Himalaya Shipping Ltd. Common Shares

Welcome to Himalaya Shipping Q1 2026 Financial Resource Presentation. Today's call is being recorded. If you have any objections, please disconnect at this time. For the first part of this call, all participants will be in a listen-only mode, and afterwards, there will be a question-and-answer session. To ask a question, please press 5-star on your telephone keypad. I'll now turn the call over to CEO, Lars Christian Svensson. Please begin.

Thank you, operator. Welcome to the Q1 2026 conference call for Himalaya Shipping. My name is Lars Christian Svensson, and I will be joined here today by our CFO, Vidar Hasun. Before we start the presentation, I would like to remind you that we will be discussing matters that are forward-looking. These assumptions reflect the company's current views regarding future events and are subject to risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those anticipated. I will now continue with the highlights of the quarter. We reported a net profit of $5 million and an EBITDA of 24.5 million. The time charter equivalent earnings for the quarter was approximately $32,300 per day. We entered into a new index time charter agreements for both the Mount Ita and the Mount Matterhorn for a period of 11 to 14 and 12 to 14 months respectively at significant premiums to the prevailing indices. Cash distributions for the quarter totaled 18 cents. The company also entered into a contract to acquire an additional 4,200 shares in 2020 Bulkers Management AS from 2020 Bulkers Limited for 1.1 million Norwegian crowns, which will be effective on April 1, 2026, increasing our total ownership from 40% to 54%. In subsequent events, we achieved time-chartered equivalent earnings for April 2026 of about $41,600 per day, and we declared a cash distribution of 15 cents for the same month. We also entered into a new time-chartered agreement for the Mount EMI for a period of 12 to 14 months at an index-linked rate, also at a significant premium to the Baltic Cape Size Index. And with that, I will now pass the word to Vidar.

Thank you, Lars Christian. Himalaya Shipping reports a net profit of $5 million and earnings per share of 11 cents for Q1 2026, compared to a net loss of 6.4 million and loss per share of 14 cents for Q1 2025. Operating profit was $17.2 million and EBITDA was $24.5 million for the quarter, compared to operating profit of 6.5 million and EBITDA of 13.8 million for the same period last year. Operating revenues were $33.6 million for Q1 2026, compared to 22 million for the same quarter in 2025. The increase in revenues is due to higher time charter equivalent earnings achieved, which is up from 21,100 in Q1 2025, to 32,300 in Q1, 2026. Vessel operating expenses were $7.4 million in Q1, 2026 compared to 6.9 million in Q1, 2025. The increase is primarily due to higher costs for crew, spares, service fees and insurance costs. The average OPEX per day was $6,800 compared to $6,400 per day during Q1, 2025. G&A for the fourth quarter was $1.2 million compared to $1.1 million in Q1 2025. Interest expense were $12.4 million in Q1 2026, which is a 0.7 million decrease compared to the same period in 2025 due to a lower average loan principle outstanding in Q1 2026 as a result of loan repayments. Cash and cash equivalents were $24.5 million at the end of the quarter. Our minimum cash requirement under our sale leaseback financing is $12.3 million. Outstanding balance on the sale leaseback financing was approximately $694 million at the end of the first quarter, down from approximately $701 million at the end of 2025, reflecting scheduled repayments. Cash flow from operations was $9.8 million for the first quarter compared to $0.3 million for the same period in 2025. Himalaya Shipping have declared total cash distributions to shareholders of 18 cents per share for the months of January, February and March 2026. That completes the financial section and back to you, Lars Christian.

