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| But with those planned outages and this planned work, we still remain well positioned to achieve the high end of our guidance range |
| Finally, we continue to execute against our 2023 objectives and remain well positioned to achieve the high end of our full year adjusted EBITDA guidance range of $250 million to $265 million |
| Given the solid year-to-date performance of our Domestic Coke segment, we are well positioned to deliver domestic coke adjusted EBITDA on the high end of our guidance range of $234 million to $242 million |
| Yes -- no, we're really pleased with our year-to-date performance and we have a significant amount of planned outage work in the fourth quarter |
| And we just -- we really have a strong belief that if this is consummated, it's going to be meaningfully rewarding to our shareholders |
| As Katherine mentioned, we continue to successfully navigate through difficult market conditions and all our coke sales are finalized for the rest of the year |
| We continue to successfully navigate through challenging market conditions with all of our noncontracted blast furnace coke sales finalized for the remainder of the year |
| In total, we ended the quarter with a strong liquidity position of approximately $476 million |
| From a balance sheet perspective, we ended the third quarter with a strong liquidity position of $475.9 million |
| Our domestic coke plants operated well and continued to run at full capacity |
| Finally, based on the reliability and performance of our operating segments, we look to achieve the high end of our full year consolidated adjusted EBITDA guidance of $250 million to $265 million |
| As mentioned earlier, despite challenging market conditions, we were able to finalize all of our noncontracted blast furnace coke sales for the year |
| Safety, environmental and operational performance are top priorities for our company |
| So that is continuing to move forward and it is a very, very high priority for us |
| This project allows us to grow our foundry market participation while maintaining flexibility to make either blast or foundry coke |
| Well, thank you all for joining us today and thank you for your continued interest in SunCoke |
| And then we do expect to see higher volumes on logistics |
| For the quarter, cash flow was favorably impacted by working capital changes, mainly the timing of receivables and payables |
| Through our collective efforts, we delivered consolidated adjusted EBITDA of $65.4 million |
| So it is just kind of the comparison -- it's coming off of a really high record quarter of last year |
| We remain focused on safely executing against our operating and capital plan for full utilization of our coke-making assets |
| So we actually anticipate CapEx coming in slightly above our guidance of the $95 million |
| Good morning and thank you for joining us on today's call |
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| Similarly, our logistics terminals continued to operate well but saw lower volumes and pricing driven by weaker demand during the quarter |
| Adjusted EBITDA for the third quarter 2023 was $65.4 million, a decrease of $18.3 million from record results of third quarter 2022 |
| While the domestic coke fleet has continued to run at full capacity, the decrease in adjusted EBITDA as compared to the record prior year period was primarily driven by lower contribution margin on our noncontracted blast coke sales, partially offset by higher coal-to-coke yields |
| Excluding the impact of these adjustments, EPS was lower by $0.12 per share quarter-over-quarter, primarily driven by lower contribution margins on noncontracted blast coke sales, partially offset by favorable coal-to-coke yields |
| The decrease in adjusted EBITDA was primarily due to lower throughput volumes and a lower API2 price adjustment benefit at CMT |
| Net income attributable to SunCoke was $0.08 per share in the third quarter of 2023, down $0.41 versus the prior year period |
| And so this quarter, we've just seen lower contribution margins based on the spot sales that we had remaining for this year |
| If my math is correct, that only implies EBITDA of around $49 million in the fourth quarter to get you to that high end of the range which would -- should be down about $15 million quarter-over-quarter |
| The first one is on the blast furnace coke side and you mentioned kind of the weaker contributions there during the quarter |
| The decrease in adjusted EBITDA was primarily driven by the lower contribution margins on noncontracted blast coke sales, partially offset by favorable coal-to-coke yields and lower transloading volumes and pricing in our Logistics segment |
| So it's -- we're low on CapEx there but what we have seen is that we've seen the inflationary pressures related to our maintenance CapEx and that's throughout the year |
| So both that inflationary pressure and the GPI project was not anticipated at the time that we gave our CapEx guidance |
| So we are going to be a little bit short of that on a full year basis |
| I think it can be unsatisfying to have to wait to hear an announcement on this type of project |
| But overall, the volumes will come in a little bit short but we are guiding towards the lower end of the EBITDA guidance |
| So that makes sense that you may be a little short on a shipment guidance standpoint |
| When compared to last year's record third quarter results, we delivered lower contribution margins on noncontracted blast coke sales |
| I mentioned earlier that we have our own planned outages at our coke plants and those are really higher O&M |
| How does that kind of affect the operations output? Katherine Gates So with these outages, there's higher O&M when they occur |
| That was kind of the bulk of the quarter-over-quarter decline it looked like from a shipment perspective |
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