$ATO
ATMOS ENERGY CORP Stock $ato

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2021 Q3 Form 10-K Financial Statement

#000073180221000040 Filed on November 12, 2021

Income Statement

Concept	2021 Q3	2021	2020 Q3
Revenue	$568.4M	$3.407B	$474.9M
YoY Change	19.68%	20.78%	7.04%
Cost Of Revenue	$83.78M	$1.033B	$18.00M
YoY Change	365.43%	56.74%	31.39%
Gross Profit	$484.6M	$2.375B	$456.9M
YoY Change	6.06%	9.83%	6.26%
Gross Profit Margin	85.26%	69.69%	96.21%
Selling, General & Admin
YoY Change
% of Gross Profit
Research & Development
YoY Change
% of Gross Profit
Depreciation & Amortization	$124.7M	$478.0M	$111.7M
YoY Change	11.65%	11.2%	10.59%
% of Gross Profit	25.73%	20.13%	24.45%
Operating Expenses	$393.6M	$1.470B	$356.1M
YoY Change	10.54%	9.84%	4.64%
Operating Profit	$90.96M	$905.0M	$100.8M
YoY Change	-9.8%	9.82%	12.41%
Interest Expense	-$14.49M	$83.55M	-$15.50M
YoY Change	-6.54%	-1.09%	-46.18%
% of Operating Profit	-15.92%	9.23%	-15.37%
Other Income/Expense, Net	-$16.94M	-$2.145M	-$2.000M
YoY Change	746.9%	-129.91%	-121.51%
Pretax Income	$59.54M	$819.3M	$83.40M
YoY Change	-28.61%	9.71%	18.8%
Income Tax	$10.82M	$153.7M	$18.10M
% Of Pretax Income	18.17%	18.76%	21.7%
Net Earnings	$48.72M	$665.6M	$65.33M
YoY Change	-25.43%	10.66%	11.86%
Net Earnings / Revenue	8.57%	19.53%	13.76%
Basic Earnings Per Share		$5.12	$0.53
Diluted Earnings Per Share	$370.1K	$5.12	$0.53
COMMON SHARES
Basic Shares Outstanding	130.8M shares	129.8M shares	123.4M shares
Diluted Shares Outstanding		129.8M shares

Balance Sheet

Concept	2021 Q3	2021	2020 Q3
SHORT-TERM ASSETS
Cash & Short-Term Investments	$224.8M	$116.7M	$124.8M
YoY Change	80.18%	455.82%	399.04%
Cash & Equivalents	$116.7M	$116.7M	$20.81M
Short-Term Investments	$108.1M		$104.0M
Other Short-Term Assets	$2.201B	$2.185B	$107.9M
YoY Change	1939.67%	2063.69%	48.28%
Inventory	$178.1M	$193.7M	$112.0M
Prepaid Expenses	$48.77M		$40.34M
Receivables	$343.0M	$270.1M	$230.6M
Other Receivables	$0.00	$72.82M	$0.00
Total Short-Term Assets	$2.839B	$2.839B	$471.3M
YoY Change	502.37%	502.7%	2.89%
LONG-TERM ASSETS
Property, Plant & Equipment	$15.29B	$15.29B	$13.58B
YoY Change	12.55%	12.55%	15.22%
Goodwill	$731.3M		$731.3M
YoY Change	0.0%		0.08%
Intangibles
YoY Change
Long-Term Investments		$108.1M
YoY Change		3.91%
Other Assets	$974.7M	$644.2M	$801.2M
YoY Change	21.66%	37.06%	104.79%
Total Long-Term Assets	$16.77B	$16.77B	$14.89B
YoY Change	12.64%	12.64%	15.32%
TOTAL ASSETS
Total Short-Term Assets	$2.839B	$2.839B	$471.3M
Total Long-Term Assets	$16.77B	$16.77B	$14.89B
Total Assets	$19.61B	$19.61B	$15.36B
YoY Change	27.67%	27.67%	14.9%
SHORT-TERM LIABILITIES
YoY Change
Accounts Payable	$423.2M	$224.9M	$236.0M
YoY Change	79.33%	59.48%	-10.94%
Accrued Expenses	$37.69M	$341.7M	$36.00M
YoY Change	4.69%	41.79%
Deferred Revenue	$49.72M		$56.49M
YoY Change	-11.97%		3.42%
Short-Term Debt	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00
YoY Change			-100.0%
Long-Term Debt Due	$2.400B	$2.400B	$0.00
YoY Change
Total Short-Term Liabilities	$3.510B	$3.510B	$782.4M
YoY Change	348.66%	348.89%	-35.31%
LONG-TERM LIABILITIES
Long-Term Debt	$4.930B	$4.930B	$4.532B
YoY Change	8.79%	8.79%	28.41%
Other Long-Term Liabilities	$537.5M	$1.555B	$642.1M
YoY Change	-16.3%	-13.44%	60.45%
Total Long-Term Liabilities	$537.5M	$6.486B	$642.1M
YoY Change	-16.3%	2.47%	-83.66%
TOTAL LIABILITIES
Total Short-Term Liabilities	$3.510B	$3.510B	$782.4M
Total Long-Term Liabilities	$537.5M	$6.486B	$642.1M
Total Liabilities	$4.048B	$11.70B	$1.425B
YoY Change	184.15%	36.58%	-72.28%
SHAREHOLDERS EQUITY
Retained Earnings	$2.813B		$2.471B
YoY Change	13.83%		14.82%
Common Stock	$5.024B		$4.378B
YoY Change	14.77%		17.91%
Preferred Stock
YoY Change
Treasury Stock (at cost)
YoY Change
Treasury Stock Shares
Shareholders Equity	$7.907B	$7.907B	$6.791B
YoY Change
Total Liabilities & Shareholders Equity	$19.61B	$19.61B	$15.36B
YoY Change	27.67%	27.67%	14.9%

