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ProPetro Holding Corp.

$PUMP·$1.5B·Oil & Gas Equipment & Services·Energy
$12.74-5.1%YTD+33.3%1Y+122.3%
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PUPUMP
$PUMPProPetro Holding Corp.
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AI verdict & sentimentAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Today's AI verdict on what's driving $PUMP, plus how loud the X conversation is and which way it's leaning.

AI analysis

TickerTalks’ read on the fundamentals and what’s driving the move.

Broken storyStalledAI verdict · as of 2026-07-15

The move has stalled — likely just drifts unless something new shows up.

The frac deck is running out of runway — revenue keeps shrinking and Pioneer's exit removed the only anchor holder.

ProPetro is a Permian-focused pressure-pumping (hydraulic fracturing) provider — the guys who bring the horsepower and sand to complete a shale well. The bet has quietly deteriorated: revenue keeps falling and Exxon/Pioneer just walked away from the last of their stake.

Why this reads as broken, not oversold:

  • The topline is shrinking every quarter: revenue fell 8-25% year-over-year in each of the last four prints as US frac activity thins and pricing pressure from the E&P consolidators shows up on the bill.
  • The balance sheet is playing defense: ProPetro raised $600M via a convertible note in May, and gross margin at 8% leaves basically nothing to absorb a further pricing slip — this is the kind of setup where one soft quarter turns into a covenant conversation.
  • The Pioneer exit removed the strategic backstop: Exxon-controlled Pioneer sold every remaining PUMP share in May and their board seat was retired, so any expectation of a strategic bid folded into the parent has effectively evaporated.

The path from here really depends on frac pricing — a sustained rig-count rise and lower Permian well duplication would let ProPetro raise price into Q4, restarting a real recovery narrative; without that, the July 29 print risks confirming this is more a slow shrink than a coiled contrarian setup.

What to watch: July 29 earnings: US frac utilization commentary, pricing per fleet vs Q1, and any covenant color on the $600M convert. A Q3 revenue guide below $270M would confirm the shrink pattern is entrenched.

On the calendar: 2026-07-29 — Q2 2026 earnings

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X sentiment

What the X crowd is saying right now — descriptive, summarised from the day’s posts.

Mixed sentiment⚠34 posts analyzed · as of 2026-07-15 · top-engagement diverged

Pump.fun token chatter is split. Bulls note $PUMP is generating $72M in monthly fees ($28.2M becoming protocol revenue over the last 30 days) yet is still down 70.6% since October - a working business that is being ignored. Bears warn a major supply shock is imminent: 82.5B $PUMP tokens are hitting the market on July 12, with community reminders that liquidity beats conviction. Concurrent narrative: rival memecoin $ANSEM is closing in on flipping $PUMP in holder count and has already flipped it once - Bullpen even launched a prediction market for 'Will $ANSEM flip $PUMP by ___?'. Genuine two-sided setup.

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What it does

Plain-English summary of the business — what they sell and how they make money.

Provides hydraulic fracturing services to E&P companies in the Permian Basin and other US oil basins; oilfield services pure-play.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Where Oil & Gas Equipment & Services sits in its cycle right now — and what that implies for $PUMP.

Oil & Gas Equipment & Services · Energy

No material change from last week — Offshore deepwater rig day-rates are firming as Brent above $80 keeps operators committing to multi-year projects, reversing the 2020–22 under-investment cycle..

What this means for $PUMP

Direct beneficiary — Provides hydraulic fracturing services to E&P companies in the Permian Basin and other US oil basins; oilfield services pure-play; primary revenue lines track directly to the offshore deepwater rig day-rate firming above $80 Brent.

Top industry ETF

$OIHVanEck Oil Services ETF
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Fundamentals & catalyst

Profitability, valuation, and the next earnings event — at a glance, with rule-of-thumb signals.

