Q2 2026 Heidmar Maritime Holdings Corp Earnings Call
Speaker #1: Understanding by ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Haydmar Conference Call on the second quarter of 2026 financial results. We have with us Mr. Pankaj Khanna, Chief Executive Officer of the company.
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Speaker #1: Before passing the floor to Mr. Khanna, I would like to remind everyone that in today's conference call, Haydmar will be making forward-looking statements. These statements are within the meaning of the Federal Securities Laws, matters discussed may be forward-looking statements which are based on current management expectations that involve risks and uncertainties that may result in such expectations not being realized.
Speaker #1: And now, I'd like to pass the floor to Mr. Khanna. Please go ahead, sir.
Speaker #2: Thanks, Melissa. Good day to everyone, and welcome to the second quarter earnings call for Haydmar Maritime. Haydmar delivered a strong second quarter of 2026, marked by continued financial progress, accelerating fleet growth, and a sharpened strategic focus on value creation for our stakeholders.
Speaker #2: Today's results are further proof of what our asset light, commercially driven model can deliver. The ability to scale quickly in markets that reward agility and sharp market intelligence over sheer size.
Speaker #2: At its core, Haydmar is a commercial manager and we earn fee-based revenue operating tankers and pools, or under commercial management, and manage vessels on owner's behalf.
Speaker #2: Without putting capital into the ships themselves. That means our earnings grow with volume and market strength. Not with balance sheet size. So we are, we have the ability to add vessels quickly, move fast when markets dislocate, and put capital back into growth, or shareholders' hands, rather than into debt service.
Speaker #2: Turning to the results. For the 3-month period ended June 30, 2026, Haydmar realized consolidated net income of 2.2 million dollars or 4 cents per share basic, compared to net loss of 13.7 million dollars in the second quarter of 2025.
Speaker #2: The second quarter of 2025 comparison included a 13.6 million dollar loss from discontinued operations. On a continuing operations basis, Haydmar recorded a net loss of 0.1 million dollars in that quarter.
Speaker #2: So the year-on-year improvement in our core ongoing business is even more pronounced than the headline comparisons suggest. Included in net income is non-cash stock-based compensation of 0.2 million dollars representing the amortization of share awards granted to key employees and members of the board of directors under the Haydmar Equity Incentive Plan.
Speaker #2: Excluding these non-cash items, Haydmar relies adjusted net income of 2.4 million dollars compared to adjusted net income of 0.5 million dollars in the second quarter of 2025.
Speaker #2: On a continuing operations basis. Adjusted net income remains well above the prior year quarter and continues to demonstrate the improving underlying earnings capacity of the platform.
Speaker #2: Total revenues for the quarter were 29 million dollars compared to 18.4 million dollars in the first quarter of 2026, and 9.6 million dollars in the second quarter of 2025.
Speaker #2: An increase of 19.4 million dollars or approximately 203 percent year-on-year and an increase of 10.6 million dollars or approximately 58 percent quarter-on-quarter. This growth was driven primarily by a sharp increase in voyage and time-shorter revenues.
Speaker #2: Which rose to 23.2 million dollars from 6.2 million dollars in the second quarter of 2025, alongside trade revenues which increased to 5.8 million dollars from 3.3 million dollars over the same period.
Speaker #2: Six vessels were chartered out on voyage and time-shorter arrangements during the quarter, compared to two vessels in the second quarter of 2025. General and administrative expenses were 5.6 million dollars in the second quarter of 2026, compared to 4.7 million dollars in the second quarter of 2025.
Speaker #2: The year-on-year increase was mainly attributable to higher cash bonuses paid to our employees, which totaled 1.8 million dollars in the second quarter of 2026, compared to 1.4 million dollars in the second quarter of 2025.
Speaker #2: Given our asset light strategy, our people are the key to delivering services and growth, and rewarding talent is central to our continued success. As we move through the remainder of 2026, we expect GNA to remain well controlled, relative to our growing revenue base.
Speaker #2: For the first half of 2026, Haydmar generated total revenues of 47.3 million dollars and net income attributable to shareholders of 5 million dollars, or 5.8 million dollars on an adjusted basis, excluding non-cash stock-based compensation of 0.8 million dollars.
Speaker #2: Underscoring the consistency of the platform's earnings power across both quarters of the year. Turning to the balance sheet, as of June 30, 2026, cash and cash equivalents totaled 28.7 million dollars and total assets were 99.6 million dollars.
