Brookfield Business Partners Reports 2024 Year End Results

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BROOKFIELD, News, Jan. 31, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Brookfield Business Partners (NYSE: BBU, BBUC; TSX: BBU.UN, BBUC) announced today financial results for the year ended December 31, 2024.

“Our business had another successful year in 2024. We generated over $2 billion from our capital recycling initiatives, acquired two market-leading operations and achieved solid financial results,” said Anuj Ranjan, CEO of Brookfield Business Partners. “The enhanced strength of our balance sheet and substantial liquidity provides us optionality to meaningfully advance our capital allocation priorities with a focus on increasing the intrinsic value of our business for our unitholders.”

 

 

 

 

 

Three Months Ended
December 31,

 

Year Ended
December 31,

US$ millions (except per unit amounts), unaudited

 

2024

 

 

 

2023

 

 

 

2024

 

 

 

2023

 

Net income (loss) attributable to Unitholders1

$

(438

)

 

$

1,423

 

 

$

(109

)

 

$

1,405

 

Net income (loss) per limited partnership unit2

$

(2.02

)

 

$

6.57

 

 

$

(0.50

)

 

$

6.49

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Adjusted EBITDA3

$

653

 

 

$

608

 

 

$

2,565

 

 

$

2,491

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Net loss attributable to Unitholders for the year ended December 31, 2024 was $109 million (loss of $0.50 per limited partnership unit) compared to net income of $1,405 million ($6.49 per limited partnership unit) in the prior year. Net loss attributable to Unitholders includes a one-time non-cash expense at our healthcare services operation, combined with provisions at our construction operation. Prior year included net gains primarily related to the sale of our nuclear technology services operation.

Adjusted EBITDA for the year ended December 31, 2024 was $2,565 million compared to $2,491 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, reflecting improved performance of operations and tax benefits recorded at our advanced energy storage operation. Prior year results included $308 million of contribution from operations which have been sold.

Operational Update

The following table presents Adjusted EBITDA by segment:

 

Three Months Ended
December 31,

 

Year Ended
December 31,

US$ millions, unaudited

 

2024

 

 

 

2023

 

 

 

2024

 

 

 

2023

 

Industrials

$

306

 

 

$

222

 

 

$

1,247

 

 

$

855

 

Business Services

 

217

 

 

 

227

 

 

 

832

 

 

 

900

 

Infrastructure Services

 

160

 

 

 

184

 

 

 

606

 

 

 

853

 

Corporate and Other

 

(30

)

 

 

(25

)

 

 

(120

)

 

 

(117

)

Adjusted EBITDA

$

653

 

 

$

608

 

 

$

2,565

 

 

$

2,491

 


Our Industrials segment generated Adjusted EBITDA of $1,247 million in 2024, compared to $855 million in 2023. Current year results included $371 million of tax benefits at our advanced energy storage operation. Strong underlying performance at our advanced energy storage operation and growing contribution from water and wastewater services offset reduced performance at our engineered components manufacturing operation due to weak market conditions. Prior year results included contribution from disposed operations including our Canadian aggregates production operation which was sold in June 2024.