Teleconferência de Resultados do 2T26 da WhiteHawk Minerals (WHK): Crescimento da Produção, Aquisições e Dividendos

Principais Destaques

• A produção líquida foi de aproximadamente 70 MMcfe/d em média, uma alta de 57% em relação ao 2T2025 e de 9% ante o 1T2026, impulsionada por mais de 11.500 poços em produção.
• A receita operacional, incluindo ganhos realizados com hedge, foi de US$ 25,7 milhões. O EBITDA ajustado atingiu US$ 20,7 milhões, enquanto o fluxo de caixa disponível para distribuição foi de US$ 17,4 milhões, ou US$ 0,63 por ação.
• A WhiteHawk assinou aproximadamente US$ 112 milhões em aquisições no prazo de dois meses após seu IPO. A administração espera que os ativos adquiridos adicionem cerca de 16 MMcf/d de produção e US$ 17 milhões de fluxo de caixa incremental em 2027.
• O conselho de administração aprovou um dividendo trimestral de US$ 0,50 por ação, o equivalente a US$ 2,00 em termos anualizados. O primeiro dividendo proporcional é de US$ 0,11 por ação.
• A WhiteHawk encerrou o trimestre com US$ 55,5 milhões em dívida líquida, uma linha de crédito rotativo não utilizada de US$ 150 milhões e alavancagem de 0,67x.
• A administração planeja manter sua estrutura de hedge dinâmico de aproximadamente 90% da produção esperada para os próximos 12 meses, 80% para os 12 meses seguintes e 60% no terceiro ano.

Principais Dados Financeiros

O prejuízo líquido GAAP incluiu uma perda não recorrente de US$ 21,7 milhões com a extinção de dívida, US$ 15,8 milhões de taxas de gestão e incentivo não recorrentes e uma variação contábil (sem efeito de caixa) de US$ 1,7 milhão no valor justo do passivo de earn-out.

Desempenho Operacional e de Negócios

A produção da WhiteHawk veio de mais de 11.500 poços produtores. A empresa também informou mais de 500 poços brutos mapeados no horizonte próximo (line-of-sight) e mais de 9.000 locais brutos não desenvolvidos identificados em 3,6 milhões de acres unitários brutos.

Cerca de 55% da produção trimestral veio do xisto de Marcellus e Utica, nos Apalaches, enquanto outros 25% vieram do xisto de Haynesville. Em Marcellus, 96% da produção foi operada por EQT, Range, CNX e Antero. Em Haynesville, 58% foi operada por Expand, Mitsubishi Adamas, Comstock e Tokyo Gas.

A estratégia de aquisições da WhiteHawk inclui transações estratégicas de maior porte e compras de proprietários individuais de direitos minerários. A administração identificou de US$ 3 bilhões a US$ 5 bilhões em potenciais oportunidades estratégicas nas formações de Marcellus, Utica e Haynesville, além de descrever a oportunidade no segmento direto ("ground-game") como superior a US$ 30 bilhões.

Os aproximadamente US$ 112 milhões em aquisições assinadas estão concentrados nas regiões de Marcellus e Haynesville. A administração espera maior produção e fluxo de caixa desses ativos em 2028, posicionando as transações dentro ou perto do limite inferior do múltiplo de fluxo de caixa de aquisição entre 6x e 7x discutido anteriormente.

Perspectivas da Administração

A administração espera que usinas termelétricas a gás natural anunciadas ou planejadas para atender data centers e IA perto de seus ativos nos Apalaches adicionem 7 Bcf/d de demanda na região de Marcellus até 2031. A empresa também citou 14 Bcf/d em capacidade de exportação de GNL em construção e com previsão de entrar em operação até 2030. Com base nesses fatores, a companhia prevê um crescimento potencial total da demanda por gás natural de 21 Bcf/d até 2031, sendo que grande parte desse volume deve ser fornecida pelas formações de Marcellus, Utica e Haynesville, segundo estimativas da gestão.

