from the seller, for which the seller received a put right to require the Company to purchase the site and the Company received a call right to require the seller to sell the site, both for a purchase price of $7.0 million, subject to terms set forth in the SpeedyQ Purchase Agreement.

Transit Energy Group, LLC

On March 1, 2023, the Company completed the acquisition of certain assets from Transit Energy Group, LLC and certain of its affiliated entities (collectively, “TEG”) pursuant to a purchase agreement entered on September 9, 2022, as amended (the “TEG Purchase Agreement”), including (i) 135 convenience stores, (ii) fuel supply rights to 181 dealer locations, (iii) a commercial, government, and industrial business, including certain bulk plants, and (iv) certain distribution and transportation assets, all in the southeastern United States (the “TEG Acquisition”). The purchase price for the TEG Acquisition was, as of closing, approximately $370 million, plus the value of inventory at the closing, of which $50 million was to be deferred and payable in two annual payments of $25 million (the “Installment Payments”), which the Company was entitled to elect to pay in either cash or, subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions, shares of common stock (the “Installment Shares”), on the first and second anniversaries of the closing. Pursuant to the TEG Purchase Agreement, at closing, ARKO and TEG entered into a registration rights agreement, pursuant to which ARKO agreed to prepare and file a registration statement with the SEC, registering the Installment Shares, if any, for resale by TEG.

The Company paid approximately $81.8 million of the non-deferred purchase price, including the value of inventory and other closing adjustments, in cash, of which $55.0 million was financed with the Capital One Line of Credit (as defined in Note 12 below). Blue Owl under the Company’s Program Agreement paid the balance of the non-deferred purchase price for fee simple ownership in

104 sites. At the closing, pursuant to the Program Agreement, the Company entered into a master lease with Blue Owl for the sites Blue Owl acquired in the transaction under customary lease terms. For accounting purposes, the transaction with Blue Owl was treated as a sale-leaseback. Because the sale-leaseback was off-market, a financial liability of $51.6 million was recorded, resulting in interest expense recognized over the lease term. Additionally, right-of-use assets and operating lease liabilities of approximately $131.3 million were recorded in connection with the operating lease, after reducing for accounting purposes from the contractual lease payments the amount attributable to the repayment of the additional financing.

Pursuant to the TEG Purchase Agreement, on March 1, 2024, the Company issued 3,417,915 Installment Shares to TEG in respect of the first installment payment (the “First Installment Shares”) at a price per share of $7.31, which was based on the 10-day volume weighted average price calculation contained in the TEG Purchase Agreement. As a result, the Company recorded a gain of approximately $2.7 million as a component of interest and other financial income in the consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2024.

On March 26, 2024, the Company and TEG entered into a second amendment to the TEG Purchase Agreement (the “TEG Purchase Agreement Amendment”), pursuant to which, in full satisfaction of all Installment Payments, (i) the Company repurchased the First Installment Shares from TEG for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $19.3 million in cash, or $5.66 per share, and (ii) the Company paid to TEG an additional amount in cash equal to approximately $17.2 million in satisfaction of the second Installment Payment, which would have otherwise been due on March 1, 2025. The $36.5 million was financed with the Capital One Line of Credit. The TEG Purchase Agreement Amendment additionally terminated the related registration rights agreement, terminated TEG’s indemnity obligations under the TEG Purchase Agreement and extended the transition services agreement entered into between the Company and TEG. As a result of this transaction, the Company recorded a net gain of approximately $6.4 million, out of which approximately $6.5 million was recorded as a component of interest and other financial income in the consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2024.

