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Natural Gas Services Group (NGS) guidance and outlook

Natural Gas Services Group's 10-Q filed Nov 9, 2026 makes 16 forward-looking statements.

Guidance and outlook

Forward-looking statements, 10-Q filed Nov 9, 2026

• We expect the final settlement to occur in November 2026, at which time $1.9 million will be released from escrow to the Sellers with the remaining $0.4 million returned to the Company.
• Regardless of current oil price volatility driven by geopolitical factors, we expect demand for compression overall, and specifically our fleet, to remain strong.
• We believe the market outlook for natural gas production in the U.S. remains steady while short-term price volatility remains a factor due to geopolitical influences, weather and shifts in LNG exports.
• In addition, our costs of sales include overhead and related support costs attributable to our storage and assembly facilities including the Tulsa Facility, which we expect to be sold in the fourth quarter of 2026, and the Midland, Texas facility currently held for sale through its closure at the end of March 2025.
• The costs to support our sales revenues increased during the three months ended September 30, 2026, due primarily to unabsorbed overhead costs attributable to the Tulsa Facility resulting from winding down operations in advance of the expected sale.
• We expect to incur additional integration expenses during the fourth quarter of 2026 including retention bonuses and severance benefits to appropriately align our support staff and incorporate the legacy Flatrock business into our ERP, human resources and compensation and benefits systems, among others.
• As referenced above, we recently completed our cloud-based ERP system implementation project for which we have capitalized certain qualified costs and expensed others during 2025 and through the early part of the third quarter of 2026.
• The higher horsepower unit additions are reflective of our strategic plans to concentrate our business development on these higher margin applications.
• As circumstances warrant, we will market certain property and equipment, primarily trucks, when we have determined that there is no longer a productive use for such assets or favorable opportunities arise to monetize otherwise idle assets.
• Our estimated annual effective tax rate differs from the U.S. federal statutory rate of 21% primarily as a result of a higher effective tax rate attributable to state and local income taxes including the impact of projected apportionment of taxable income between states with different tax rates.
• Our cash flows from operating and investing activities are subject to a degree of volatility due primarily to (i) the consistency of our customers in remitting amounts owed to us for our services in full and on a timely basis and (ii) the timing of payments to our vendors and suppliers for capital projects which are often made well in advance of placing new compressor equipment into service.
• Our forecasted capital expenditures for the remainder of 2026 will continue to be directly dependent upon our customers’ compression requirements and our capital availability, while maintaining prudent levels of debt.

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We expect the final settlement to occur in November 2026, at which time $1.9 million will be released from escrow to the Sellers with the remaining $0.4 million returned to the Company. Regardless of current oil price volatility driven by geopolitical factors, we expect demand for compression overall, and specifically our fleet, to remain strong. We believe the market outlook for natural gas production in the U.S. remains steady while short-term price volatility remains a factor due to geopolitical influences, weather and shifts in LNG exports.

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Updated Nov 9, 2026. Read automatically from SEC filings and public data; errors are possible. Not investment advice.