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Ranger Energy Services, Inc. (RNGR)

Q3 2025 Earnings Call· Mon, Nov 10, 2025

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Operator

Operator

Good morning, and welcome to Ranger Energy Services Third Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] Please note, this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Joe Mease, Vice President, Finance. Please go ahead.

Joe Mease

Analyst

Good morning, and welcome to Ranger Energy Services Third Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call. We appreciate you joining us on an exciting day in Ranger's growth journey. Before we begin, Ranger has issued a press release outlining our operational and financial performance for the 3 months ended September 30, 2025. The press release and accompanying presentation materials are available in the Investor Relations section of our website at www.rangerenergy.com. Today's discussion may contain forward-looking statements about future business and financial expectations. Actual results may differ significantly from those projected in today's forward-looking statements due to various risks and uncertainties, including the risks described in our periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Except as required by law, we undertake no obligation to update our forward-looking statements. Further, please note that non-GAAP financial measures we referenced during this call. A full reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP measurements is available in our latest quarterly earnings release and conference call presentation. Joining me today are Stuart Bodden, our Chief Executive Officer; and Melissa Cougle, our Chief Financial Officer. Stuart will begin with a strategic and operational overview, including commentary on our acquisition of American Well Services. Melissa will then walk through a financial summary of the transaction and the results for Ranger's third quarter. Following their remarks, we'll open the call for Q&A. With that, I'll turn it over to Stuart.

Stuart Bodden

Analyst

Thank you, Joe, and good morning, everyone. Today marks a significant milestone in Ranger's journey. This morning, we are proud to announce the acquisition of American Well Services, a leading Permian Basin focused well services provider with the fleet of 39 active workover rigs, new complementary service lines and over 550 employees. This transaction represents a strategic acquisition that strengthens our position as the largest well servicing provider in the Lower 48 and enhances our ability to deliver differentiated technology-enabled solutions to our customers. Let me start by sharing why AWS is such a compelling addition to Ranger. Outside of adding meaningful scale to our high-specification rig business in the Permian Basin, AWS brings a well-maintained fleet of high-spec rigs that includes extensive supporting equipment and an excellent safety track record. The AWS business also provides a suite of complementary service lines to Ranger, including tubing, rentals and inspection, chemical sales, mixing plants and transportation and logistics, amongst other services. Their operations are deeply rooted in the Permian Basin since founding. And their team has built a reputation for safety, reliability and operational excellence similar to that of Ranger. They have grown the business strategically over the past 7 years through a combination of inorganic and organic growth, and they have established themselves as a strong customer base that is anchored by major operators. This acquisition will expand Ranger's rig count by approximately 25%, strategically increasing our market share in the premier oil and gas basin in the Lower 48, while also unlocking meaningful pull-through revenue opportunities for Ranger's own high-spec rig business. AWS' customer base is highly complementary to ours. While we share some of our largest customers, there are new customer relationships that broaden our market reach on the AWS side, and we look forward to further expanding…

Melissa Cougle

Analyst

Thank you, Stuart. I'd like to first walk through a few specifics around our announced transactions. Today, Ranger entered into an agreement to acquire American Well Services for a purchase price of approximately $90.5 million in a cash-free, debt-free transaction. The consideration consists of approximately $60.5 million of cash with reductions for indebtedness and select other items as well as 2 million shares of Ranger common stock. An earn-out of $5 million payable in cash in 1 year is dependent on achieving $36 million of EBITDA in the first 12 months. Ranger used its existing cash on the balance sheet for the cash consideration portion of the transaction and supplemented with borrowings on its credit facility. Pro forma, Ranger anticipates having approximately $30 million of borrowings, post close on its facility, representing less than 1/2 turn of leverage. Ranger intends to repay the borrowings in due course with free cash flow. The company has identified $4 million dollars of operational and administrative synergies that are anticipated to be realized by the end of the third quarter of 2026. Everyone on the Ranger team is excited about what the future holds for the combined organization. Turning to third quarter results. Revenue for the quarter was $128.9 million, a decrease of 16% from $153 million in the third quarter of 2024 and down 8% from $140.6 million in the second quarter of 2025. The decline was primarily driven by reduced completions activity in the broader market as well as activity declines in the Bakken and Powder River Basin this year. Net income was $1.2 million or $0.05 per diluted share compared to $8.7 million or $0.39 per diluted share in the third quarter of 2024 and $7.3 million or $0.32 per diluted share in the second quarter of 2025. Net income reductions…

