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Liberty Energy, Inc. Class ALBRTCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

United States · USD·Energy›Oilfield Services/Equipment

Provides hydraulic fracturing and pressure pumping services to US onshore oil & gas producers, expanding into gas-fired power.

Momentum laggard 4
Mkt cap
$1.95B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
98%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$82.5M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
n/m
no positive forecast
ROIC−WACC
-5.3 pp
WACC 7.1%
Hurdle
n/a
no reverse DCF
Next earnings
83 days
28 Jan 2027
Close · USD$11.96
1D+5.4%
1W-29.1%
1M-36.5%
3M-43.4%
6M-63.9%
YTD-35.2%
1Y-31.4%
ATR %10.1%
Beta1.25
52w lowhigh65.3% off high

What Liberty Energy does

Provides hydraulic fracturing and pressure pumping services to US onshore oil & gas producers, expanding into gas-fired power.

Contracts out crews and pumping equipment to oil and gas producers, priced per job or under dedicated-fleet agreements, so earnings follow customers' drilling budgets and how many fleets sit idle. Most customers are producers in a handful of US basins, and fleet efficiency counts because pricing is competitive.

Products and services

  • Hydraulic fracturing services
  • Wireline/other completion services
  • Natural gas power generation (Liberty Power Innovations)

Customers

  • Onshore US oil & gas E&P operators

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Energy
  • Oilfield services
  • Hydraulic fracturing/pressure pumping

What could go right

  • Rising completions activity in core basins
  • Power generation business diversification

What could go wrong

  • Oil & gas capex cyclicality
  • Pressure pumping overcapacity/pricing pressure

Moat: narrow (scale, installed base). Modern, efficient fracturing fleet, but a highly cyclical, commoditized service market.

Headquarters: Denver, Colorado, United States · Founded: 2011 · Employees: 5,800

Named competitors

Liberty Energy at a glance

Size Liberty Energy (LBRT) is a United States Energy company (Oilfield Services/Equipment) with a market value of $1.95B, the 1808th largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $11.96 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares fell 63.9%, against -14.2% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — lowest of 20 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 13.7% over the last twelve months (peer median +9.4%); the operating margin is 1.7% (peer median 11.4%).

Valuation It trades at 0.8× enterprise value to sales against a peer median of 2.5× (2nd cheapest of 21).

Capital Return on invested capital runs 5.3 points below its cost of capital (7.1% WACC).

Credit Liberty Energy has 2 bonds outstanding ($1.29B).

Short interest Short interest is 11.2% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).

Next results Next results expected around 28 Jan 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

507510011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026Peer median 83LBRT 36
Six months, rebased to 100: Liberty Energy against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

Liberty Energy financials

Reported figures in USD; fiscal year ends 2025-12-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue$4.44B$4.01B$4.32B$4.75B$4.15B
Revenue growth—-7%-9%+14%—
Gross profit$339M$338M$610M$977M$677M
EBITDA$540M$591M$889M$1.18B$841M
Net income$40.3M$148M$316M$556M$400M
Free cash flow-$652M$14.1M$178M$411M$78.5M
Capital expenditure$1.21B$595M$651M$603M$452M
Total debt$1.60B$618M$534M$405M$349M

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Liberty Energy competitor charts

The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.

Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

-50%0%+50%-40%-20%0%NESRFLOCINVXXPROBWEWBIRES603800USACKGSFTKTOT603727SEIWHDFETAROCPUMPVIRILBRT6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Liberty Energy is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

-25%0%+25%+50%+75%2.5×5×7.5×NESRFLOCINVXXPROBWEWBIHOSRES603800USACKGSFTKTOT603727SEIWHDFETAROCVIRILBRTRevenue growth (TTM) →EV / Sales →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Liberty Energy is the large dot.