Key ratios

P/E
-138.7How much investors are paying per dollar of profit the company actually earned in the last 12 months. Lower means the stock looks cheaper relative to earnings.~15–25 is typical for the S&P 500; high-growth names trade 30+; hyper-growth or speculative can be 100+ or negative.
ROIC
-1.1%What percentage return the business earns on every dollar of capital (equity + debt) deployed in operations. The cleanest measure of business quality.Above ~15% is high-quality; consistently above 25% suggests a real moat. Below the company's cost of capital is value-destroying.
Op margin
-1.1%Operating profit (after sales, marketing, R&D, and overhead but before interest and taxes) as a percentage of revenue. The clearest view of how well the underlying business is run.Mature business above 20% is healthy; software businesses can run 30%+; commodity / retail businesses operate in single digits.
FCF yield
-0.6%Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capex) divided by the company's market cap. The cash-on-cash return you'd get owning the whole business at today's price.Above ~5% is attractive; below ~2% means you're paying up for growth. Capital-light businesses (software) run higher than capital-heavy ones (utilities).
P/S
1.5Same idea as P/E but per dollar of revenue. Useful for companies that aren't profitable yet, where P/E is meaningless.Under ~2 is cheap; software / SaaS often runs 8–15; well above 20 implies the market is pricing in very high future growth.
ROE
-1.4%Net income as a percentage of shareholders' equity. Similar to ROIC but counts only the equity side.Above 20% is strong, but can be inflated by leverage — a heavily indebted company can show high ROE with weak underlying ROIC.
Gross margin
8.3%Revenue minus the direct cost of producing what was sold, as a percentage of revenue. The first read on whether the product is structurally profitable.Software / SaaS is typically 70%+; consumer goods 30–50%; commodity / hardware businesses can be under 20%.
D/E
0.2Total debt divided by shareholders' equity. Measures how much the business runs on borrowed money versus owner capital.Under 1 is conservative; 1–2 is typical for mature businesses; over 2 is leveraged and more sensitive to interest rates.

Past earnings

QuarterReportedActualEstimateSurprise
Q1 2026Apr 30, 2026$-0.03$-0.12+75.0%
Q4 2025Feb 18, 2026$0.01$-0.13+107.7%
Q3 2025Oct 29, 2025$-0.02$-0.11+81.8%
Q2 2025Jul 30, 2025$-0.07$0.03-333.3%
Next earningsWed, Jul 29·consensus EPS $-0.01

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q1 FY26$270.7M-24.7%6.8%-3.2%$-0.03$-40.6M
Q4 FY25$289.7M-9.6%11.7%1.7%$0.01$14.8M
Q3 FY25$293.9M-18.6%5.4%-2.1%$-0.02$-2.4M
Q2 FY25$326.2M-8.6%9.1%-1.0%$-0.07$17.1M

Forward consensus

4-year forecast · up to 6 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$1.2B$1.2B – $1.2B$0.05-$0.14 – $0.326
FY27$1.4B$1.4B – $1.5B$0.42$0.17 – $0.916
FY28$1.6B$1.6B – $1.6B$1.48$1.42 – $1.594
FY29$1.6B$1.6B – $1.7B$0.00$0.00 – $0.003

Setup & momentum

Volume, range, and moving-average position — the technical setup driving short-term moves.

Right now

Vol vs 30dToday's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.0.6×Today's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.
52w rangeWhere the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.66%Where the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.
vs 50d MALatest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.-9.9%Latest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.
vs 200d MALatest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.+15.3%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatMid float · 90.1M shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today3.3% of floatToday's volume as a percent of the free float. Above 5% on a single day is unusually high turnover for the available share count.β0.735-year weekly beta vs the S&P 500. Above 1.5 means the stock typically moves more than the index; below 0.8 moves less.

Insider activity

Recent open-market buys and sells by officers and directors — flagged when multiple insiders cluster.

Recent transactions

SellMay 20Exxon Mobil Corp10% owner16.6M sh$276.6M
+ 33 other (15 exempts · 10 awards · 8 inkinds) in window

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SEC filings

Material 8-K, 13D, S-3, and 424B5 events from the last 180 days — the filings that actually move the price.

Recent material filings

8-KOfficer or director changeJun 18-K — Item 5.02: Officer or director change
AI summary

ProPetro (PUMP) — director Alex Volkov resigned May 28, 2026; Board reduced from 8 to 7 directors; Volkov was a Pioneer Natural Resources nominee under an Investor Rights Agreement, triggered by Pioneer (an ExxonMobil subsidiary) selling all remaining PUMP shares. Board seat vacated following selling shareholder exit; Investor Rights Agreement rights lapse.

8-KOfficer or director changeMay 228-K — Item 5.02: Officer or director change · Item 5.07: Shareholder vote
AI summary

ProPetro Holding Corp. (PUMP) stockholders voted at the May 19, 2026 Annual Meeting to approve the Third Amended and Restated 2020 Long Term Incentive Plan (A&R LTIP), which increases shares available for issuance by 3,540,000 from 10,520,000 to 14,060,000 and extends the plan term to ten years from the approval date. All 14,060,000 shares are eligible for incentive stock options, and the plan permits grants of options, SARs, restricted stock, RSUs, and other awards to employees, directors, and service providers. The ~33% share pool expansion represents mildly dilutive capacity refresh. This is a routine annual meeting governance action to replenish ProPetro's equity compensation headroom.