Stuart Bodden

Analyst

Thanks, Melissa. As we close out the third quarter, I want to reflect on the progress we've made and the opportunities ahead. The acquisition of American Well Services is a clear example of our disciplined approach to growth. It's a transaction that enhances our scale, expands our service offerings and strengthens our position in a key basin. With AWS, we're not changing who we are, we're building on what we do best. Our integration plan is already in motion, and we're confident in our ability to execute. We've done this before, and we'll do it again with measured urgency, precision and a focus on creating value for our customers and shareholders. At the same time, our ECHO hybrid electric rig program continues to gain traction. These rigs represent the future of well servicing and the AWS acquisition gives us a better platform upon which we can accelerate that future. Together, we're delivering innovation, efficiency and safety in ways that set us apart. We remain committed to our purpose to be the best well servicing provider in the Lower 48 on behalf of our customers, partners, employees and shareholders. Strong free cash flows and prudent returns to investors remain our guiding principle and we will continue to make our strategic decisions and allocate our capital with discipline and foresight. With our balance sheet in excellent shape, our integration playbook in action and our technology road map expanding, I'm more optimistic than ever about the next chapters for Ranger. I want to thank our Ranger employees, customers and the AWS team for their partnership and commitment throughout this process. We're excited to welcome AWS into the Ranger family and look forward to everything we will achieve together. Thank all of you for your continued support. We'll now open the call for questions.

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions] The first question comes from Don Crist with Johnson Rice.

Donald Crist

Analyst

Congrats on getting the AWS transaction across the finish line.

Stuart Bodden

Analyst

Thanks. appreciate it.

Donald Crist

Analyst

I wanted to ask about kind of the geographic footprint of AWS. Is it mostly in the Permian? Or does this kind of expand you into other areas? And I guess that goes for both the workover rigs as well as the other service lines.

Stuart Bodden

Analyst

Everything is in the Permian Basin. It's a 100% Permian Basin player.

Donald Crist

Analyst

Okay. And then as far as like tubing rentals and inspection and some of the other business lines that you're not in now, like how big is that in relation or maybe you want to characterize it into EBITDA or whatever metric you want to use as compared to the high-spec rig fleet?

Stuart Bodden

Analyst

Yes. From, from a revenue perspective, it's about 45-55 meetings. About 55% of the revenue is a direct overlap with Ranger and about 45% is service lines that are unique to Ranger. But I think one of the things we're excited about is a lot of the service lines are being sold into some of our existing customers. And so we think there may be an opportunity to expand them in the future.

Donald Crist

Analyst

Interesting. And my last question, and I'll return to queue is on ECHO rigs, where are we in the process? I believe they've both been delivered, but have either 1 of them going to work? And kind of what are your first impressions now having it in your possession?

Stuart Bodden

Analyst

So there's 2. One is in the Bakken currently and one is in the Permian Basin. They are each kind of undergoing final testing. We expect the one in the Bakken to be working on live wells within the week. And we think the one in the Permian Basin right after that. We're pretty excited, Don. If you just kind of just go -- if you go up to the rig, if you just think about the safety features it has, how quiet it is, we've obviously talked about some of the incremental benefits. But I think everybody that has been up and close to it has been pretty blown away. So we're very much excited to get it over a live well.

Operator

Operator

The next question comes from John Daniel with Daniel Energy Partners.

John Daniel

Analyst · Daniel Energy Partners.

I'll echo Don's comments on consolidating the Permian, good for you. First question is the customer base for American. Can you -- sure you don't want to name the customer, but can you give some color as to the customer base?

Stuart Bodden

Analyst · Daniel Energy Partners.

Yes, they have pretty similar customers to us and they have a very large customer that we're very familiar with as well that we do a lot of work with. But I think as I made in the comments, they do have some other customers that Ranger has not historically worked with. So we think there's an opportunity there. But for sure, there's some meaningful overlap with the customers. But we think that's going to be a positive. We expect all that work to continue.

John Daniel

Analyst · Daniel Energy Partners.

Got it. And then on the ECHO rig, when your customers are looking at that, are they looking at the adoption to replace an existing one of their workover rigs. And when they do that, are they looking to displace one of your competitors? Or are you -- is this potentially a maintenance CapEx, growth CapEx? Can you just elaborate on how you see the adoption rolling out and how that changes the competitive landscape with those customers that take the rig?

Stuart Bodden

Analyst · Daniel Energy Partners.

Sure. So right now, they're additive. We're not taking away. That said, as we think about over time, we would expect that these rigs would be deployed and would either replace some existing rigs of ours or competitors. But we don't think that's going to be one for one, right? So if you put 2 ECHO rigs out, maybe they collectively displace 1 conventional, something like that.

John Daniel

Analyst · Daniel Energy Partners.

Fair enough. And then just a final one, I'll try to get you the answer. Would you give us an over or under on how many ECHO rigs get built in '26?

Stuart Bodden

Analyst · Daniel Energy Partners.

Over or under in '26?

John Daniel

Analyst · Daniel Energy Partners.

Yes. What would make you happy? And what would disappoint you? How about that? Just doing it another way.

Stuart Bodden

Analyst · Daniel Energy Partners.

Well say take over or under at 10.

Operator

Operator

This concludes our question-and-answer session. I would like to turn it back over to Stuart Bodden for any closing remarks.

Stuart Bodden

Analyst

Thanks, Steve. Again, just thanks to all of you for your continued interest in Ranger. As we said, it's an incredibly exciting time with the deal, with the ECHO rigs. We're really just excited about how everything is coming together. So we look forward to talking to all of you in the weeks ahead. Thanks a lot.

Operator

Operator

The conference has now concluded. Thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now disconnect.