Grupo Aeroportuario del Centro Norte S.A.B. de C.V.

Greetings. Welcome to OMA's fourth quarter 2025 earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. If anyone should require operator assistance during the conference, please press star zero on your telephone keypad. Please note this conference is being recorded. I will now turn the conference over to Emmanuel Camacho, investor relations officer. Thank you. You may begin.

Thank you, Sherry. Hello, everyone. Thank you for standing by, and welcome to OMAC's fourth quarter 2025 earnings conference call. We are delighted to have you join us today as we discuss our company's performance and financial results for the past quarter. Joining us today are CEO Ricardo Ureña and CFO Rufo Perez-Pilego. Please be reminded that certain statements made during the course of our discussion today may constitute forward-looking statements which are based on current management expectations and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to materialize, including factors that may be beyond our control. And now, I'll turn the call over to Ricardo Lónez for his opening remarks.

Thank you, Emmanuel. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us today. This morning, I will briefly discuss the approval of our master development program Then Rufo and I will review our annual quarterly operational performance and financial results. And finally, we will be happy to answer your questions. During December, we received approval from the Federal Civil Aviation Agency for a master development program covering the 2630 period. The approved investment commitment amounts to approximately 16 billion pesos expressed in December 2024 pesos. This new five-year program is focused on capacity expansion and quality enhancements at our largest airports in terms of passenger contribution, while further strengthening the efficiency of our network. Investments are allocated across terminal expansions, airside infrastructure, equipment upgrades, pavement rehabilitation, modernization works, environmental initiatives, as well as safety and certification programs. Capacity and quality improvements, infrastructure optimization, airport equipment, and sustainability-related CapEx represent the main drivers of the program. In this context, our MDP prioritizes projects that enhance passenger experience, improve operational efficiency, and incorporate technology solutions that support long-term service quality and cost optimization. Sustainability and decarbonization are embedded in our investment strategy with initiatives aimed at improving energy efficient and supporting our long-term emission reduction targets. Importantly, the total investment commitment of 2026-2030 is comparable in real terms to the investment considered in the 2021-2025 cycle. However, traffic levels today are materially higher than five years ago, This implies an improvement in capital efficiency per passenger and reflects the scalability of our existing infrastructure. In other words, this MDP reflects disciplined capital allocation, greater efficiency in the deployment of CAPEX, and a focus on maximizing the use of current assets. The approval also provides long-term regulatory visibility and reinforces the structural growth outlook of our airports. Moving now to our full year 2025 results, this was a year marked by the continued recovery in operational capacity and the strong performance in our main airport of Monterey. While the Pratt & Whitney engine inspection program continued to affect certain fleets during the year, capacity constraints eased compared to 2024. This allowed Mexican Airlines to progressively restore frequencies and reintroduce routes that had been limited or suspended due to aircraft availability. As a result, seat capacity across our airports increased close to 11% during 2025, reflecting improved aircraft deployment and network adjustments. During 2025, we opened 35 new routes, of which 24 were domestic and 11 were international, further strengthening connectivity across our airports. Supported by higher seat availability and route expansion, total passenger traffic reached 28.8 million passengers in 2025, representing an 8.5 increase as compared to 2024, with domestic passenger traffic growing by 8% and international passenger traffic by 12%. The expansion reflects a continued diversification of Monterey's international footprint. In addition to consolidating its position as a key gateway to the United States, Monterey has progressively expanded its long-haul connectivity in recent years, including overseas service to Europe and Asia. The consolidation of long-haul routes such as Monterey-Madrid, Monterey-Tokyo, and Monterey-Sol reinforces our long-term vision of position in Monterey not only as a regional hub within Mexico, but as an increasingly relevant international connecting point linking northern Mexico with major global destinations. In 2026, we will continue strengthening overseas connectivity with additional operations to Madrid and the launch of Monterey-Paris route in April 2026, further expanding our presence across diversified international markets. Beyond traffic growth, 2025 was also a year of solid execution across our commercial and diversification businesses. On the commercial front, we recorded growth across three key revenue line items, driven primarily by the opening of new outlets and continued commercial mix optimization. Restaurant revenues grew by 22%, VIP lounges revenues increased by 30%, and parking revenues increased by 13% as compared to 2025. From our diversification lines of business, our industrial part was one of the strongest contributions to growth with 44% increase in revenues versus 2024 supported by higher least square meters. OMA cargo revenues recorded strong results as well with a 9% increase in revenues, mainly as a result of higher volumes and improved operational efficiencies. Regarding our financial performance, Aeronautical and non-aeronautical revenues each grew approximately 12% year over year. As a result, our adjusted EBITDA for the year was 10.2 billion pesos, and we recorded an adjusted EBITDA margin of 74.5%. I will now move on to our fourth quarter 2025 performance. In the quarter, all mass passenger traffic totaled 7.5 million, A 6% increase year-over-year, seat capacity increased by 8% during the quarter. On the domestic front, passenger traffic grew by 6%, driven primarily by the Monterey Airport, which saw increase on routes to the metropolitan areas of Mexico City, mainly to Toluca and Mexico City airports, Bajio, Puerto Vallarta, Merida, and Guadalajara. These routes collectively added for over 300,000 passengers during the quarter, representing 79% of the total domestic passenger growth. International passenger traffic increased by 4%, mainly driven by Monterey, with higher traffic on the routes to Bogota, Toronto, and Panama, and San Luis Potosi on the routes to Dallas, Fort Worth, Atlanta, and San Antonio. Together, this route added more than 67,000 passengers during the quarter. In terms of road by airline, Volaris, which accounted for 24% of our total passenger traffic in the quarter, recorded a 17% increase in passenger traffic compared to the fourth quarter of 2024, while Viva, which accounted for 51% of our total passenger traffic, recorded a 5% traffic increase during the quarter. Turning to our financial performance, aeronautical revenues increased 6%. Commercial revenues grew by 8% compared to the fourth quarter of 24, and commercial revenue per passenger stood at 62 pesos. Commercial revenue growth was mainly driven by parking, restaurants, VIP lounges, and retail, mainly as a result of higher penetration and the increase in passenger traffic. Occupancy rate for commercial space stood at 93% at the end of the quarter. On the diversification front, revenues increased 5%, with Alma Cargo contributing most of the growth, mainly because of higher revenues from our bonded warehouses in Chihuahua, given our successful strategy to further develop this warehouse in previous quarters. Alma's fourth quarter adjusted EBITDA increased by 6% to 2.6 billion pesos, with a margin of 73.6%. On the capital expenditures front, total investments in the quarter, including MDP investments, major maintenance, and strategic investments, were 755 million pesos. I would now like to turn the call over to Rufo Perez Pliego, who will discuss our financial highlights for the quarter.

