OLIN Corp

Overview

Net income for the three and six months ended June 30, 2024 was $74.2 million and $122.8 million, respectively, compared to $146.9 million and $303.2 million, for the prior year periods, respectively. The decrease of $72.7 million and $180.4 million, respectively, in net income from the prior year periods was primarily due to a decline in operating results across our chemicals business segments, partially offset by improved operating results from our Winchester segment. Net income for both the three and six months ended June 30, 2023 also reflects a gain of $27.0 million for the sale of our domestic private trucking fleet and operations. Diluted net income per share was $0.62 and $1.01 for the three and six months ended June 30, 2024, respectively, compared to $1.13 and $2.29 in the prior year periods, respectively, a decrease of $0.51 and $1.28 per share, or 45% and 56%, respectively.

Chlor Alkali Products and Vinyls reported segment income was $99.3 million and $175.9 million for the three and six months ended June 30, 2024, respectively. Chlor Alkali Products and Vinyls segment results were lower than the comparable prior year periods due to lower caustic soda pricing, partially offset by lower costs associated with product purchased from other parties and lower raw material and operating costs.

Epoxy reported a segment loss of $3.0 million and $14.8 million for the three and six months ended June 30, 2024, respectively. Epoxy segment results were lower than the comparable prior year periods primarily due to lower product pricing, partially offset by increased volumes.

Winchester reported segment income of $70.3 million and $142.5 million for the three and six months ended June 30, 2024, respectively. Winchester segment results were higher than the comparable prior year periods due to higher sales volumes, which included White Flyer results, partially offset by lower product pricing.

Liquidity and Share Repurchases

During the six months ended June 30, 2024, we repurchased and retired 3.9 million shares of common stock at a total value of $211.4 million. As of June 30, 2024, we had $787.0 million of remaining authorized common stock to be repurchased under our 2022 Repurchase Authorization Program.

During the six months ended June 30, 2024, we had net borrowings of $238.9 million with $343.0 million borrowed under our Senior Revolving Credit Facility, which was utilized to repay $70.0 million of tax-exempt variable-rate bonds and $29.7 million under our Receivables Financing Agreement.

Other Items

On July 10, 2024, we announced a temporary disruption of operations at our Freeport, TX, facility as a result of Hurricane Beryl. In response to this disruption, we declared a system-wide Force Majeure for our Chlor Alkali Products & Vinyls products and aromatics shipments for our Epoxy segment. This disruption is a result of hurricane-related damage to Olin facilities in Freeport, TX, impacting Olin’s normal production and logistics capabilities including access to power, raw materials, and other essential feedstocks and services. During July 2024, we safely returned many Freeport, TX plants to operation. Wind damage to ancillary equipment has prevented some assets from returning to operation. Once this critical equipment is restored, those remaining assets, including our vinyl chloride monomer and phenol/acetone plants, will be restarted. We expect our third quarter 2024 Chemical businesses’ results to be reduced by approximately $100 million due to incremental costs to restore operations, unabsorbed fixed manufacturing costs, and reduced profit from lost sales.

Epoxy segment results in 2024 continue to be impacted by significant exports out of Asia into the European and North American markets, negatively impacting pricing and volumes. On April 3, 2024, we announced the filing of anti-dumping and countervailing duty petitions against China, India, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand with the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. International Trade Commission relating to certain epoxy resins, as part of the U.S. Epoxy Resin Producers Ad Hoc Coalition. The petitions were filed in response to large volumes of low-priced imports of epoxy resins into the U.S. from the subject countries over the past three years that have injured U.S. domestic epoxy resin producers.

On July 1, 2024, we announced the initiation of an anti-dumping proceeding by the European Commission against China, the Republic of Korea, Taiwan and Thailand concerning low-priced imports of epoxy resins into the European Union (EU), as a result of a complaint lodged by the Ad Hoc Coalition of Epoxy Resin Producers. The complaint alleges that exporting producers in the four targeted countries have injured the European epoxy resin producers by selling their products on the EU market at unfairly low prices that significantly undercut the prices of European producers.

During 2024, the U.S. Army awarded Winchester a contract for the construction of the Next Generation Squad Weapon (NGSW) manufacturing facility at Lake City Army Ammunition Plant. The project will be the first new manufacturing plant built at the Lake City facility in decades. The new manufacturing facility will provide safe, reliable, and advanced NGSW ammunition to the U.S. warfighter. Winchester will manage all aspects of the government-funded construction project, which commenced in the second quarter of 2024.