Cashflow Statement

Concept	2021 Q3	2021	2020 Q3
OPERATING ACTIVITIES
Net Income	$48.72M	$665.6M	$65.33M
YoY Change	-25.43%	10.66%	11.86%
Depreciation, Depletion And Amortization	$124.7M	$478.0M	$111.7M
YoY Change	11.65%	11.2%	10.59%
Cash From Operating Activities	$74.22M	-$1.084B	$142.5M
YoY Change	-47.92%	-204.46%	-10.88%
INVESTING ACTIVITIES
Capital Expenditures	-$611.6M	-$1.970B	-$530.0M
YoY Change	15.39%	1.75%	7.22%
Acquisitions
YoY Change
Other Investing Activities	$242.0K	-$11.96M	$4.800M
YoY Change	-94.96%	23.69%	-20.0%
Cash From Investing Activities	-$611.3M	-$1.964B	-$525.2M
YoY Change	16.4%	1.98%	7.56%
FINANCING ACTIVITIES
Cash Dividend Paid
YoY Change
Common Stock Issuance & Retirement, Net		$606.7M
YoY Change		-2.82%
Debt Paid & Issued, Net		$0.00
YoY Change
Cash From Financing Activities	129.2M	$3.144B	195.5M
YoY Change	-33.9%	255.73%	-36.28%
NET CHANGE
Cash From Operating Activities	74.22M	-$1.084B	142.5M
Cash From Investing Activities	-611.3M	-$1.964B	-525.2M
Cash From Financing Activities	129.2M	$3.144B	195.5M
Net Change In Cash	-407.9M	$95.92M	-187.2M
YoY Change	117.89%	-2663.2%	766.67%
FREE CASH FLOW
Cash From Operating Activities	$74.22M	-$1.084B	$142.5M
Capital Expenditures	-$611.6M	-$1.970B	-$530.0M
Free Cash Flow	$685.8M	$885.3M	$672.5M
YoY Change	1.98%	-70.23%	2.8%

