Atmos Energy
Sector unknown·ATO · USA (SEC 10-K)·Fiscal year to 30/09/2025
Overview and Strategy Atmos Energy Corporation, a natural gas-only distributor, is an S&P 500 company headquartered in Dallas and incorporated in Texas and Virginia. We safely deliver reliable, efficient, and abundant natural gas through regulated sales and transportation arrangements to approximately 3.4 million residential, commercial, public authority, and industrial customers in eight states located primarily in the South.
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Natural gas
Raw materials and inputs
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“We are subject to market risks beyond our control, including (i) commodity price volatility caused by market supply and demand dynamics, counterparty performance, or counterparty creditworthiness and (ii) interest rate risk.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“We are generally insulated from commodity price risk through our purchased gas cost mechanisms. With respect to interest rate risk, increases in interest rates could adversely affect our future financial results to the extent that we do not recover our actual interest expense in our rates.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
DriverMixed impact: mixed
“Natural gas prices do not directly impact the results of this segment as revenues are derived from the transportation and storage of natural gas. However, natural gas prices and demand for natural gas could influence the level of drilling activity in the supply areas that we serve, which may influence the level of throughput we may be able to transport on our pipelines.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Commodity Risk Management Activities Our purchased gas cost adjustment mechanisms essentially insulate our distribution segment from commodity price risk; however, our customers are exposed to the effects of volatile natural gas prices. We manage this exposure through a combination of physical storage, fixed-price forward contracts, and financial instruments, primarily over-the-counter swap and option contracts, in an effort to minimize the impact of natural gas price volatility on our customers during the winter heating season.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
InputNegative impact: weakens
“Table of Contents Rates established by regulatory authorities often include cost adjustment mechanisms for costs that (i) are subject to significant price fluctuations compared to our other costs, (ii) represent a large component of our cost of service, and (iii) are generally outside our control. Purchased gas cost adjustment mechanisms represent a traditional and common form of cost adjustment mechanism. Purchased gas cost adjustment mechanisms provide a method of recovering purchased gas costs on an ongoing basis without filing a rate case because they provide a dollar-for-dollar offset to increases or decreases in the cost of natural gas.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
InputNegative impact: weakens
“Our supply of natural gas is provided by a variety of suppliers, including independent producers, and marketers. The gas is delivered into our systems by various pipeline companies, withdrawals of gas from proprietary and contracted storage assets, and base load and peaking arrangements, as needed. Supply arrangements consist of both base load and peaking quantities and are contracted from our suppliers on a firm basis with various terms at market prices.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
InputNegative impact: weakens
“In order to meet our customers’ annual and seasonal natural gas demands, we must obtain a sufficient supply of natural gas, interstate pipeline capacity, and storage capacity. If we are unable to obtain these, either from our suppliers’ inability to deliver the contracted commodity or the inability to secure replacement quantities, our financial condition and results of operations may be adversely affected.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
InputNegative impact: weakens
“Increased gas costs could adversely impact our customer base and customer collections and increase our level of indebtedness. Rapid increases in the costs of purchased gas would cause us to experience a significant increase in short-term or long-term debt. We must pay suppliers for gas when it is purchased, which can be significantly in advance of when these costs may be recovered through the collection of monthly customer bills for gas delivered.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
InputNegative impact: weakens
“Increases in purchased gas costs also slow our natural gas distribution collections as customers may delay the payment of their gas bills, leading to higher than normal accounts receivable. This could result in higher short-term debt levels, greater collection efforts, and increased bad debt expense.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
InputNegative impact: weakens
“Our distribution operations are also affected by the cost of natural gas. We are generally able to pass the cost of gas through to our customers without markup under purchased gas cost adjustment mechanisms; therefore, increases in the cost of gas are offset by a corresponding increase in revenues.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
InputNegative impact: weakens
“However, higher gas costs may adversely impact our accounts receivable collections, resulting in higher bad debt expense. This risk is currently mitigated by rate design that allows us to collect from our customers the gas cost portion of our bad debt expense on approximately 89 percent of our residential and commercial revenues.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
InputNegative impact: weakens