A empresa pretende distribuir pelo menos 75% do fluxo de caixa disponível para distribuição. O dividendo trimestral de US$ 0,50 representou uma cobertura de aproximadamente 1,3x com base no fluxo de caixa disponível para distribuição por ação do 2T.

A WhiteHawk tem como meta uma alavancagem de longo prazo de aproximadamente 1x o EBITDA ajustado. Para ajudar a financiar as aquisições assinadas, a empresa obteve compromissos de US$ 50 milhões em ações preferenciais da Série E, com cupom inicial de 10% e resgatáveis a qualquer momento.

Riscos e Pontos de Atenção

A WhiteHawk continua exposta aos preços do gás natural, embora a administração esteja utilizando uma posição expressiva de hedge para proteger o fluxo de caixa e a visibilidade dos dividendos. Durante o 2T, 96% dos volumes de gás natural estavam protegidos por hedge a US$ 4,02, enquanto 83% dos volumes de petróleo estavam protegidos a US$ 62.

A estratégia de aquisições traz considerações sobre execução e financiamento. A administração destacou a seleção disciplinada de negócios e um balanço patrimonial conservador, contudo as novas ações preferenciais da Série E terão inicialmente um cupom de 10%.

A demanda futura de data centers, geração de energia para IA e exportações de GNL continua dependente do cronograma e da conclusão dos projetos anunciados. A administração descreveu sua estimativa de demanda de energia nos Apalaches de 7 Bcf/d como conservadora, reconhecendo a incerteza quanto à escala e aos prazos finais.

Destaques da Sessão de Perguntas e Respostas com Analistas

• Estratégia de hedge: A administração afirmou que a WhiteHawk espera manter sua estrutura de hedge dinâmico de 90%/80%/60%. A empresa revisa suas posições mensalmente e prevê capturar potencial de alta por meio do crescimento da produção acima dos volumes protegidos e de aquisições feitas durante períodos de preços mais fracos das commodities.
• Aquisições recentes: Os ativos relacionados à San Jacinto estavam entre as oportunidades de curto prazo identificadas antes do IPO. A WhiteHawk já possuía parte do ativo nos Apalaches desde 2024, o que lhe conferiu histórico operacional e familiaridade no nível do ativo antes de concordar em adquirir uma participação adicional.
• Capacidade do balanço patrimonial: A administração reiterou sua meta de manter a alavancagem próxima ou abaixo de 1x ao longo do tempo, sustentada pelo crescimento do EBITDA do negócio base e dos ativos adquiridos.
• Operadores integrados de gás: A WhiteHawk espera se beneficiar da integração de midstream dos grandes operadores e da capacidade de obter preços realizados de gás natural mais fortes sem ter de financiar diretamente o desenvolvimento da infraestrutura.
• Demanda de data centers: A administração afirmou que as visões dos operadores estão amplamente alinhadas quanto à escala da oportunidade, embora alguns produtores pareçam mais bem posicionados para capturá-la. A WhiteHawk visa alinhar sua exposição a royalties a esses operadores.

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Comentários da administração

Operator

Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us, and welcome to the WhiteHawk Minerals Second Quarter 2026 Earnings Call. [Operator Instructions].

I will now hand the conference over to John Ragozzino. Please go ahead.

Unknown Executive

Good morning, and welcome to WhiteHawk Minerals Second Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call. Before we begin, please note that today's discussion may include forward-looking statements regarding the company's financial condition, results of operations and future performance.

These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. Please refer to WhiteHawk's SEC filings for a statement of discussion around these risk factors. The company undertakes no obligation to update these statements, except as required by law.

We may also reference certain non-GAAP financial measures. Reconciliations to the most comparable GAAP measures are available in yesterday's earnings release on our website.

With me on the call today are Daniel Herz, Chief Executive Officer; and Jeffrey Slotterback, Chief Financial Officer. I'll now turn the call over to Daniel.