SC 13D/AActivist amendmentMay 20SC 13D/A
AI summary

Exxon Mobil Corporation, Pioneer Natural Resources Company, and Pioneer Natural Resources USA, Inc. filed Amendment No. 2 to their Schedule 13D for ProPetro Holding Corp. (PUMP), reporting that as of May 18, 2026, all three reporting persons beneficially own 0 shares (0% of class), with zero sole or shared voting or dispositive power. This represents a complete divestiture of ExxonMobil's previously reported ProPetro position, including shares held through Pioneer (an Exxon subsidiary inherited from its 2023 Pioneer acquisition). The exit removes ExxonMobil as a strategic shareholder from ProPetro's register. This may reflect a monetization following ProPetro's capital markets activities or a change in ExxonMobil's oilfield services investment strategy.

8-KMaterial agreementMay 78-K — Item 1.01: Material agreement · Item 2.03: Material debt obligation · Item 3.02: Unregistered equity sale · Item 8.01: Other event
AI summary

ProPetro Holding Corp. (PUMP) issued $690 million aggregate principal amount of 0.00% Convertible Senior Notes due November 15, 2031, including the full $90M overallotment option, in a Rule 144A private placement on May 7, 2026. The notes are senior unsecured, bear no cash interest, and have an initial conversion rate of 43.1616 shares per $1,000 principal (implying ~$23.17/share conversion price), settleable in cash, stock, or a combination at ProPetro's election. Before August 15, 2031, conversion is restricted to specified circumstances; holders may convert freely thereafter. This is a highly material capital structure event: the $690M zero-coupon convertible significantly increases leverage and is potentially dilutive to fund ProPetro's power generation buildout.

8-KPress release / Reg FDMay 48-K — Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD · Item 8.01: Other event
AI summary

ProPetro Holding Corp. (PUMP) announced its intention to offer $500 million aggregate principal amount of Convertible Senior Notes due 2031 in a Rule 144A private placement on May 4, 2026, with an option for initial purchasers to buy up to an additional $75M. Proceeds are intended partially to fund capped call transactions to mitigate dilution and the remainder for general corporate purposes including power generation equipment growth capital. An investor presentation (Exhibit 99.1) with certain business updates was also filed under Reg FD (Item 7.01). This is the pre-launch announcement for the convertible offering subsequently priced at $690M (with overallotment) on May 7, 2026.

8-KMaterial agreementApr 308-K — Item 1.01: Material agreement · Item 2.02: Earnings release · Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD
AI summary

ProPetro Holding Corp.'s (PUMP) subsidiary ProPetro Energy Solutions (PROPWR) entered into a Global Framework Agreement (GFA) with Caterpillar Inc. on April 28, 2026, under which Caterpillar reserves approximately 1.5 GW of incremental power generation equipment for PROPWR, which commits to a minimum aggregate purchase obligation of approximately $1.1 billion, with an option to acquire an additional ~600 MW through December 31, 2031. PROPWR faces a 75% shortfall fee on unordered capacity in any year, though it receives a credit if Caterpillar sells the shortfall equipment within 12 months. The filing also discloses Q1 2026 earnings (Item 2.02) and investor presentation materials (Item 7.01). This ~$1.1B Caterpillar commitment is a highly material strategic action anchoring ProPetro's data-center power generation buildout.

3New insider — initial holdingsApr 273
AI summary

William Michael Wood, Sr. Vice President – Operations of ProPetro Holding Corp. (PUMP), filed an initial Form 3 as of April 27, 2026. Table I data is cut off before share counts are visible in the excerpt. Routine Section 16(a) initial ownership disclosure for a newly reportable officer; non-material.

8-KMaterial agreementFeb 108-K — Item 1.01: Material agreement · Item 2.03: Material debt obligation
+ 15 other (4 13Gs · 2 proxys · 2 8-Ks · 2 424B4s) in window

Recent news

Latest headlines from major outlets, sourced and timestamped — context for whatever just moved.

ProPetro Announces Second Quarter 2026 Earnings Callbusinesswire.com·2d agoBorr Drilling vs. ProPetro: Which Energy Stock Profits From Higher Prices in 2026?fool.com·3d agoProPetro vs. Expion360: Is an Old Energy or New Energy Stock the Way to Go?fool.com·28d agoProPetro Holding Corp. Prices Upsized $600 Million Convertible Senior Notes Offeringbusinesswire.com·73d agoProPetro Holding Posts Narrower-Than-Expected Q1 Loss, Sales Beatzacks.com·74d ago

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