United Parks & Resorts Inc.

UNITED PARKS & RESORTS INC.

NOTES TO CONDENSED PARENT COMPANY ONLY FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

1. DESCRIPTION OF UNITED PARKS & RESORTS INC.

United Parks & Resorts Inc. (the “Parent”), previously SeaWorld Entertainment, Inc., was incorporated in Delaware on October 2, 2009. See further discussion in Note 1–Description of the Business in the accompanying consolidated financial statements.

The Parent has no operations or significant assets or liabilities other than its investment in SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment, Inc. (“SEA”), which owns and operates twelve theme parks within the United States. Accordingly, the Parent is dependent upon distributions from SEA to fund its obligations. However, under the terms of SEA’s various debt agreements, SEA’s ability to pay dividends or lend to the Parent is restricted, except that SEA may pay specified amounts to the Parent to fund the payment of the Parent’s tax obligations.

2. BASIS OF PRESENTATION

The accompanying condensed financial statements (the “parent company only financial statements”) include the accounts of the Parent and its investment in SEA accounted for in accordance with the equity method and do not present the financial statements of the Parent and its subsidiary on a consolidated basis. Certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) have been condensed or omitted since this information is included with the United Parks & Resorts Inc. consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K (the “consolidated financial statements”). These parent company only financial statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements.

3. GUARANTEES

SEA is the borrower under the senior secured credit facilities, (the “Senior Secured Credit Facilities”) under a credit agreement dated as of December 1, 2009 which was amended and restated on August 25, 2021, and further amended on June 12, 2023, January 22, 2024, May 2, 2024, August 23, 2024 and December 4, 2024 (the “Amended and Restated Credit Agreement”). On August 25, 2021, SEA completed a private offering of $725.0 million aggregate principal amount of 5.250% senior notes due 2029 (the “Senior Notes”). On April 30, 2020, SEA closed on a private offering of $227.5 million aggregate principal amount of 8.750% first-priority senior secured notes due 2025 (the “First-Priority Senior Secured Notes”), which were fully redeemed during the year ended December 31, 2024.

Under the terms of the Senior Secured Credit Facilities, the obligations of SEA are fully, unconditionally and irrevocably guaranteed by Parent, any subsidiary of Parent that directly or indirectly owns 100% of the issued and outstanding equity interest of SEA, and subject to certain exceptions, each of SEA’s existing and future material domestic wholly-owned subsidiaries (collectively, the “Guarantors”).

SEA’s obligations under the Senior Notes and related indenture are guaranteed, jointly and severally, on a senior secured basis, by the Guarantors, as defined, in accordance with the provisions of the indenture.

See Note 11–Long-Term Debt of the accompanying consolidated financial statements for further details.

4. DIVIDENDS FROM SUBSIDIARY

During the year ended December 31, 2024, SEA paid cash dividends to the Parent of approximately $482.9 million. During the year ended December 31, 2023, SEA paid dividends to the Parent of approximately $17.9 million. The dividends were in the form of 313,750 shares of common stock repurchased by SEA. During the year ended December 31, 2022, SEA paid dividends to the Parent of approximately $693.6 million. The dividends were in the form of 12,423,497 shares of common stock repurchased by SEA. (see Note 5–Stockholders’ Deficit which follows).

5. STOCKHOLDERS’ DEFICIT

Omnibus Incentive Plan

The Parent has reserved 15,000,000 shares of common stock for future issuance under the Omnibus Incentive Plan (the “Omnibus Incentive Plan”), of which approximately 6,267,000 are available for future issuance as of December 31, 2024.

The Omnibus Incentive Plan is administered by the compensation committee of the Parent’s Board, and provides that the Parent may grant equity incentive awards to eligible employees, directors, consultants or advisors of the Parent or its subsidiary, SEA, in the form of stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, restricted stock units and other stock-based and performance compensation awards. If an award under the Omnibus Incentive Plan expires or is canceled, forfeited, or terminated, without issuance to the participant, the unissued shares may be granted again under the Omnibus Incentive Plan. See further discussion in Note 17–Equity-Based Compensation of the accompanying consolidated financial statements.

During the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022, respectively, Parent transferred approximately $1.7 million, $2.9 million and $3.4 million in proceeds received from the exercise of stock options to SEA as a capital contribution and increased its investment in SEA.

Share Repurchase Programs

In August 2022, the Parent's Board approved a $250.0 million share repurchase program (the “Former Share Repurchase Program”) of which approximately $38.5 million remained available as of December 31, 2023. During the year ended December 31, 2024, the Parent repurchased 375,000 shares for an aggregate total of approximately $20.2 million, leaving approximately $18.3 million remaining under the Former Share Repurchase Program as of December 31, 2024.

In March 2024, the Parent's Board and the Company's Stockholders approved a new $500.0 million share repurchase program (the "Share Repurchase Program"). During the year ended December 31, 2024, the Parent repurchased 8,990,000 shares for an aggregate total of approximately $462.8 million, leaving approximately $37.2 million remaining under the Share Repurchase Program as of December 31, 2024.

Collectively, under the 2022 Former Share Repurchase Program and 2024 Share Repurchase Program, the Parent repurchased 9,365,000 shares for an aggregate total of approximately $482.9 million during the year ended December 31, 2024.

As a result of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, the Parent accrued approximately $4.6 million for an expected excise tax related to shares repurchases made during the year ended December 31, 2024, which is included in other accrued liabilities and treasury stock, at cost in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets as of December 31, 2024.

Under the Former Share Repurchase Program and Share Repurchase Program, the Parent is authorized to repurchase shares through open market purchases, privately-negotiated transactions or otherwise in accordance with applicable federal securities laws, including through Rule 10b5-1 trading plans and under Rule 10b-18 of the Exchange Act. The Former Share Repurchase Program and Share Repurchase Program has no time limits and could be suspended or discontinued completely at any time.

All shares repurchased pursuant to the Former Share Repurchase Program and Share Repurchase Program, along with shares repurchased directly from selling stockholders concurrently with previous secondary offerings, are recorded as treasury stock at a total cost of $1,830.1 million and $1,342.5 million as of the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively, and are reflected within stockholders’ deficit in the accompanying condensed balance sheets. See further discussion in Note 18–Stockholders’ Deficit of the accompanying consolidated financial statem ents.