All-time record revenues and adjusted net income

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Corpay, Inc. (NYSE: CPAY), a corporate payments company, today reported financial results for its fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2024.

“We had a great finish to 2024, delivering fourth quarter organic revenue growth of 12% and adjusted EPS growth of 21%, which are both above our mid-term growth targets,” said Ron Clarke, chairman and chief executive officer, Corpay, Inc. “We delivered Corporate Payments growth of 20% for the full year, and we made meaningful advances to scale our Corporate Payments business, with two significant acquisitions during the year.”

Financial Results for Fourth Quarter of 2024:

GAAP Results

• Revenues increased 10% to $1,034.4 million in the fourth quarter of 2024, compared with $937.3 million in the fourth quarter of 2023.
• Net income attributable to Corpay decreased 4% to $246.0 million in the fourth quarter of 2024, compared with $255.9 million in the fourth quarter of 2023.
• Net income per diluted share attributable to Corpay decreased 1% to $3.44 in the fourth quarter of 2024, compared with $3.48 per diluted share in the fourth quarter of 2023.
• Fourth quarter net income and net income per diluted share attributable to Corpay include a gain on sale of business, goodwill impairment charge and a discrete non-cash tax provision that on a net basis reduced net income by approximately $37 million, or $0.52 of earnings per share.

Non-GAAP Results1

• Organic revenue growth was 12% in the fourth quarter of 2024.
• Adjusted EBITDA1 increased 12% to $571.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2024, compared to $508.1 million in the fourth quarter of 2023.
• Adjusted net income attributable to Corpay1 increased 18% to $383.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2024, compared with $326.1 million in the fourth quarter of 2023.
• Adjusted net income per diluted share attributable to Corpay1 increased 21% to $5.36 in the fourth quarter of 2024, compared with $4.44 per diluted share in the fourth quarter of 2023.

“Each business segment delivered accelerating revenue growth with fourth quarter organic revenue growth hitting its high water mark over the past 5 quarters. Our strong core business performance enabled record adjusted earnings per diluted share of $5.36 for the quarter,” said Tom Panther, chief financial officer, Corpay, Inc. “Improving sales, retention and same store sales trends during the quarter positions us very well for continued growth in 2025.”

Financial Results for Full Year 2024:

GAAP Results

• Revenues increased 6% to $3,974.6 million in 2024, compared with $3,757.7 million in 2023.
• Net income attributable to Corpay increased 2% to $1,003.7 million in 2024, compared with $981.9 million in 2023.
• Net income per diluted share attributable to Corpay increased 6% to $13.97 in 2024, compared with $13.20 per diluted share in 2023.
• 2024 net income and net income per diluted share attributable to Corpay include a gain on sale of business, goodwill impairment charge and a discrete non-cash tax provision that on a net basis reduced net income by approximately $37 million, or $0.52 of earnings per share.

Non-GAAP Results1

• Adjusted EBITDA1 increased 7% to $2,129.0 million in 2024, compared with $1,994.2 million in 2023.
• Adjusted net income attributable to Corpay1 increased 8% to $1,364.1 million in 2024, compared with $1,258.6 million in 2023.
• Adjusted net income per diluted share attributable to Corpay1 increased 12% to $19.01 in 2024, compared with $16.92 in 2023.

“2024 was a very successful year for Corpay. We rebranded and simplified the Company, and grew sales/bookings over 20%, better positioning the Company for the mid-term,” said Ron Clarke. “We also deployed over $2.5 billion in capital, acquiring two Corporate Payments companies and repurchasing $1.3 billion of Corpay stock while maintaining a leverage ratio of 2.75x as of year end.”

Fiscal Year 2025 Outlook:

“Our 2025 outlook is to deliver sales growth of approximately 20%, with revenue and adjusted earnings per diluted share growth of 10% to 12%. Our earnings growth outlook is adversely impacted due to a worsening foreign exchange rates, fuel price, and interest rate outlook since our November earnings call. Looking beyond the macro, leading the way is our Corporate Payments segment where we’re projecting organic revenue to grow in the high teens,” said Tom Panther. “Additionally, we expect to generate approximately $1.5 billion in free cash flow in 2025 that provides us meaningful fire power to execute our capital allocation plans.”

For fiscal year 2025, Corpay, Inc.'s updated financial guidance1 is as follows:

• Total revenues between $4,350 million and $4,450 million;
• Net income between $1,174 million and $1,224 million;
• Net income per diluted share between $16.50 and $17.00;
• Adjusted net income between $1,482 million and $1,532 million; and
• Adjusted net income per diluted share between $20.75 and $21.25.

Corpay’s guidance assumptions for the full year are as follows:

• Weighted average U.S. fuel prices equal to $3.24 per gallon;
• Fuel price spreads flat with the 2024 average;
• Foreign exchange rates equal to the January 2025 forward consensus;
• Interest expense between $350 million and $380 million;
• Approximately 72 million fully diluted shares outstanding;
• An effective tax rate of approximately 25.5% to 26.5%; and
• No impact related to material acquisitions not closed.

