PSEG’s financial strength is enabling the anticipated funding of an expanded capital expenditure program through 2025 without the need for new equity. PSEG’s improved business mix has also added stability and predictability to our financial profile, along with greater financial flexibility. As a result, PSEG announced several significant items, including:
| • | | initiating 2022 non-GAAP Operating Earnings guidance of $3.30 to $3.60 per share, exclusive of results from Fossil |
| • | | establishing a long-term, non-GAAP consolidated Operating Earnings growth rate of 5% to 7% to 2025, based upon the mid-point of our just issued, 2022 guidance |
| • | | raising the indicative 2022 Common Stock Dividend by $0.12 per share, signaling an indicative 2022 dividend of $2.16 per share beginning in the first quarter of 2022, with declaration of dividends subject to approval by the Board of Directors, and |
| • | | announcing a $500 million share repurchase program to be implemented upon the close of the Fossil sale |
PSEG today also affirmed its full-year 2021 non-GAAP Operating Earnings guidance range of $3.50 to $3.65 per share.
In August, PSEG announced it had agreed to sell its PSEG Fossil generating portfolio for approximately $1.92 billion to subsidiaries of a fund controlled by ArcLight Capital Partners, LLC, advancing its position as a clean energy infrastructure-focused company. PSEG’s exit from the fossil generation business accelerates its transition to a primarily regulated and contracted business, with a zero-carbon operations and infrastructure investments platform.
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Public Service Enterprise Group Inc. (PSEG) (NYSE: PEG) is a publicly traded diversified energy company with approximately 13,000 employees. Headquartered in Newark, N.J., PSEG’s principal operating subsidiaries are: Public Service Electric and Gas Co. (PSE&G), PSEG Power and PSEG Long Island. PSEG is a Fortune 500 company included in the S&P 500 Index and has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability Index for North America for 13 consecutive years (https://corporate.pseg.com).
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
Management uses non-GAAP Operating Earnings in its internal analysis, and in communications with investors and analysts, as a consistent measure for comparing PSEG’s financial performance to previous financial results. Non-GAAP Operating Earnings exclude the impact of returns (losses) associated with the Nuclear Decommissioning Trust (NDT), Mark-to-Market (MTM) accounting and material one-time items.
The presentation of non-GAAP Operating Earnings is intended to complement, and should not be considered an alternative to the presentation of Net Income, which is an indicator of financial performance determined in accordance with GAAP. In addition, non-GAAP Operating Earnings as presented in this release may not be comparable to similarly titled measures used by other companies.
Due to the forward-looking nature of non-GAAP Operating Earnings guidance, PSEG is unable to reconcile this non-GAAP financial measure to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure. Management is unable to project certain reconciling items, in particular MTM and NDT gains (losses), for future periods due to market volatility.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain of the matters discussed in this report about our and our subsidiaries’ future performance, including, without limitation, future revenues, earnings, strategies, prospects, consequences and all other statements that are not purely historical constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward- looking statements are subject to
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