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DKL, Delek Logistics Partners L.P. Common
Revenue is Gathering and Processing (49%), Wholesale Marketing and Terminalling (41%) and Storage and Transportation (10%).
The business
What it sells, where the money comes from, the kind of company it is.
The business in brief
read the 10-K →What this business is and what moves its needle, from its own SEC filings.
- What it is
- A midstream energy business, paid to move and store hydrocarbons under contract.
- Situation
- Capital build-out. Capital spending has surged to 26% of sales, today's earnings are charged less depreciation than tomorrow's will be.
- What moves the needle
- Gross margin has run about 24% and operating margin about 20% through the cycle, a thin spread, but one where almost nothing separates the gross and operating lines — the mark of cost-plus or fixed-price program work, so the contract structure and the order book set the result more than unit volume against a price. Read this kind of business on throughput and the contracts behind it. On its own account, the filing leans hardest on customer concentration, set against the numbers in what the filing emphasizes, below.
Every line is arithmetic on the company's filings, shown in full in the sections below.
Where the money comes from
read the 10-K →Revenue spreads across 3 segments, the largest Gathering and Processing at 49%.
- Gathering and Processing49%$498M
- Wholesale Marketing and Terminalling41%$418M
- Storage and Transportation10%$98M
From the segment footnote of the company's own 10-K. Shares are of total revenue; the profit bar shows each segment's share of segment operating profit, before unallocated corporate costs.
The record
Ten years of arithmetic, read across the cycle.
The record, 2016–2025
realized figures from each filing · older years to the left| 2016’16 | 2017’17 | 2018’18 | 2019’19 | 2020’20 | 2021’21 | 2022’22 | 2023’23 | 2024’24 | 2025’25 | TTMTTMMar 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Income statement | |||||||||||
| $448M | $538M | $658M | $584M | $563M | $701M | $1.0B | $1.0B | $941M | $1.0B | $1.1B | RevenueRevenue |
| 21% | 20% | 23% | 26% | 37% | 31% | 24% | 28% | 26% | 21% | 20% | Gross marginGross mgn |
| 2% | 2% | 3% | 4% | 4% | 3% | 3% | 2% | 4% | 3% | 2% | SG&A / revenueSG&A/rev |
| $78M | $88M | $126M | $126M | $180M | $191M | $210M | $239M | $203M | $182M | $174M | Operating incomeOp. inc. |
| 17.3% | 16.4% | 19.1% | 21.5% | 31.9% | 27.2% | 20.2% | 23.4% | 21.6% | 17.9% | 16.4% | Operating marginOp. mgn |
| $63M | $69M | $90M | $97M | $159M | $165M | $159M | $126M | $143M | $176M | $170M | Net incomeNet inc. |
| 0% | -0% | 1% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 0% | Effective tax rateTax rate |
| Cash flow & returns | |||||||||||
| $101M | $91M | $153M | $130M | $193M | $275M | $192M | $225M | $206M | $237M | $376M | Operating cash flowOp. cash |
| $21M | $22M | $26M | $27M | $36M | $43M | $63M | $92M | $96M | $126M | $134M | DepreciationDeprec. |
| $16M | ($721K) | $36M | $5M | ($3M) | $66M | ($33M) | $4M | ($33M) | ($65M) | $68M | Working capital & otherWC & other |
| $11M | $18M | $13M | $9M | $13M | $23M | $141M | $96M | $129M | $268M | $261M | CapexCapex |