Thank you, Ricardo, and good morning, everyone. I will briefly review our financial results for the quarter, and then we will open the call for your questions. Aruna? Aeronautical revenues increased 5.6% relative to 4Q34, mainly due to the increase in passenger traffic. It is worth noting that the peso appreciation against the dollar resulted in a 1.3% decline in international passenger charges, despite a 4.2% increase in international passengers. Non-iron revenues increased 7.5%. Commercial revenues increased 8.4%. The line items with the highest growth were parking, restaurants, VIP lounges, and retail. Parking grew by 18.4%, mainly as a result of higher passenger traffic, as well as higher penetration across our airports and increased tariffs. Restaurants and retail increased 11.3% and 7.0% respectively, both driven by higher passenger traffic, as well as previously opened or replaced outlets. VIP lounges grew by 17%, mainly due to the higher capture rate, primarily in Monterey Airport, as well as the increase in passenger traffic, partially offset by a stronger peso against the U.S. dollar. Diversification activities increased 4.8%. Omacara contributed most to the growth in the quarter, increasing by 14.2%, resulting from a higher level of operation and tons handled during the quarter. Total aeronautical and non-aeronautical revenues were 6.1% to 3.5 billion pesos in the quarter. Construction revenues amounted to 613 million pesos during the fourth quarter. The cost of airport services and G&A expense increased 11.6% versus Q24, primarily due to the following line items. Contracted services expenses rose 14.7%, mainly due to higher cost of security and cleaning services, following contract renewals in prior quarters, reflecting inflationary pressures and tight labor market conditions. Minor maintenance increased 24.1%, primarily due to the timing effect of works performed. However, maintenance for the full year increased by 4.0%. Basic services increased by 11 million pesos, mainly due to higher utility costs, particularly electricity. This includes a one-time 6 million peso impact related to the temporary use of an alternative power supply line at the Monterey airport, which carries a higher tariff than our power purchase agreement. This temporary situation was caused by construction works related to the subway line near the airport, And since the end of December, electricity supply has reverted to our regular PPA contract. Other costs and expenses increased by 9.9%, due primarily to higher IT-related requirements and transportation services. Concession tax increased 8.0% to 286 million pesos, in line with revenue growth. Major maintenance provision was 216 million pesos compared to 39 million pesos in 4Q24. It is important to highlight that this is a non-cash item. During the quarter, we reassessed our major maintenance requirements to reflect expenditures included in the recently approved 2026-2030 Master Development Program. These reassessments resulted in an increase in the provision liability. Approximately 17% of the total investments under the 2026-2030 MDP corresponds to major maintenance projects. For 2026, we expect the full year major maintenance provision cost to be approximately 400 million pesos. OMA's fourth quarter adjusted TBDA grew 5.9% to 2.6 billion pesos and the adjusted TBDA margin reached 73.6%. Our financing expense decreased 12.7% to 290 million pesos, mainly driven by lower interest expense associated to the major maintenance provision, as well as higher interest income resulting from a higher average cash position. Consolidated net income was 1.2 billion pesos in the quarter, an increase of 3.6% versus 4Q24. Turning to our cash position. Cash generated from operating activities in the fourth quarter amounted to 1.9 billion pesos. Investing and financing activities used 663 million and 2.5 billion pesos respectively. As a result, our cash position at the end of the quarter was 3.1 billion pesos. At the end of December, Total debt amounted to 13.6 billion pesos, and leverage, measured as net debt to adjusted TVTA ratio, stood at 1.0 times. This concludes our prepared remarks. Sherry, please open the call to questions.

