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Acquisitions

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Acquisitions
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2024
Business Combinations [Abstract]  
Acquisitions

4. Acquisitions

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 and gas stations, (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.

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 condensed consolidated statement of operations for the six months ended June 30, 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 (refer to Note 5 below). The TEG Purchase Agreement Amendment additionally terminated the 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 condensed consolidated statement of operations for the six months ended June 30, 2024.

WTG Fuels Holdings, LLC

On June 6, 2023, pursuant to an asset purchase agreement entered on December 6, 2022, 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”), 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”).

In the second quarter of 2024, the Company updated the initial 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, which was allocated to the GPMP segment attributable to the opportunity to add significant volume to the GPMP segment. These adjustments resulted in a net increase in depreciation and amortization expenses recorded, approximately $0.2 million and $0.5 million of that related to amounts recorded for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and for the year ended December 31, 2023, respectively.

SpeedyQ Acquisition

On April 9, 2024, the Company acquired certain assets from a third-party, including 21 SpeedyQ Markets convenience stores and eight additional landbank sites located in Michigan (the “SpeedyQ Acquisition”), pursuant to a purchase agreement entered into on November 21, 2023 (the “SpeedyQ Purchase Agreement”). The consideration at closing was approximately $52.5 million as adjusted in accordance with terms of the SpeedyQ Purchase Agreement, plus 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 and approximately $45.0 million was paid for fee simple ownership in 19 of the properties by an affiliate of Oak Street Real Estate Capital Net Lease Property Fund, LP (including its affiliates, “Oak Street”) under the standby real estate purchase, designation and lease program agreement (the “Program Agreement”) (as further described in Note 8 to the annual financial statements). At the closing, pursuant to the Program Agreement, the Company entered into a master lease with Oak Street for the sites Oak Street acquired under customary lease terms. 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.

The details of the SpeedyQ Acquisition were as follows:

 

 

Amount

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

Fair value of consideration transferred:

 

 

 

Cash

 

$

4,472

 

GPMP Capital One Line of Credit

 

 

6,000

 

Payable to seller

 

 

371

 

Consideration provided by Oak Street

 

 

45,017

 

Total consideration

 

$

55,860

 

Assets acquired and liabilities:

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents

 

$

31

 

Inventory

 

 

3,321

 

Other assets

 

 

266

 

Property and equipment, net

 

 

52,794

 

Intangible assets

 

 

1,050

 

Right-of-use assets under financing leases

 

 

6,905

 

Environmental receivables

 

 

26

 

Total assets

 

 

64,393

 

Other liabilities

 

 

(367

)

Environmental liabilities

 

 

(39

)

Asset retirement obligations

 

 

(1,255

)

Financing lease liabilities

 

 

(6,872

)

Total liabilities

 

 

(8,533

)

Total identifiable net assets

 

 

55,860

 

Goodwill

 

$

 

 

 

 

 

Consideration paid in cash

 

$

10,472

 

Consideration provided by Oak Street

 

 

45,017

 

Less: cash and cash equivalent balances acquired

 

 

(31

)

Net cash outflow

 

$

55,458

 

The initial accounting treatment of the SpeedyQ Acquisition reflected in these interim financial statements is provisional because the Company has not yet finalized the initial accounting treatment of this acquisition, including the valuation of some of the assets and liabilities acquired and the goodwill resulting from the SpeedyQ Acquisition, mainly due to the limited period of time between the SpeedyQ Acquisition closing date and the date of these interim financial statements. Therefore, some of the financial information presented with respect to the SpeedyQ Acquisition in these interim financial statements remains subject to change.

The Company included identifiable tangible assets and identifiable liabilities in these interim financial statements at their respective fair values based on the information available to the Company’s management on the SpeedyQ Acquisition closing date, including, among other things, a preliminary valuation performed by management and external consultants for this purpose. The useful life of the trade name was estimated at five years.

As a result of the initial accounting treatment of the SpeedyQ Acquisition, no goodwill was recorded.

Acquisition-related costs of approximately $0.9 million and $1.2 million have been excluded from the consideration transferred and have been recognized as an expense within other expenses, net in these interim financial statements for the three and six months ended June 30, 2024, respectively. No acquisition-related costs were recognized for the three and six months ended June 30, 2023.

Results of operations for the SpeedyQ Acquisition for the period subsequent to the acquisition closing date have been included in these interim financial statements for the three and six months ended June 30, 2024. For the period from the SpeedyQ Acquisition closing date through June 30, 2024, the Company recognized $20.3 million in revenues and $0.2 million of net loss related to the SpeedyQ Acquisition.

Impact of Acquisitions (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 SpeedyQ Acquisition, Speedy’s Acquisition (as further described in Note 4 to the annual financial statements), the WTG Acquisition and the TEG Acquisition, had occurred at the beginning of each period presented below. 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 the acquisitions occurred at the beginning of each period presented below nor is it indicative of future results.

 

 

 

 

For the Six Months
Ended June 30,

 

 

 

2024

 

 

2023

 

 

 

(unaudited)

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

Total revenue

 

$

4,485,398

 

 

$

5,024,201

 

Net income

 

 

13,559

 

 

 

6,822