First Quarter of 2025 Outlook:

“First quarter organic revenue growth is expected to be 8% to 10% and adjusted EPS is expected to grow 9% to 11%. Our earnings growth outlook for the first quarter is adversely impacted approximately 7% compared to the prior year due to unfavorable movements in foreign exchange rates, fuel prices and tax rate. Revenue growth is expected to build over the remaining quarters as we execute our business plans and lap the higher foreign currency exchange rates from the first half of last year,” said Tom Panther.

Conference Call:

The Company will host a conference call to discuss fourth quarter and full year 2024 financial results today at 5:00 pm ET. Hosting the call will be Ron Clarke, chief executive officer, Tom Panther, chief financial officer and Jim Eglseder, investor relations. The conference call will be webcast live from the Company's investor relations website at http://investor.corpay.com. The conference call can also be accessed live over the phone by dialing (877)-423-9813 or (201)-689-8573; the Conference ID is 13751017. A replay will be available one hour after the call and can be accessed by dialing (844)-512-2921 or (412)-317-6671 for international callers; the replay conference ID is 13751017. The replay will be available through Wednesday, February 12, 2025. Prior to the conference call, the Company will post supplemental financial information that will be discussed during the call and live webcast.

Forward-Looking Statements:

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. Statements that are not historical facts, including statements about Corpay’s beliefs, assumptions, expectations and future performance, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of words such as “anticipate,” “intend,” “believe,” “estimate,” “plan,” “seek,” “project” or “expect,” “may,” “will,” “would,” “could” or “should,” the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology.

These forward-looking statements are not a guarantee of performance, and you should not place undue reliance on such statements. We have based these forward-looking statements largely on preliminary information, internal estimates and management assumptions, expectations and plans about future conditions, events and results. Forward-looking statements are subject to many uncertainties and other variable circumstances, such as our ability to successfully execute our strategic plan, manage our growth and achieve our performance targets; the impact of macroeconomic conditions, including any recession or economic downturn that has occurred or may occur in the future, and whether expected trends, including retail fuel prices, fuel price spreads, fuel transaction patterns, electric vehicle, retail lodging price, foreign exchange rates and interest rates trends develop as anticipated and we are able to develop successful strategies in light of these trends; our ability to attract new and retain existing partners, fuel merchants, and lodging providers, their promotion and support of our products, and their financial performance; our ability to successfully manage the derivative financial instruments that we use in our Cross-Border solution to reduce our exposure to various market risks, including changes in foreign exchange rates; the failure of management assumptions and estimates, as well as differences in, and changes to, economic, market, interest rate, interchange fees, foreign exchange rates, and credit conditions, including changes in borrowers’ credit risks and payment behaviors; the risk of higher borrowing costs and adverse financial market conditions impacting our funding and liquidity, and any reduction in our credit ratings; our ability to successfully manage our credit risks and the sufficiency of our allowance for expected credit losses; our ability to securitize our trade receivables; the occurrence of fraudulent activity, data breaches or failures of our information security controls or cybersecurity-related incidents that may compromise our systems or customers’ information; any disruptions in the operations of our computer systems and data centers; the international operational and political risks and compliance and regulatory risks and costs associated with international operations; the impact of international conflicts, including between Russia and Ukraine, as well as within the Middle East, on the global economy or our business and operations; our ability to develop and implement new technology, products, and services; any alleged infringement of intellectual property rights of others and our ability to protect our intellectual property; the regulation, supervision, and examination of our business by foreign and domestic governmental authorities, as well as litigation and regulatory actions, including the lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC); the impact of regulations and related requirements relating to privacy, information security and data protection; derivative and hedging activities; use of third-party vendors and ongoing third-party business relationships; and failure to comply with anti-money laundering (AML) and anti-terrorism financing laws; changes in our senior management team and our ability to attract, motivate and retain qualified personnel consistent with our strategic plan; tax legislation initiatives or challenges to our tax positions and/or interpretations, and state sales tax rules and regulations; the risks of mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, including, without limitation, the related time and costs of implementing such transactions, integrating operations as part of these transactions and possible failures to achieve expected gains, revenue growth and/or expense savings from such transactions; our ability to remediate material weaknesses and the ongoing effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, as well as the other risks and uncertainties identified under the caption "Risk Factors" in the 2023 Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on February 29, 2024 and subsequent filings with the SEC made by us. These factors could cause our actual results and experience to differ materially from any forward-looking statement made herein. The forward-looking statements included in this press release are made only as of the date hereof and we do not undertake, and specifically disclaim, any obligation to update any such statements as a result of new information, future events or developments, except as specifically stated or to the extent required by law. You may access Corpay’s SEC filings for free by visiting the SEC web site at www.sec.gov.