Speaker #2: Turning to the market, the tanker market remained highly volatile during the quarter. Shaped primarily by escalating geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and in Europe.
Speaker #2: Where the Ukraine-Russia war has escalated into a targeting of energy assets and shipping in general. The extreme dislocation of March-April eased somewhat following the signing of the peace MOU by the US and Iran in June, however not for long.
Speaker #2: Continued disruption in the states of hormones and the Bab al-Mandab kept two key choke points under pressure. Supporting rates even as a prolonged hormones closure remains a downside risk to oil demand.
Speaker #2: Combined transits through both choke points recovered only modestly, from 6 million barrel per day trough to roughly 11 million barrels per day by May-June.
Speaker #2: Still well below pre-crisis levels of 20 million barrels per day. As a result of over 80 Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil refineries in 2026, Russian seaborne product exports have hopped from 2.2 million barrels per day average in 2025 to 1.1 million barrels per day in July, also attacks on Russian crude offtake terminals has also impacted crude exports, although most of this is not carried on mainstream tankers.
Speaker #2: Global seaborne crude volumes contracted during the quarter, however the combination of sourcing crude from alternative long-haul sources and tanners scarcity kept freight rates elevated across most crude tanker segments.
Speaker #2: Oil prices did not escalate to over 100 dollars per barrel that many projected, has non-OPEC supply grew approximately 1 million barrels per day year-on-year, mostly from the Americas, and commercial and strategic inventories were drawn down across the board.
Speaker #2: However, now stocks in certain countries are at critically low levels some at two decade lows. During the third quarter to date, the resumption of facilities in the Middle East has reduced the flow of oil through the states of hormones to a trickle.
Speaker #2: A new shuttle tanker trade has developed whereby owners willing to take risks are carrying crude oil at astronomical rates from the terminals inside the Arabian Gulf to just outside the states.
Speaker #2: To be discharged in ship-to-ship operations to other vessels. Continuing Houthi threats and attacks on tanners transiting the Red Sea have also redirected crude flows from Yanbu to Ain Sukna, and via pipeline to Sidi Qareer in the Mediterranean.
Speaker #2: Driving strong demand for Suez Maxis and Afro Maxis in the region with the Mediterranean and Black Sea Suez Max earnings at historical highs, and rates elevated across the board as a result.
Speaker #2: VLCCs are now lifting oil from Sidi Qareer and taking it to Asia via the Cape of Good Hope, which is 15,000 mile voyage to China versus only 6,700 miles via the Gulf of Aden.
Speaker #2: Notably, Suez Maxis have on average outperformed VLCCs during the period, and Afro Maxis are also trading at historical highs, a reinforcing our view that in periods of geopolitical disruption, effective tennant supply not cargo volumes become the primary driver of short-term rates.
Speaker #2: Outcomes. As we enter the seasonally stronger winter demand months of the fourth quarter and the first quarter, we expect rates to remain high and potentially strengthen further, depending on how the geopolitical situation evolves.
Speaker #2: Turning to company developments, scaling the platform remained the central storyline of the quarter and it continues to define our trajectory heading into the second half of the year.
Speaker #2: We added seven vessels across key tanker segments during the second quarter, building on the eight vessels taken in the first quarter. Taken together, that is 15 vessels added to the platform in the first half of 2026 alone, without pipeline remaining active and further additions expected through the remainder of this year and into next.
Speaker #2: We are also pleased to regain compliance with the NASDAQ continued listing rule on June 2, 2026, following 10 consecutive business days with our closing bid price at or above $1 per share, resolving the deficiency notice we received on April 22, 2026.
Speaker #2: Our scaling efforts have only accelerated since the quarter ended. On July 1, 2026, we completed the acquisition of Q ship shipping BV, a Netherlands-based ship management and crewing enterprise for approximately 2 mil 0.2 million euros, funded from existing cash reserves with no regulatory approvals or post-closing conditions required.
Speaker #2: The transaction added nine vessels to our managed fleet, bringing our total managed fleet to approximately 60 vessels under commercial management and 20 under technical management, and gives Heidmar an operating presence in the Netherlands and Turkey along with dedicated crewing capability in Ukraine.
Speaker #2: This is exactly the kind of discipline move we favor, a small investment with real strategic value delivering overnight operational presence with minimal capital and immediate upside.
Speaker #2: And we only expect to be immediately accretive to management fee revenue. Put together with our first half fleet, we have added 24 vessels to the Heidmar platform in under two quarters evidence that our asset light model lets us scale the business without a proportional increase in overhead.
