Smart Sand Inc
SND · Energy Equipment & Services · United States of America
Smart Sand, Inc. is a fully integrated frac and industrial sand supply and services company. The Company offers complete mine to wellsite proppant supply and logistics solutions to its frac sand customers. Its segments include Sand and SmartSystems. The Sand segment includes both frac sand sales and industrial products solutions (IPS) sales. The sand production process begins the same way for each of these revenue streams. Its SmartSystems segment offers customers portable wellsite storage and management solutions that enable customers to unload, store, and deliver proppant at the wellsite. The Company produces Northern White sand, which is sand used as a proppant used to enhance hydrocarbon recovery rates in the hydraulic fracturing of oil and natural gas wells and for a variety of industrial applications. The Company also offers proppant logistics solutions to its customers through its in-basin transloading terminals and its SmartSystems well-site proppant storage capabilities.
- Construction starts / housing permits (leading)
- Commodity input price spreads (coincident)
- Capacity utilization (coincident)
- Trade-flow shifts / import competition (trend)
- Trade tariffs (US-China steel/cement) · exposure: high
- Energy cost / carbon-pricing exposure · exposure: high (cement)
- Supply chain bottlenecks (forestry, paper pulp) · exposure: medium
- EBITDA per ton — core unit economic
- Capacity utilization % — 75-85% healthy
- Net debt / EBITDA — below 3.5x given cyclicality
- ROIC through-cycle — 8-12% acceptable
Detailed financial analysis, valuation snapshot, multi-period history, and AI narrative are pending — generated when this company is included in the next analysis batch. Profile data above is point-in-time as of 2026-04-30.