“Our Mid-Tex Division also maintains a limited number of long-term supply contracts to ensure a reliable source of gas for our customers in its service area which obligate it to purchase specified volumes at market and fixed prices. At September 30, 2025, we were committed to purchase 73.4 Bcf within one year and 114.9 Bcf within two to three years under indexed contracts.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
InputNegative impact: weakens
“Purchased gas costs — Rates established by regulatory authorities are adjusted for increases and decreases in our purchased gas costs through purchased gas cost adjustment mechanisms. There is no margin generated through purchased gas cost adjustments, but they provide a dollar-for-dollar offset to increases or decreases in our distribution segment’s gas costs.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
StrategyPositive impact: strengthens
“We conduct risk management activities in our distribution and pipeline and storage segments. In our distribution segment, we use a combination of physical storage, fixed-price forward contracts, and financial instruments, primarily over-the-counter swap and option contracts, in an effort to minimize the impact of natural gas price volatility on our customers during the winter heating season.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Market
“Overview and Strategy Atmos Energy Corporation, a natural gas-only distributor, is an S&P 500 company headquartered in Dallas and incorporated in Texas and Virginia. We safely deliver reliable, efficient, and abundant natural gas through regulated sales and transportation arrangements to approximately 3.4 million residential, commercial, public authority, and industrial customers in eight states located primarily in the South.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Market
“APT is one of the largest intrastate pipeline operations in Texas with a heavy concentration in the established natural gas-producing areas of central, northern, and eastern Texas, extending into or near the major producing areas of the Barnett Shale, the Texas Gulf Coast, and the Permian Basin of West Texas. Through its system, APT provides transportation and storage services to our Mid-Tex Division, other third party local distribution companies, industrial and electric generation customers, marketers, and producers.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Market
“Segment Information As of September 30, 2025, we manage and review our consolidated operations through the following two reportable segments: •The distribution segment is comprised of our regulated natural gas distribution and related sales operations in eight states.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Market
“In our pipeline and storage segment, APT has a regulatory mechanism that requires that we share with its tariffed customers 75% of the difference between the total non-tariffed revenues earned during a test period and a revenue benchmark established by the RRC.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Consumer spending
Macro
DriverMixed impact: mixed
“The primary factors that impact the results of our distribution operations are our ability to earn our authorized rates of return, competitive factors in the energy industry, and economic conditions in our service areas.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
DriverPositive impact: strengthens
“•a $184.1 million increase in rate adjustments, primarily in our Mid-Tex Division. •a $26.7 million increase related to residential customer growth, primarily in our Mid-Tex Division, and increased industrial load. •a $46.3 million decrease in refunds of excess deferred taxes to customers, which is substantially offset in income tax expense.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
DriverMixed impact: mixed
“The results of APT are also significantly impacted by the natural gas requirements of its local distribution company customers.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“We actively work with our customers experiencing financial hardship to offer flexible payment options and to direct them to aid agencies for financial assistance. Our allowance for uncollectible accounts reflects the expected impact on our customers’ ability to pay. Our allowance for uncollectible accounts also reflects the fact that we have the ability to recover the gas cost portion of uncollectible accounts through our gas cost recovery mechanisms in six states, which covers approximately 89 percent of our residential and commercial customers.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Market
“Nature of Business 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 approximately 3.4 million residential, commercial, public-authority, and industrial customers through our six regulated distribution divisions in the service areas described below: Division Service Area Atmos Energy Colorado-Kansas Division Colorado, Kansas Atmos Energy Kentucky/Mid-States Division Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia Atmos Energy Louisiana Division Louisiana Atmos Energy Mid-Tex Division Texas, including the Dallas/Fort Worth metropolitan area Atmos Energy Mississippi Division Mississippi Atmos Energy West Texas Division West Texas In addition, we transport natural gas for others through our distribution system.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Chains in: Inflation weakens
Chains out: this strengthens Retail, strengthens Hospitality and leisure, strengthens Premium consumers, strengthens Grocery retail and private label
Labour and wages
Raw materials and inputs
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Failure to attract and retain a qualified workforce could adversely affect our results of operations. The competition for talent has become increasingly intense.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
InputNegative impact: weakens
“At September 30, 2025, we had 5,487 employees.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
InputNegative impact: weakens