Speaker #2: The Q shipping integration is already showing results, with the takeover of three additional vessels expected during the third quarter of 2026. Our global footprint now spans eight locations supported by a team of more than 75 onshore employees and over 500 seafarers.
Speaker #2: Alongside this growth, we continue to invest in enhancing our commercial and operational platforms through the use of artificial intelligence, further strengthening the efficiency and scalability of our asset light model.
Speaker #2: These upcoming AI-driven enhancements will bring together data and workflows across chartering, operations, and finance into a more unified operational view, automating recurring time-consuming tasks that have traditionally required manual handling and giving teams faster clearer visibility into performance across the fleet.
Speaker #2: As these capabilities come online, AI is set to become a core part of how Heidmar operates. Allowing us to enhance performance and extract more value from every vessel we manage as we leverage every relationship we hold.
Speaker #2: The fundamental difference between Heidmar and traditional shipping companies is this. We don't own ships. Asset owning operators are weighed down by vessel depreciation, dry docking, financing costs, and locked up capital.
Speaker #2: We carry none of that. Freeing us to focus entirely on commercial performance. As the original commercial management brand in the tanker sector for over 40 years, has earned us relationships with charterers, oil majors, and trading houses across the planet that no newcomer can replicate.
Speaker #2: And our e-fleet watch platform, the first digital transparency tool built for shipping, gives owners real-time visibility into their own vessels earnings and performance that no pure asset owner can match at scale.
Speaker #2: Deep market knowledge, a trusted owner network, and proprietary technology together that's what makes Heidmar structurally different. Scale is Heidmar's flywheel. Every vessel added to our commercially managed fleet builds our collective trading power, better cargo coverage, tighter voyage optimization, stronger negotiating leverage, and that network effect means growth pays off for every owner in the pool or on commercial management.
Speaker #2: We don't stop at commercial management fees either. Technical management, sale and purchase advisory, investor opportunities, asset management, and fuel services give us multiple ways to add value across an owner's asset lifecycle.
Speaker #2: The bigger we get, the harder we are to copy and the wider our mode grows. Looking ahead, we remain constructive on the tanker market outlook.
Speaker #2: Near-term volatility, tied to the state of hormones, and the wider Gulf region may continue. But structural drivers behind elevated freight rates are firmly intact on both demand and supply side.
Speaker #2: We remain confident in Heidmar's trajectory and our ability to deliver sustainable returns for our stakeholders as we build one of the leading maritime services platform in the global shipping industry.
Speaker #2: I thank our stakeholders, employees, vessel owners, and charter partners for their continued trust, and we look forward to updating you on our progress. We will now take questions.
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Speaker #1: Before pressing the star keys. Our first question comes from the line of Liam Burke with B. Riley Securities. Please proceed with your question.
Speaker #3: Thank you. I poncash. How are you doing today?
Speaker #2: I'm good, Liam. How are you?
Speaker #3: I'm fine, thank you. There's been a lot of talk about the straight hormones and we all know what that's doing for rates. But that crisis in the Mid East helped you acquire or add more vessels to your managed fleet?
Speaker #2: I would say not at this time. Rates are just elevated. People are trying to do their own thing. But where we are seeing additions are also from the fact that many owners have ordered new buildings.
Speaker #2: And the new buildings are starting to deliver. And they do not have the expertise to handle those new buildings. So people are coming to us to take that over.
Speaker #2: So we are helping some Chinese owners who are taking over new builds to find. Time charters or to trade sport. For one of the owners who we have a long-standing relationship with, we've just fixed the first voyage on a short two-month TC to a leading trading house.
Speaker #2: So we are seeing additions on commercial management from new buildings coming to us. But not necessarily from what's happening in the Middle East.
Speaker #3: Great. Oh, thank you. And then we're looking at your new acquisition, the Q shipping. You're starting to pay dividends at added three vessels to the fleet.
Speaker #3: Are those tankers or the?
Speaker #2: Yeah, it's one small tanker and two handy size bulk carriers.
Speaker #3: Great. Oh, and two handy size bulkers?
Speaker #2: Yeah, two handy size bulkers and one small tanker.
Speaker #3: Great. And then finally, you chartered out six vessels versus two a year ago. Is that still a quarter to quarter opportunistic event for you or do you see opportunity to do more of that?
Speaker #2: Look, that there are two aspects to that business. So there is the long-term charters where we take in for, let's say, 6, 12, 24 months.
