Common-Size Balance Sheet: Assets
Quarterly Data
Based on: 10-Q (reporting date: 2025-03-31), 10-K (reporting date: 2024-12-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2024-09-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2024-06-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2024-03-31), 10-K (reporting date: 2023-12-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2023-09-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2023-06-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2023-03-31), 10-K (reporting date: 2022-12-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2022-09-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2022-06-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2022-03-31), 10-K (reporting date: 2021-12-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2021-09-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2021-06-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2021-03-31).
The asset composition of Expand Energy Corp. demonstrates a strategic shift from liquid current assets toward a heavier concentration of long-term capital investments in natural gas and oil properties. Over the analyzed period, the weighting of current assets significantly contracted, while the proportion of proved and unproved properties expanded, indicating a transition toward long-term resource accumulation and operational growth.
- Liquidity and Current Asset Trends
- Current assets as a percentage of total assets experienced a general decline, falling from a peak of 23.67% in September 2021 to 7.56% by March 2025. This contraction is primarily driven by a steady reduction in accounts receivable, which decreased from approximately 10-12% in 2021 to between 2% and 5% in 2024 and 2025, suggesting improved collection efficiency or a change in revenue realization. Cash and cash equivalents exhibited high volatility, peaking at 11.59% in September 2021, dropping to near-zero levels in early 2022, and stabilizing between 5% and 8% throughout much of 2023 before declining again to 1.25% by March 2025.
- Oil and Gas Property Concentration
- The company has aggressively increased its allocation toward oil and gas properties. Proved properties rose from 68.77% in March 2021 to a peak of 92.39% in September 2024, before settling at 85.47% in March 2025. Simultaneously, unproved properties saw a substantial increase, growing from roughly 7% in early 2021 to over 20% by the end of 2024. This suggests a dual strategy of maximizing current producing assets while significantly expanding the future development pipeline.
- Depreciation and Asset Valuation
- Accumulated depreciation, depletion, and amortization (DD&A) grew as a negative percentage of total assets for the majority of the period, widening from -1.74% in March 2021 to a peak of -35.42% in September 2024. However, a sharp reversal occurred in December 2024, with the figure improving to -19.22% and -21.72% by March 2025. This abrupt change, coupled with the fluctuations in total property and equipment, likely reflects a significant asset acquisition or a structural revaluation of the balance sheet.
- Other Long-Term Asset Dynamics
- Deferred income tax assets emerged as a notable component in December 2022, maintaining a weight of 6% to 8% through most of 2023 and 2024, before dropping to approximately 2.24% by March 2025. Other long-term assets showed a gradual increase from 1.56% in early 2021 to a peak of 4.61% in December 2023, indicating a marginal diversification of non-core long-term holdings.
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