“Partially offset by: •a $78.0 million increase in depreciation expense and property taxes associated with increased capital investments. •a $32.6 million increase in employee-related costs primarily due to an increase in headcount to support company growth. •an $18.6 million increase in system monitoring, line locating, and other compliance-related activities. •a $17.8 million increase in bad debt expense due to a regulatory change in Mississippi in the first quarter of fiscal 2024 which significantly reduced bad debt expense in fiscal 2024, as discussed in Note 6 to the consolidated financial statements.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
InputNegative impact: weakens
“Generally, our funding policy is to contribute annually an amount in accordance with the requirements of ERISA. However, additional voluntary contributions are made annually as considered necessary.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
StrategyPositive impact: strengthens
“We anticipate making significant capital expenditures for the foreseeable future to modernize our distribution and transmission system, to comply with the safety rules and regulations issued by the regulatory authorities responsible for the service areas in which we operate, and to prepare to serve the growing needs of the communities we serve. Between fiscal years 2026 and 2030, we anticipate spending approximately $26 billion, with more than 80 percent dedicated to safety and reliability spending. The magnitude and allocation of these expenditures may be affected by factors such as new policy and regulations, population growth, and increased labor and materials costs.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Industrial manufacturing
End markets
Market
“We safely deliver reliable, efficient, and abundant natural gas through regulated sales and transportation arrangements to approximately 3.4 million residential, commercial, public authority, and industrial customers in eight states located primarily in the South.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Market
“APT 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. Over 80 percent of this segment's revenues are derived from these APT services.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Market
“Through our distribution business, we deliver natural gas through sales and transportation arrangements to approximately 3.4 million residential, commercial, public-authority, and industrial customers through our six regulated distribution divisions in the service areas described below: Division Service Area Atmos Energy Colorado-Kansas Division Colorado, Kansas Atmos Energy Kentucky/Mid-States Division Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia Atmos Energy Louisiana Division Louisiana Atmos Energy Mid-Tex Division Texas, including the Dallas/Fort Worth metropolitan area Atmos Energy Mississippi Division Mississippi Atmos Energy West Texas Division West Texas In addition, we transport natural gas for others through our distribution system.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Market
“APT provides transportation and storage services to our Mid-Tex Division, other third party local distribution companies, and certain industrial customers under tariff rates approved by the RRC. APT also provides certain transportation and storage services to industrial and electric generation customers, as well as marketers and producers, under negotiated rates.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Utilities
End markets
Market
“Distribution Segment The distribution segment is comprised of our regulated natural gas distribution and related sales operations in eight states.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Market
“APT 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. Over 80 percent of this segment's revenues are derived from these APT services.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Market
“APT provides transportation and storage services to our Mid-Tex Division, other third party local distribution companies, and certain industrial customers under tariff rates approved by the RRC. APT also provides certain transportation and storage services to industrial and electric generation customers, as well as marketers and producers, under negotiated rates.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Construction
End markets
StrategyPositive impact: strengthens
“Cash flows from investing activities Our capital expenditures are primarily used to improve the safety and reliability of our distribution and transmission system through pipeline replacement and system modernization and to enhance and expand our system to meet customer needs. Over the last three fiscal years, approximately 85 percent of our capital spending has been committed to improving the safety and reliability of our system.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Market
“Capital expenditures for fiscal 2025 were $3.6 billion. Approximately 87 percent was invested to improve the safety and reliability of our distribution and transportation systems, with a significant portion of this investment incurred under regulatory mechanisms that reduce regulatory lag to six months or less.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Chains in: Interest rates weakens, Housing market strengthens, Public investment and infrastructure strengthens, Business cycle and GDP growth strengthens, Reconstruction of Ukraine strengthens
Cement and building materials
Raw materials and inputs
StrategyPositive impact: strengthens
“We anticipate making significant capital expenditures for the foreseeable future to modernize our distribution and transmission system, to comply with the safety rules and regulations issued by the regulatory authorities responsible for the service areas in which we operate, and to prepare to serve the growing needs of the communities we serve. Between fiscal years 2026 and 2030, we anticipate spending approximately $26 billion, with more than 80 percent dedicated to safety and reliability spending. The magnitude and allocation of these expenditures may be affected by factors such as new policy and regulations, population growth, and increased labor and materials costs.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Chains in: Carbon tax and ETS prices weakens, Reconstruction of Ukraine strengthens
