Commences longwall operations at transformational Blue Creek mine, eight months ahead of schedule and on budget

Raises full year outlook to reflect strong operational performance and Blue Creek ramp-up

Potential for strategic expansion through federal lease acquisition win

Warrior Met Coal, Inc. (NYSE: HCC) (“Warrior” or the “Company”) today announced results for the third quarter of 2025. Warrior is the leading dedicated U.S.-based producer and exporter of high-quality steelmaking coal for the global steel industry.

Warrior reported net income for the third quarter of 2025 of $36.6 million, or $0.70 per diluted share, a decrease from net income of $41.8 million, or $0.80 per diluted share, in the third quarter of 2024. The Company reported Adjusted EBITDA of $70.6 million in the third quarter of 2025 compared to Adjusted EBITDA of $78.5 million in the third quarter of 2024. These results continue to be impacted by significantly weaker steelmaking coal market conditions driven primarily by ongoing depressed global steel demand, excess Chinese steel exports and ample supply of steelmaking coal globally. As a result, the average index price for premium low-vol steelmaking coal was 13% lower than the prior year's comparable quarter. At the same time, Warrior reported a 27% increase in total sales volumes and a 17% increase in total production volumes compared to the prior year comparable quarter, primarily attributable to the Blue Creek mine.

Third Quarter and Other Recent Highlights

• Commenced the highly anticipated longwall operations at Blue Creek in October eight months ahead of schedule and on budget, where the commissioning towards full production is expected to be completed in early 2026;
• Completed the installation of the Blue Creek overland clean coal belt, along with the remaining modules of the preparation plant in October, and made significant progress on the barge loadout with investments of $64.2 million in Blue Creek during the third quarter of 2025;
• Achieved record quarterly sales volumes of 2.4 million short tons of steelmaking coal, including 378 thousand short tons sold from the Blue Creek mine;
• Reduced cash cost of sales (free-on-board port) per short ton by 18% to $100.73 from $123.45 per short ton quarter-over-quarter, driven by a combination of a variable cost structure, a disciplined approach to cost control and operational efficiency, and enhanced by the inherently lower cost structure of Blue Creek; and
• Won the bidding in the federal coal lease sale of 58 million short tons of high-quality steelmaking coal reserves which are accessible by Warrior's existing facilities, therefore extending the life of its mining operations, and allowing for access to additional resources, that could add further life to both Mine 4 and Blue Creek beyond the 58 million tons.

“It is gratifying to see our detailed planning and laser-focused execution result in the successful startup of longwall operations at our transformational Blue Creek mine eight months ahead of schedule, while keeping the overall project on budget,” commented Walt Scheller, CEO of Warrior. “This milestone reflects Warrior's unwavering commitment to operational excellence and highlights the exceptional teamwork and dedication of our employees. Their efforts have propelled us forward and enhanced our position for sustained growth and long-term success.”

“The early startup of Blue Creek's longwall significantly increases our production capacity and has already begun contributing to revenue and free cash flow. As a result of our success on this project, we have raised our full-year production volume guidance by 10%, further reinforcing Warrior's position as the premier U.S. pure-play producer of premium steelmaking metallurgical coal,” Mr. Scheller concluded.

Strategic Expansion Through Federal Lease Acquisition

At the end of the third quarter, Warrior learned that it was the successful bidder in a federal coal lease sale administered by the Bureau of Land Management. The acquisition includes approximately 14,050 acres in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, with an estimated 58 million short tons of high-quality steelmaking coal reserves. The total bid for the leases was $46.8 million.

“The purchase of these leases enables us to enhance our long-term growth strategy, bolstering our reserve base and extending the life of our core mining operations,” Mr. Scheller said. “The newly leased areas are adjacent to existing infrastructure, allowing for efficient integration into our current operations and capital planning.”

“While several regulatory and administrative steps remain before Warrior enters into a lease agreement with the Bureau of Land Management, we are actively engaged with the relevant agencies to ensure timely progress and compliance with all requirements,” Mr. Scheller concluded. “The combination of this acquisition, once it closes, and the continued ramping up of production at Blue Creek positions us to continue to meet sustained global demand for premium steelmaking coal. With world class assets, a low-cost position, and disciplined capital deployment, we remain focused on delivering long-term shareholder value through strategic resource development and operational excellence.”