Thank you. If you would like to ask a question, please press star 1 on your telephone keypad. A confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question queue. You may press star 2 if you would like to remove your question from the queue. And for participants using speaker equipment, it may be necessary to pick up your handset before pressing the star keys. Our first question is from Juan Pons with ProDesco. Please proceed.

Hi. Thank you. Thank you very much for taking my question for the call. On the 260 million major maintenance provision recognized this quarter, does this reflect higher maintenance intensity or just timing shifts? Any additional color on the change would be helpful. Thanks.

Sure. Hi, Juan. It does reflect the next five years, the 2026-2030 expected expenditures, as well as timing changes versus what we had. assumed in the past.

Okay. And just to clarify, the expectation is that the full year number is going to be around 400 billion pesos, correct?

That is correct. Non-cash. The P&L impact is the non-cash, yes.

Yes, yes, yes. Okay. Okay. Thank you very much.

Our next question is from Jens. with Mark and Stanley. Please proceed.

Oh, yes. I have a question regarding the passenger fees and how do you expect to increase them throughout the year and in order to reach close to 100% of your maximum tariff? What's your expectation there? Thank you.

Yes. Thank you, Jens. So the announced increase is 6.9% increase starting April 10th. And we anticipate it will take a couple of years, two to three years to reach the 100% maximum tariff.

Okay. So by the end of this year, what percentage do you expect to have completed of the maximum tariff of this year? Something around the 93%. 93%. Okay, perfect. Okay, if I may, just a second question. Any update on the timing of the investment in Monterrey? Yeah, pretty much appreciated. Thank you. Timing of investment in Monterrey.

