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Expand Energy (EXE · Nasdaq)

Gas-weighted — HQ United States. Oil & gas valuation, proved reserves, production, break-even, net-asset-value and jurisdiction-risk screen.
Category Gas-weightedRegion N. AmericaCEO Nick Dell'Osso (2021)Jurisdiction risk Low (23)

Overview

The largest US natural gas producer (~7 Bcf/d), created by the 2024 Chesapeake–Southwestern merger; premium acreage in Appalachia (Marcellus/Utica) and Haynesville positioned for Gulf Coast LNG demand; ~100% gas.

Strong balance sheet with capital discipline (deferred completions) and capacity to grow into LNG demand; a base dividend. Flags: pure gas-price exposure.

Valuation snapshot (FY2025)

Market cap
$21.9bn
Enterprise value
$24.7bn
EV / EBITDA
4.9x
P / E
12.0x
FCF yield
8.4%
Dividend yield
3.5%
ROACE
8%
Debt / equity
27%
Net debt / EBITDA
0.9x
EV / reserves
$5.74/boe
EV / flowing
$21k/boe/d
Free cash flow
$1.8bn

Its EV/EBITDA of 4.9x is below the 5.9x median across the 142-company universe, the free-cash-flow yield of 8.4% is higher than the 6.5% median, and at $5.74/boe of proved reserves it is cheaper than the $13.51/boe median.

On a balanced screen across the universe, Expand Energy scores 54/100, strongest on growth (70/100). Sub-scores: value 64, quality 29, growth 70, risk 38 (higher = riskier).

Reserves & production

Expand Energy holds approximately 4.31 billion boe of proved (1P) reserves with FY2025 production of about 1,197 thousand boe/d (8% liquids), a reserve life of roughly 9.9 years. Break-even: ~$2.50/MMBtu (Henry Hub gas breakeven) — Largest US gas producer after the 2024 Chesapeake+Southwestern merger; ~7 Bcf/d; low-cost Appalachia + Haynesville with LNG-feedgas exposure.

Net asset value (public-source floor)

Using Expand Energy's SEC-disclosed after-tax standardized measure of proved reserves ($17.1bn) less net debt ($4.4bn) gives an equity-NAV floor of about $12.7bn — the current market capitalisation sits +72% versus that floor. Disclosed pre-tax PV-10: $19.4bn. This is a floor: proved reserves only, excluding undeveloped inventory, downstream and other business lines. Proved-only; low SEC gas price depresses PV-10; excludes undeveloped inventory.

Jurisdiction risk · production-weighted country risk

23 /100
Low jurisdiction risk
Production-weighted average of the country scores below (0 = safest, 100 = riskiest).
Country / regionProd. shareCountry riskKey jurisdiction risk
United States100%23Stable, deep; federal-lands leasing and permitting policy swings.
How this is scored. Each country's risk (0–100) is anchored to two named public indices — the OECD Country Risk Classification (0–7 official export-credit country risk) and the World Bank Worldwide Governance Indicators (Political Stability & Absence of Violence percentile) — blended 55/45 and rescaled to 0–100. A company's jurisdiction risk is the production-weighted average across the countries where it operates. This is a pure country measure, kept separate from company & financial risk (leverage, governance). Source: OECD Country Risk Classification (CRC) as of 24 July 2025, sourced via the German Federal Export Credit Guarantees (exportkreditgarantien.de) which applies the OECD consensus country risk category directly (values 0-7; 0 = lowest risk). High-income OECD members are not individually rated by the OECD and are set to crc=0 per the model spec (US, UK, Norway, Canada, Australia, Japan, NZ, and most of Europe incl. OECD members Israel, Poland, Hungary, Czechia, Lithuania, Ireland). 'ps' = World Bank Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) 'Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism' percentile rank, latest available (2023 vintage), 0-100 with higher = more stable; ps values are best sourced estimates rounded to the WGI percentile scale. Yemen not on OECD list ('./.') so crc estimated at 7. Iraq-Kurdistan and Falklands are non-standard model rows using judgment, not official OECD entries..

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Key assets & projects

AssetLocationTypeNotes
Appalachia (Marcellus/Utica)United StatesDry gaslegacy Southwestern + Chesapeake
HaynesvilleUnited StatesDry gasLouisiana/East Texas, LNG-proximate
Gulf Coast LNG supplyUnited StatesGasfeedgas positioning
Deferred DUC inventoryUnited StatesGasflex capacity
Marcellus SW PennsylvaniaUnited StatesDry gascore
Utica (Ohio)United StatesDry gasdelineation
Haynesville (East Texas)United StatesDry gascore
Midstream/gatheringUnited StatesInfrastructuregathering

Five-year trend (FY2021–FY2025)

Metric20212022202320242025
Production (mboe/d)4355905807001197
Proved reserves (bnboe)1.601.601.504.804.31
Revenue ($bn)11.511.73.54.812.1
EBITDA ($bn)2.55.52.02.25.1
Net income ($bn)1.24.90.80.81.8
Free cash flow ($bn)1.01.60.70.51.8

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Sources

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