| 2.5% | 3.4% | 2.0% | 1.6% | 2.4% | 3.3% | 13.6% | 9.4% | 13.7% | 26.4% | 24.6% | Capex / revenueCapex/rev |
| $89M | $73M | $140M | $121M | $180M | $252M | $129M | $129M | $110M | $112M | $242M | Owner earningsOwner earn. |
| 20.0% | 13.6% | 21.3% | 20.8% | 31.9% | 36.0% | 12.5% | 12.7% | 11.7% | 11.0% | 22.8% | Owner earnings marginOE mgn |
| $89M | $73M | $140M | $121M | $180M | $252M | $51M | $129M | $77M | ($31M) | $115M | Free cash flowFCF |
| 20.0% | 13.6% | 21.3% | 20.8% | 31.9% | 36.0% | 4.9% | 12.7% | 8.2% | −3.0% | 10.9% | Free cash flow marginFCF mgn |
| $0 | — | — | — | $0 | $0 | $626M | $0 | $183M | $181M | $0 | AcquisitionsAcquis. |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | $0 | $0 | $10M | — | BuybacksBuybacks |
| Balance sheet | |||||||||||
| $59K | $5M | $5M | $6M | $4M | $4M | $8M | $4M | $5M | $11M | $10M | Cash & investmentsCash+inv |
| $19M | $23M | $22M | $13M | $16M | $15M | $53M | — | — | — | $61M | ReceivablesReceiv. |
| $9M | $21M | $5M | $13M | $3M | $2M | $1M | $2M | $5M | $18M | $21M | InventoryInvent. |
| $11M | $19M | $14M | $12M | $7M | $8M | $57M | $26M | $41M | $293M | $509M | Accounts payablePayables |
| $17M | $25M | $13M | $13M | $12M | $10M | ($3M) | ($24M) | ($36M) | ($275M) | ($427M) | Operating working capitalOper. WC |
| $32M | $50M | $33M | $34M | $29M | $23M | $65M | $76M | $146M | $401M | $536M | Current assetsCur. assets |
| $21M | $32M | $37M | $35M | $28M | $97M | $106M | $91M | $89M | $356M | $561M | Current liabilitiesCur. liab. |
| 1.5× | 1.6× | 0.9× | 1.0× | 1.0× | 0.2× | 0.6× | 0.8× | 1.6× | 1.1× | 1.0× | Current ratioCurr. ratio |
| $12M | $12M | $12M | $12M | $12M | $12M | $27M | $12M | $12M | $12M | $12M | GoodwillGoodwill |
| $416M | $444M | $625M | $744M | $956M | $935M | $1.7B | $1.6B | $2.0B | $2.8B | $2.9B | Total assetsAssets |
| $393M | $423M | $700M | $833M | $992M | $899M | $1.7B | $1.7B | $1.9B | $2.3B | $2.3B | Total debtDebt |
| $393M | $418M | $696M | $828M | $988M | $895M | $1.7B | $1.7B | $1.9B | $2.3B | $2.3B | Net debt / (cash)Net debt |
| 5.7× | 3.7× | 3.0× | 2.7× | 4.2× | 3.8× | 2.5× | 1.7× | 1.3× | 1.0× | 0.9× | Interest coverageInt. cov. |
| 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.3% | — | — | 0.3% | Stock comp / revenueSBC/rev |
| Per share | |||||||||||
| — | 24.4M | 24.4M | 24.4M | 33.6M | 43.5M | 43.5M | 43.6M | 47.5M | 53.6M | 53.6M | Shares out (diluted)Shares |
| — | $22.07 | $26.95 | $23.92 | $16.77 | $16.13 | $23.82 | $23.40 | $19.81 | $18.92 | $19.79 | Revenue / shareRev/sh |
| — | $2.85 | $3.70 | $3.96 | $4.74 | $3.79 | $3.66 | $2.89 | $3.01 | $3.30 | $3.17 | EPS (diluted)EPS |
| — | $3.00 | $5.74 | $4.97 | $5.35 | $5.80 | $2.97 | $2.96 | $2.32 | $2.08 | $4.51 | Owner earnings / shareOE/sh |
| — | $3.00 | $5.74 | $4.97 | $5.35 | $5.80 | $1.17 | $2.96 | $1.63 | $-0.57 | $2.15 | Free cash flow / shareFCF/sh |
| — | $0.75 | $0.53 | $0.37 | $0.40 | $0.53 | $3.24 | $2.20 | $2.72 | $5.00 | $4.87 | Cap. spending / shareCapex/sh |
| 9-yr | 5-yr | |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue / share | −1.9%/yr (8-yr) | +2.4%/yr |
| Owner earnings / share | −4.4%/yr (8-yr) | −17.2%/yr |
| EPS | +1.8%/yr (8-yr) | −7.0%/yr |
| Capital spending / share | +26.8%/yr (8-yr) | +66.1%/yr |
The record, charted
FY2016–2025Each measure over its full record; the current point and the worst year marked.