Energy security
Regulation
StrategyPositive impact: strengthens
“•Infrastructure programs in place in all of our states that provide for an annual adjustment to rates for qualifying capital expenditures. Through our annual formula rate mechanisms and infrastructure programs, we have the ability to begin recovering approximately 95 percent of our capital expenditures within six months and substantially all of our capital expenditures within twelve months. •Authorization in tariffs, statute or commission rules that allows us to defer certain elements of our incurred cost of service such as depreciation, ad valorem taxes, pension costs, and certain safety related expenses, until they are included in rates. •WNA mechanisms in seven states that serve to minimize the effects of weather on approximately 97 percent of our distribution residential and commercial revenues.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Chains in: Geopolitical uncertainty strengthens, Reconstruction of Ukraine strengthens
Chains out: this strengthens Wind power, strengthens Power grid expansion
Premium consumers
End markets
Market
“We safely deliver reliable, efficient, and abundant natural gas through regulated sales and transportation arrangements to approximately 3.4 million residential, commercial, public authority, and industrial customers in eight states located primarily in the South.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Chains in: Consumer spending strengthens
Public investment and infrastructure
Regulation
StrategyPositive impact: strengthens
“Our operations are capital-intensive. We must make significant capital expenditures on a long-term basis to modernize our distribution and transmission system and to comply with the safety rules and regulations issued by the regulatory authorities responsible for the service areas we operate. In addition, we must continually build new capacity to serve the growing needs of the communities we serve.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Chains in: Reconstruction of Ukraine strengthens
Chains out: this strengthens Construction, strengthens Digitalisation, strengthens IT consulting and public-sector IT
Public sector
End markets
Market
“We safely deliver reliable, efficient, and abundant natural gas through regulated sales and transportation arrangements to approximately 3.4 million residential, commercial, public authority, and industrial customers in eight states located primarily in the South.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
SMEs
End markets
Market
“We safely deliver reliable, efficient, and abundant natural gas through regulated sales and transportation arrangements to approximately 3.4 million residential, commercial, public authority, and industrial customers in eight states located primarily in the South.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Business cycle and GDP growth
Macro
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“In the case of industrial customers, such as manufacturing plants, adverse economic conditions, including higher gas costs, could cause these customers to use alternative sources of energy, such as electricity, or bypass our systems in favor of special competitive contracts with lower per-unit costs.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“A deterioration in economic conditions could adversely affect our customers and negatively impact our financial results. Any adverse changes in economic conditions in the states in which we operate could adversely affect the financial resources of many domestic households. As a result, our customers could seek to use less gas and it may be more difficult for them to pay their gas bills. This would likely lead to slower collections and higher than normal levels of accounts receivable.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Additionally, should economic conditions deteriorate, our industrial customers could seek alternative energy sources, which could result in lower transportation volumes.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
DriverMixed impact: mixed
“The primary factors that impact the results of our distribution operations are our ability to earn our authorized rates of return, competitive factors in the energy industry, and economic conditions in our service areas.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Finally, higher gas costs, as well as competitive factors in the industry and general economic conditions may cause customers to conserve or, in the case of industrial consumers, to use alternative energy sources.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
DriverMixed impact: mixed
“Our pipeline and storage segment is impacted by seasonal weather patterns, competitive factors in the energy industry, and economic conditions in our Texas and Louisiana service areas.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Chains out: this strengthens Global trade volumes, strengthens Construction
Financial regulation
Regulation
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“In the normal course of business, as a regulated entity, we often need to place assets in service and establish historical test periods before rate cases that seek to adjust our allowed returns to recover that investment can be filed. Further, the regulatory review process can be lengthy in the context of traditional ratemaking. Because of this process, we could suffer the negative financial effects of having placed assets in service without the benefit of rate relief, which is commonly referred to as “regulatory lag.””