Thank you, Vidar. Before I will guide you through our market section, here are some company updates. Our fleet of 12 modern Newcastle MAXs with dual fuel LNG is in the top 1% emission rating for large bulk carriers. The attractive financing, combined with a very clear capital allocation structure, has led to 28 monthly consecutive dividends. In Q1 2026, this amounted to 18 cents. Most of our fleet is fixed out on long-term index-linked contracts with conversion options. and the all-in cash break-even equivalent to the Baltic Cape Size Index is about $17,300 per day, i.e. every time you see the Baltic Cape Size Index above $17,300, Himalaya shipping is turning a profit. Our preferred commercial strategy is still to charter out the majority of our vessels on index link charters. That allows us to capture the upside at each given market rise and also gives us good flexibility to convert fixed rates with solid counterparts when we see value on the forward FFA curve. Currently, 11 out of our 12 ships are exposed to the spot market to capture what we believe will be a continued strong year ahead. To illustrate our fleet and commercial performance, you can see on this slide that since inception, the Himalaya vessels have traded to an average 48% premium to the Baltic Cape size index and a 25% premium to pairs. This is achieved by the extra cargo intake on our vessels and top tier speed and consumption design on our fleet. We always strive to have as many tools as possible to navigate this volatile market so that we can turn our position quickly from long to short or vice versa should we see a clear trend. Here you can see our dividend capacity based on various rate scenarios for a standard Cape Size vessel. When the Baltic Cape Size Index trades around today's levels, $40,000 a day, the company will yield about 18%. When we see moves to around the $50,000 per day range, we will produce a yield of around 28%. And when we see $60,000 per day on the Baltic Cape Size Index, Himalaya will yield close to 35% on the current share price. Now let's have a look at the markets. we had the best start to the Cape Size and Newcastle Max market this year since 2010. Much of this can be credited to the large bauxite volumes exported from Guinea, slowdown in speed on the overall fleet, and global port waiting time has also increased. We believe that the structural ton-mile change in the Cape Size and Newcastle Max trades can drive this market further, as we will be discussing in the following slides. Ton-miling Q1 for Cape Size increased 4.3% year over year. We can yet again thank the increased bauxite volumes from Guinea, which contributed a 23% increase year over year and a 4.8% increase from global iron ore trades. Year over year iron ore exports from Brazil was down 1% and Australian iron ore volumes were up 4% in Q1. As discussed in the previous slide, we saw the global iron ore exports are continuing to increase. Albeit a flat quarter compared to last year from Brazil, the Chinese seaborne iron ore imports are up which again emphasize the Chinese hunger for high-grade iron ore, which can be found outside the country's borders. The Chinese imported iron ore inventories are down from the peak, and we keenly observed from the bottom right graph that inventories correlate well with the increased Chinese iron ore consumption over the last few years. As we have discussed in previous reports, the domestic Chinese FE content is reported to be around 20%, but the imported volumes from Brazil and Guinea contains an FE content of mid to high 60s. This has led to a slowdown in domestic Chinese production and high-grade iron ore from overseas still remains a preference. We have discussed the bauxite trade extensively in several quarterly presentations and for good reason. After record bauxite output from Guinea in 2025, new export records have been registered so far in 2026, which you can see from the left graph. In conjunction with the increasing volumes departing the country, you can also see that the Borg site is taking over more market share from the other commodities and is now responsible for 20% of the total cargo transported on caves in Newcastle, Maxis. This plays directly into the structural ton-mile story that we see unfolding at the moment. The Simandou mine is now up and running, and the first iron ore volumes from this mine commenced in November 2025. The target remains at 120 million tons of exported high-grade iron ore per annum to the market. As you can observe from the right graph, export volumes have caught momentum over the last few weeks, which indicates that the mine-to-vessel logistics are improving and further growth can be expected. We're also monitoring closely the capacity increase from Vale, which can add further strength to an already export-focused Atlantic basin to boost ton-mile further. We have seen from other segments that order books can increase quickly, However, in Cape Size and Newcastle Max, this has been a slow-moving operation. We keenly observe a 14% order book of the total existing Cape Size fleet. Active shipyards are down 60% from the peak of 2008, making it challenging to build any fleet capacity that could distort the favourable supply dynamics over the next few years. As a comparison to other shipping segments, you can see from the right graph that the Cape Size order book to fleet ratio is still the most compelling in the large shipping space. In addition to the low order book, the current Cape Sizer Newcastle MAX fleet is aging fast. Around 46% of the total fleet was built between 2009 and 2015. That means that close to 30% of the fleet will be over 20 years of age in 2030. As it looks now, we have visibility on the supply for the next two years, making it difficult to add any meaningful large dry bulk capacity in time to deal with the rapidly aging fleet. We continue to see a significant increase in dry docks due to mandatory special surveys required on merchant vessels every five years. 12% of the entire Cape Size fleet was delivered in 2011 and will have to undergo 15-year special surveys in 2026. There will be 5 and 10-year special surveys as well, meaning around 24% of the total Cape Size and Newcastle Max fleet will be competing for dry dock space this year. We estimate a total of 1.7% additional off-fire on the total fleet due to dry docks alone in 2026, not factoring in potential congestion and waiting time. Thank you, and I will now pass the word back to the operator and welcome any questions you might have.

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Thank you. So my first question is towards the market outlook. We do sound more optimistic than the broader market. And earlier today, you reported calling this the start of a super cycle. So looking at the SFA curve and consensus, they are assuming lower rates than your view implies. So where do you think the market is getting it wrong? And what do you see as the main drivers that take rates higher from where it is today?

Hi there. Well, if you look at the current FFA curve, then specifically Q3 and Q4, that has remained fairly stable over the last few months.

But at the same time, we've seen the tightness in Atlantic, which has also been a big contributor to the current high levels that we have. And I don't think we've seen that fully priced yet in the forward curve. So based on the volumes that we see, especially encouraging to see that the Simandou volumes are coming upstream and the very strong bauxite volumes we've seen in Q1. But also the structurally short Atlantic that we have now compared to three, four years ago, where we had more backhaul business from the Pacific into the Atlantic, which we don't really see much of anymore. So this structurally short Atlantic with more volumes coming on from Atlantic and out to Pacific, we think that that will have a positive effect on the future market as well, which is naturally reflected in the fact that we have 11 out of our 12 ships in the spot market.

And given that market outlook, you also have a share now that is spreading well about the NAV today based on current broker values. which also gives you currency for potential acquisitions. So given your outlook and your stock as a potential currency, is fleet expansion something that you are considering?

We are always trying to make a creative business for the shareholders and also to try and grow the company.

But one of the reasons why we trade above RNAV, we have a very simple and transparent model. The investors know what they're buying. We have solid counterparts. And also we have a low GNA. So I think it's a combination of many things.

But we're always going to be on the lookout to make the company more interesting for our shareholders.

Thank you. That's all for me.

Thank you.

Thank you.