Operating Results

Sales volumes in the third quarter of 2025 were a record 2.4 million short tons compared to 1.9 million short tons in the third quarter of 2024, representing a 27% increase, driven primarily by sales of Blue Creek steelmaking coal of 378 thousand short tons.

The Company produced 2.2 million short tons of steelmaking coal in the third quarter of 2025, compared to 1.9 million short tons in the third quarter of 2024, representing a 17% increase, including 175 thousand short tons produced at Blue Creek. Inventory levels decreased slightly to 1.1 million short tons as of September 30, 2025, compared to 1.2 million short tons as of June 30, 2025.

Additional Financial Results

Total revenues were $328.6 million for the third quarter of 2025, which compares to total revenues of $327.7 million for the third quarter of 2024, reflecting the 27% increase in sales volumes, offset partially by a decline in the average net selling price. The average net selling price of the Company's steelmaking coal decreased 21% from $171.92 per short ton in the third quarter of 2024 to $135.87 per short ton in the third quarter of 2025. The average gross selling price realization was approximately 83% of the Platts Premium Low Vol FOB Australian index price for the third quarter of 2025 compared to 93% for the third quarter of 2024, primarily driven by a higher sales mix of high-vol A steelmaking coal and a lower price index relativity to premium low-vol.

Cost of sales for the third quarter of 2025 were $239.5 million compared to $231.6 million for the third quarter of 2024. Cash cost of sales (free-on-board port) for the third quarter of 2025 were $237.2 million, or 74.1% of mining revenues, compared to $229.7 million, or 71.8% of mining revenues in the same period of 2024. Cash cost of sales (free-on-board port) per short ton decreased to $100.73 in the third quarter of 2025 from $123.45 in the third quarter of 2024. This was driven primarily by lower steelmaking coal prices and their effect on Warrior's variable cost structure, primarily for wages, transportation and royalties combined with the Company's disciplined approach to cost control and operational efficiency and the sales mix of Blue Creek coal and its inherent lower cost structure.

Selling, general and administrative expenses for the third quarter of 2025 were $17.2 million, or 5.2% of total revenues, and were higher than the same period last year of $11.5 million due to higher employee-related expenses.

Depreciation and depletion expenses for the third quarter of 2025 were $43.6 million, or 13.3% of total revenues and were higher than the same period last year of $36.6 million, or 11.2% of total revenues. This was primarily due to depreciation expense recognized on additional assets placed into service at Blue Creek and higher sales volumes. Warrior achieved net interest income of $2.1 million during the third quarter of 2025, which is lower than the prior year due to lower interest income on lower cash balances and lower earned rates of return combined with higher interest expense due to interest on new leased equipment.

Income tax benefit was $13.7 million in the third quarter of 2025 on a pre-tax income of $22.8 million. The effective income tax rate for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 varied from the statutory federal income tax rate of 21%, primarily due to tax benefits recognized for depletion expense, marginal gas well tax credits and foreign-derived intangible income deduction which exceeded forecasted pre-tax book income. This compares to an income tax expense of $4.6 million on pre-tax income of $46.4 million in the third quarter of 2024.

Cash Flow and Liquidity

The Company generated positive cash flows from operations of $104.7 million in the third quarter of 2025, compared to $62.2 million in the third quarter of 2024. Net working capital, excluding cash, for the third quarter of 2025 decreased by $30.7 million from the second quarter of 2025, primarily reflecting lower accounts receivable and higher accrued expenses.

Cash used in investing activities for capital expenditures and mine development for the third quarter of 2025 was $124.2 million compared to $122.8 million in the third quarter of 2024. The third quarter of 2025 includes $64.2 million of capital expenditures for the continued development of Blue Creek, which brings the total year-to-date capital expenditures to $171.2 million and project-to-date capital expenditures to $887.7 million. In addition, Warrior made the first payment of five installments of $9.4 million for the new federal coal leases as described above. Free cash flows in the third quarter of 2025 were negative $19.5 million compared to free cash flows of negative $60.6 million in the third quarter of 2024, driven primarily by the continued development of Blue Creek.