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“PHMSA requires pipeline operators to develop integrity management programs to comprehensively evaluate certain areas along their pipelines and to take additional measures to protect pipeline segments located in “high consequence areas” where a leak or rupture could potentially do the most harm. As a pipeline operator, the Company is required to: •perform ongoing assessments of pipeline integrity; •identify and characterize applicable threats to pipeline segments that could impact a “high consequence area”; •improve data collection, integration, and analysis; •repair and remediate the pipeline as necessary; and •implement preventative and mitigating actions. The Company incurs significant costs to comply with existing PHMSA and comparable state regulations.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Similar to most companies, we rely upon access to both short-term and long-term credit and capital markets to 17 Table of Contents satisfy our liquidity requirements. If adverse credit conditions were to cause a significant limitation on our access to the private credit and public capital markets, we could see a reduction in our liquidity.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
DriverMixed impact: mixed
“(2)Regulatory excess deferred taxes represent changes in our net deferred tax liability related to our cost of service ratemaking due to the enactment of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (the "TCJA"), a Kansas legislative change enacted in fiscal 2020, and a Louisiana legislative change enacted in fiscal 2025.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Cybersecurity (products and services)
Technology
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Cyber-attacks or acts of cyber-terrorism could disrupt our business operations and information technology systems or result in the loss or exposure of confidential or sensitive customer, employee or Company information. Our business operations and information technology systems may be vulnerable to an attack by individuals or organizations intending to disrupt our business operations and information technology systems. Disruption of those systems could adversely impact our ability to safely deliver natural gas to our customers, operate our pipeline and storage systems, or serve our customers timely.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Chains in: Cyber attacks and IT security risk strengthens
Chains out: this strengthens Digitalisation
Interest rates
Macro
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Our long-term debt is currently rated as “investment grade” by Standard & Poor’s Corporation and Moody’s Investors Service, Inc.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“We are subject to market risks beyond our control, including (i) commodity price volatility caused by market supply and demand dynamics, counterparty performance, or counterparty creditworthiness and (ii) interest rate risk.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“We are generally insulated from commodity price risk through our purchased gas cost mechanisms. With respect to interest rate risk, increases in interest rates could adversely affect our future financial results to the extent that we do not recover our actual interest expense in our rates.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“We have pension and other postretirement benefit plans that provide benefits to many of our employees and retirees. Costs of providing benefits and related- funding requirements of these plans are subject to changes in the market value of the assets that fund the plans. The funded status of the plans and the related costs reflected in the Company’s financial statements are affected by various factors, which are subject to an inherent degree of uncertainty, including economic conditions, financial market performance, interest rates, life expectancies, and demographics.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Additionally, we have a $1.5 billion commercial paper program and four committed revolving credit facilities with $3.1 billion in total availability from third-party lenders. The commercial paper program and credit facilities provide cost-effective, short-term financing until it can be replaced with a balance of long-term debt and equity financing that achieves the Company's desired capital structure.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Additionally, our earnings are affected by changes in short-term interest rates as a result of our issuance of short-term commercial paper and our other short-term borrowings.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“The assumed discount rate and the expected return are the assumptions that generally have the most significant impact on our pension costs and liabilities. The assumed discount rate, the assumed health care cost trend rate, and assumed rates of retirement generally have the most significant impact on our postretirement plan costs and liabilities.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Chains in: Public debt and fiscal policy strengthens, Inflation strengthens
Chains out: this weakens Construction, weakens Real estate, weakens Wind power, weakens Housing market, weakens Office and commercial property, weakens Residential rental, weakens Residential construction
