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BuyPremium GrowerAI pickCactus, Inc. · Energy · United States · $4.4B cap · $42.4M/day traded
$63.15 +4.6% · close 23 Oct · scored 24 Oct
StockRank up 2.2 since 23 Oct.
Premium Grower: Strong business with the market behind it, priced at a premium.
Report expected 28 Oct: the next-year EPS estimate has risen 1.3% over the last 14 weeks.
As of 24 Oct 2026, MoatMap's StockRank for Cactus, Inc. (WHD) is 67/100, ranked against 24,000+ stocks in 35 markets (Quality 75, Value 24, Momentum 62, each scored against its sector).
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Cactus designs and sells wellheads and pressure-control equipment for US onshore oil and gas wells, plus spoolable pipe through its Flexsteel unit. It has industry-leading margins and returns on capital, carries no net debt and scores highly on quality. Its wellhead designs save drilling time, which gives customers a reason to stay. With Brent near USD 100 and US gas pulled by LNG exports and data-center power demand, Permian, Appalachian and Haynesville producers have reason to drill more. Cactus earns on each new well without taking commodity price risk. The shares fell after Q2 results and trade on a low valuation, so a drilling recovery is not priced in. It shifted manufacturing from China to Vietnam to reduce tariff exposure.
The ranks quoted here are from the day it was written; today's Quality, Value and Momentum are the bars above.
ABOUT CACTUS, INC.
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Cactus, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells wellhead and pressure control equipment, alongside providing related services, for the oil and gas industry. The company maintains a niche market leadership position in high-performance wellhead systems tailored for unconventional wells, known for its robust and reliable equipment. Cactus is a specialized energy equipment provider, focusing on the critical drilling and completion phases of oil and gas extraction.
FINANCIAL SUMMARY (USD)
| Year | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | CAGR | TTM | 2026E | 2027E | Fwd CAGR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 688.4M | 1.1B | 1.1B | 1.1B | 16.2% | 1.4B | 1.7B | 1.8B | 28.6% |
| EPS | 1.83 | 2.62 | 2.79 | 2.42 | 9.8% | 1.19 | 2.69 | 3.28 | 16.3% |
| Shares | 60.9M | 65.4M | 68.2M | 68.9M | +13.1% | 69.7M | — | — | — |
| Debt | 35.5M | 40.0M | 41.7M | 37.7M | 2.0% | 56.2M | — | — | — |
| Equity | 571.9M | 865.5M | 1.1B | 1.2B | 29.0% | — | — | — | — |
| Op CF | 117.9M | 340.3M | 316.1M | 258.4M | 29.9% | 366.9M | — | — | — |
| Inv CF | -25.5M | -654.8M | -35.4M | -39.1M | — | — | — | — | — |
| Fin CF | -47.4M | 103.3M | -70.1M | -69.1M | — | — | — | — | — |
No clear trend: not near its 52-week low, and not in a steady uptrend.
Swung more than 53% of stocks we rank over the past year (43% a year).
How this is worked out
StockRank judges the business. The price check reads only the chart: it is the price side of the Momentum score, in words.
The rules: Still falling is a new 52-week low in the last two weeks, at least 25% below the high. Finding a floor is no new low since. Turning up is 20 or more trading days without a new low, at least 10% off it, and back above a rising 50-day average. In an uptrend is above the 200-day average and within 15% of the high.
In 2,112 US drawdowns since 2001, buying while the price was still falling was followed by a further 20% drop 42% of the time. Waiting for a turn like this one cut that to 33%, at about 7% higher prices and with no better returns. Part of that cut is simply not buying: 13% of falls never turned, and waiting kept those out. Among turns that were bought, 38% still fell another 20%, and 33% of turns were followed by a new low within six months. The benefit was largest in crashes such as 2008 and 2020.
What it measures: day-to-day price moves over the past year, as a yearly figure, ranked against every stock we cover. Very calm under 20% a year, Calm 20 to 30%, Average 30 to 40%, Bumpy 40 to 55%, Very bumpy above that.
What we found: across about 13,500 stocks in 34 markets (2002 to 2025), past swings were a good guide to the next year's, and bumpier stocks fell further. How much further changed too much between eras to put a number on it.
Calm is not safe: a calm stock can still slide steadily.
Rules fixed before any data was fetched. Describes the chart, not a recommendation.
SCORE BREAKDOWN
FUNDAMENTALS
SECTOR PEERS
Closest peers in Energy, ranked by industry match, size, and score similarity. Cross-listings of WHD are excluded.
| Ticker | Company | Mkt Cap | StockRank | Signal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WHD | Cactus, Inc.(you) | $4.4B | 67 | Buy |
| OII | Oceaneering International, Inc. | $3.9B | 56 | Hold |
| TDW | Tidewater Inc. | $4.3B | 53 | Hold |
| INVX | Innovex International, Inc. | $2.1B | 65 | Hold |
| WFRD | Weatherford International plc | $6.3B | 54 | Hold |
| FLOC | Flowco Holdings Inc. | $2.1B | 61 | Hold |
| NOV | NOV Inc. | $7.0B | 55 | Hold |
| FET | Forum Energy Technologies, Inc. | $1.0B | 67 | Buy |
| XPRO | Expro Ltd | $1.9B | 51 | Hold |
| AROC | Archrock, Inc. | $5.1B | 36 | Hold |
Peer medians: ROE 9.4% · P/E 17.5x · Gross margin 43.8%
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