Our next question. Yes. For the main, our main works are, as you know, are focused on Monterey and Culiacan. Monterey, we are anticipating to finish what we've been mentioning, which is by mid-next year, we should be opening the new commercial area of Monterey. And for Culiacan, we're expecting to open the new commercial area by the end of this year. Excellent.

Okay. Thank you so much. Thank you, guys.

Our next question is from Vanessa Quiroia with Eternal Capital Group. Please proceed.

Hi. Thanks for taking my question. So, I would like to ask if you can provide the following detail. How much of the master development plan investments for the next five years is major maintenance? and whether the accounting rule is to provision 100% of that major maintenance during the five-year period.

Sure. The total investments related to major maintenance in the approved NDP represents approximately 17% of the total NDP for the next five years. And the accounting rule is to provision the present value of such expenditure from today until the day the project is expected to start its execution.

Okay. That's excellent. Thank you.

Our next question is from Abraham Fuentes with Santana. Please proceed.

Hi. Hello.

I want to know about the excess of concession tax on aeronautical railings that we had during this war. If this is something that could be recurrent going forward or not?

So the excess, which was with 2023, tariff-based regulation, that excess was incorporated as additional reference value that was used in the recent negotiation that occurred in December. So that excess is already being recovered through maximum tariff starting January 1st of this year.

Okay. Perfect. Thanks.

Our next question is from Gabriel Hemelfar with Scotiabank. Please proceed.

Hi. Good morning. Thanks for the call. If I may, I have two questions. First, the MVP capex on Monterey. How much do you expect such commercial revenues to ramp in percentage terms in terms of EBITDA? How much EBITDA do you expect they might ramp up for OMA? Have you seen any or what's your view or your color on the Viva Volaris consolidation in terms of roots and seed allocation? Thank you.

In terms of the second part of your question, we're still assessing the potential impact, so it's still an analysis of the impact. And in terms of the first part, Google?

Yes, so we do expect a bump after the commercial areas of expanded Terminal A are opened towards starting the second half of next year and its full year effect being reflected in full in 2028. We do expect about a 10 to 15% increase in spending per Pax in Monterey, in real terms on an annualized basis once these stores and new outlets are opened.

Okay, thank you. And if I may, I have an additional question. Have you been, well, how's your view toward asset acquisitions, like perhaps involving Vinci on the MDP or the future acquisitions, making, I don't know, OMAS a consolidation vehicle?

In terms of new acquisitions, we're always looking for opportunities to expand locally or internationally. At the moment, there's no specific transaction that we're looking at. If there were in the future, that was something that would be discussed internally with between Benji and ourselves.

Okay, thank you.

We do, we are, one thing we are looking is at expanding our hotels presence, so we're evaluating a new hotel in Monterey and another one in Ciudad Juarez. And we're also looking to expand our industrial park in Monterey.

Okay, thank you.

Our next question is from Alberto Valero with UBS. Please proceed.

Hi, gentlemen. Thank you for taking my questions. I have two here. If you could provide a little bit more details on the line of revenues and as well on cost revenues, do you guys have an impact from effects on the international traffic? And on cost, if you could provide a little bit more details on maintenance, you mentioned that to be a big portion of your How can we forecast this for the future? And if you could provide any more details, you know, what would the expanded use? Thank you very much.

Yes. So the first part of the question was related to the FX impact, correct? Okay. So we basically on the revenue. On the revenue line, we have four items that are very closely related to FX, which are international passenger charges, VIP lounge, duty-free, and industrial park. We estimate that the impact of the peso appreciation in the fourth quarter of 25 as compared to the fourth quarter of 24, which was about an 8% appreciation, was between 50 to 60 million pesos. That was our estimate of the effect of such appreciation. Regarding the second part of your question, we do expect at least for 2026 that the full year provisioning would be around 400 million, and we're still assessing what the impacts would be for the following years. It will depend on of both construction costs as well as the interest rate, long-term interest rates used to discount that provision.

Thank you. And if I may, just one more about the violence that we have seen. I know that the region that is a little bit different from OMA Airports region. but do you have any sort of impact on your airports or cancellation routes and so forth?

