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WGL Holdings – WGL – Reports Fiscal Year 2012 Financial Results

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WGL Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: WGL), the parent company of Washington Gas Light Company (Washington Gas) and other energy-related subsidiaries, reported net income determined in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America (GAAP) for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2012 of $139.8 million, or $2.71 per share, an increase of $22.7 million, or $0.43 per share, over net income of $117.1 million, or $2.28 per share, reported for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2011.

  • WGL Consolidated earnings per share up — $2.71 per share for fiscal year 2012 vs. $2.28 per share for fiscal year 2011
  • WGL Consolidated non-GAAP operating earnings up — $2.68 per share for fiscal year 2012 vs. $2.25 per share for fiscal year 2011
  • WGL Earnings Guidance for fiscal year 2013 in a range of $2.46 and $2.58 for GAAP earnings and $2.37 and $2.49 for non-GAAP operating earnings

For the quarter ended September 30, 2012, we reported net income determined in accordance with GAAP of $7.7 million, or $0.15 per share, compared to a net loss of ($30.6) million, or ($0.60) per share, reported for the same quarter of the prior fiscal year.

Financial performance is also evaluated based on non-GAAP operating earnings (loss). Non-GAAP operating earnings (loss) excludes the effects of: (i) unrealized mark-to-market gains (losses) on energy-related derivatives for our regulated utility and retail energy marketing segments; (ii) certain gains and losses associated with optimizing the utility segment’s system capacity assets; (iii) changes in the measured value of our inventory for our wholesale energy solutions segment; (iv) the financial effects of warm or cold weather that exceeds weather protection for our regulated utility segment and (v) certain unusual transactions. Refer to “Use of Non-GAAP Operating Earnings (Loss)” and supporting reconciliations attached to this news release for a detailed discussion of management’s use of this non-GAAP financial measure, as well as reconciliations of net income determined in accordance with GAAP to non-GAAP operating earnings (loss) for both our consolidated and segment results.

For the fiscal year ended September 30, 2012, non-GAAP operating earnings were $138.4 million, or $2.68 per share, an increase of $22.9 million, or $0.43 per share, over non-GAAP operating earnings of $115.5 million, or $2.25 per share, for the prior fiscal year. For the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2012, our non-GAAP operating loss was ($5.0) million, or ($0.10) per share, compared to a non-GAAP operating loss of ($15.0) million, or ($0.29) per share, for the same quarter of the prior fiscal year.

About WGL Holdings – WGL

Headquartered in Washington, D.C., WGL Holdings, Inc. (WGL) has four operating segments: (i) the regulated utility segment which primarily consists of Washington Gas, a natural gas utility that serves over one million customers throughout metropolitan Washington, D.C., and the surrounding region; (ii) the retail-energy marketing segment which consists of Washington Gas Energy Services, Inc., a third-party marketer that competitively sells natural gas and electricity; (iii) the commercial energy systems segment which consists of Washington Gas Energy Systems, Inc., a provider of design-build energy efficiency solutions to government and commercial clients and commercial solar projects and (iv) the wholesale energy solutions segment which consists of Capitol Energy Ventures Corp., an asset optimization business that acquires, manages and optimizes natural gas storage and transportation assets.

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Ed Liston is a senior contributing editor at TheStockMarketWatch.com. An active market watcher and investor, Ed guides an independent team of experienced analysts and writes for multiple stock trader publications. He is widely quoted in various financial publications on the Internet. When Ed is not writing about stocks, investing in stocks, talking about stocks, or otherwise doing something stock related, he likes to go sailing and fishing in his yacht.

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Ed Liston is a senior contributing editor at TheStockMarketWatch.com. An active market watcher and investor, Ed guides an independent team of experienced analysts and writes for multiple stock trader publications. He is widely quoted in various financial publications on the Internet. When Ed is not writing about stocks, investing in stocks, talking about stocks, or otherwise doing something stock related, he likes to go sailing and fishing.

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