Daniel Herz

Thanks, John. Good morning, and welcome to the inaugural WhiteHawk Minerals Second Quarter Earnings Call. It's good to be back. To quote Plato from the Republic, the beginning is the most important part of the work. Plato's original meaning is, of course, much deeper than business and relates to education, character and the formation of the soul. I do believe this quote is directly applicable to WhiteHawk Minerals though. We must create the right character and soul of our company, a character rooted in working every day to deliver for our shareholders, protecting the downside while benefiting meaningfully from the significant upside potential, and we are off to an excellent start.

WhiteHawk is uniquely positioned across our 3.6 million gross unit acres to benefit directly from the largest operators in the most economic natural gas basins with zero capital expenditures and minimal operating expenditures. This positions us to benefit from the tremendous work and capital deployment by EQT, Range, CNX, Antero, Expand and others, resulting in significant cash flow and dividends to our shareholders.

That means shareholders are directly tied to these operators while receiving significant returns through dividends and reinvestments through acquisitions of additional minerals and royalties. We have previously discussed a two-pronged acquisition strategy, strategic or larger acquisitions and ground game acquisitions.

Since our initial public offering just two months ago, we have executed on both prongs, signing definitive agreements for acquisitions totaling nearly $112 million. Those acquisitions focused in the Marcellus Shale and Haynesville Shale are expected to add approximately 16 million cubic feet per day in 2027, which we expect will add approximately $17 million of incremental cash flow.

Further, we expect these assets to generate even more production and cash flow in 2028, placing the acquisition squarely within and even to the low side of our 6 to 7x acquisition cash flow multiple previously discussed. When I consider the potential for WhiteHawk Minerals, I see several ways for us to succeed.

First, our strategic and ground game acquisition strategy; second, the exposure we have to the two most economic natural gas basins in the U.S.; third, our mineral and royalty ownership benefiting from the largest natural gas producers in the U.S.; and fourth, the medium- and long-term significant tailwinds behind natural gas.

While I consider these areas the primary drivers of value at WhiteHawk, I first and foremost balance that with protecting the downside risks, something we focus on every day and something I believe we have done a very good job at through our balance sheet and natural gas hedging strategy.

I will discuss each of these drivers in more detail shortly. But first, I want to briefly review our second quarter operational results and then later on hand it off to Jeff Slotterback, our Chief Financial Officer, to review the financial results.

We delivered a strong second quarter with net production of approximately 70 million cubic feet equivalents per day of natural gas. This was an increase of 57% over the same period in 2025 and a 9% increase over the first quarter of 2026. We generated this production from our more than 11,500 producing wells.

We have more than 500 gross line-of-sight wells, positioning us for solid production from our asset base over the next year. We have then benefited from our more than 9,000 gross identified undeveloped locations across our 3.6 million gross unit acres.

In the Marcellus Shale, 96% of our production came from EQT, Range, CNX and Antero. WhiteHawk currently receives royalties on 43% of their combined gross production. That is Whitehawk receives 43% of their combined gross production.

In the Haynesville Shale, 58% of our production came from Expand, Mitsubishi Adamas, Comstock and Tokyo Gas. Whitehawk currently receives royalties on 45% of their combined gross production.

For the quarter, approximately 55% of our production came from the Marcellus and Utica Shale in Appalachia with an additional 25% from our Haynesville Shale assets. Our line-of-sight wells carry a similar basin weighting. And of course, as a reminder, we receive royalties on 13% of total U.S. natural gas production, making us what I believe is the premier natural gas mineral and royalty owner.

Now to dig in deeper on how I expect WhiteHawk to succeed and outperform. With respect to our acquisition strategy and opportunities, we see between $3 billion and $5 billion of strategic acquisition opportunities in front of us in the Marcellus, Utica and Haynesville Shale. These are larger opportunities owned by private equity firms or funds later in their fund life.

