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Recent share performance and business profile
Texas Pacific Land (TPL) has drawn investor attention after recent share price moves, with the stock showing a 4.9% decline over the past day and a 10.1% decline over the past week.
Over the past month the stock shows an 11.3% decline, while the past 3 months reflect a 9% gain and the year-to-date return stands at 33.9%. The latest close was US$399.08.
Texas Pacific Land Corporation operates through two main businesses: land and resource management, and water services and operations, primarily tied to the Permian Basin. This exposure can make its stock sensitive to energy sector trends.
See our latest analysis for Texas Pacific Land.
For context, the recent share price softness, including a 10.1% 7 day share price return decline and an 11.3% 1 month share price return decline, contrasts with a 33.9% year to date share price return and a 172.2% 3 year total shareholder return. This suggests longer term momentum has been strong even as shorter term sentiment has cooled.
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So, with Texas Pacific Land’s recent pullback, solid recent revenue and net income growth, and a share price sitting below the average analyst target, is there still an attractive entry point here, or is the market already pricing in future growth?
Most Popular Narrative: 10.4% Undervalued
Based on the most followed narrative, Texas Pacific Land’s fair value of $445.50 sits above the last close at $399.08, framing the current pullback against a richer long term view.
Beneficial reuse and desalination initiatives, combined with advancing transmission and data center infrastructure in the Permian, provide exposure to future monetization avenues (industrial water supply, renewable energy, land leases), enhancing potential for diversified long-term revenue and asset value growth.
Curious what sits behind that valuation gap? Revenue growth assumptions, margin resilience and a premium future earnings multiple all play a part, but the exact mix may surprise you.
Result: Fair Value of $445.50 (UNDERVALUED)
Have a read of the narrative in full and understand what’s behind the forecasts.
However, if Permian activity slows or ESG focused investors continue to step back from fossil fuel exposure, that could challenge the current undervalued narrative.
Find out about the key risks to this Texas Pacific Land narrative.
Another Angle on Valuation
Those fair value narratives say Texas Pacific Land looks 10.4% undervalued at $399.08, yet the current P/E of 54.6x is far above the estimated fair ratio of 25x, the US Oil and Gas industry at 13.9x, and peers at 10.8x. That kind of gap can mean real valuation risk if expectations ease, so which signal do you trust more right now?
For a closer look at how this gap could close over time, and what the numbers imply for future re rating risk or opportunity, it helps to unpack the valuation breakdown behind that fair ratio view, starting with See what the numbers say about this price — find out in our valuation breakdown.
NYSE:TPL P/E Ratio as at May 2026 Next Steps
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