The analysis reads accumulation. Smart money appears to be quietly building positions. This typically precedes a markup phase. Price has moved down 0.0% since our last review. Ethical screening: PASS with near-perfect ethical score. The risk-adjusted return profile shows good risk-adjusted returns. Our composite framework grades it B, carrying a low risk profile. Technically it is sitting below its long-term trend line with momentum reading overbought. Over the past year the shares are down 19%. Our forward projection puts the odds of a 10% gain over the next month near 18%. The street (27 analysts) rates it buy, with a mean price target of $123. It reported earnings in this window, a natural checkpoint for the thesis.
Expand Energy
EXE · a US exchange · USD · Market cap $20.9B · 1,600 employees
Expand Energy Corporation operates as an independent natural gas production company in the United States.
PASS · Titan Ethical · score 91.5Price as of 30 Oct 2026Daily close, not a live quote
Screened 2026-10-30 · the tape above runs as of 18:19 UTC · two dates, stated on purpose · verdict and workings shown in full · never trimmed
Key facts today
- Price90.55 USD at the 30 Oct 2026 close
- Our ratingOpportunity, current read accumulation
- Ethical screenPasses, score 91.5 out of 100
- OptionsOpen interest leans to puts (put/call 17.97)
- Last reviewed30 Oct 2026 (3 days ago)
- Release timesRelease and earnings times on your chart: Event Guard Mentor
A summary of the dated readings below, not a live quote and not advice.
Our fair-value range: $82.80 to $112.76, base estimate $98.05 (screen dated 2026-10-30).
- Trend Accumulation
- Insiders no filings inside 60 days, left as found
- Positioning no disclosures inside 60 days, left as found
- Options put/call open interest 17.97, read 2026-11-01
- Ethical passes the values gate
Our analytic regime reads on this name, dated and marked against the screened price. Small sample per name, and separate from the daily-framework accuracy on the Track Record page.
This name holds its accumulation label.
Expand Energy holds its Accumulation at $90.55. Consolidating, no directional conviction, held for 157 days.
| Phase | Accumulation |
| Quantitative state | Consolidating, no directional conviction, held for 157 days |
| Price at the screen | $90.55 |
| Valuation | 7.81 trailing · 10.33 forward price to earnings |
| Values screen | PASS · score 91.5 |
| Beta | 0.40 |
Five Screens, Shown in Full
Full pass across all five screens. This security clears the Titan Ethical Standard: its business and its balance sheet both stay inside the lines.
| Test | Figure | Limit | What it means | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business activity | Permissible | Core business clean | Its core business isn't built on prohibited lines: no gambling, alcohol, tobacco, weapons, or interest-based lending. | Pass |
| Debt load | 17.89% | Below 33% | Interest-bearing debt is just 17.9% of its assets, well under the one-third ceiling: it does not run on borrowed money. | Pass |
| Interest-bearing cash | 0.00% | Below 33% | Cash held in interest-bearing accounts and securities is 0.0% of assets, under the one-third limit. | Pass |
| Receivables | 7.00% | Below 49% | Money owed to the company is 7.0% of assets, under the 49% limit. | Pass |
| Revenue purity | 0.17% | Below 5% | Only 0.2% of revenue comes from non-compliant sources, under the 5% line. | Pass |
Five checks adapted from AAOIFI screening standards: business activity plus four balance-sheet ratios. All five must pass for ethical clearance. Every figure is arithmetic on public accounts, not judgement.
The Ethical ReadWhy It Clears, in Plain English
Expand Energy clears all five screens. Its business is in a permissible area, its interest-bearing debt is about 18%, inside the ~33% line, and almost none of its income is interest, so it passes.
Read as at 2026-11-01. It updates when the underlying figures move, and past reads are kept below.
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The Fair Value Range
Our analysis reads OPPORTUNITY: it trades at roughly a 8% discount to our $98.05 fair value, moderate competitive moat, 11.60% revenue growth.
How a fair value is estimated: discounted cash flow (DCF).
Fair value range in USD, drawn from the 2026-10-30 screen. The gold marker is the market price at the same screen. A 8.3% margin of safety to the base estimate.
Third-party analyst targets: 27 covering, consensus Buy. The average target sits +35% from the screen price.
Reading the gap · Both our model and the analysts see meaningful upside from here.
Price History & ProjectionsWhere our models see it going: fair-value estimate $98.05, with a range of $82.80 to $112.76, dated to the 2026-10-30 screen.
Fair value and rating are our own model estimates; the Street's range reflects third-party analyst estimates. Analysis, not advice.
The Business, in Plain WordsGas producer priced for a downturn
Picture a US shale operator pulling gas out of the Marcellus while prices swing like a fairground ride. Expand Energy is doing exactly that, and the numbers show real momentum behind the business rather than just hope.