Owner earnings vs. net income
Owner earningsNet incomeThe accountant's number, and the cash an owner can take; the gap is the tell.
Where the cash went
ReinvestBuybacksDividendsAcquisitionsRetainedBeyond op. cashEach year's outlays against its operating cash: the mix, and how it drifts. The hatched cap is spending beyond that year's operating cash — financed from the balance sheet or borrowing, not operations.
Net income is the accountant's number; owner earnings is the cash an owner could take out. The walk between them, off the cash-flow statement, and whether the gap is widening or holding.
In fiscal 2025 the business earned $112M of owner earnings, the operating cash left after the $126M it takes just to hold its position. It put $142M more into growth; free cash flow, after that spending, was ($31M).
| FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | FY2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported net income | $176M | $143M | $126M | $159M | $165M |
| Depreciation & amortizationnon-cash charge added back | +$126M | +$96M | +$92M | +$63M | +$43M |
| Stock-based compensationreal costnon-cash, but a real cost | — | — | +$3M | +$3M | +$2M |
| Working capital & othertiming of cash in and out, other non-cash items | −$65M | −$33M | +$4M | −$33M | +$66M |
| Cash from operations | $237M | $206M | $225M | $192M | $275M |
| Maintenance capital expenditurethe spending needed just to hold position and volume | −$126M | −$96M | −$96M | −$63M | −$23M |
| Owner earnings | $112M | $110M | $129M | $129M | $252M |
| Growth capital expenditurediscretionary; spent to get bigger, not to stand still | −$142M | −$33M | — | −$78M | — |
| Free cash flow | ($31M) | $77M | $129M | $51M | $252M |
| Owner-earnings marginowner earnings ÷ revenue | 11% | 12% | 13% | 12% | 36% |
Owner earnings is the cash an owner could pull out without starving the business: operating cash less the maintenance capital it must spend to hold its position (here about $126M, roughly its depreciation, the rate its assets wear out). The other $142M of its capital spending is growth it chose, not upkeep it owed; charged only with the maintenance it must do, the business earns well more than the year's free cash flow shows.
Maintenance capex is estimated as depreciation where a growing business invests above it; free cash flow is the figure the scorecard's free-cash margin reads.
Quality & stewardship
Returns, the balance sheet, capital allocation, and pay.
Owner’s Scorecard
Will it survive?
- ThinOperating income $182M ÷ interest expense $179M
What this means
Operating profit covers interest, but with little room. A bad year, a refinancing at higher rates, or a revenue wobble closes the gap fast.
- How heavy is the debt, net of cash? $2.3B · 12.8× operating profitHeavy net debtCash $11M − debt $2.3B
What this means
Netting $11M of cash and short-term investments against $2.3B of debt leaves $2.3B owed, about 12.8× a year's operating profit (12.9× on the gross debt, before the cash). Net debt is the leverage figure that matters: the cash is already set against the debt. Strategic or illiquid investments aren't counted here.
- Negative, funded by othersDSO 19 + DIO 8 − DPO 134 days
What this means
Days cash is tied up between paying suppliers and collecting from customers. A negative cycle is a quiet moat: suppliers and customers fund the operation (Buffett's “float”), the company grows on other people's money.
Is it a good business?
- Not enough data
What this means
The filing data didn't include the inputs for this check.