We have limited competition for these opportunities, and I believe our acquisition announcement today demonstrates the depth of our relationships and ability to execute. Furthermore, the ground game opportunity where we buy from individual mineral owners is well over 35x our existing asset base or over $30 billion.

We currently own a 0.51% royalty interest on our gross acreage position out of an average 17% royalty rate. And of course, there are additional minerals surrounding our position that we are interested in purchasing. To that point, given our massive footprint, we have tremendous data on our operators and on all of the wells on our position and the surrounding position, which I believe provides a unique data advantage.

And not only do I believe it is a significant advantage to have the amount of information that we have, some of our operators agree and have entered into partnerships with us to buy on the ground ahead of the drill bit in defined areas, opportunities that augur well for WhiteHawk's acquisition future.

Next, being exposed to the two most economic natural gas basins has several benefits to WhiteHawk.

First, development activity remains robust in both high and low natural gas price environments, which helps mitigate downside at WhiteHawk.

Second, because we are in a power race, situating new natural gas power generation next to the most economic areas not only makes sense, it is exactly what is currently happening.

There are 21 announced new or planned natural gas power plants to support data center and AI power demand surrounding our Appalachian assets, which is expected to add 7 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas demand in the Marcellus Shale by 2031. Finally, having our production and footprint in the Haynesville Shale gives us direct access to the growing liquefied natural gas export markets.

Currently, there are 14 billion cubic feet per day of LNG export facilities under construction, which should be online by 2030. So in total, we expect 21 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas demand growth by 2031, much of which will be met by growth in the Marcellus, Utica and Haynesville Shale.

Third, our current and future production is tied to the largest natural gas producers in the United States. These operators spend billions of dollars per year developing our position, working with power companies, hyperscalers, LNG export facilities and many others to ensure both production and demand is balanced, not just over the next year, but over the next decade and beyond.

Benefiting from EQT, Range, Antero, CNX, and Expand uniquely positions WhiteHawk to benefit from their expected growth. And finally, the macro tailwinds of natural gas are very strong. I often say I want WhiteHawk to do well when prices go up and when prices go down.

But with that said, when we look out over the next five years, it is extremely encouraging. I have touched on this already, but when we look at the demand growth from LNG exports and power generation for data centers and AI, we see a natural gas price environment, which will demand higher prices to incentivize operators, our operators to develop their position more quickly to meet that demand.

It is that simple, and WhiteHawk Minerals will benefit. So, we are off to a good start. But let's be clear, we are just getting started. There is a lot more to do on the acquisition side. We will remain disciplined, but we will take advantage of the opportunities as they come. Our asset base will then be even larger when the macro tailwinds develop into a higher natural gas price environment, which should further drive shareholder returns beyond just the immediate accretion to cash flow and net asset value per share.

In the meantime, we will continue to work to drive our cash flow per share and grow our dividends to shareholders. With that, I will hand it over to Jeff to review the financial results.

Jeffrey Slotterback

Thank you, Daniel, and good morning, everyone. I appreciate you all joining us today for WhiteHawk's first earnings call as a public company. Over the next several minutes, I'll walk you through our second quarter results, starting with our operating revenue and cash flows. I'll also cover the initiation of our quarterly dividend and close with a look at our balance sheet and liquidity before we open the line for questions.

During the second quarter of 2026, our average realized natural gas price for the quarter was $3.43 per Mcf, including hedge settlements compared to a $2.42 per Mcf before the effect of those hedge settlements. For context, Henry Hub first-of-the-month pricing averaged $2.90 per MMBtu. For the quarter, our natural gas volumes were 96% hedged at $4.02, while our oil volumes were 83% hedged at $62. We hedged a substantial portion of our expected production on a rolling basis, specifically to protect our downside, secure predictable cash flows and enhance the visibility of our dividend.

