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HOUSTON - Permianville Royalty Trust (NYSE:PVL), a $59 million market cap energy trust with a historical dividend yield of 7.7%, will not pay a distribution to unitholders in August 2025 due to a shortfall of approximately $0.3 million in the latest net profits calculation, the trust announced Friday. According to InvestingPro data, PVL has maintained dividend payments for 15 consecutive years prior to this announcement.
The shortfall resulted from elevated capital expenditures that exceeded cash receipts in the current period. Operating and development expenses outpaced income from the trust’s underlying oil and natural gas properties. Despite these challenges, InvestingPro analysis shows the trust maintains strong financial health with more cash than debt on its balance sheet.
Oil cash receipts totaled $2.1 million for the period, reflecting April 2025 production with realized wellhead prices of $63.10 per barrel, down $0.2 million from the prior month. Natural gas cash receipts reached $1.2 million based on March 2025 production at $2.85 per thousand cubic feet, an increase of $0.1 million from the previous period. The trust’s performance metrics from InvestingPro show a 55.6% total return over the past year, with year-to-date returns of 29.4%.
Total operating expenses remained steady at $2.4 million, while capital expenditures rose by $0.2 million to $1.2 million. The trust attributed the higher capital spending primarily to the completion of three Haynesville wells operated by a major oil company.
These wells were recently brought online in the second quarter of 2025, and the trust’s sponsor expects them to generate working interest revenues for the net profits interest in coming months.
According to the press release, the trust will not receive proceeds until the current shortfall and any prior expense advancements are eliminated. The sponsor anticipates the underlying properties will return to generating positive net profits later in 2025 based on current commodity prices.
Permianville Royalty Trust owns a net profits interest representing the right to receive 80% of the net profits from certain oil and natural gas properties in Texas, Louisiana and New Mexico.
In other recent news, Permianville Royalty Trust announced there will be no distribution to unitholders for both June and July 2025. This decision follows the Trust’s net profits interest calculations, which showed no cash available for distribution after repaying cash advances used to cover prior monthly expenses. For July, the Trust reported oil cash receipts totaling $2.3 million and natural gas cash receipts at $1.1 million, with increased operating expenses and capital expenditures impacting the financial outcome. In June, oil sales volumes reached 33,948 barrels, and natural gas sales volumes were 454,710 Mcf, with average received wellhead prices of $71.03 per barrel for oil and $2.92 per Mcf for natural gas. Despite recouping a cumulative net profits shortfall of approximately $0.6 million, repayments of $0.1 million in cash advances left no funds for distribution. Operating expenses were reported at $2.1 million, with capital expenditures decreasing to $0.8 million in June. The Trust noted that capital expenditures remained elevated due to the drilling and completion of Haynesville wells. The Sponsor, COERT Holdings 1 LLC, anticipates a return to positive net profits in 2025 based on current commodity prices.
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