- Solid through the cycle10-yr median margin, range 11%–36%; latest $112M = operating cash $237M − maintenance capex $126MIndustry peers: median 5%
What this means
What an owner could take out without starving the business: operating cash less the maintenance capital it must spend to hold its position — Buffett's owner earnings. That's 11% of revenue this year, a 14% median across 10 years. It chose to put $142M more into growth, so free cash flow this year was ($31M) — the gap is investment, not weakness. Treating stock comp as the real expense it is (less $3M of SBC) leaves $109M.
- Cash-backedCash from ops $237M ÷ net income $176M
What this means
How much of reported profit showed up as operating cash. Above 1× is reassuring; well below suggests earnings lean on accruals. One year is noisy, growth and working-capital swings distort it, and this is operating cash, not free cash. Watch the multi-year trend.
How is the cash used?
- Reinvests most of itDividends + buybacks $10M ÷ Owner Earnings $112M
What this means
Of $112M Owner Earnings, $10M (9%) went back to shareholders, $0 dividends, $10M buybacks. Net of $3M stock comp, the real buyback was about $7M. Returning most of it is the mark of a mature business with little left to reinvest at a high return; reinvesting most could mean a long runway, or empire-building. The split doesn't say which; the return earned on it (see ROIC) does.
- Investing or harvesting? 2.13×ExpandingCapex $268M ÷ depreciation $126M
What this means
Descriptive, not a grade. Above ~1× means investing faster than assets wear out (growth, or, sustained for years, today's earnings carrying less depreciation than tomorrow's will). Below means spending less than it's wearing out (efficiency, or a melting asset base). The ratio won't tell you which; the filings will.
Graham’s defensive tests · 2 of 6 met
Graham’s numerical criteria for the defensive investor (The Intelligent Investor, ch. 14), run on the filings. A floor of safety, not a buy signal; many fine modern businesses fail his strictest liquidity rules by design.
- Adequate size NearRevenue ≥ $2B · $1.0B
What this means
Big enough to weather a storm. Graham's 1972 floor was ~$100M of sales (≈ $700M today); we use a $2B revenue line as a conservative modern stand-in.
- Strong liquidity MissCurrent ratio ≥ 2× · 1.12×
What this means
Current assets at least twice current liabilities, near-term bills covered without touching the business. Strict by design: many cash-rich modern firms run leaner and miss it, holding their cushion in longer-dated securities.
- Conservative debt MissDebt ≤ working capital · $2.3B vs $44M WC
What this means
Graham's rule that borrowings not exceed net current assets. Capital-heavy and buyback-heavy firms routinely fail it, read it next to interest coverage, not alone.
- Earnings stability PassA profit every year (10-yr record) · no losses
What this means
Graham wanted earnings in each of the past ten years, the stability a defensive owner leans on.
- Dividend record MissUninterrupted dividends · none paid
What this means
An unbroken dividend was Graham's mark of durability. He wanted twenty years; the filings show about ten, and a single suspension breaks the streak. Non-payers, many fine modern compounders, fall outside his defensive net by design.
- Earnings growth PassEarnings +33% over the record · +100%
What this means
At least a third more earnings than a decade ago, averaging three years at each end. Net income (not per-share), so stock splits don't distort it, buybacks and dilution show up in the share-count line instead.
- Moderate price —P/E ≤ 15 and P/E × P/B ≤ 22.5 · decided by the price
What this means
Graham's valuation gate, the wall he kept between a sound business and a sound investment. Three-year average earnings are $2.79/share (latest year $3.32), the averaged base the calculator's gate runs on. Enter a price in “What the price implies” just below for the P/E, P/B, and whether it clears. But this is the rule Buffett outgrew: there's no hard P/E law, and a wonderful business can deserve a far richer multiple if the thesis holds, treat it as the bargain-hunter's floor, not a verdict on the price.
Durability & moat, 2016–2025
Whether the record’s returns held, and what the capital reinvested earned.
- Profitable years 10 of 10
What this means
Never lost money over the record, the earnings stability Graham insisted on.