The details of the TEG Acquisition were as follows:

 

 

Amount

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

Fair value of consideration transferred:

 

 

 

Cash

 

$

26,796

 

GPMP Capital One Line of Credit

 

 

55,000

 

Liability resulting from deferred purchase price

 

 

45,886

 

Receivable from TEG

 

 

(156

)

Consideration provided by Blue Owl

 

 

258,019

 

Total consideration

 

$

385,545

 

Assets acquired and liabilities:

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents

 

$

379

 

Inventory

 

 

20,259

 

Other assets

 

 

1,304

 

Property and equipment, net

 

 

266,387

 

Intangible assets

 

 

17,200

 

Right-of-use assets under operating leases

 

 

69,254

 

Environmental receivables

 

 

2,664

 

Deferred tax asset

 

 

20,404

 

Total assets

 

 

397,851

 

Other liabilities

 

 

(2,086

)

Environmental liabilities

 

 

(2,939

)

Asset retirement obligations

 

 

(10,923

)

Operating leases

 

 

(57,569

)

Total liabilities

 

 

(73,517

)

Total identifiable net assets

 

 

324,334

 

Goodwill

 

$

61,211

 

 

 

 

 

Consideration paid in cash by the Company

 

$

81,796

 

Consideration provided by Blue Owl

 

 

258,019

 

Less: cash and cash equivalent balances acquired

 

 

(379

)

Net cash outflow

 

$

339,436

 

The Company included identifiable tangible and intangible assets and identifiable liabilities at their respective fair values based on the information available to the Company’s management on the TEG Acquisition closing date, including, among other things, a

valuation performed by external consultants. Specifically, the valuation of the wholesale fuel supply contracts was performed by an external consultant using the income approach with a weighted average discount rate of 10.5%. The useful life of the wholesale fuel supply contracts on the date of acquisition was 10 years. The useful life of the trade names on the date of acquisition was five years.

As a result of the accounting treatment of the TEG Acquisition, the Company recorded goodwill of approximately $61.2 million, all of which was allocated to the GPMP segment attributable to the opportunity to add significant volume to the GPMP segment. None of the goodwill recognized is tax deductible for U.S. income tax purposes.

Acquisition-related costs of approximately $3.3 million and $1.5 million have been excluded from the consideration transferred and have been recognized as an expense within other expenses, net in the consolidated statements of operations for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. No acquisition-related costs were recognized for the year ended December 31, 2024.

Results of operations for the TEG Acquisition for the period subsequent to the acquisition closing date were included in the consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2023. For the period from the TEG Acquisition closing date through December 31, 2023, the Company recognized $819.4 million in revenues and $13.7 million of net loss related to the TEG Acquisition.

WTG Fuels Holdings, LLC

On June 6, 2023, certain of the Company’s subsidiaries completed the acquisition of certain assets from WTG Fuels Holdings, LLC and certain other sellers party thereto (collectively, “WTG”) pursuant to an asset purchase agreement entered on December 6, 2022, including (i) 24 Uncle’s convenience stores located across Western Texas, and (ii) 68 proprietary GASCARD-branded cardlock sites and 43 private cardlock sites for fleet fueling operations located in Western Texas and Southeastern New Mexico (the “WTG Acquisition”).

The purchase price for the WTG Acquisition was approximately $140.0 million, plus the value of inventory at the closing. The Company paid approximately $30.6 million of the purchase price including the value of inventory and other closing adjustments in cash, of which $19.2 million was financed with the Capital One Line of Credit. Blue Owl, under the Program Agreement, paid the balance of the purchase price for fee simple ownership in 33 properties. At the closing, pursuant to the Program Agreement, the Company entered into master leases with Blue Owl for the sites Blue Owl acquired in the transaction under customary lease terms. For accounting purposes, the transaction with Blue Owl was treated as a sale-leaseback. Because the sale-leaseback was off-market, a financial liability of $28.8 million was recorded, resulting in interest expense recognized over the lease term. Additionally, right-of-use assets and operating lease liabilities of approximately $49.0 million were recorded in connection with the operating lease, after reducing for accounting purposes from the contractual lease payments the amount attributable to the repayment of the additional financing.