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CY2021	us-gaap	Nature Of Operations NatureOfOperations	Nature of Business<div style="margin-top:5pt;text-indent:24.75pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Atmos Energy Corporation (Atmos Energy or the “Company”) and its subsidiaries are engaged in the regulated natural gas distribution and pipeline and storage businesses. Through our distribution business, we deliver natural gas through sales and transportation arrangements to over three million residential, commercial, public-authority and industrial customers through our six regulated distribution divisions in the service areas described below:</span></div><div><table style="border-collapse:collapse;display:inline-table;margin-bottom:5pt;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:99.853%"><tr><td style="width:1.0%"/><td style="width:47.069%"/><td style="width:0.1%"/><td style="width:1.0%"/><td style="width:2.560%"/><td style="width:0.1%"/><td style="width:1.0%"/><td style="width:47.071%"/><td style="width:0.1%"/></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">Division</span></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%"> </span></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">Service Area</span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Atmos Energy Colorado-Kansas Division</span></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%"> </span></td><td colspan="3" style="border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Colorado, Kansas</span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Atmos Energy Kentucky/Mid-States Division</span></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%"> </span></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><div><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:6.5pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;position:relative;top:-3.5pt;vertical-align:baseline">(1)</span></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Atmos Energy Louisiana Division</span></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%"> </span></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Louisiana</span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Atmos Energy Mid-Tex Division</span></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%"> </span></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Texas, including the Dallas/Fort Worth metropolitan area</span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Atmos Energy Mississippi Division</span></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%"> </span></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Mississippi</span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Atmos Energy West Texas Division</span></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%"> </span></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">West Texas</span></td></tr></table><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:6pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> </span></div><div style="padding-left:24.75pt;text-indent:-18pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(1)</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:8.68pt">Denotes location where we have more limited service areas.</span></div><div style="margin-top:4pt;text-indent:24.75pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">In addition, we transport natural gas for others through our distribution system. Our distribution business is subject to federal and state regulation and/or regulation by local authorities in each of the states in which our distribution divisions operate. Our corporate headquarters and shared-services function are located in Dallas, Texas, and our customer support centers are located in Amarillo and Waco, Texas.</span></div>Our pipeline and storage business, which is also subject to federal and state regulation, consists of the pipeline and storage operations of our Atmos Pipeline–Texas (APT) Division and our natural gas transmission business in Louisiana. The APT division provides transportation and storage services to our Mid-Tex Division, other third-party local distribution companies, industrial and electric generation customers, as well as marketers and producers. As part of its pipeline operations, APT manages five underground storage facilities in Texas. We also provide ancillary services customary to the pipeline industry including parking arrangements, lending and sales of inventory on hand. Our natural gas transmission operations in Louisiana are comprised of a 21-mile pipeline located in the New Orleans, Louisiana area that is primarily used to aggregate gas supply for our distribution division in Louisiana under a long-term contract and on a more limited basis, to third parties.
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CY2021	us-gaap	Derivatives Reporting Of Derivative Activity DerivativesReportingOfDerivativeActivity	<div style="margin-top:5pt;text-indent:24.75pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Financial instruments and hedging activities</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> — We use financial instruments to mitigate commodity price risk in our distribution and pipeline and storage segments and to mitigate interest rate risk. The objectives and strategies for using financial instruments have been tailored to our business and are discussed in Note 15 to the consolidated financial statements.</span></div><div style="margin-top:5pt;text-indent:24.75pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">We record all of our financial instruments on the balance sheet at fair value</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">,</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> with the exception of normal purchases and normal sales that are expected to result in physical delivery, with changes in fair value ultimately recorded in the statement of comprehensive income. These financial instruments are reported as risk management assets and liabilities and are classified as current or noncurrent other assets or liabilities based upon the anticipated settlement date of the underlying financial instrument. We record the cash flow impact of our financial instruments in operating cash flows based upon their balance sheet classification.</span></div><div style="margin-top:5pt;text-indent:24.75pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The timing of when changes in fair value of our financial instruments are recorded in the statement of comprehensive income depends on whether the financial instrument has been designated and qualifies as a part of a hedging relationship or if regulatory rulings require a different accounting treatment. Changes in fair value for financial instruments that do not meet one of these criteria are recognized in the statement of comprehensive income as they occur.</span></div><div style="margin-top:6pt;text-indent:11.25pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Financial Instruments Associated with Commodity Price Risk</span></div><div style="margin-top:5pt;text-indent:24.75pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">In our distribution segment, the costs associated with and the realized gains and losses arising from the use of financial instruments to mitigate commodity price risk are included in our purchased gas cost adjustment mechanisms in accordance with regulatory requirements. Therefore, changes in the fair value of these financial instruments are initially recorded as a component of deferred gas costs and recognized in the consolidated statements of comprehensive income as a component of purchased gas cost when the related costs are recovered through our rates and recognized in revenue in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States. Accordingly, there is no earnings impact on our distribution segment as a result of the use of these financial instruments.</span></div><div style="margin-top:6pt;text-indent:11.25pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Financial Instruments Associated with Interest Rate Risk</span></div><div style="margin-top:5pt;text-indent:24.75pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">In connection with the planned issuance of long-term debt, we may use financial instruments to manage interest rate risk. We currently manage this risk through the use of forward starting interest rate swaps to fix the Treasury yield component of the interest cost associated with anticipated financings. We designate these financial instruments as cash flow hedges at the time the agreements are executed. Unrealized gains and losses associated with the instruments are recorded as a component of accumulated other comprehensive income (loss). When the instruments settle, the realized gain or loss is recorded as a component of accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) and recognized as a component of interest charges over the life of the related financing arrangement. As of September 30, 2021 and 2020, no cash was required to be held in margin accounts.</span></div>
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