Cash flows used in financing activities for the third quarter of 2025 were $17.8 million, primarily due to principal repayments of financing lease obligations of $13.5 million and payment of a regular quarterly dividend of $4.2 million.

The Company’s total liquidity as of September 30, 2025 was $525.2 million, consisting of cash and cash equivalents of $336.3 million, short-term investments of $46.4 million, which is net of $9.8 million posted as collateral, long-term investments of $2.0 million and available liquidity under its ABL Facility of $140.5 million, net of outstanding letters of credit of $2.5 million.

Capital Allocation

On October 28, 2025, the Board declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.08 per share, which the Company plans to distribute on November 14, 2025, to stockholders of record as of the close of business on November 7, 2025.

Company Outlook

Due to the accelerated startup of the Blue Creek longwall, the Company is updating and increasing its production (approximately 10%) and sales volume guidance for the full year 2025. In addition, the Company is lowering its guidance range for cash cost of sales (free-on-board port) per short ton to reflect more recent actual trends. This guidance is subject to many risks that may impact performance, such as global trade and tariff uncertainties, market conditions in the steel and steelmaking coal industries and overall global economic and competitive conditions, all as more fully described under Forward-Looking Statements. Warrior will continue to evaluate the impact of trade and tariff uncertainties on its business for the remainder of the fiscal year.

The Company's 2025 production volume guidance contains approximately 1.8 million short tons of high-vol A steelmaking coal from the Blue Creek mine, of which approximately two-thirds is expected to be sold in 2025.

The Company's guidance for its capital expenditures consists of sustaining capital spending of approximately $90-$100 million, including regulatory gas requirements and final 4 North bunker construction, and discretionary capital spending of $225-$250 million for the development of the Blue Creek reserves. While the longwall operations have recently commenced, there remains a significant amount of surface infrastructure to be completed to finish the overall project. Warrior remains on budget and expects total Blue Creek project capital expenditures of $995 million to $1.075 billion. The remaining amounts are expected to be primarily spent by the end of the first quarter of 2026.

Key factors that may affect the full year 2025 outlook include:

• one additional planned longwall move before year end;
• the performance of the Blue Creek longwall;
• HCC index pricing, geography of sales and freight rates;
• trade and tariff policies;
• exclusion of other non-recurring costs;
• new labor contract; and
• inflationary pressures.

The Company does not provide reconciliations of its outlook for cash cost of sales (free-on-board port) to cost of sales in reliance on the unreasonable efforts exception provided for under Item 10(e)(1)(i)(B) of Regulation S-K. The Company is unable, without unreasonable efforts, to forecast certain items required to develop the meaningful comparable Generally Accepted Accounting Principles ("GAAP") cost of sales. These items typically include non-cash asset retirement obligation accretion expenses and other non-recurring indirect mining expenses that are difficult to predict in advance in order to include in a GAAP estimate. The unavailable information could have a significant impact on the Company's reported financial results.

Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures

This release contains the use of certain non-GAAP financial measures. These non-GAAP financial measures are provided as supplemental information for financial measures prepared in accordance with GAAP. Management believes that these non-GAAP financial measures provide additional insights into the performance of the Company, and they reflect how management analyzes Company performance and compares that performance against other companies. These non-GAAP financial measures may not be comparable to other similarly titled measures used by other entities. The definition of these non-GAAP financial measures and a reconciliation of non-GAAP to GAAP financial measures is provided in the financial tables section of this release.

Conference Call

The Company will hold a conference call to discuss its third quarter 2025 results today, November 5, 2025, at 4:30 p.m. ET. To listen to the event, live or access an archived recording, please visit http://investors.warriormetcoal.com. Analysts and investors who would like to participate in the conference call should dial 1-844-340-9047 (domestic) or 1-412-858-5206 (international) 10 minutes prior to the start time and reference the Warrior Met Coal conference call. Telephone playback will also be available from 6:30 p.m. ET on November 5, 2025 until 6:30 p.m. ET on November 12, 2025. The replay will be available by calling: 1-877-344-7529 (domestic) or 1-412-317-0088 (international) and entering passcode 1271409.