All our 13 airports are operating normally. We did see on Sunday during the event a few cancellations from to Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta airport. There was some yesterday, but today it's operating normally, and it is not something that – it's not a traffic that we believe will have an impact in our numbers.

Very helpful. Thank you very much.

Our next question is from Anton Mortenkader with GBM. Please proceed. Yes.

Hi, guys. Thank you for taking my question. Just a quick one. We've heard and we've seen in some newspapers some of your peers are considering some alternative financing methods such as maybe a Fibra A. I was just wondering if you guys are considering something such as an alternative to funding your CapEx similar to those or any special vehicles that you may be looking at.

Yes. So right now we're not necessarily considering other type of structures different to what we have used in the past few years. We do have some refinancings of debts that are due this year, and we would expect to target the segures market as we have done so in the past four or five years.

Okay. Thank you.

Our next question is from Julia Orsi with JP Morgan. Please proceed.

Yes. Hi, everyone. Good morning. Thanks for taking the time. So can you comment a bit on your traffic expectations for these years? So on previous call, you were mentioning a low to mid single-digit growth rate for 2026. Is this still the case? Thank you.

Yeah, for the year, we're anticipating somewhere in the low to mid-single-digit growth in traffic.

Got it. Thank you.

Our next question is a follow-up from Vanessa with Eternal Capital. Please proceed.

Yes. Thank you. My question is regarding the increase in the tariffs, the 7% in real terms that you mentioned. What is the base for that? Is the base the average in peso terms achieved in 2025, or do you assume any effects? What is the base that you're using?

Sure. MVP approved maximum tariff was a 6.9% real increase in all of the airports, and that reflects the 2025 maximum tariff. Okay, so that's the increase that you... It's the 2026 maximum tariff as compared to the 2025 maximum tariff, that increase in real terms that's excluding inflation is 6.9%.

So the part that maybe I need clarification, you are in 2026, you are going to have that increase or that's targeting three years?

Yes, the increase that we're going to pass through this year is 6.9% starting in 10th of April. That includes inflation as well. So it's a nominal 6.1% increase.

Okay. Thank you.

Our next question is from Enrique Cantu with GBM. Please proceed.

Hi. Thank you for taking my question. So as you implement tariff increases under the new NDP, how are you assessing the manner of PCP, particularly in groups like Monterey and tourist destinations? And could you share your outlook for further route additions and whether you see a scope for continued expansion based on the ongoing discussions with carriers? Route additions.

Sorry, could you repeat the question again?

Sorry, the line. Yes, of course. So it's about demand elasticity. How are you assessing the demand elasticity, particularly in routes like Monterey and three destinations as you implement your tariff increases under the new NDP?

Yeah. Yeah, so in terms of elasticity, we believe that the pass-through that we're implementing this year is not going to have a major impact in terms of elasticity, traffic elasticity.

Okay. Yeah, sorry.

Yeah, just regarding new route openings, so far, 20 routes have been confirmed. 17 of them are domestic and three are international. And they start, the vast majority of them, in June of this year from airports such as Monterey, San Luis Potosi, primarily.

Perfect. Very clear. Thank you.

Our next question is from Andrew Radin with TRG. Please proceed.

Hi, guys. Thanks for taking my question. I was curious about commercial revenues for passenger and revenue from diversification for 2026. What kind of growth should we be expecting in any particular lines? Do you see any credit for this year? Thank you.

Okay, so in terms of... Commercial revenue per PACS, they ended 2025 around 62 pesos per PACS. We expect similar amounts for the next few quarters in 2026. And regarding diversification revenues, we don't look at them on a per PACS basis, but rather as a whole. We have, as you know, both two mature hotels, the NH in Mexico and the Hilton Garden in our monetary airport, so we should expect inflationary increases in the results of those two units. And the driver of this year of diversification would be our Carga unit, which should have a double-digit growth.

Great. Thank you.

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We would like to thank everyone for participating in today's call. We appreciate your insightful questions, engagement, and continuous support. Rufo, Emanuel, and I remain available to answer your questions. Thank you once again, and have a great day.

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