On a forward-looking basis, we look to lock in through fixed price swaps, 90% of our production for the next 12 months, 80% of our production for the following 12 months and 60% of our production in year three. The intent is to keep protecting our downside while retaining exposure to the upside from our acquisition strategy, our operators' continued development of their positions and the long-term tailwinds for natural gas supply and demand.

Moving to our financial results. Our operating revenue, which includes the realized gains on our hedging instruments, was $25.7 million for the second quarter. Total asset cash flow was $22.4 million for the quarter, including the $3.3 million or $0.52 per Mcfe of operating expenses incurred during the period, which are included within revenue on our income statement.

Total asset cash flow for the second quarter represented a 10% increase from $20.4 million realized in the first quarter of this year. On a GAAP basis, our total revenue was $29.1 million, including an additional $6.7 million in unrealized mark-to-market hedge gains.

Our adjusted EBITDA, which is effectively comprised of our asset cash flows less G&A expenses, was $20.7 million for the second quarter after giving effect to our $1.78 million of G&A expense, which excludes certain nonrecurring IPO and other transaction-related costs.

Below EBITDA, let me cover our financing costs and taxes for the period, which our earnings release presents as adjusted for the effects of the IPO. Concurrent with the closing of the IPO, we reduced our senior notes to $75 million outstanding, which bore interest at an 8.5% effective rate, giving an implied net interest expense of $1.6 million for the quarter.

Also pro forma for the IPO, we have $46 million of Series B preferred stock outstanding, which pays a 10% coupon or $1.2 million for the quarter. During the second quarter, we paid $550,000 of estimated cash income taxes during the period related to 2026.

In total, our cash available for distribution for the second quarter was $17.4 million or $0.63 on a per share basis based on our $20.7 million of adjusted EBITDA for the period. Adjusted EBITDA, cash available for distribution and cash available for distribution per share are non-GAAP measures.

Reconciliations to their most directly comparable GAAP measure are available in our earnings release and on our website. On a GAAP basis, net income for the period, which includes costs associated with our IPO and the internalization of our former external manager, specifically a $21.7 million nonrecurring loss on the extinguishment of debt, $15.8 million of nonrecurring management and incentive fees and a $1.7 million noncash change in the fair value of our earn-out liability resulted in a net loss of $39.2 million, which brings me to our dividend.

On August 12, our Board approved the initiation of our first quarterly cash dividend at a rate of $0.50 per share or $2 per share on an annualized basis. This initial dividend has been prorated for the period from the closing of the IPO on June 10 through quarter end, resulting in an initial declared dividend of $0.11 per share. That dividend is payable on August 28 to shareholders of record as of the close of business on August 24.

Our $0.50 dividend implies 1.3x coverage by cash available for distribution per share on a full quarter basis and reflects our expectation to pay out at least 75% of our cash available for distribution as a public company.

Finally, before opening the line for questions, let me turn to our balance sheet and liquidity. In June, WhiteHawk completed its IPO, generating gross proceeds of over $220 million, including our exercise of the Greenshoe overallotment. With the IPO proceeds, we repaid more than $162 million in debt in total, reducing our notes outstanding to $68.7 million at quarter end. We fully retired $37.8 million of our Series B preferred equity and additionally redeemed approximately $10 million of our Series B preferred equity.

We exited the quarter with net debt of just $55.5 million and maintained an undrawn $150 million revolving credit facility. As of quarter end, we were 0.67x levered. In order to fund the approximately $112 million in acquisitions signed since our IPO, we have received commitments to fund a $50 million Series E preferred at closing of the SJM II acquisition in late September.

The Series E preferred will initially bear a coupon of 10% and can be redeemed at any time. We are committed to a conservative balance sheet, and we target long-term leverage of approximately 1x adjusted EBITDA. Maintaining that discipline protects our dividend, preserves our flexibility to act quickly on acquisition opportunities and is fundamental to how we intend to build long-term per share value for our shareholders.

With that, I thank you for your time this morning. Rebecca, could we please open the line for questions?