Speaker #2: We have two MRs on two-year charters that we have chartered out as I've mentioned in the past. And then there are short-term opportunities which are it depends on the quarter.
Speaker #2: So that's a quarter to quarter event. On the long-term stuff, we are in discussions right now with several people, but the rates are at elevated level and we are not there to take guaranteed risk unless we can hedge it back to back.
Speaker #3: Great. Thank you, Poncash.
Speaker #1: Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Tate Sullivan with Maxim Group. Please proceed with your question.
Speaker #4: Hi, thank you, Poncash. Great to hear your comments and I think in previous can you give more background on how your shipping services business benefits from higher tanker rates to earn a percent fee when you lock in those higher rates for clients or does it vary based on the structure of the agreement?
Speaker #2: Look, I mean, as you know, the fee-based business is based on a percentage of gross freight. So with rates being as high as they are, people focus on headline rates what rates are published by the Baltic, for example, AG East of 500, 600, 700,000 are the exception.
Speaker #2: They're done by one or two or three ships. It's not the norm. But the rates outside of the AG are elevated. So as soon as Max is on average, probably you're making now 200,000 dollars per day or at least between 150 to 200.
Speaker #2: Afras are making around 100 to 200,000 depending on the voyage. But average is about 100,000 plus. So obviously at those kind of rates, we are making our percentage of the gross rate there.
Speaker #2: So that really drives revenue growth for us. So the more the ships we add with the rates being where they are, an expected in Q4 and Q1 to go even higher, we should be able to get even higher revenues from there.
Speaker #4: Is the contracting business a meaningful portion of the total shipping services business in terms of getting that fee on the higher rates?
Speaker #2: Yes. It is, but it varies quarter to quarter. So there is the core business of the commercial management that drives the fee-based business. And then the so-called, let's say, the proprietary book that varies from quarter to quarter.
Speaker #2: I mean, you know, like a year ago, we didn't have much of it because the rates were elevated. There were no opportunities to time charter in.
Speaker #2: And then we went in and took some ships and we were able to capitalize on the market. So we are constantly looking for ships to increase the book, where we see a margin.
Speaker #2: Right now, for example, three-year rate on an MR would be about 23, 23 and a half, whereas the one-year rate is about 30. So if we can lock in those kind of numbers where we go long with the three years and lock in the first year at 30, that's of interest to us.
Speaker #2: So but that's more on the long-term basis. On the short-term, it's very opportunistic. We have a captive cargo that looks good and then we kind of find a ship that matches with it and we are able to make a margin off it.
Speaker #4: Separately, if the straight hormones of traffic does increase, let's say, in the next two years, I mean, will that create immediate drop in rates in your view in the tanker market or possibly create more urgency to get ships to the region?
Speaker #2: Look, I mean, there are there is short-term and long-term, right? So short-term right now, the closure of the states of hormone is what's happening with the Russia-Ukraine assist in terms of the rates being where they are.
Speaker #2: But long-term, you have to also look at the fleet and you have average age of the fleet of over 14 years. Certain segments of the fleet have huge portions of the fleet which are approaching 20 years.
Speaker #2: So I mean, on beers, you could have 30% of the fleet about 33% of the fleet could be about 20 years. In two, three years' time.
Speaker #2: The same even higher probably about 50% of the Aframax fleet could be in that segment of 20 years plus. By the end of the decade.
Speaker #2: So those fleets normally in normal markets are excluded from the mainstream trades. So I think the age of the fleet plus the sanction fleet, which is substantial, it's 15 to 20% fleet is sanctioned.
Speaker #2: If you look at the long-term trades, you have to look at that aspect of the fleet besides what happens with oil demand. But also the other thing we're looking at is the distances that ships are traveling because of the need for diversifying sources of oil imports.
Speaker #2: I mean, I've spoken about this before. Japan was importing 90% of their crude oil from the Middle East. Now they're trying desperately to diversify and so that means longer haul imports.
Speaker #2: A lot of oil is coming from Guyana, Brazil, US Gulf, and so that means ton mile demand is increasing. Not only for crude, but also for products.
Speaker #4: Okay. Thank you very much.
Speaker #2: Thank you.
Speaker #1: Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, as a reminder, it's Star One to join the question queue. We'll pause just a moment to offer any other questions.
Speaker #2: Okay, Melissa, there are no further questions. We can end the call, please.
Speaker #1: Sir, did you have any final comments to make?
Speaker #2: Oh, thank you very much for listening in, everyone, and we'll speak to you in the next quarter.
