Nature of Operations. Southwest Gas Holdings, Inc. (together with its subsidiaries, the “Company”) is a holding company, owning all of the shares of common stock of Southwest Gas Corporation (“Southwest” or the “natural gas distribution” segment), and through the first quarter of 2024, all of the shares of common stock of Centuri Group, Inc. (“utility infrastructure services” segment), and until February 14, 2023, all of the shares of common stock of MountainWest Pipelines Holding Company (“MountainWest” or the “pipeline and storage” segment). References throughout this document in reference to “Centuri” relate to Centuri Group, Inc., for earlier periods or more recently, to Centuri Holdings, Inc.

In December 2022, the Company announced that its Board of Directors (the “Board”) unanimously determined to take strategic actions to simplify the Company’s portfolio of businesses. These actions included entering into a definitive agreement to sell 100% of MountainWest to Williams Partners Operating LLC (“Williams”) for $1.5 billion in total enterprise value, subject to certain adjustments (collectively, the “MountainWest sale”). The MountainWest sale closed on February 14, 2023.

As part of this simplification strategy, the Company previously communicated that it would pursue a separation of Centuri. In April 2024, the Company announced the completion of an initial public offering (“IPO”) of Centuri Holdings, Inc. common stock, with the issuance of 14,260,000 shares ($0.01 par value) at $21.00 per share, along with a private placement of 2,591,929 shares at the same public offering price with Icahn Partners LP and Icahn Partners Master Fund LP, investment entities associated with Carl C. Icahn. The Company owns approximately 81% of Centuri following these events. Through the first quarter of 2024 and leading up to the IPO, Centuri continued to be wholly owned by Southwest Gas Holdings, Inc. Centuri continues to be consolidated as part of these financial statements, and will continue to be consolidated until such time as the conditions for consolidation are no longer met. Centuri now makes separate filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) as a public company. The Company’s common stock continues to trade under the ticker symbol “SWX,” while Centuri’s common stock trades under the ticker symbol “CTRI.” As part of the IPO and related undertakings, and to ultimately facilitate a full separation of Centuri over periods ahead, multiple agreements were executed between the Company and Centuri, including a Separation Agreement, a Tax Matters Agreement, and a Registration Rights Agreement. Centuri’s new Board of Directors includes certain overlapping board members with the Company, including Andrew W. Evans, Anne L. Mariucci, and Karen S. Haller (the Company’s Chief Executive Officer). See also Note 8 - Dispositions.

Southwest is engaged in the business of purchasing, distributing, and transporting natural gas for customers in portions of Arizona, Nevada, and California. Public utility rates, practices, facilities, and service territories of Southwest are subject to regulatory oversight. The timing and amount of rate relief can materially impact results of operations. Natural gas purchases and the timing of related recoveries can materially impact liquidity, highlighted by the significant amount of cash existing as of the end of the first quarter of 2024, reflective of the collection of gas cost under purchased gas cost mechanisms as a component of customer bills. While mechanisms exist in all states in which Southwest operates, which effectively and primarily decouple authorized operating cost recovery and profitability from the volume of natural gas sold, thereby also incentivizing energy conservation, results for the natural gas distribution segment are higher during winter periods due to the seasonality incorporated in its regulatory rate structures.

Centuri is a strategic utility infrastructure services company dedicated to partnering with North America’s gas and electric providers to build and maintain the energy network that powers millions of homes across the United States (“U.S.”) and Canada. Centuri derives revenue primarily from installation, replacement, repair, and maintenance of energy networks. Centuri operates in the U.S., primarily as NPL, Neuco, Linetec, and Riggs Distler, and in Canada, primarily as NPL Canada. Utility infrastructure services activity is seasonal in many of Centuri’s operating areas. Peak periods are the summer and fall months in colder climate areas, such as the northeastern and midwestern U.S. and in Canada. In warmer climate areas, such as the southwestern and southeastern U.S., utility infrastructure services activity continues year round.

Basis of Presentation. The condensed consolidated financial statements of Southwest Gas Holdings, Inc. and subsidiaries and Southwest (with its subsidiaries) included herein have been prepared pursuant to the rules and regulations of the SEC. The year-end 2023 condensed balance sheet data was derived from audited financial statements. Certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“U.S. GAAP”) have been condensed or omitted pursuant to such rules and regulations. No substantive change has occurred with regard to the Company’s business segments on the whole during the recently completed quarter.

The preparation of the condensed consolidated financial statements requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities, as of the date of the financial statements, as well as the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. In the opinion of management, all adjustments, consisting of normal recurring items and estimates necessary for a fair statement of results for the interim periods, have been made.