Operator

[Operator Instructions] Your first question comes from Wayne Cooperman with Cobalt Capital.

Perguntas e respostas

Unknown Analyst

My question is kind of longer term on your hedging strategy. There's a pretty strong case out there that gas prices are going to be materially higher a few years from now. At one point do you kind of pull back from hedging? Or do you just think that the future curve will get it right and you'll just keep riding.

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Operator

Please hold for technical difficulty.

Daniel Herz

Wayne, can you hear us? Sorry about that. We actually took space in what we thought was an impermeable office, but it turns out it was permeable.

Unknown Analyst

I don't know, I'm sorry if I broke your call, but I don't know if you heard my question or we got cut off before.

Daniel Herz

We couldn't really hear it, but I heard about hedging. So if you would start off.

Unknown Analyst

I guess my question is, given that there's a pretty strong case to be made for gas to be a lot higher in the future, at what point do you modify your hedging program? Or do you just think that the futures curves will get it right and you'll just ride the curve higher over time?

Daniel Herz

Yes. I think that's what you should continue to expect from us is that we will layer in, as Jeff laid out, 90%, 80%, 60% on a rolling basis. We meet as a hedge committee monthly and review it. And then, of course, as gas prices rise, we expect our operators to respond with increased production above levels that we were hedged at. So we'll benefit from that increased production. And oftentimes, sometimes we root for lower prices because it offers opportunities like we've been executing on to buy more assets at what we think are attractive prices and then benefit over the 3-, 4-, 5-year period in a substantially increased asset base.

Operator

Your next question comes from Michael Scialla with Stephens Inc.

Michael Scialla

I wanted to ask about your Slide 5 with your acquisitions. I think there were two strategic acquisitions that you did with San Jacinto here. And were those any of the nine that you had identified that you talked about when you did your, prior to your IPO? And maybe just how you would characterize those acquisitions, what you acquired relative to what you've done in the past?

Daniel Herz

Yes. Thanks, Mike. I think, so one, yes, this was part of what I would characterize as $0.5 billion of immediate opportunities in front of us that we had identified on the page that you're talking about. We see, as we talk about $3 billion to $5 billion of larger deals, but we really saw $500 million plus immediately in front of us.

As a reminder, for those less familiar new information, we've done a number of transactions with this group. And in fact, this asset in Appalachia, in particular, we bought 20% of it back in 2024. So we've owned a portion of this asset, which is the best way we think to do due diligence is to own the asset for multiple years, understand it intimately. And then we've purchased through the announcement last night, or we've entered an agreement to purchase another large portion of that asset.

So actually, there's still more potentially for us to buy there, which is very exciting. And then that's the vast majority of the $105 million, but there's also an asset in the Haynesville that they owned that we've been monitoring for several years as well and trying to buy. So this was a great opportunity for us to put the assets together in our two primary areas and acquire them.

Michael Scialla

Very good. And I want to see how you're thinking about the balance sheet heading into the year. You talked about your goal of keeping leverage around 1x with these acquisitions and it looks like you might move a little bit above that near the end of the year. Just how you're thinking about what's your appetite for more acquisitions given what sounds like a robust market and how you balance that with the leverage, looks like you're going to have at the end of the year?

Daniel Herz

Yes. So I mean we have a number of, I think we think, attractive tools that have allowed us to grow over time. We're targeting below 1x leverage. I would think about I would think about our business, the base business and then the ground game acquisitions and beyond our ability and really our expectation to grow our EBITDA. So we end up nicely below 1x levered over time. So we feel really good about where we are. I think we feel even better about where we're headed.

Operator

Your next question comes from Noelle Parks with Tuohy Brothers.

Unknown Analyst

One of the things that's kind of developed over the last couple of months is there are signs of, I guess, increasing number of the big producers heading towards more of an integrated gas model, buying or buying back midstream infrastructure. And I was just curious your thoughts on it either broadly or if you have more specific instances where you think it could be called for? And does that figure into your investment decisions as you look to expand?