Climate change and extreme weather
Macro
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Natural disasters and adverse weather are always a threat to our assets and operations. In addition, the threat of terrorist activities could lead to increased economic instability and volatility in the price of natural gas that could affect our operations.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Climate change may result in a reduction in the demand for natural gas or cause shifts in the population of our service territories which could adversely impact the economic outlook for our service territories. These occurrences could adversely impact our financial results, growth, cash flows, and results of operations.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“In our distribution segment, we have weather-normalization adjustment mechanisms that serve to mitigate the effects of weather on our revenue.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Chains out: this weakens Agriculture and food production
Electricity
Raw materials and inputs
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Competition Although our regulated distribution operations are not currently in significant direct competition with any other distributors of natural gas to residential and commercial customers within our service areas, we do compete with other natural gas suppliers and suppliers of alternative fuels for sales to industrial customers. We compete in all aspects of our business with alternative energy sources, including, in particular, electricity.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“In residential and commercial customer markets, our distribution operations compete with other energy products, such as electricity and propane. Our primary product competition is with electricity for heating, water heating, and cooking.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Chains in: Data centres strengthens, Electrification strengthens
Chains out: this strengthens Power grid expansion
EU climate and energy policy
Regulation
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“We are also subject to laws, regulations, and other legal requirements enacted or adopted by federal, state, and local governmental authorities relating to protection of the environment and health and safety matters, including those that govern discharges of substances into the air and water, the management and disposal of hazardous substances and waste, the clean-up of contaminated sites, groundwater quality and availability, plant and wildlife protection, as well as work practices related to employee health and safety. Environmental legislation also requires that our facilities, sites, and other properties associated with our operations be operated, maintained, abandoned, and reclaimed to the satisfaction of applicable regulatory authorities. Failure to comply with these laws, regulations, permits, and licenses may expose us to fines, penalties, or interruptions in our operations that could be significant to our financial results.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Six of the eight states in which we operate have passed legislation to prevent local governments from limiting the types of energy available to customers. However, federal, regional, and/or state legislative and/or regulatory initiatives may attempt to control or limit greenhouse gas emissions, such as carbon dioxide and methane, by requiring the adoption of new infrastructure or technology to limit greenhouse gas emissions, limiting our ability to serve new or existing customers, imposing costs or restrictions on end users of natural gas, or assessing additional charges to fund energy efficiency activities.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Chains out: this strengthens Circular economy and recycling, strengthens Energy efficiency
Cyber attacks and IT security risk
Macro
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Distributing, transporting, and storing natural gas involve risks that may result in accidents and additional operating costs. Our operations involve a number of hazards and operating risks inherent in storing and transporting natural gas that could affect the public safety and reliability of our distribution system. While Atmos Energy, with the support from each of its regulatory commissions, is accelerating the replacement of pipeline infrastructure, operating issues such as leaks, accidents, equipment problems, and incidents, including explosions and fire, could result in legal liability, repair, and remediation costs, increased operating costs, significant increased capital expenditures, regulatory fines and penalties, and other costs and a loss of customer confidence.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Chains out: this strengthens Cybersecurity (products and services)
Equity and capital markets
Macro
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“We have pension and other postretirement benefit plans that provide benefits to many of our employees and retirees. Costs of providing benefits and related- funding requirements of these plans are subject to changes in the market value of the assets that fund the plans. The funded status of the plans and the related costs reflected in the Company’s financial statements are affected by various factors, which are subject to an inherent degree of uncertainty, including economic conditions, financial market performance, interest rates, life expectancies, and demographics.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
