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| In April 19, 2023, Via made the decision to suspend the dividend on the common stock in order to strengthen our balance sheet, and add financial flexibility that provides us with the availability to pursue strategic growth opportunities and provide us with added confidence in our ability and magnitudes and the impacts of the foreseeable future of weather events |
| I want to thank our employees and our suppliers for their hard work in producing a good quarter and a strong year |
| In 2023, Via was able to grow our books solely organically |
| The increase in retail gross margin and a $0.8 million merger agreement expense add-back drove the increase in adjusted EBITDA |
| We are also able to lower our average monthly attrition 3.4% compared with 3.8% in 2022 |
| Full-year adjusted EBITDA was up at $56.9 million compared to $51.8 million for 2022 and full-year retail gross margin was $136.7 million for 2023 compared to $114.8 million in 2022 |
| The increase in retail gross margin is mainly due to higher unit margins on our natural gas load |
| We ended the year with 335,000 RCEs, up from 331,000 RCEs at the end of 2022, which was due to an increase in year-over-year sales and a decrease in attrition |
| The increase in adjusted EBITDA was due to higher gross margin year-over-year, partially offset by increases in net asset optimization, G&A expenses, customer acquisition spend and a nonrecurring $4.4 million add-back for winter storm, Yuri, taken in the second quarter of 2022 |
| For the full-year of 2023, we reported adjusted EBITDA of $56.9 million up from $51.8 million in 2022 |
| The increase was mainly due to the increase in retail gross margin |
| Income tax expense of $11.1 million in 2023 was up from $6.5 million expense in 2022 due to an increase in net income |
| Good morning |
| These were partially offset by a significant decrease in bad debt |
| Stephen Rabalais Thank you |
| Thanks |
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| The gain in the unit margin was partly offset by a decrease in our power and natural gas volumes due to the starting of the year with lower RCE count and milder weather in the Northeast |
| Over the past few years, our book has been purposely shrinking on the market consolidation and acquisition opportunities to become less attractive |
| The increase is partially offset by lower natural gas volumes and lower electric unit margins |
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