In the first quarter of 2023, management identified a misstatement related to its accounting for the cost of gas sold at Southwest, thereby determining that Net cost of gas sold was overstated in 2021 and 2022 by $2.3 million and $5.7 million, respectively. Southwest made an adjustment in the first quarter of 2023 to reduce Net cost of gas sold and to increase its asset balance for Deferred purchased gas cost by $8 million.

Also in the first quarter of 2023, the Company identified an approximately $21 million misstatement related to its initial estimation of the loss recorded upon reclassifying MountainWest as an asset held for sale during the year ended December 31, 2022. Consequently, the impairment loss for the year ended December 31, 2022 was understated by approximately $21 million, which was corrected in the first quarter of 2023.


(Thousands of dollars)	March 31, 2024		December 31, 2023
Net cash surrender value of COLI policies	$	150,182	$	146,546
Other property	6,080		6,112
Total Southwest Gas Corporation	156,262		152,658
Non-regulated property, equipment, and intangibles	1,750,380		1,752,094
Non-regulated accumulated provision for depreciation and amortization	(691,872)		(675,632)
Other property and investments	38,091		37,220
Total Southwest Gas Holdings, Inc.	$	1,252,861	$	1,266,340

Held for sale. In the first quarter of 2023, the Company and Southwest concluded certain assets associated with their previous corporate headquarters met the criteria to be classified as held for sale. As a result, the Company and Southwest reclassified approximately $27 million from Other property and investments to Current assets held for sale on their respective Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets in the first quarter of 2023. In 2023, the Company and Southwest recorded an estimated loss of $5.2 million on the assets based upon an updated fair value less costs to sell. The sale was completed in January 2024.

Cash and Cash Equivalents. Cash and cash equivalents of the Company include $407.4 million and $48.9 million of money market fund investments at March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively. Of these amounts, $407.2 million and $38.6 million at March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively, were held by Southwest. Refer to discussion above regarding recent collections under Southwest’s purchased gas adjustment mechanisms.

Noncash investing activities include capital expenditures that were not yet paid, thereby remaining in accounts payable, amounts related to which declined by approximately $20.8 million and $9.6 million during the three months ended March 31, 2024, for the Company and Southwest, respectively; and declined approximately $37.3 million and $34.2 million during the three months ended March 31, 2023, for the Company and Southwest, respectively.

Goodwill. Goodwill is assessed as of October 1 each year for impairment, or more frequently, if circumstances indicate an impairment to the carrying value of goodwill may have occurred. The Company’s reporting units for goodwill are its operating segments, which are also its reportable segments. Since December 31, 2023, management qualitatively assessed whether events during the first three months of 2024 indicated it was more likely than not that the fair value of our reporting units was less than their carrying value, which if the case, could be an indication of a goodwill impairment. Through management’s assessments, no impairment was deemed to have occurred in the continuing segments of the Company. Goodwill in the Natural Gas

Other Current Liabilities. Management recognizes in its balance sheets various liabilities that are expected to be settled through future cash payment within the next twelve months, including amounts payable under regulatory mechanisms, customary accrued expenses for employee compensation and benefits, declared but unpaid dividends, and miscellaneous other accrued liabilities. Other current liabilities for the Company include $44.4 million of dividends declared as of both March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively. Also included in the balance for the Company and Southwest was $120.3 million and $87.6 million in accrued purchased gas cost as of March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively.


	Three Months Ended March 31,
(Thousands of dollars)	2024		2023
Southwest Gas Corporation:
Change in COLI policies	$	3,600	$	2,400
Interest income	9,776		12,471
Equity AFUDC	1,839		—
Other components of net periodic benefit cost	4,131		4,959
Miscellaneous expense	(1,246)		(1,387)
Southwest Gas Corporation - total other income (deductions)	18,100		18,443
Centuri, MountainWest, and Southwest Gas Holdings, Inc.:

Foreign transaction gain (loss)	102		(690)
Equity AFUDC	—		82
Equity in earnings (loss) of unconsolidated investments	(113)		360
Miscellaneous income and (expense)	43		(5)
Corporate and administrative	(11)		270
Southwest Gas Holdings, Inc. - total other income (deductions)	$	18,121	$	18,460

Redeemable Noncontrolling Interests. In connection with the acquisition of Linetec in November 2018, the previous owner initially retained a 20% equity interest in that entity, with redemption being subject to certain rights based on the passage of time or upon the occurrence of certain triggering events. Effective in 2022, the Company, through Centuri, had the right, but not the obligation, to purchase at fair value (subject to a floor) a portion of the interest held by the previous owner, and in incremental amounts each year thereafter. In March 2022, the parties agreed to a partial redemption, reducing the noncontrolling interest to 15%, and in March 2023, agreed to a partial 5% redemption (of the 15% then remaining). Then again in April 2023, Centuri paid $39.9 million to the previous owner, thereby reducing the balance continuing to be redeemable at that time to 10% under the terms of the original agreement. In March 2024, the parties entered into an agreement to redeem the remaining 10% equity interest for $92 million, which resulted in Centuri owning all of the equity interest in Linetec as of March 31, 2024. The Company paid the $92 million in April, in accordance with the agreement. The impact of this transaction has been excluded from the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows for the first quarter of 2024 due to its noncash nature during the period.