IT operations and cloud
Raw materials and inputs
InputNegative impact: weakens
“The Company uses Company-owned information technology and technology hosted by third parties to support critical functions including scheduling and dispatching of service technicians, automated meter reading systems, customer care and billing, operational plant logistics, management reporting, and external financial reporting. The failure of these or other similarly important technologies, or the Company’s inability to have these technologies supported, updated, expanded, or integrated into other technologies, could hinder its business operations and adversely impact its financial condition and results of operations.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Shipping and logistics
End markets
InputNegative impact: weakens
“Currently, our distribution divisions utilize 33 pipeline transportation companies, both interstate and intrastate, to transport our natural gas.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Chains in: Carbon tax and ETS prices weakens, Global trade volumes strengthens, Fuel strengthens
United States
Geography
Geography
“Division Service Areas Communities Served Customer Meters Mid-Tex Texas, including the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex 550 1,830,387 Kentucky/Mid-States Kentucky 220 176,494 Tennessee 163,667 Virginia 23,836 Louisiana Louisiana 270 360,589 West Texas Amarillo, Lubbock, Midland 80 316,036 Mississippi Mississippi 110 249,562 Colorado-Kansas Colorado 170 130,890 Kansas 140,542 We operate in our service areas under terms of non-exclusive franchise agreements granted by the various cities and towns that we serve.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Geography
“The concentration of our operations in the State of Texas exposes our operations and financial results to economic conditions, weather patterns, and regulatory decisions in Texas. Approximately 75 percent of our consolidated operations are located in the State of Texas. This concentration of our business in Texas means that our operations and financial results may be significantly affected by changes in the Texas economy in general, weather patterns, and regulatory decisions by state and local regulatory authorities in Texas.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Geography
“Regulation Our distribution and pipeline and storage operations are subject to regulation with respect to rates, service, maintenance of accounting records, and various other matters by the respective regulatory authorities in the states in which we operate, which creates regulatory assets and liabilities that are recovered from or refunded to customers over time through the ratemaking process.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Chains in: USD vs DKK/EUR mixed effect
Denmark
Geography
Geography
“Division Service Areas Communities Served Customer Meters Mid-Tex Texas, including the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex 550 1,830,387 Kentucky/Mid-States Kentucky 220 176,494 Tennessee 163,667 Virginia 23,836 Louisiana Louisiana 270 360,589 West Texas Amarillo, Lubbock, Midland 80 316,036 Mississippi Mississippi 110 249,562 Colorado-Kansas Colorado 170 130,890 Kansas 140,542 We operate in our service areas under terms of non-exclusive franchise agreements granted by the various cities and towns that we serve.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Geopolitical uncertainty
Macro
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Also, companies in our industry may face a heightened risk of exposure to actual acts of terrorism, which could subject our operations to increased risks. As a result, the Company's contractors, suppliers, and other business partners may be unable to fulfill their contractual obligations or the availability of insurance covering such risks may become more limited, which could increase the risk that an event could adversely affect our operations or financial results.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Chains out: this strengthens Defence budgets, strengthens Energy security, strengthens Tariffs and trade policy, weakens Global trade volumes, strengthens Sea freight and freight rates, weakens Reconstruction of Ukraine
Competitors mentioned in the report
No named competitors in the report.
Financial figures
| Revenue latest fiscal year | 4.7 bn USD |
| Revenue growth vs. the year before, same method | 12.9 % |
| EBITDA reported by the company | 2.29 bn USD |
| Net debt debt incl. leasing minus cash | 9.01 bn USD |
| Diluted EPS per share | 7.46 USD |
Source: 10-K (SEC) A. See the report
Criteria
| Profit | ✓ |
| Growing | ✓ |
| Healthy balance sheet | ✗ |
Only the criteria that can be computed from financial statements on this page. The remaining criteria (such as price and dividend) need a share price and are in the analysis.
Figures are in the report's currency (USD), not converted to DKK. Quotes are shown as the company's own words in English.