Earnings per Share (EPS) Flat to the Third Quarter of 2024
Adjusted EPS Up 16%
HOUSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Kinder Morgan, Inc.’s (NYSE: KMI) board of directors today approved a cash dividend of $0.2925 per share for the third quarter ($1.17 annualized), payable on November 17, 2025, to stockholders of record as of the close of business on November 3, 2025. This dividend is a 2% increase over the third quarter of 2024.
KMI is reporting:
- Third quarter net income attributable to KMI was $628 million versus $625 million in the third quarter of 2024; excluding Certain Items, which had a negative impact on net income attributable to KMI in 2025 and a positive impact in 2024, Adjusted Net Income Attributable to KMI was $648 million, 16% higher than the third quarter of 2024.
- Adjusted EBITDA of $1,991 million, up 6% versus the third quarter of 2024.
- Earnings per share (EPS) of $0.28, flat to the third quarter of 2024; and Adjusted EPS of $0.29, up 16% versus the third quarter of 2024.
“We are firmly in an era of American global energy leadership,” said Executive Chairman Richard D. Kinder. “The United States continues to lead the world in natural gas production and in exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG), providing enhanced energy security to allies around the world.
“With historic growth in global natural gas demand, a favorable federal regulatory landscape, and strong support from permitting agencies, the outlook for our company is exceptionally promising,” Kinder continued. “Our long-standing business model—owning midstream energy assets anchored by long-term, take-or-pay, fee-based contracts with creditworthy customers—positions us to continue delivering reliable performance and sustained value.”
“The company generated strong third quarter net income attributable to KMI and Adjusted EBITDA, with increased financial contributions from our Natural Gas Pipelines, Products Pipelines, and Terminals business segments versus the third quarter of 2024, along with very strong operational performance and project execution,” said Chief Executive Officer Kim Dang.
“We continued to internally fund high-quality capital projects while generating cash flow from operations of $1.4 billion and free cash flow (FCF) after capital expenditures of $0.6 billion, up 13% and 5%, respectively, from the prior year period. Our balance sheet remains healthy, as we ended the quarter with a Net Debt-to-Adjusted EBITDA ratio of 3.9 times,” continued Dang.
“KMI is seeing an opportunity set more robust than at any time in the company’s history. U.S. LNG nameplate capacity is expected to more than double by 2030. We currently have long-term contracts to move almost 8 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) of natural gas to LNG facilities and, upon completion of projects under construction, that amount is expected to grow to almost 12 Bcf/d by the end of 2028. We are also pursuing a substantial number of additional LNG feedgas opportunities,” said Dang.
“Overall, total demand for natural gas is expected to grow by 20% through 2030, led by LNG exports. We are also actively exploring more than 10 Bcf/d of opportunities to serve the natural gas power generation sector. Approximately 50% of our backlog is associated with projects supporting power generation. In the markets we serve, we expect robust growth in power demand in the coming years. With 66,000 miles of natural gas pipelines connected to all major basins and demand centers, along with more than 700 Bcf of working gas storage capacity, we are confident that we will secure our share of additional natural gas infrastructure projects supporting demand growth,” said Dang.
“Reflecting this strong demand, natural gas projects account for approximately 90% of our project backlog. At the end of the third quarter of 2025, the backlog stood at $9.3 billion, with approximately $500 million of projects placed in service during the quarter offset by a roughly equivalent amount of projects added.
“In calculating backlog Project EBITDA multiples, we exclude both the capital and EBITDA from our CO2 enhanced oil recovery projects and our gathering and processing projects, where first-full-year multiples are more favorable but the earnings are more uneven than with our other business segments. We expect the remaining $7.9 billion of projects in the backlog, when realized, to generate an aggregate first-full-year Project EBITDA multiple of approximately 5.7 times,” continued Dang.
“Looking ahead, we anticipate meaningful tax advantages that will further strengthen our cash flow profile. The permanent reinstatement of bonus depreciation and the potential for expanded interest expense deductibility are expected to reduce our cash tax liability starting in 2025, with even greater benefits as new projects come online in 2026 and 2027. Additionally, recent regulatory adjustments to the corporate alternative minimum tax will unlock further savings beginning in 2026,” Dang concluded.