Liberty Energy competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (LBRT vs HAL vs PUMP vs PTEN)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginEV / SalesReq g
Liberty Energy LBRT$1.95B-64%+14%2%0.8×n/a
Halliburton HAL$26.3B-20%+2%13%1.5×-0.3%
ProPetro PUMP$785M-59%-6%0%0.8×n/a
Patterson-UTI Energy PTEN$3.76B-13%0%0%1.0×42.6%

How Liberty Energy compares with its peers

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

Liberty Energy against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureLBRTPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return-36.5%-12.8%lowest of 21
6-month return-63.9%-14.2%lowest of 20
Distance from 52-week high-65.3%-33.1%2nd lowest of 21
Revenue growth (TTM)+13.7%+9.4%10th highest of 21
Operating margin1.7%11.4%4th lowest of 21
EV / Sales0.8×2.5×2nd cheapest of 21
ROIC minus cost of capital-5.3 pp-1.0 pp5th lowest of 21
EV / EBITDA6.4×8.2×8th cheapest of 19
Net debt / EBITDA2.8×1.0×5th most indebted of 19

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginEV / SalesReq gDelivered g
Liberty Energy LBRTUnited States$1.95B-64%+14%2%0.8×n/an/a
National Energy Services Reunited NESRUnited States$2.01B-14%+24%9%1.3×1.2%+9.7%
Flowco FLOCUnited States$1.81B-19%+20%19%3.2×8.0%+72.3%
Innovex International INVXUnited States$1.76B-6%+7%12%1.6×5.7%+21.8%
Expro XPROUnited States$1.47B-14%-5%4%1.1×13.9%+18.9%
BW Energy BWE.OLNorway$1.30B-15%-25%26%2.7×n/an/a
Waterbridge Infrastructure LLC WBIUnited States$3.06B-9%+103%17%7.6×n/an/a
Hornbeck Offshore Services HOSUnited States$1.18Bn/a+2%8%0.9×-1.1%+12.0%
RPC RESUnited States$1.18B-22%+18%3%0.6×12.2%+22.1%
Jiangsu Hongtian Technology 603800.SSChina$1.11B-32%-27%-15%9.5×32.4%+5.1%
USA Compression Partners LP USACUnited States$3.62B-11%+29%29%5.2×-0.4%+8.4%
Kodiak Gas Services KGSUnited States$4.21B-40%+8%33%5.0×9.3%+19.7%
Flotek Industries FTKUnited States$886M+45%+59%13%2.7×n/an/a
Total Energy Services TOT.TOCanada$851M+41%+22%9%1.0×3.7%+23.8%
Bomesc Offshore Engineering 603727.SSChina$823M+6%-12%-7%2.4×-9.1%-6.1%
Solaris Energy Infrastructure SEIUnited States$4.63B-21%+71%24%8.8×n/an/a
Cactus WHDUnited States$4.67B+7%+40%19%3.2×14.1%+25.4%
Forum Energy Technologies FETUnited States$800M+30%+11%7%1.1×3.5%+9.1%
Archrock AROCUnited States$4.83B-25%+4%39%4.8×2.8%+11.2%
ProPetro PUMPUnited States$785M-59%-6%0%0.8×n/an/a
Viridien VIRI.PAFrance$763M-16%-14%11%1.6×-2.9%+4.1%

Liberty Energy bonds and credit

Liberty Energy has 2 bonds outstanding with $1.29B face value.

Every bond, yield and spread in the cockpit →

Questions

Who are Liberty Energy's main competitors?
Named competitors: Halliburton (HAL), ProPetro Holding (PUMP), Patterson-UTI Energy (PTEN). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes National Energy Services Reunited (NESR), Flowco (FLOC), Innovex International (INVX), Expro (XPRO), BW Energy (BWE.OL), Waterbridge Infrastructure LLC (WBI).
Is Liberty Energy expensive compared with its peers?
On ev / sales it trades at 0.8× against a peer median of 2.5×, 2nd cheapest of 21 in its peer set.
How has Liberty Energy stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned -63.9% against -14.2% for the median peer; over one year -31.4%.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.