Select Water Solutions, Inc. key statistics and ratios
In fiscal 2025, Select Water Solutions, Inc. had return on equity of 2.7% and a net margin of 1.5%. Each ratio below is calculated from the figures on its income statement, balance sheet and cash flow pages.
Financial ratios
| Fiscal year | 2015Dec 2015 | 2016Dec 2016 | 2017Dec 2017 | 2018Dec 2018 | 2019Dec 2019 | 2020Dec 2020 | 2021Dec 2021 | 2022Dec 2022 | 2023Dec 2023 | 2024Dec 2024 | 2025Dec 2025 | LTMJun 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | −15.3% | −0.3% | −2.4% | 2.4% | 0.2% | −56.0% | −5.5% | 3.5% | 4.7% | 2.1% | 1.5% | 2.2% |
| Return on equity | −25.0% | −0.5% | −4.4% | 4.9% | 0.3% | −44.3% | −7.1% | 7.1% | 9.7% | 3.9% | 2.7% | 3.4% |
| Return on assets | — | −0.3% | −1.9% | 2.7% | 0.2% | −30.5% | −4.6% | 4.4% | 6.1% | 2.4% | 1.4% | 1.9% |
| Effective tax rate | — | — | — | 3.0% | 32.0% | — | — | 1.7% | — | 27.7% | −8.1% | −0.7% |
| SG&A as % of revenue | 10.6% | 11.5% | 11.9% | 6.7% | 8.6% | 12.3% | 10.9% | 8.6% | 9.8% | 11.0% | 11.5% | 11.7% |
| Dividends ÷ net income | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 12.5% | 33.5% | 97.1% | 158.6% | 109.8% |
Financial health
- Short-term assets cover short-term liabilities $436m of assets due within a year against $276m of liabilities due within a year.
- Short-term assets cover long-term liabilities $436m short-term assets against $374m of longer-dated liabilities.
- More cash than debt $33m of cash against $260m of debt.
- Debt below 40% of shareholders' equity Debt is 25% of equity.
- Debt burden no higher than five years ago Five-year comparison not available. Not assessable.
- A year's operating cash flow covers at least 20% of debt $234m of operating cash flow against $260m of debt.
- Operating profit covers interest at least five times over Operating income of $50m against $24m of interest.
Moat
Weak moat
How hard Select Water Solutions's competitive advantage looks for rivals to wear away, judged from 10 years of its own filings: returns on capital, pricing power, profit durability, cash conversion and discipline.
- Returns on capital 0 / 20
Cash operating profit has been a median -5.7% of total assets over 6 years.
- Pricing power 3 / 20
Gross margin has been a median 12.3%, moving by 6.9 percentage points (standard deviation) across 10 years.
- Durability 0 / 20
Operating margin has been a median 1.3%; its worst year was -34.2%.
- Cash conversion 4 / 20
Free cash flow was positive in 4 of 10 years, at a median -2.9% of revenue.
AI disruption exposure: Low. In this industry, the business rests on physical assets, regulated networks or products AI itself depends on.
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