The Middleby Corporation Reports First Quarter Results and Board of Directors Increases Share Buyback Authorization to 21% of Equity

• Prioritization of Free Cash Flow to Accelerate Share Repurchases
• Increase of Shares Available for Buyback to 11.4 million shares, an increase of 7.5 million shares
• Operating income of $141 million as compared to $137 million in prior year
• Adjusted EBITDA of $182 million as compared to $186 million in prior year
• Operating cash flows of $141 million in current and prior year
• Net leverage at 2.0x

The Middleby Corporation (NASDAQ:MIDD), a leading worldwide manufacturer of equipment for the commercial foodservice, food processing, and residential kitchen industries, today reported net earnings for the first quarter of 2025. Middleby further announced an acceleration to its share repurchase program, with expectation to deploy the vast majority of its free cash flow to the buyback of shares. This follows the company's February 2025 announcement to separate its Food Processing business into a separate public company.

Share Repurchasing

"Middleby has a demonstrated track record of operational excellence, strong cash flow generation and disciplined capital investments, which provides the foundation for our attractive capital allocation framework," said Tim FitzGerald, CEO of The Middleby Corporation.

"This framework, combined with our financial strength, positions us to be able to prioritize return of capital to shareholders, while also continuing investments in our business to drive innovation and deliver organic growth. To that end, and given our continued belief that Middleby's current market valuation does not reflect the inherent strength of our business, we are now targeting a return of the vast majority of Middleby's free cash flow to shareholders through share repurchases over the foreseeable future. This is an important part of advancing our efforts to drive enhanced value creation and follows our February announcement regarding the planned separation of Middleby Food Processing, which remains on track for completion in early 2026."

In conjunction with the increased emphasis on buyback activity, Middleby's Board has increased the total share repurchase authorization by 7.5 million shares. The total authorized shares available to be repurchased now represents 11.4 million shares, or 21% of the company's outstanding equity. Year to date, we have repurchased approximately $50 million of our stock in the open market. We may repurchase shares of our common stock through open market or privately negotiated transactions at times and amounts determined by the company and will depend on a range of factors, including market conditions, the company's financial condition, and cash flow. Repurchasing activity may be suspended, discontinued or resumed at any time. The actual return of capital may vary from quarter to quarter.

Tariff Impact

"Our strong U.S. manufacturing footprint, combined with a global operating presence, position us well to navigate recent tariff-related challenges and provide us competitive advantages over the long term," added FitzGerald. "At this time, tariff impacts remain highly uncertain, with initial estimates indicating an increase of our costs by approximately $150 to $200 million annually. We expect to fully offset these increases through ongoing operating initiatives and pricing actions, with the benefits of these measures fully implemented by year end. We remain confident in our long-term outlook, supported by our ongoing initiatives, decentralized operating model and resilient business portfolio."

2025 First Quarter Financial Results

• Net sales decreased 2.2% in the first quarter over the comparative prior year period. Excluding the impacts of acquisitions and foreign exchange rates, sales decreased 3.8% in the first quarter over the comparative prior year period.

• A reconciliation of organic net sales (a non-GAAP measure) by segment is as follows:

• Adjusted EBITDA (a non-GAAP measure) was $182.1 million in the first quarter compared to $185.8 million in the prior year. A reconciliation of organic adjusted EBITDA (a non-GAAP measure) by segment is as follows:

• Operating cash flows during the first quarter amounted to $141.1 million in comparison to $140.9 million in the prior year period. During the first quarter the company repurchased $29.2 million of Middleby shares. The total leverage ratio per our credit agreements was 2.0x. The trailing twelve-month bank agreement pro-forma EBITDA was $873.9 million.

• Net debt, defined as debt excluding the unamortized discount associated with the Convertible Notes less cash, at the end of the 2025 fiscal first quarter amounted to $1.6 billion as compared to $1.7 billion at the end of fiscal 2024. Our borrowing availability at the end of the first quarter was approximately $3.0 billion.

Conference Call

The company has scheduled a conference call to discuss the first quarter results at 11 a.m. Eastern/10 a.m. Central Time on May 7th. The conference call is accessible through the Investor Relations section of the company website at www.middleby.com. If website access is not available, attendees can join the conference by dialing (844) 676-5090, or (412) 634-6754 for international access, and ask to join the Middleby conference call. The conference call will be available for replay from the company's website.

Statements in this press release or otherwise attributable to the company regarding the company's business which are not historical facts are forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The company cautions investors that such statements are estimates of future performance and are highly dependent upon a variety of important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from such statements. Such factors include variability in financing costs; quarterly variations in operating results; dependence on key customers; international exposure; foreign exchange and political risks affecting international sales; changing market conditions; the impact of competitive products and pricing; the timely development and market acceptance of the company's products; the availability and cost of raw materials; and other risks detailed herein and from time-to-time in the company's SEC filings. Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date hereof, and the company does not undertake any obligation to publicly update or review any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, except as required by law.

The Middleby Corporation is a global leader in the foodservice industry. The company develops and manufactures a broad line of solutions used in commercial foodservice, food processing, and residential kitchens. Supporting the company's pursuit of the most sophisticated innovation, state-of-the-art Middleby Innovation Kitchens and Residential Showrooms showcase and demonstrate the most advanced Middleby solutions. In 2022 Middleby was named a World's Best Employer by Forbes and is a proud philanthropic partner to organizations addressing food insecurity.

USE OF NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES

The company supplements its consolidated financial statements presented on a GAAP basis with this non-GAAP financial information to provide investors with greater insight, increase transparency and allow for a more comprehensive understanding of the information used by management in its financial and operational decision-making. The non-GAAP financial measures disclosed by the company should not be considered a substitute for, or superior to, financial measures prepared in accordance with GAAP, and the financial results prepared in accordance with GAAP and reconciliations from these results should be carefully evaluated. In addition, the non-GAAP financial measures included in this press release do not have standard meanings and may vary from similarly titled non-GAAP financial measures used by other companies.

The company believes that organic net sales growth, non-GAAP adjusted segment EBITDA, adjusted net earnings and adjusted diluted per share measures are useful as supplements to its GAAP results of operations to evaluate certain aspects of its operations and financial performance, and its management team primarily focuses on non-GAAP items in evaluating performance for business planning purposes. The company also believes that these measures assist it with comparing its performance between various reporting periods on a consistent basis, as these measures remove from operating results the impact of items that, in its opinion, do not reflect its core operating performance including, for example, intangibles amortization expense, impairment charges, restructuring expenses, and other charges which management considers to be outside core operating results.

The company believes that free cash flow is an important measure of operating performance because it provides management and investors with a measure of cash generated from operations that is available for mandatory payment obligations and investment opportunities, such as funding acquisitions, repaying debt and repurchasing our common stock.

The company believes that its presentation of these non-GAAP financial measures is useful because it provides investors and securities analysts with the same information that Middleby uses internally for purposes of assessing its core operating performance.

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John Joyner, VP of Investor Relations, [email protected]