2025 Outlook
We currently expect to exceed budget primarily due to contributions from the Outrigger Energy II acquisition that closed in the first quarter of 2025. This outperformance would have been greater if not for lower than budgeted D3 RIN prices and volumes. For 2025, KMI budgeted net income attributable to KMI of $2.8 billion, up 8% versus 2024, and Adjusted EPS of $1.27, up 10% from 2024. KMI expects to declare dividends of $1.17 per share for 2025, a 2% increase from the dividends declared for 2024. The company also budgeted 2025 Adjusted EBITDA of $8.3 billion, up 4% versus 2024, and to end 2025 with a Net Debt-to-Adjusted EBITDA ratio of 3.8 times. These amounts do not include contributions from the Outrigger acquisition.
This press release includes Adjusted Net Income Attributable to KMI, Adjusted EPS, Adjusted Segment EBDA, Adjusted EBITDA, Net Debt, FCF, and Project EBITDA, all of which are non-GAAP financial measures. For descriptions of these non-GAAP financial measures and reconciliations to the most comparable measures prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, please see “Non-GAAP Financial Measures” and the tables accompanying our preliminary financial statements.
Overview of Business Segments
“The Natural Gas Pipelines business segment’s improved financial performance in the third quarter of 2025 relative to the third quarter of 2024 was due primarily to continued higher contributions from both our Texas Intrastate system and Tennessee Gas Pipeline (TGP) as well as contributions from the Outrigger Energy assets,” said KMI President Tom Martin.
“Natural gas transport volumes were up 6% compared to the third quarter of 2024 primarily due to LNG deliveries on TGP, new contracts from expansion projects placed in service on our Texas Intrastate system, and increased Permian deliveries to Waha and Mexico on El Paso Natural Gas. Natural gas gathering volumes were up 9% from the third quarter of 2024 across all assets, driven primarily by our Haynesville and Eagle Ford systems.
“Contributions from the Products Pipelines business segment were up compared to the third quarter of 2024 due to higher transport rates in 2025 and unfavorable commodity price impact in our transmix business during the third quarter of 2024. Total refined products volumes were down 1% compared to the third quarter of 2024. Crude and condensate volumes were down 3% due to the expiration of legacy contracts in advance of our Double H pipeline conversion to natural gas liquids service. This was partially offset by higher volumes across all other crude and condensate pipelines,” Martin said.
“Terminals business segment earnings were up compared to the third quarter of 2024. The increase was led by our Jones Act tanker fleet, which benefited from higher rates and remains fully contracted under term charter agreements. Earnings from our liquids terminals business were up versus the prior year period, partially offset by lower earnings from our bulk terminals,” continued Martin.
“CO2 business segment earnings, which include Energy Transition Ventures (ETV), were down compared to the third quarter of 2024 due to lower crude and CO2 volumes, as well as lower CO2 and D3 RIN prices,” said Martin.
Other News
Corporate
- On August 11, 2025, Fitch upgraded its senior unsecured rating of KMI from BBB to BBB+ largely based on KMI’s ability to fund growth capital mainly with internally generated cash flow and favorable leverage levels. Moody’s and S&P have KMI’s senior unsecured rating at Baa2 and BBB, respectively, and both have the rating on positive outlook.
Natural Gas Pipelines
- TGP has entered into binding firm transportation agreements with an anchor shipper to support its approximately $93 million South Texas Enhancement Project (STEP). The project is designed to provide additional firm transportation from receipt points near Agua Dulce, Texas, to the U.S.-Mexico border. With the receipt of all permits and approvals, STEP is expected to enter service in the second quarter of 2028.
- Right-of-way acquisition and permitting are progressing on KMI’s approximately $1.8 billion Trident Intrastate Pipeline. The roughly 216-mile, 2.0 Bcf/d project is designed to provide high-demand natural gas transportation service from Katy, Texas, to the industrial corridor near Port Arthur, Texas. With the receipt of all permits and approvals, KMI expects the project to be in service in the first quarter of 2027.