The details of the WTG Acquisition were as follows:

 

 

Amount

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

Fair value of consideration transferred:

 

 

 

Cash

 

$

11,396

 

GPMP Capital One Line of Credit

 

 

19,200

 

Consideration provided by Blue Owl

 

 

115,041

 

Total consideration

 

$

145,637

 

Assets acquired and liabilities:

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents

 

$

60

 

Inventory

 

 

5,694

 

Other assets

 

 

149

 

Property and equipment, net

 

 

108,522

 

Intangible assets

 

 

14,440

 

Right-of-use assets under operating leases

 

 

2,934

 

Environmental receivables

 

 

4

 

Deferred tax asset

 

 

5,865

 

Total assets

 

 

137,668

 

Other liabilities

 

 

(598

)

Environmental liabilities

 

 

(136

)

Asset retirement obligations

 

 

(6,820

)

Operating leases

 

 

(2,073

)

Total liabilities

 

 

(9,627

)

Total identifiable net assets

 

 

128,041

 

Goodwill

 

$

17,596

 

 

 

 

 

Consideration paid in cash by the Company

 

$

30,596

 

Consideration provided by Blue Owl

 

 

115,041

 

Less: cash and cash equivalent balances acquired

 

 

(60

)

Net cash outflow

 

$

145,577

 

The Company included identifiable tangible and intangible assets and identifiable liabilities at their respective fair values based on the information available to the Company’s management on the WTG Acquisition closing date, including, among other things, a valuation performed by external consultants. The useful life of the customer relationships related to the proprietary cardlock sites and the proprietary fuel cards that give customers access to a nationwide network of fueling sites was estimated at 20 years. The useful life of the wholesale fuel supply contracts was estimated at three years and the useful life of the trade name was estimated at five years.

In 2024, the Company finalized the accounting treatment of the WTG Acquisition, including the valuation of some of the assets acquired, liabilities assumed and the goodwill resulting from the acquisition. As a result, the Company primarily reduced property and equipment by approximately $1.2 million and intangible assets by $9.1 million, and increased the deferred tax asset by $2.6 million. The adjustments to the assets acquired and liabilities assumed resulted in an increase in goodwill of approximately $7.8 million. These adjustments resulted in a net increase in depreciation and amortization expenses recorded of approximately $0.5 million that related to amounts recorded for the year ended December 31, 2023.

As a result of the accounting treatment of the WTG Acquisition, the Company recorded goodwill of approximately $17.6 million, all of which was allocated to the GPMP segment attributable to the opportunity to add significant volume to the GPMP segment. None of the goodwill recognized is tax deductible for U.S. income tax purposes.

Acquisition-related costs of approximately $2.6 million and $0.6 million have been excluded from the consideration transferred and have been recognized as an expense within other expenses, net in the consolidated statements of operations for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. No acquisition-related costs were recognized for the year ended December 31, 2024.

Results of operations for the WTG Acquisition for the period subsequent to the acquisition closing date were included in the consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2023. For the period from the WTG Acquisition closing date through December 31, 2023, the Company recognized $119.9 million in revenues and $4.0 million of net income related to the WTG Acquisition.

Speedy’s Acquisition

On August 15, 2023, the Company acquired from a third-party seven convenience stores located in Arkansas and Oklahoma (the “Speedy’s Acquisition” and together with the TEG Acquisition and WTG Acquisition, the “2023 Acquisitions”). Prior to the

acquisition, the Company had supplied fuel to these sites, which had been operated by a dealer. The consideration at closing was approximately $13.7 million including cash and inventory in the stores on the closing date, of which approximately $10.4 million was paid by Blue Owl under the Program Agreement for fee simple ownership in three of the properties. At the closing, pursuant to the Program Agreement, the Company entered into a master lease with Blue Owl for the sites Blue Owl acquired under customary lease terms. For accounting purposes, the transaction with Blue Owl was treated as a sale-leaseback and the Company recorded right of use assets and operating lease liabilities of approximately $8.8 million in connection therewith. As of the closing, the Company leases under financing leases the remaining four sites from the seller. In 2024, Blue Owl purchased the fee simple ownership in two additional sites from the seller and is expected to purchase the fee simple ownership in the remaining two sites from the seller within twenty months from the closing of the Speedy’s Acquisition, for a total of approximately $10.3 million for all four sites. Blue Owl leases or will lease these sites to the Company.

Quarles Acquisition

On July 22, 2022, the Company consummated its acquisition from Quarles Petroleum, Incorporated (“Quarles”) of certain assets (the “Quarles Acquisition”), including 121 proprietary Quarles-branded cardlock sites and 63 third-party cardlock sites for fleet fueling operations, and 46 dealer locations, including certain lessee-dealer sites.