Revenue is up 41 percent, margins sit at 25 percent and return on equity reaches 18 percent. The forward multiple of 10.4 times earnings leaves an 11 percent margin of safety to our fair value, the moat is moderate and every analyst on the list carries a buy rating. It clears our ethical screen without issue.
Yet this remains a classic cyclical trap. Low multiples often appear right when earnings peak and the next down-cycle wipes them out. The shares look inexpensive only if volumes and prices hold; history says they rarely do. Analysis, not advice.
| Forward P/E | 10.3xfairly priced for its growth rate |
| Trailing P/E | 7.8xvery cheap relative to earnings |
| EPS, trailing | 11.59 |
| EPS, forward | 8.77 |
| Revenue growth | +11.6%steady growth |
| Profit margin | 21.3%healthy profit margins |
| Return on equity | 14.6%a solid return on shareholder capital |
| FCF yield | 6.54% |
| Dividend yield | 3.30% |
| Debt to equity | 0.24minimal debt: a conservative balance sheet |
| Current ratio | 0.90below 1: short-term bills exceed liquid assets |
| Beta | 0.40barely tracks the market's swings |
| Short interest, float | 0.05% |
| 52-week range | 83.25 - 126.62 |
| Moat | MODERATE |
| Market cap | $20.9B |
| Employees | 1,600 |
Another profit measure, before interest, tax and non-cash costs: EBITDA.
The risks · The main risks here are ordinary market swings and the chance our fair-value read proves too optimistic.
Plain-English interpretation of our own screen data. Analysis, not advice.
Titan Case StudyOur full written analysis of EXE: Expand Energy (EXE) — Accumulation in America’s Natural Gas Giant → 2026-07-01
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Every Entry, As Written
The analysis reads accumulation. Smart money appears to be quietly building positions. This typically precedes a markup phase. Price has moved down 0.0% since our last review. Ethical screening: PASS with near-perfect ethical score. The risk-adjusted return profile shows good risk-adjusted returns. Our composite framework grades it B, carrying a low risk profile. Technically it is sitting below its long-term trend line with momentum reading overbought. Over the past year the shares are down 19%. Our forward projection puts the odds of a 10% gain over the next month near 18%. The street (27 analysts) rates it buy, with a mean price target of $123. It reported earnings in this window, a natural checkpoint for the thesis.
The analysis reads accumulation. Smart money appears to be quietly building positions. This typically precedes a markup phase. Price has moved down 0.0% since our last review. Ethical screening: PASS with near-perfect ethical score. The risk-adjusted return profile shows good risk-adjusted returns. Our composite framework grades it B, carrying a low risk profile. Technically it is sitting below its long-term trend line with momentum reading overbought. Over the past year the shares are down 19%. Our forward projection puts the odds of a 10% gain over the next month near 18%. The street (27 analysts) rates it buy, with a mean price target of $123. It reported earnings in this window, a natural checkpoint for the thesis.
The analysis reads accumulation. Smart money appears to be quietly building positions. This typically precedes a markup phase. Price has moved down 0.0% since our last review. Ethical screening: PASS with near-perfect ethical score. The risk-adjusted return profile shows good risk-adjusted returns. Our composite framework grades it B, carrying a low risk profile. Technically it is sitting below its long-term trend line with momentum reading overbought. Over the past year the shares are down 19%. Our forward projection puts the odds of a 10% gain over the next month near 18%. The street (27 analysts) rates it buy, with a mean price target of $123. It reported earnings in this window, a natural checkpoint for the thesis.
The analysis reads accumulation. Smart money appears to be quietly building positions. This typically precedes a markup phase. Price has moved down 0.0% since our last review. Ethical screening: PASS with near-perfect ethical score. The risk-adjusted return profile shows good risk-adjusted returns. Our composite framework grades it B, carrying a low risk profile. Technically it is sitting below its long-term trend line with momentum reading overbought. Over the past year the shares are down 19%. Our forward projection puts the odds of a 10% gain over the next month near 18%. The street (28 analysts) rates it buy, with a mean price target of $123. It reported earnings in this window, a natural checkpoint for the thesis.
The analysis reads accumulation. Smart money appears to be quietly building positions. This typically precedes a markup phase. Price has moved down 0.0% since our last review. Ethical screening: PASS with near-perfect ethical score. The risk-adjusted return profile shows good risk-adjusted returns. Our composite framework grades it B, carrying a low risk profile. Technically it is sitting below its long-term trend line with momentum reading overbought. Over the past year the shares are down 19%. Our forward projection puts the odds of a 10% gain over the next month near 18%. The street (28 analysts) rates it buy, with a mean price target of $123. It reported earnings in this window, a natural checkpoint for the thesis.