- TGP continues to develop its $1.7 billion Mississippi Crossing (MSX) project with stakeholder outreach and right-of-way acquisition activities underway after filing its certificate application with FERC earlier this year. The project is designed to transport up to 2.1 Bcf/d of natural gas to Southeast markets through the construction of approximately 208 miles of 42-inch and 36-inch pipeline and three new compressor stations. MSX will originate near Greenville, Mississippi, and connect to the existing TGP system and multiple third-party pipelines to provide critical access to natural gas sourced from multiple supply basins for delivery to Southern Natural Gas (SNG) and Transco near Butler, Alabama. With the receipt of all permits and approvals, the project is expected to be in service in the fourth quarter of 2028.
- The company continues its stakeholder outreach activities for its SNG and Elba Express Company’s (EEC) South System Expansion 4 (SSE4) project after filing for its FERC certificate earlier this year. The approximately $3.5 billion project (KM-share, including EEC, approximately $1.8 billion) is designed to increase SNG’s South Main Line capacity by approximately 1.3 Bcf/d. SSE4 will be completed in two phases and is almost entirely comprised of brownfield looping and horsepower compression additions on the SNG and EEC pipeline systems. With the receipt of all permits and approvals, KMI expects to place the first phase of the project in service in the fourth quarter of 2028 and the second phase in the fourth quarter of 2029.
- The company’s development of the Hiland Express project remains on track with the conversion of its Double H Pipeline system from crude oil to natural gas liquids (NGL) service, providing Williston Basin producers and midstream companies with pipeline capacity to key market hubs. The approximately $150 million project is anticipated to be in service near the end of the first quarter of 2026. Future phases could provide incremental pipeline capacity, including out of the Powder River Basin.
- The approximately $263 million Altamont Green River Pipeline project was placed in service in September 2025. The project provides additional natural gas egress to relieve existing production constraints in the Uinta Basin, resulting in the delivery of approximately 150 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) of capacity from the basin to the Western Chipeta processing plant.
Products Pipelines
- On October 20, 2025, Phillips 66 and KMI launched a binding open season for transportation service on the Western Gateway Pipeline, a newly proposed refined products pipeline system. The Western Gateway Pipeline will facilitate the transportation of refined products from origin points in Texas to key downstream markets in Arizona and California, with connectivity to Las Vegas, Nevada. Interested customers will be able to make take-or-pay volume commitments for domestic grade gasoline, diesel, and jet products. The open season is scheduled to run through December 19, 2025. Following the successful open season, the Western Gateway Pipeline and KMI’s SFPP’s East Line will be jointly owned by Phillips 66 and KMI.
- On September 26, 2025, KMI successfully completed its most recent open season for SFPP’s East Line expansion capacity to Tucson, Arizona. The project will create an additional 2,500 barrels per day of diesel capacity to Tucson and is fully supported by long-term, take-or-pay customer commitments. With the receipt of all permits and approvals, the expansion is expected to be in-service no later than April 1, 2026.
Kinder Morgan, Inc. (NYSE: KMI) is one of the largest energy infrastructure companies in North America. Access to reliable, affordable energy is a critical component for improving lives around the world. We are committed to providing energy transportation and storage services in a safe, efficient, and environmentally responsible manner for the benefit of the people, communities and businesses we serve. We own an interest in or operate approximately 79,000 miles of pipelines, 139 terminals, more than 700 Bcf of working natural gas storage capacity and have renewable natural gas generation capacity of approximately 6.9 Bcf per year of gross production. Our pipelines transport natural gas, refined petroleum products, crude oil, condensate, CO2, renewable fuels and other products, and our terminals store and handle various commodities including gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, chemicals, metals, petroleum coke, and ethanol and other renewable fuels and feedstocks. Learn more about our work advancing energy solutions on the lower carbon initiatives page at www.kindermorgan.com.