The total consideration for the Quarles Acquisition as set forth in the purchase agreement was approximately $170 million plus the value of inventory on the closing date, subject to customary closing adjustments. The Company financed $40 million of the purchase price with the Capital One Line of Credit, and Blue Owl, under the Program Agreement, paid approximately $129.3 million of the consideration in exchange for fee simple ownership in 39 sites. At the closing, pursuant to the Program Agreement, the Company amended one of its master leases with Blue Owl to add the sites Blue Owl acquired in the transaction under customary lease terms. For accounting purposes, the transaction with Blue Owl was treated as a sale-leaseback. Because the sale-leaseback was off-market, a financial liability of $20.2 million was recorded, resulting in interest expense recognized over the lease term. Additionally, right-of-use assets and operating lease liabilities of approximately $61.6 million were recorded in connection with the operating lease, after reducing for accounting purposes from the contractual lease payments the amount attributable to the repayment of the additional financing.

The details of the Quarles Acquisition were as follows:

 

 

Amount

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

Fair value of consideration transferred:

 

 

 

Cash

 

$

14,847

 

GPMP Capital One Line of Credit

 

 

40,000

 

Liability resulting from contingent consideration

 

 

826

 

Consideration provided by Blue Owl

 

 

129,316

 

Total consideration

 

$

184,989

 

Assets acquired and liabilities:

 

 

 

Inventory

 

$

12,300

 

Other assets

 

 

1,181

 

Property and equipment, net

 

 

146,055

 

Right-of-use assets under operating leases

 

 

32,916

 

Intangible assets

 

 

30,010

 

Environmental receivables

 

 

8

 

Total assets

 

 

222,470

 

Other liabilities

 

 

(1,168

)

Environmental liabilities

 

 

(316

)

Asset retirement obligations

 

 

(5,195

)

Operating leases

 

 

(30,802

)

Total liabilities

 

 

(37,481

)

Total identifiable net assets

 

 

184,989

 

Goodwill

 

$

-

 

 

 

 

 

Consideration paid in cash by the Company

 

$

54,847

 

Consideration provided by Blue Owl

 

 

129,316

 

Net cash outflow

 

$

184,163

 

The Company included identifiable tangible and intangible assets and identifiable liabilities at their respective fair values based on the information available to the Company’s management on the Quarles Acquisition closing date, including, among other things, a

valuation performed by external consultants. The useful life of the wholesale fuel supply contracts was 4.3 years, the useful life of the contracts related to the third-party cardlock sites was two years, and the useful life of the customer relationships related to the proprietary cardlock sites and the proprietary fuel cards that give customers access to a nationwide network of fueling sites was 20 years.

The Company’s accounting treatment of the Quarles Acquisition resulted in no goodwill being recorded.

Acquisition-related costs of approximately $0.2 million and $2.3 million have been excluded from the consideration transferred and have been recognized as an expense within other expenses, net in the consolidated statements of operations for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. No acquisition-related costs were recognized for the year ended December 31, 2024.

Results of operations for the Quarles Acquisition for the period subsequent to the acquisition closing date were reflected in the consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2022. For the period from the Quarles Acquisition closing date through December 31, 2022, the Company recognized $317.2 million in revenues and $13.7 million in net income related to the Quarles Acquisition.

Pride Convenience Holdings, LLC Acquisition

On December 6, 2022, the Company acquired all of the issued and outstanding membership interests in Pride Convenience Holdings, LLC (“Pride”), which operates 31 convenience stores and gas stations in Connecticut and Massachusetts (the “Pride Acquisition” and together with the Quarles Acquisition, the “2022 Acquisitions”), pursuant to its purchase agreement with Pride Parent, LLC.