Separately, certain members of Riggs Distler management have a 1.41% interest in Drum, which is redeemable, subject to certain rights based on the passage of time or upon the occurrence of certain triggering events. A portion of the redeemable noncontrolling interest was funded through promissory notes made to noncontrolling interest holders bearing interest at the prime rate plus 2%.

During the first quarter of 2024, Centuri forgave all outstanding promissory notes and unpaid interest owed from the Riggs Distler noncontrolling interest holders and in exchange obtained 0.47% portion of the equity interest in Drum that had been funded through these notes. This comprises most of the change noted below as redemption of Drum interests during the quarter. Additionally, during the first quarter of 2024, Centuri reached an agreement to purchase 0.13% of the noncontrolling interest in Drum for $0.8 million, the majority which was accrued in March 2024 and ultimately paid in April 2024. The impact of the accrued amount has been excluded from the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows for the first quarter of 2024 due to the noncash nature in advance of the April 2024 payment. The remaining noncontrolling interest in Drum outstanding as of March 31, 2024 was 0.81%, with Centuri owning over 99% of Drum following these events.

Significant changes in the value of the redeemable noncontrolling interests, above a floor determined at the establishment date, are recognized as they occur, and the carrying value is adjusted as necessary at each reporting date. The fair value is estimated using a market approach that utilizes certain financial metrics from guideline public companies of similar industry and operating characteristics. Valuation adjustments also impact retained earnings, as reflected in the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Statement of Equity, but do not impact net income. The following depicts changes to the balances of the redeemable noncontrolling interests:


(Thousands of dollars):	Linetec		Drum		Total
Balance, December 31, 2023	$	91,978	$	12,689	$	104,667
Net income (loss ) attributable to redeemable noncontrolling interests	(193)		18		(175)
Redemption value adjustments	194		—		194
Redemption of equity interest from noncontrolling party	(91,979)		(5,046)		(97,025)
Balance, March 31, 2024	$	—	$	7,661	$	7,661

Earnings Per Share. Basic earnings per share (“EPS”) in each period of this report were calculated by dividing net income attributable to Southwest Gas Holdings, Inc. by the weighted-average number of shares during those periods. Diluted EPS includes additional weighted-average common stock equivalents (performance shares and restricted stock units). Unless otherwise noted, the term “Earnings Per Share” refers to Basic EPS. A reconciliation of the denominator used in Basic and Diluted EPS calculations is shown in the following table:

Income Taxes. The Company’s effective tax rate was 16.3% for the three months ended March 31, 2024, compared to 37.6% for the corresponding period in 2023. The effective rate decrease was primarily due to the MountainWest sale in 2023, which also included the impact of book versus tax basis differences related to the transaction (See Note 8 - Dispositions).

In April 2023, the Internal Revenue Service issued Revenue Procedure 2023-15, which provides a safe harbor method of accounting that taxpayers may use to determine whether expenditures to repair, maintain, replace, or improve natural gas transmission and distribution property must be capitalized for tax purposes. The Company and Southwest are currently reviewing this revenue procedure to determine the potential impact on their financial position, results of operations, and cash flows.

In November 2023, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (the “FASB”) issued ASU 2023-07 “Segment Reporting (Topic 280): Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures.” The update, among other amendments, requires disclosure of significant segment expenses that are regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker (“CODM”) and included within each reported measure of segment profit or loss, as well as an amount and description of the composition of other segment items to reconcile to segment profit or loss, and also requires the title and position of the entity’s CODM to be disclosed. The update additionally extends certain annual disclosures to interim periods. The provisions of the update are effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2023 and interim periods within the fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024. Early adoption is permitted. Management is evaluating the impacts this update might have on the Company’s and Southwest’s disclosures.

In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09 “Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures.” The update, among other amendments, provides for enhanced income tax information primarily through changes in the rate reconciliation and income taxes paid. The update is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024; early adoption is permitted. Management is evaluating the impacts this update might have on the Company’s and Southwest’s disclosures.