Daniel Herz

Yes. I think you're really touching on something that positions us in a unique way in that we are so well tied to the largest U.S. natural gas producers. 49% of EQT's production pays us royalties, 57% of Expand's production in the Haynesville pays us royalties. So we want to be not just in the core of the most economic natural gas basins in the U.S.

We want to be exposed to the largest, most well-capitalized operators. And very specifically to that, it's because of their, I would say, integrated model and ability to achieve the highest price for natural gas for us as the mineral owner. So we spend no capital, obviously, on midstream acquisitions or infrastructure of size, but we benefit from their pricing that they're able to achieve.

So I mean, we've obviously track our operators very closely. We're in regular direct communication with them. I think it's a trend very much worth watching. It's a trend we benefit from. I think you're going to see it beyond midstream, and I think it bodes well for us.

Unknown Analyst

Great. And among your operators, when it comes to the data center power market opportunity, which we all know is going to be large. It's tough to sort of decide kind of what order of magnitude it will ultimately be. But are your operators pretty much aligned in their view on sort of the quantity of power in the various regions and the timing of when that will be needed? Or are there any sort of contrarian views among the guys you're dealing with?

Daniel Herz

Well, it's very interesting the way you phrased it. I don't think I don't think there are much in the way of contrarian views. I think there are certain operators that are doing a better job at taking advantage of the opportunity in front of them. You'll, obviously, and you do a very good job of assessing who the better operators are at taking advantage of the data center and AI power demand growth that's coming. We like to align ourselves with those best-in-class operators who are, we think, taking better advantage of those opportunities. But I mean, I think you'll have noted in my remarks, I was commenting at 7 Bcf a day of in-basin power demand growth. We obviously see and hear from our operators the potential for significantly more than that.

But we think when we peel back the story and try to take a very conservative outlook at what the demand side is going to look like in Appalachia and around the U.S. on the power side and looking at gas turbine generation and then layer on the LNG export growth that's coming, we've tried to take a conservative bent and even doing that and then, of course, factoring in pipeline takeaway that's coming out of the Permian, we still very much see an environment that's going to demand higher natural gas prices as Wayne was asking about in the first question, we really see a robust environment over the next five years.

Unknown Analyst

But as I said again to Wayne, we anchor ourselves in protecting the downside, delivering our cash flow, delivering our dividend. And then as we have in our past companies, let the positive tailwinds come to us. If we do that, I think we're going to do extremely well here at WhiteHawk Minerals.

Operator

Your next question comes from Selman Akyol with Stifel.

Selman Akyol

Congratulations on a good inaugural quarter. I just wanted to ask about the Series E because it looks like it's structured to be taken out over the next several years the way you have it positioned, and you noted it could be called at any time.

So I guess I'm asking, one, what are your long-term plans for financing that? And then b, as you think about your acquisition game going forward, should we look for more of these preferred to be used and then taken out over time?

Daniel Herz

Thank you. Thanks for the kind words, and thank you for the question. So this is a type of security we've used in the past, and it's been quite effective for us in being able to execute and really grow WhiteHawk from the beginning. we have a number of tools to be able to grow our business and pieces of capital to grow our business.

We are constantly looking for the absolute most efficient way to drive cash flow and net asset value per share through those securities. And that's exactly what we're going to do on a go-forward basis with our capital structure as well as with all of our acquisitions.

What's really nice is when we look at this acquisition and we look at the capital structure, we see significant accretion on cash flow per share, on net asset value per share, and that bodes well, we think, for value in the short, medium and long term here.

Operator

This is the end of the Q&A session. I will now turn the call back to Daniel Herz for closing remarks.

Daniel Herz

Great. Thank you all for joining us. We look forward to speaking with you all again very soon. Bye.

Operator

This concludes today's call. Thank you for attending. You may now disconnect.