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Horizon
Consolidated fair value $171.10 all other verticals held in this portfolio case
Final-quarter revenue $63M 3% of company revenue
Explicit segment contribution $387M EBITDA less segment capex, before corporate items

Realised prices hold near where Q2 2026 actually printed instead of gliding down to 75 dollars real, and tie-ins run at the top of the 100-110 range. Q2 already realised 89.4 dollars a barrel on the company basis and 97.29 gross, above the 85 the guidance assumes for the rest of the year, and it did so at a 70% Adjusted EBITDA margin, three points above the guided 2026-2028 average, with unit costs flat. Run the published elasticity the other way and a sustained 10 dollar premium adds roughly 400 million dollars a year.

Natural gas

Basis quarter$34M
Final quarter$63M
Implied CAGR+13%
Final revenue mix3%

Associated gas from the same wells, 2.8% of revenue, sold three ways at three prices: Plan GasAr contracts took 29% of Q2 2026 volume at 3.5 dollars per MMBtu, industrial clients 66% at 2.6, and exports the remaining 5% at 5.3. Volume rises mechanically with the oil programme because nothing here is drilled for gas. The price is the one genuinely seasonal thing Vista sells: the Argentine winter falls in the second and third calendar quarters.

Last four quarters
2025 Q3 $29M Reported
2025 Q4 $16M Reported
2026 Q1 $18M Reported
2026 Q2 $34M Reported
Domestic gas sales under Plan GasAr and to industrial clientsExport gas sales
Capacity energised 19924 boe/d at the basis quarter 19,924 boe/d, the disclosed 156,061 boe/d total less oil and NGL; 3.17 MMm3/d in Vista's units.
Capacity added 908 boe/d/qtr changing −3.1% per quarter 908 boe/d a quarter, the 12.8% gas share of the group build that guidance implies.
Utilisation 100% gliding toward 100% 100%: associated gas is produced and sold, not held back.
Revenue per boe/d $1382/qtr drifting −3.7% per quarter $1,382 a quarter per boe/d, the gross $1,709 deseasonalised by the 1.237 Q2 factor.
Natural gas

Latest: $63M (2031Q2E)

Period Value
2023Q1 $22M
2023Q2 $17M
2023Q3 $16M
2023Q4 $12M
2024Q1 $15M
2024Q2 $22M
2024Q3 $20M
2024Q4 $15M
2025Q1 $14M
2025Q2 $25M
2025Q3 $29M
2025Q4 $16M
2026Q1 $18M
2026Q2 $34M
2026Q3E $33M
2026Q4E $23M
2027Q1E $24M
2027Q2E $38M
2027Q3E $37M
2027Q4E $26M
2028Q1E $27M
2028Q2E $43M
2028Q3E $43M
2028Q4E $29M
2029Q1E $31M
2029Q2E $49M
2029Q3E $49M
2029Q4E $33M
2030Q1E $35M
2030Q2E $56M
2030Q3E $55M
2030Q4E $38M
2031Q1E $40M
2031Q2E $63M

Assumptions & reasoning

  • Capacity is stated in barrels of oil equivalent a day rather than the MMm3/d Vista publishes, so it can be added to the crude line: 19,924 boe/d is the residual of the disclosed 156,061 boe/d total less 135,427 bbl/d of oil and 710 boe/d of NGL, and 3.17 MMm3/d is the same volume in the company's units.
  • Seasonality is the one place this model asserts a shape. Factors of 0.80, 1.24, 1.18 and 0.78 come from ratios to a centred four-quarter moving average of disclosed gas revenue, and the mechanism is stated rather than fitted: realised gas prices run 2.0 to 2.5 dollars per MMBtu in the first and fourth calendar quarters against 2.8 to 3.9 in the second and third, in every year of the history.
  • Revenue per unit is entered deseasonalised. Gross gas revenue is 1,709 dollars a quarter per boe/d of capacity, divided by the 1.237 second-quarter factor, because the engine re-applies the factor to every projected quarter.
  • No capital intensity sits on this line. The gas comes out of wells the crude line has already paid for, so charging it capex again would double-count the same drilling programme.
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