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Waterbridge Infrastructure LLC Class AWBICompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

United States · USD·Energy›Oilfield Services/Equipment

Owns produced-water gathering, disposal and recycling pipeline infrastructure for oil & gas producers, mainly in the Permian Basin.

Momentum weak 24
Mkt cap
$3.06B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
56%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$17.5M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
40.2×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
-3.1 pp
WACC 6.0%
Hurdle
n/a
no reverse DCF
Next earnings
136 days
22 Mar 2027
Close · USD$24.81
1D+3.6%
1W-19.4%
1M-16.7%
3M-22.9%
6M-9.3%
YTD+24.0%
1Y+2.0%
ATR %6.3%
Beta0.41
52w lowhigh32.8% off high

What Waterbridge Infrastructure LLC does

Owns produced-water gathering, disposal and recycling pipeline infrastructure for oil & gas producers, mainly in the Permian Basin.

Charges producers fees on the volumes of water it gathers, disposes of or recycles, under long-term agreements that dedicate the producers' acreage to its system, so income follows their drilling and well output. Pipelines and disposal wells are the fixed assets that carry it.

Products and services

  • Produced water gathering pipelines
  • Water disposal wells
  • Water recycling for reuse in completions

Customers

  • Permian Basin oil & gas producers (long-term contr

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Energy
  • Midstream
  • Produced water gathering, disposal…

What could go right

  • Rising Permian produced-water volumes
  • Long-term acreage dedication contracts

What could go wrong

  • Permian drilling activity cyclicality
  • Water disposal regulatory/seismicity risk

Moat: narrow (scale, installed base, switching costs). Large, contracted pipeline/disposal-well network is capital-intensive and geographically hard to replicate.

Headquarters: Houston, Texas, United States · Founded: 2015 · Employees: 540

Named competitors

Waterbridge Infrastructure LLC at a glance

Size Waterbridge Infrastructure LLC (WBI) is a United States Energy company (Oilfield Services/Equipment) with a market value of $3.06B, the 1536th largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $24.81 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares fell 9.3%, against -14.2% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — 8th highest of 20 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 102.7% over the last twelve months (peer median +7.6%); the operating margin is 17.0% (peer median 13.4%).

Valuation It trades at 40.2× forward earnings against a peer median of 14.7× (2nd most expensive of 20).

Capital Return on invested capital runs 3.1 points below its cost of capital (6.0% WACC).

Short interest Short interest is 9.3% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).

Next results Next results expected around 22 Mar 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

8010012011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026WBI 89Peer median 83
Six months, rebased to 100: Waterbridge Infrastructure LLC against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

Waterbridge Infrastructure LLC financials

Reported figures in USD; fiscal year ends 2025-12-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023
Revenue$751M$526M$316M$201M
Revenue growth—+66%+58%—
Gross profit$188M$142M$88.4M$55.3M
EBITDA$369M$247M$141M$91.4M
Net income$4.09M-$4.54M$2.99M$14.7M
Free cash flow-$122M-$119M-$86.1M-$99.5M
Capital expenditure$383M$279M$160M$148M
Total debt$1.62B$1.45B$597Mn/a

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Waterbridge Infrastructure LLC 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%USACKGSSEINESRWHDLBRTAROCFLOCINVXWFRDNOVXPROBWERES603800SUBCFTKTOTWBI6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Waterbridge Infrastructure LLC is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

0%+50%+100%20×40×60×USACKGSSEINESRWHDAROCFLOCINVXSBMOBWEHOS603800FTKTOTWBIRevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Waterbridge Infrastructure LLC is the large dot.

Waterbridge Infrastructure LLC competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (WBI vs WTTR vs NGL vs KNTK)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq g
Waterbridge Infrastructure LLC WBI$3.06B-9%+103%17%40.2×n/a
Select Water Solutions WTTR$2.09B-4%-2%4%28.9×n/a
NGL Energy Partners LP NGL$1.87B-8%-22%12%11.9×1.2%
Kinetik KNTK$7.92B+3%+10%9%25.1×33.0%
Texas Pacific Land TPL$18.8B-31%+21%75%26.7×9.4%

How Waterbridge Infrastructure LLC 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.