The total purchase price for the Pride Acquisition was approximately $230.0 million plus the value of inventory at the closing, subject to certain closing adjustments. The Company financed approximately $30.0 million of the purchase price with the Capital One Line of Credit and cash on hand. Blue Owl, under the Program Agreement, paid the remaining consideration to acquire the entity holding certain real estate assets of Pride immediately prior to the closing of the Pride Acquisition. At the closing, pursuant to the Program Agreement, the Company entered into a master lease with Blue Owl for the sites Blue Owl acquired in the transaction under customary lease terms. Although Blue Owl acquired the entity holding certain real estate assets immediately prior to the Company consummating the Pride Acquisition, for accounting purposes, the transaction with Blue Owl was treated as a sale-leaseback. Because the sale-leaseback was off-market, a financial liability of $34.8 million was recorded, resulting in interest expense recognized over the lease term. Additionally, right-of-use assets and operating lease liabilities of approximately $105.5 million were recorded in connection with the operating lease, after reducing for accounting purposes from the contractual lease payments the amount attributable to the repayment of the additional financing.

The details of the Pride Acquisition were as follows:

 

 

Amount

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

Fair value of consideration transferred:

 

 

 

Cash

 

$

10,617

 

GPMP Capital One Line of Credit

 

 

20,000

 

Payable to Pride Parent, LLC

 

 

1,460

 

Consideration provided by Blue Owl

 

 

201,654

 

Total consideration

 

$

233,731

 

Assets acquired and liabilities:

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents

 

$

3,586

 

Trade receivables

 

 

6,151

 

Inventory

 

 

5,035

 

Other assets

 

 

1,056

 

Property and equipment

 

 

199,786

 

Right-of-use assets under operating leases

 

 

2,245

 

Intangible assets

 

 

1,824

 

Environmental receivables

 

 

42

 

Deferred tax asset

 

 

7,556

 

Total assets

 

 

227,281

 

Accounts payable

 

 

(13,310

)

Other liabilities

 

 

(141

)

Environmental liabilities

 

 

(70

)

Asset retirement obligations

 

 

(675

)

Operating leases

 

 

(2,245

)

Total liabilities

 

 

(16,441

)

Total identifiable net assets

 

 

210,840

 

Goodwill

 

$

22,891

 

 

 

 

 

Consideration paid in cash by the Company

 

$

30,617

 

Consideration provided by Blue Owl

 

 

201,654

 

Less: cash and cash equivalent balances acquired

 

 

(3,586

)

Net cash outflow

 

$

228,685

 

The Company included identifiable tangible and intangible assets and identifiable liabilities at their respective fair values based on the information available to the Company’s management on the Pride Acquisition closing date, including, among other things, a valuation performed by external consultants. The useful life of the trade name was five years. The liquor licenses have indefinite useful lives.

As a result of the accounting treatment of the Pride Acquisition, the Company recorded goodwill of approximately $22.9 million, of which $20.0 million was allocated to the GPMP segment and the remainder to the retail segment, and attributable to the opportunities to expand into new geographic locations and add significant volume to the GPMP segment. None of the goodwill recognized is tax deductible for U.S. income tax purposes.

Acquisition-related costs of approximately $0.7 million and $2.2 million have been excluded from the consideration transferred and have been recognized as an expense within other expenses, net in the consolidated statements of operations for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. No acquisition-related costs were recognized for the year ended December 31, 2024.

Results of operations for the Pride Acquisition for the period subsequent to the acquisition closing date were reflected in the consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2022. For the period from the Pride Acquisition closing date through December 31, 2022, the Company recognized $25.7 million in revenues and $1.1 million in net income related to the Pride Acquisition.

Impact of Business Combinations (unaudited)

The unaudited supplemental pro forma financial information presented below was prepared based on the historical information of the Company and the acquired operations and gives pro forma effect to the acquisitions using the assumption that the 2023 Acquisitions and the 2022 Acquisitions had occurred on January 1, 2022. The unaudited supplemental pro forma financial information does not give effect to the potential impact of current financial conditions, any anticipated synergies, operating efficiencies or cost savings that may result from the acquisitions or any integration costs. The unaudited pro forma financial information is not necessarily

indicative of what the actual results of operations would have been had these business combinations occurred on January 1, 2022 nor is it indicative of future results.

 

 

 

For the Year Ended December 31,

 

 

 

2024

 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

Total revenue

 

$

8,731,962

 

 

$

9,836,586

 

 

$

11,543,518

 

Net income

 

 

21,221

 

 

 

28,972

 

 

 

65,013