The analysis reads accumulation. Smart money appears to be quietly building positions. This typically precedes a markup phase. Price has moved down 0.0% since our last review. Ethical screening: PASS with near-perfect ethical score. The risk-adjusted return profile shows good risk-adjusted returns. Our composite framework grades it B, carrying a low risk profile. Technically it is sitting below its long-term trend line with momentum reading overbought. Over the past year the shares are down 19%. Our forward projection puts the odds of a 10% gain over the next month near 18%. The street (28 analysts) rates it buy, with a mean price target of $122. It reported earnings in this window, a natural checkpoint for the thesis.
The framework has shifted from markdown to accumulation since the last review. Smart money appears to be quietly building positions. This typically precedes a markup phase. Price has moved up 5.9% since our last review. Ethical screening: PASS with near-perfect ethical score. The risk-adjusted return profile shows good risk-adjusted returns. Our composite framework grades it B, carrying a low risk profile. Technically it is sitting below its long-term trend line with momentum reading overbought. Over the past year the shares are down 19%. Our forward projection puts the odds of a 10% gain over the next month near 18%. The street (28 analysts) rates it buy, with a mean price target of $122. It reported earnings in this window, a natural checkpoint for the thesis.
The analysis reads markdown. Price is trending lower. Sellers are in control and the prior trend has reversed. Price has moved up 3.4% since our last review. Ethical screening: PASS with near-perfect ethical score. The risk-adjusted return profile shows good risk-adjusted returns. Our composite framework grades it C, carrying a low risk profile. Technically it is momentum reading bearish. Over the past year the shares are down 19%. Our forward projection puts the odds of a 10% gain over the next month near 18%. The street (27 analysts) rates it buy, with a mean price target of $123.
The framework has shifted from markup to markdown since the last review. Price is trending lower. Sellers are in control and the prior trend has reversed. Price has moved down 11.2% since our last review. Ethical screening: PASS with near-perfect ethical score. The risk-adjusted return profile shows modest positive risk-adjusted returns. Our composite framework grades it C, carrying a low risk profile. Technically it is momentum reading bearish. Over the past year the shares are down 19%. Our forward projection puts the odds of a 10% gain over the next month near 18%. The street (27 analysts) rates it buy, with a mean price target of $125.
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| Date | Insider | Title | Type | Shares | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-07 | TEUNISSEN MARCEL | Chief Financial Officer | 2,000 | $192,860 | |
| 2026-04-06 | TEUNISSEN MARCEL | Chief Financial Officer | 5,144 | · | |
| 2026-03-13 | LACY CHRISTOPHER W | General Counsel | 5,693 | · | |
| 2026-03-13 | VIETS JOSHUA J | Chief Financial Officer | 10,815 | · | |
| 2026-03-13 | LARSON GREGORY M | Officer | 2,372 | · | |
| 2026-03-13 | TURCO DANIEL F | Officer | 5,693 | · | |
| 2026-03-13 | RAIFORD BRITTANY | Chief Financial Officer | 3,558 | · | |
| 2026-03-13 | VIETS JOSHUA J | Chief Financial Officer | 14,736 | · | |
| 2026-03-13 | LARSON GREGORY M | Officer | 953 | · | |
| 2026-03-06 | WICHTERICH MICHAEL A. | Chief Executive Officer | 2,000 | $215,000 |
Public filings, recorded as found. The full tape lives at Insider Intelligence.
| Date | Politician | Party | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-25 | Ro Khanna | Democrat | buy | 1K–15K |
| 2026-09-25 | Ro Khanna | Democrat | buy | 1K–15K |
| 2026-09-25 | Ro Khanna | Democrat | buy | 1K–15K |
| 2026-08-18 | Michael McCaul | Republican | sell | 1K–15K |
| 2026-08-18 | Michael McCaul | Republican | sell | 100K–250K |
| Period | Price then | Price return | Divs per share | $1,000 became | Total return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 month | $96.12 | -7.8% | $0.58 | $928 | -7.2% |
| 2 months | $98.39 | -10.0% | $0.58 | $906 | -9.4% |
| 3 months | $107.18 | -17.3% | $0.58 | $832 | -16.8% |
| 6 months | $113.03 | -21.6% | $1.15 | $794 | -20.6% |
| 1 year | $109.07 | -18.8% | $3.19 | $842 | -15.8% |
| 2 years | $84.05 | +5.4% | $5.49 | $1,119 | +11.9% |
| 3 years | $73.36 | +20.8% | $7.93 | $1,316 | +31.6% |
| 5 years | $44.50 | +99.1% | $20.77 | $2,458 | +145.8% |
Historical returns from market close data. Past performance does not guarantee future results.
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