- Operating margin 18% → 21% (3-yr avg ends)
What this means
Through the cycle the operating margin widened — about 18% early to 21% lately, median 20% — pricing power intact or improving.
- Owner earnings growth +4%/yr
What this means
Owner earnings grew about 4% a year over the record.
- Worst year 2017 · 16.4% op. margin
What this means
Stayed profitable even in its hardest year, the resilience that survives recessions.
Does AI threaten the moat?
Low contestabilityThe moat is physical, regulated or balance-sheet-funded, the kind AI cuts costs within but does not contest.
The filing raises AI among its risks, but in other terms (security, regulation, energy or the like), not as a competitor to its product; it frames AI mainly as a capability.
AI is unlikely to contest a moat that is physical, regulated or balance-sheet-funded; here it reads more as a cost tool than a threat, and the company is using it that way.
Read from the filing's own risk factors, paired with the industry's structure under its SIC code; the durability is read above, the price below.
All figures as filed; the source filing is linked above.
Current Position
as of the latest quarter, Mar 31, 2026Can the business pay what it owes this year, off the freshest balance sheet: the quality of the assets, the debt actually coming due, and what a low ratio means here.
- Cash & short-term investments$10M
- Receivables$61M
- Inventory$21M
- Other current assets$445M
- Accounts payable$509M
- Other current liabilities$52M
Its current ratio is below 1, which usually reads as strain; here it is likely structural strength. This business collects from customers before it pays suppliers (a negative cash-conversion cycle), so the balance sheet is funded by that float, the way Costco's and Amazon's are. The low ratio can be the edge, not the risk; the cash-conversion cycle and the debt due above say which.
From the company's latest filing.
How the cash was used, 2016–2025
Over the record, the business generated $1.8B of operating cash; how management split it reads as a balanced allocator, splitting cash between the business, owners, and the balance sheet.
- Reinvested$722M · 40%
- Buybacks$10M · 1%
- Retained (debt / cash)$1.1B · 59%
- Returned to owners$10M
1% of the owner earnings the business produced over the span, $0 as dividends and $10M as buybacks.
- Source of fundingOperating cash
Operating cash covered reinvestment and returns; over the span debt rose $1.9B and cash and short-term investments rose $10M.
- Average price paid for buybacks—
Buybacks ran $10M over the span, but the filings don't tag the share count needed to deduce the average price paid.
- Net change in share count119.9%
The diluted count rose from 24M to 54M: issuance (stock pay, deals) outran any buybacks, so owners were diluted on net.
- Dividend record—
No dividend line was reported in the filing data over the span; the record here neither confirms nor rules out a payout.
- Return on what it retained1%
Of the earnings it kept rather than paid out ($1.2B over the span), annual owner earnings (first three years vs last three) grew $16M, so each retained $1 added about 0.01 of yearly owner earnings. Buffett's test, run on owner earnings instead of market value.
Buybacks are gross of stock issued to staff; the share-count line above is the net of that, the figure that decides whether owners gained. The average price paid blends a year of purchases (and any accelerated repurchase), so it is close, not exact. The record of where the cash went and on what terms.
Acquisitions & goodwill
from the balance sheet & the 10-year cash-flow recordGoodwill grows only when a company acquires and falls only when it concedes it overpaid. The size of that bet, the cash put into buying rather than building, and how much has already been written off.
$15M written down across 1 year (2023): goodwill the company has already conceded it overpaid for, charged against earnings. A write-down costs no cash (the cash went out when the deal was signed), but it is management marking its own past judgment to market.
Goodwill, acquired intangibles and equity from the latest balance sheet; acquisition spend and write-downs summed across the 10-year record, from the company's own filings.
Management, ownership & pay
From the proxy: how much of the business the people running it own, and how they are paid.
- Stock-based compensation$3M
The slice of the business handed to employees in shares this year, 0% of revenue, equal to 1% of operating profit. Buffett's oldest accounting fight: this is compensation, compensation is an expense, real whether or not the headline earnings admit it. One trap: the cash-flow statement adds SBC back, so the operating cash, and the owner earnings drawn from it, are flattered by exactly this amount; counted as the cost it is, what an owner keeps is lower.