Please join Kinder Morgan, Inc. at 4:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday, October 22, at www.kindermorgan.com for a LIVE webcast conference call on the company’s third quarter earnings.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
As described in further detail below, our management evaluates our performance primarily using Net income attributable to Kinder Morgan, Inc. and Segment earnings before DD&A expenses (EBDA), along with the non-GAAP financial measures of Adjusted Net income attributable to Common Stock, in the aggregate and per share, Adjusted Segment EBDA, Adjusted Net income attributable to Kinder Morgan, Inc., Adjusted earnings before interest, income taxes, DD&A expenses and amortization of basis differences related to our joint ventures (previously known as amortization of excess cost of equity investments) (EBITDA), and Net Debt.
Our non-GAAP financial measures described below should not be considered alternatives to GAAP net income attributable to Kinder Morgan, Inc. or other GAAP measures and have important limitations as analytical tools. Our computations of these non-GAAP financial measures may differ from similarly titled measures used by others. You should not consider these non-GAAP financial measures in isolation or as substitutes for an analysis of our results as reported under GAAP. Management compensates for the limitations of our consolidated non-GAAP financial measures by reviewing our comparable GAAP measures identified in the descriptions of consolidated non-GAAP measures below, understanding the differences between the measures and taking this information into account in its analysis and its decision-making processes.
Certain Items, as adjustments used to calculate our non-GAAP financial measures, are items that are required by GAAP to be reflected in net income attributable to Kinder Morgan, Inc., but typically either (1) do not have a cash impact (for example, unsettled commodity hedges and asset impairments), or (2) by their nature are separately identifiable from our normal business operations and in most cases are likely to occur only sporadically (for example, certain legal settlements, enactment of new tax legislation and casualty losses). (See the accompanying Tables 2, 3, 5, and 6.) We also include adjustments related to joint ventures (see “Amounts associated with Joint Ventures” below).
The following table summarizes our Certain Items for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024.
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Three Months Ended September 30, |
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Nine Months Ended September 30, |
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2025 |
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2024 |
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2025 |
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2024 |
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Certain Items |
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Change in fair value of derivative contracts (1) |
$ |
24 |
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$ |
(20 |
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$ |
13 |
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$ |
32 |
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Gain on divestitures (2) |
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— |
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— |
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— |
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(70 |
) |
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Income tax Certain Items (3) |
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(4 |
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(49 |
) |
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(41 |
) |
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(48 |
) |
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Other |
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— |
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1 |
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1 |
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3 |
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Total Certain Items (4)(5) |
$ |
20 |
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$ |
(68 |
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$ |
(27 |
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$ |
(83 |
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Notes |
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Gains or losses are reflected within non-GAAP financial measures when realized. |
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Nine-month period ended September 30, 2024 includes a $41 million gain on sale of our CO2 assets and a $29 million gain on sale of our Oklahoma midstream assets. |
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Represents the income tax provision on Certain Items plus discrete income tax items. Includes the impact of KMI’s income tax provision on Certain Items affecting earnings from equity investments and is separate from the related tax provision recognized at the investees by the joint ventures which are also taxable entities. |
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Amounts for the three and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2025 each include $(1) million reported within “Earnings from equity investments” on the accompanying Preliminary Consolidated Statements of Income of “Change in fair value of derivative contracts.” |
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Amounts for the periods ended September 30, 2025 and 2024 include $11 million and $4 million, respectively, for the three-month periods and $12 million and $5 million for the nine-month periods, respectively, reported within “Interest, net” on the accompanying Preliminary Consolidated Statements of Income of “Change in fair value of derivative contracts.” |
Adjusted Net Income Attributable to Kinder Morgan, Inc. (KMI) is calculated by adjusting net income attributable to Kinder Morgan, Inc. for Certain Items. Adjusted Net Income Attributable to Kinder Morgan, Inc. is used by us, investors, and other external users of our financial statements as a supplemental measure that provides decision-useful information regarding our period-over-period performance and ability to generate earnings that are core to our ongoing operations. We believe the GAAP measure most directly comparable to Adjusted Net Income Attributable to Kinder Morgan, Inc. is net income attributable to Kinder Morgan, Inc. (See the accompanying Tables 1 and 2.)