About Warrior

Warrior is a U.S.-based, environmentally and socially minded supplier to the global steel industry. It is dedicated entirely to mining non-thermal metallurgical (met) steelmaking coal used as a critical component of steel production by metal manufacturers in Europe, South America and Asia. Warrior is a large-scale, low-cost producer and exporter of premium quality met coal, also known as hard-coking coal (HCC), operating highly efficient longwall operations in its underground mines based in Alabama. The HCC that Warrior produces from the Blue Creek coal seam contains very low sulfur and has strong coking properties. The premium nature of Warrior’s HCC makes it ideally suited as a base feed coal for steel makers. For more information, please visit www.warriormetcoal.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains, and the Company’s officers and representatives may from time to time make, forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All statements, other than statements of historical facts, included in this press release that address activities, events or developments that the Company expects, believes or anticipates will or may occur in the future are forward-looking statements, including statements regarding 2025 guidance, sales and production growth, ability to maintain cost structure, demand, pricing trends, management of liquidity, cash flows, expenses and expected capital expenditures, the Company's future ability to create value for stockholders, as well as statements regarding production, inflationary pressures, the development of the Blue Creek project including the schedule for the commissioning towards full production of longwall operations, and the terms of any new labor contract. 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These forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which are outside of the Company’s control, that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, fluctuations or changes in the pricing or demand for the Company’s coal (or met coal generally) by the global steel industry, including the risk of a continued decline in the index price for premium low-vol steelmaking coal; the impacts of U.S. and international trade policies and tariffs; the impact of global pandemics, including the impact of any such pandemic on its business and that of its customers, including the risk of a decline in demand for the Company's met coal due to the impact of any such pandemic on steel manufacturers; the impact of inflation on the Company, the impact of geopolitical events, including the effects of the Russia-Ukraine war and the ongoing conflict in the Middle East; the inability of the Company to effectively operate its mines and the resulting decrease in production; the inability of the Company to transport its products to customers due to rail performance issues or the impact of weather and mechanical failures at the McDuffie Terminal at the Port of Mobile; federal and state tax legislation; changes in interpretation or assumptions and/or updated regulatory guidance regarding the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 and the One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025; legislation and regulations relating to the Clean Air Act and other environmental initiatives; regulatory requirements associated with federal, state and local regulatory agencies, and such agencies’ authority to order temporary or permanent closure of the Company’s mines; operational, logistical, geological, permit, license, labor and weather-related factors, including equipment, permitting, site access, operational risks and new technologies related to mining and labor strikes or slowdowns; the timing and impact of planned longwall moves; the Company’s obligations surrounding reclamation and mine closure; inaccuracies in the Company’s estimates of its met coal reserves; any projections or estimates regarding Blue Creek, including the expected returns from this project, if any, and the ability of Blue Creek to enhance the Company's portfolio of assets, the Company's expectations regarding its future tax rate as well as its ability to effectively utilize its net operating losses to reduce or eliminate its cash taxes; the Company's ability to develop Blue Creek; the performance of the Blue Creek longwall; the Company’s ability to develop or acquire met coal reserves in an economically feasible manner; including the expansion of the Company's met coal reserves through a federal lease acquisition; significant cost increases and fluctuations, and delay in the delivery of raw materials, mining equipment and purchased components; competition and foreign currency fluctuations; fluctuations in the amount of cash the Company generates from operations, including cash necessary to pay any special or quarterly dividend; the Company’s ability to comply with covenants in its Amended ABL Facility or indenture relating to its senior secured notes; integration of businesses that the Company may acquire in the future; adequate liquidity and the cost, availability and access to capital and financial markets; failure to obtain or renew surety bonds on acceptable terms, which could affect the Company’s ability to secure reclamation and coal lease obligations; costs associated with litigation, including claims not yet asserted; and other factors described in the Company’s Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024 and other reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), which could cause the Company’s actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement. The Company’s filings with the SEC are available on its website at www.warriormetcoal.com and on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.

Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which it is made, and, except as required by law, the Company does not undertake any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. New factors emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for the Company to predict all such factors.

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Warrior Reports Third Quarter 2025 Results and Updates Outlook