About Non-GAAP Financial Measures:

This press release includes non-GAAP financial measures, which are used by the Company as supplemental measures to evaluate its overall operating performance. The Company’s definitions of the non-GAAP financial measures used herein may differ from similarly titled measures used by others, including within our industry. By providing these non-GAAP financial measures, together with reconciliations to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures, we believe we are enhancing investors’ understanding of our business and our results of operations, as well as assisting investors in evaluating how well we are executing strategic initiatives. See the appendix for additional information regarding these non-GAAP financial measures and a reconciliation to the most directly comparable GAAP measure.

The Company refers to free cash flow, cash net income and adjusted net income attributable to Corpay interchangeably, a non-GAAP financial measure. Adjusted net income attributable to Corpay is calculated as net income attributable to Corpay, adjusted to eliminate (a) non-cash stock based compensation expense related to stock based compensation awards, (b) amortization of deferred financing costs, discounts, intangible assets, amortization of the premium recognized on the purchase of receivables, and amortization attributable to the Company's noncontrolling interest, (c) integration and deal related costs, and (d) other non-recurring items, including unusual credit losses, certain discrete tax items, the impact of business dispositions, impairment losses, asset write-offs, restructuring costs, loss on extinguishment of debt, taxes associated with stock-based compensation programs, losses and gains on foreign currency transactions and legal settlements and related legal fees. We adjust net income for the tax effect of adjustments using our effective income tax rate, exclusive of certain discrete tax items. We calculate adjusted net income attributable to Corpay and adjusted net income per diluted share attributable to Corpay to eliminate the effect of items that we do not consider indicative of our core operating performance.

Adjusted net income attributable to Corpay and adjusted net income per diluted share attributable to Corpay are supplemental measures of operating performance that do not represent and should not be considered as an alternative to net income, net income per diluted share or cash flow from operations, as determined by U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, or U.S. GAAP. We believe it is useful to exclude non-cash share based compensation expense from adjusted net income because non-cash equity grants made at a certain price and point in time do not necessarily reflect how our business is performing at any particular time and share based compensation expense is not a key measure of our core operating performance. We also believe that amortization expense can vary substantially from company to company and from period to period depending upon their financing and accounting methods, the fair value and average expected life of their acquired intangible assets, their capital structures and the method by which their assets were acquired; therefore, we have excluded amortization expense from our adjusted net income. Integration and deal related costs represent business acquisition transaction costs, professional services fees, short-term retention bonuses and system migration costs, etc., that are not indicative of the performance of the underlying business. We also believe that certain expenses, discrete tax items, gains on business disposition, recoveries (e.g. legal settlements, write-off of customer receivable, etc.), gains and losses on investments, taxes related to stock-based compensation programs and impairment losses do not necessarily reflect how our investments and business are performing. We adjust net income for the tax effect of each of these adjustments items using the effective tax rate during the period, exclusive of discrete tax items.

Organic revenue growth is calculated as revenue growth in the current period adjusted for the impact of changes in the macroeconomic environment (to include fuel price, fuel price spreads and changes in foreign exchange rates) over revenue in the comparable prior period adjusted to include or remove the impact of acquisitions and/or divestitures and non-recurring items that have occurred subsequent to that period. We believe that organic revenue growth on a macro-neutral, one-time item, and consistent acquisition/divestiture/non-recurring item basis is useful to investors for understanding the performance of Corpay.

EBITDA is defined as earnings before interest, income taxes, interest expense, net, other expense (income), depreciation and amortization, loss on extinguishment of debt, goodwill impairment, investment loss/gain and other operating, net. Adjusted EBITDA is defined as EBITDA further adjusted for a one-time stock based compensation expense and a deal related termination expense. EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA margin are defined as EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA as a percentage of revenue.

Management uses adjusted net income attributable to Corpay, adjusted net income per diluted share attributable to Corpay, organic revenue growth, EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA:

• as measurements of operating performance because they assist us in comparing our operating performance on a consistent basis;
• for planning purposes, including the preparation of our internal annual operating budget;
• to allocate resources to enhance the financial performance of our business; and
• to evaluate the performance and effectiveness of our operational strategies.

About Corpay

Corpay (NYSE: CPAY) is a global S&P 500 corporate payments company that helps businesses and consumers manage and pay expenses in a simple, controlled manner. Corpay’s suite of modern payment solutions help its customers better manage vehicle-related expenses (e.g. fueling and parking), travel expenses (e.g. hotel bookings) and accounts payable (e.g. paying vendors). This results in our customers saving time and ultimately spending less. Corpay – Payments made easy. For more information, please visit www.corpay.com.

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1 Reconciliations of GAAP results to non-GAAP results are provided in Exhibit 1, 5 and 6 attached. Additional supplemental data is provided in Exhibits 2-4. A reconciliation of GAAP guidance to non-GAAP guidance is provided in Exhibit 7.