Adjusted Net Income Attributable to Common Stock is calculated by adjusting Net income attributable to Kinder Morgan, Inc., the most comparable GAAP measure, for Certain Items, and further for net income allocated to participating securities and adjusted net income in excess of distributions for participating securities. We believe Adjusted Net Income Attributable to Common Stock allows for calculation of adjusted earnings per share (Adjusted EPS) on the most comparable basis with earnings per share, the most comparable GAAP measure to Adjusted EPS. Adjusted EPS is calculated as Adjusted Net Income Attributable to Common Stock divided by our weighted average shares outstanding. Adjusted EPS applies the same two-class method used in arriving at basic earnings per share. Adjusted EPS is used by us, investors, and other external users of our financial statements as a per-share supplemental measure that provides decision-useful information regarding our period-over-period performance and ability to generate earnings that are core to our ongoing operations. (See the accompanying Table 2.)
Adjusted Segment EBDA is calculated by adjusting segment earnings before DD&A, general and administrative expenses and corporate charges, interest expense, and income taxes (Segment EBDA) for Certain Items attributable to the segment. Adjusted Segment EBDA is used by management in its analysis of segment performance and management of our business. We believe Adjusted Segment EBDA is a useful performance metric because it provides management, investors, and other external users of our financial statements additional insight into performance trends across our business segments, our segments’ relative contributions to our consolidated performance, and the ability of our segments to generate earnings on an ongoing basis. Adjusted Segment EBDA is also used as a factor in determining compensation under our annual incentive compensation program for our business segment presidents and other business segment employees. We believe it is useful to investors because it is a measure that management uses to allocate resources to our segments and assess each segment’s performance. (See the accompanying Table 3.)
Adjusted EBITDA is calculated by adjusting net income attributable to Kinder Morgan, Inc. for Certain Items and further for DD&A, amortization of basis differences related to our joint ventures, income tax expense, and interest. We also include amounts from joint ventures for income taxes and DD&A (see “Amounts associated with Joint Ventures” below). Adjusted EBITDA (on a rolling 12-months basis) is used by management, investors, and other external users, in conjunction with our Net Debt (as described further below), to evaluate our leverage. Management and external users also use Adjusted EBITDA as an important metric to compare the valuations of companies across our industry. Our ratio of Net Debt-to-Adjusted EBITDA is used as a supplemental performance target for purposes of our annual incentive compensation program. We believe the GAAP measure most directly comparable to Adjusted EBITDA is net income attributable to Kinder Morgan, Inc. (See the accompanying Tables 2 and 5.)
Amounts associated with Joint Ventures – Certain Items and Adjusted EBITDA reflect amounts from unconsolidated joint ventures (JVs) and consolidated JVs utilizing the same recognition and measurement methods used to record “Earnings from equity investments” and “Noncontrolling interests (NCI),” respectively. The calculation of Adjusted EBITDA related to our unconsolidated and consolidated JVs include the same adjustments (DD&A, amortization of basis differences, and income tax expense) with respect to the JVs as those included in the calculation of Adjusted EBITDA for our wholly-owned consolidated subsidiaries; further, we remove the portion of these adjustments attributable to non-controlling interests. (See Tables 2, 5 and 6.) Although these amounts related to our unconsolidated JVs are included in the calculation of Adjusted EBITDA, such inclusion should not be understood to imply that we have control over the operations and resulting revenues, expenses or cash flows of such unconsolidated JVs.
Net Debt is calculated by subtracting from debt (1) cash and cash equivalents, (2) debt fair value adjustments, and (3) the foreign exchange impact on Euro-denominated bonds for which we have entered into currency swaps to convert that debt to U.S. dollars. Net Debt, on its own and in conjunction with our Adjusted EBITDA (on a rolling 12-months basis) as part of a ratio of Net Debt-to-Adjusted EBITDA, is a non-GAAP financial measure that is used by management, investors, and other external users of our financial information to evaluate our leverage.
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