Waterbridge Infrastructure LLC against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureWBIPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return-16.7%-9.7%8th lowest of 21
6-month return-9.3%-14.2%8th highest of 20
Distance from 52-week high-32.8%-32.2%11th highest of 21
Revenue growth (TTM)+102.7%+7.6%highest of 21
Operating margin17.0%13.4%9th highest of 21
Forward P/E40.2×14.7×2nd most expensive of 20
ROIC minus cost of capital-3.1 pp-0.3 pp7th lowest of 21
EV / EBITDA15.5×7.8×3rd most expensive of 20
Net debt / EBITDA4.3×0.8×2nd most indebted of 20

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq gDelivered g
Waterbridge Infrastructure LLC WBIUnited States$3.06B-9%+103%17%40.2×n/an/a
USA Compression Partners LP USACUnited States$3.62B-11%+29%29%15.6×-0.4%+8.4%
Kodiak Gas Services KGSUnited States$4.21B-40%+8%33%17.0×9.3%+19.7%
Solaris Energy Infrastructure SEIUnited States$4.63B-21%+71%24%16.8×n/an/a
National Energy Services Reunited NESRUnited States$2.01B-14%+24%9%9.9×1.2%+9.7%
Cactus WHDUnited States$4.67B+7%+40%19%16.8×14.1%+25.4%
Liberty Energy LBRTUnited States$1.95B-64%+14%2%n/an/an/a
Archrock AROCUnited States$4.83B-25%+4%39%13.8×2.8%+11.2%
Flowco FLOCUnited States$1.81B-19%+20%19%13.1×8.0%+72.3%
Innovex International INVXUnited States$1.76B-6%+7%12%14.7×5.7%+21.8%
SBM Offshore SBMO.ASNetherlands$6.08B-8%+1%31%6.2×-14.4%+11.3%
Weatherford International WFRDUnited States$6.12B-17%-6%14%13.4×-4.0%+5.9%
NOV NOVUnited States$6.26B-9%-1%6%14.8×6.8%+7.6%
Expro XPROUnited States$1.47B-14%-5%4%18.0×13.9%+18.9%
BW Energy BWE.OLNorway$1.30B-15%-25%26%13.1×n/an/a
Hornbeck Offshore Services HOSUnited States$1.18Bn/a+2%8%8.6×-1.1%+12.0%
RPC RESUnited States$1.18B-22%+18%3%17.9×12.2%+22.1%
Jiangsu Hongtian Technology 603800.SSChina$1.11B-32%-27%-15%62.3×32.4%+5.1%
Subsea 7 SUBC.OLNorway$9.71B-5%-2%13%12.4×-2.4%+17.7%
Flotek Industries FTKUnited States$886M+45%+59%13%21.9×n/an/a
Total Energy Services TOT.TOCanada$851M+41%+22%9%9.7×3.7%+23.8%

Questions

Who are Waterbridge Infrastructure LLC's main competitors?
Named competitors: Select Water Solutions (WTTR), NGL Energy Partners (NGL), Solaris Midstream (private or unlisted), Kinetik Holdings (KNTK), Texas Pacific Land (TPL). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes USA Compression Partners LP (USAC), Kodiak Gas Services (KGS), Solaris Energy Infrastructure (SEI), National Energy Services Reunited (NESR), Cactus (WHD), Liberty Energy (LBRT).
Is Waterbridge Infrastructure LLC expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 40.2× against a peer median of 14.7×, 2nd most expensive of 20 in its peer set.
How has Waterbridge Infrastructure LLC stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned -9.3% against -14.2% for the median peer; over one year +2.0%.

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.