Kinetik Holdings Inc

11. EQUITY AND WARRANTS

Redeemable Noncontrolling Interest - Common Unit Limited Partners

On February 22, 2022, the Company consummated the previously announced business combination transactions contemplated by the Contribution Agreement, dated as of October 21, 2021. Pursuant to the Contribution Agreement, in connection with the Closing, (i) Contributor contributed all the equity interests of the Contributed Entities to the Partnership; and (ii) in exchange for such contribution, the Partnership transferred to Contributor 50,000,000 common units representing limited partner interests in the Partnership and 50,000,000 shares of the Company’s Class C Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share. Please refer to Note 1—Description of Business and Basis of Presentation in the Notes to our Consolidated Financial Statements in this Annual Report.

The redemption option of the Common Unit is not legally detachable or separately exercisable from the instrument and is non-transferable, and the Common Unit is redeemable at the option of the holder. Therefore, the Common Unit is accounted for as redeemable noncontrolling interest and classified as temporary equity on the Company’s Consolidated Balance Sheet. During 2023,180,962 common units were redeemed on aone-for-one basis for shares of Class A Common Stock and a corresponding number of shares of Class C Common Stock were cancelled. There were 94,089,038 Common Units and an equal number of Class C Common Stock issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2023. The Common Units fair value was approximately $3.16 billion and $3.11 billion as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. The fair value of the Common Units is estimated based on a quoted market price.

Preferred Units

Upon Closing, the Company assumed certain Preferred Units that were issued and outstanding as of the Closing Date. At the Closing, the Company assumed liabilities of $200.7 million related to mandatory redeemable Preferred Units and temporary equity of $462.7 million related to redeemable noncontrolling interest - Preferred Units Limited Partners. During 2022, the Company redeemed all assumed Preferred Units from the Closing and recorded a gain on the redemption of mandatorily redeemable Preferred Units of $9.6 million and a gain on embedded derivative related to the redeemable noncontrolling interest - Preferred Units Limited Partners of $89.1 million.

Warrants

Upon Closing, the Company assumed certain warrants that were outstanding on the Closing Date. At the Closing, the Company recorded liabilities related to the warrants of $0.2 million. There were 12,577,350 Public Warrants, valued based on Level 1 inputs, and 6,364,281 Private Placement Warrants, valued based on Level 3 inputs. All Public Warrants and Private Placement Warrants expired on November 9, 2023. The Company recorded favorable fair value adjustments of $0.1 million and $0.1 million in “Interest and other income” of the Consolidated Statements of Operations for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.

Stock Repurchase Program

In February 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) approved a stock repurchase program (“Repurchase Program”), authorizing discretionary purchases of the Company’s Class A Common Stock up to $100.0 million in the aggregate.

Repurchases may be made at management’s discretion from time to time, in accordance with applicable securities laws, on the open market or through privately negotiated transactions and may be made pursuant to a trading plan meeting the requirements of Rule 10b5-1 under the Exchange Act. Privately negotiated repurchases from affiliates are also authorized under the Repurchase Program, subject to such affiliates’ interest and other limitations. The repurchases will depend on market conditions and may be discontinued at any time without prior notice.

During the year ended December 31, 2023, the Company repurchased 194,174 shares at a total cost of $5.8 million. The Company retired all treasury stock as of December 31, 2023.

For more information regarding the non-deductible 1% U.S. federal excise tax imposed on certain repurchases of stock by publicly traded U.S. corporations, please refer to Part I—Item 1A Risk Factors—Risks Related to Ownership of our Common Stock.

Dividend

On February 22, 2022, the Company entered into a Dividend and Distribution Reinvestment Agreement (the “Reinvestment Agreement”) with certain stockholders including BCP Raptor Aggregator, LP, BX Permian Pipeline Aggregator, LP, Buzzard Midstream LLC, APA Corporation Apache Midstream LLC, and certain individuals (each, a “Reinvestment Holder”). Under the Reinvestment Agreement, each Reinvestment Holder is obligated to reinvest at least 20% of all distributions on Common Units or dividends on shares of Class A Common Stock in the Company’s Class A Common Stock. Additionally, the Audit Committee resolved that for the calendar year 2023,100% of all distributions or dividends received by each Reinvestment Holder would be reinvested in newly issued shares of Class A Common Stock. The Reinvestment Agreement will terminate automatically on March 8, 2024. As described in these Consolidated Financial Statements, as the context requires, dividends paid to holders of Class A Common Stock and distributions paid to holders of Common Units may be referred to collectively as “dividends.”

During 2023, the Company made cash dividend payments of $82.0 million to holders of Class A Common Stock and Common Units and $352.1 million was reinvested in shares of Class A Common Stock by each Reinvestment Holder.

Stock Split

On May 19, 2022, the Company announced that its Board approved and declared atwo-for-one stock split with respect to its Class A Common Stock and Class C Common Stock, in the form of a stock dividend (the “Stock Split”). The Stock Split was accomplished by distributingone additional share of Class A Common Stock for each share of Class A Common Stock outstanding andone additional share of Class C Common Stock for each share of Class C Common Stock outstanding. The additional shares of Common Stock were issued on June 8, 2022 to holders of record at the close of business on May 31, 2022.

All corresponding per-share and share amounts, excluding the Transaction, for periods prior to June 8, 2022 have been retrospectively restated in this Annual Report to reflect the Stock Split.