Inverting the record
Invert: instead of why Delek Logistics Partners L.P. Common is a good business, the question is what would make owning it a mistake, and whether those marks are in the record. Disconfirming tests across 2016–2025.
3 of the 6 tests turned up something to look into; the other 3 came back clean.
- Look hereIs it less profitable than it was?11.8% vs 18.3%
The owner-earnings margin averaged 18.3% early in the record and 11.8% across the last three years, and the latest year has not recovered. Ask the filing whether that is a structural drift or a cyclical trough — price, mix, cost, or a competitor — and whether it is permanent.
- Look hereDid the share count rise anyway?119.9%
Diluted shares grew 119.9% over 2016–2025, even as the company spent $10M on buybacks. The repurchases were outrun by issuance — to staff, in a raise, or in a deal — and the filing says which; owners' slice still shrank. Read the buyback line beside this one, not on its own.
- Look hereDid debt outgrow the business?$393M → $2.3B
Debt rose from $393M to $2.3B while owner earnings went from about $101M to $117M — about 3.9 years of owner earnings in debt then, about 20 now: measured against what the business earns, the balance sheet carries more debt than it did. Debt raised for buybacks or deals rather than growth is the kind that bites in a downturn.
- Did reported profit become cash?
- Did receivables and inventory outpace sales?
- Are "one-time" charges a yearly habit?
Each test is read from the filings and is noisy alone; a flag can mark a cyclical trough or a year of heavy investment as easily as a problem. The filing says which.
What an owner would ask, FY2025
read the 10-K →- Which reported numbers are a judgment call?Management names Acquisitions as critical estimates
each rests partly on management's judgment; the filing's note sets out the assumptionsverify →
The questions the record and the charts do not answer on their own; each carries the figure and the place to look.
Peers, Pipelines & Midstream
The same industry, side by side on owner economics. Each figure is a through-cycle median, so a peak or trough year can’t distort it; the group median at the foot is the line to read each against.
| Company | Revenue | Gross margin | Op. margin | ROIC | Owner earn. margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PAAPlains All American Pipeline L.P. Common | $44.3B | 10% | 2.9% | — | 5% |
| PAGPPlains GP Holdings L.P. Class A | $44.3B | 10% | 2.9% | — | 5% |
| DINOHF Sinclair | $26.9B | 19% | 3.8% | 7% | 3% |
| MPLXMPLX LP Common | $9.7B | — | 40.3% | 18% | 47% |
| GELGenesis Energy | $1.6B | — | 10.9% | — | 3% |
| DKLDelek Logistics Partners L.P. Common | $1.0B | 25% | 20.9% | — | 17% |
| Group median | — | 15% | 7.3% | — | 5% |
The price
What a price has to assume.
What the price implies
reverse-DCFType today's close and see the owner-earnings growth you'd have to believe to justify it, beside what Delek Logistics Partners L.P. Common has delivered.
Through the cycle, Delek Logistics Partners L.P. Common earns about $170M on its 16.8% median owner-earnings margin. This year’s 11.0% margin runs below that; the reported figure may understate a lean year. Normalize, below, values the price on that through-cycle figure rather than the latest year.
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Free cash flow $115M on 53M shares outstanding, per the 10-Q cover, as of 2026-04-23; net debt $2.3B. The base is the latest year by default; Normalize values it on the through-cycle median owner-earnings margin (to avoid paying on a peak year). Net of stock comp treats option pay as the expense it is. Capex ($261M) runs well above depreciation ($134M), so this is a build-out; Steady-state swaps total capex for maintenance (≈ depreciation), lifting the base to about $250M, the cash it would throw off if it stopped expanding. The dials set the multiple a growth belief justifies; the price, and every dollar on this page, is yours.
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Industry order: ← AM the Pipelines & Midstream chapter DTM →