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VIST · Forward model · 2030 vision case

The 2030 vision case, 20 quarters out

Model as of

Each segment is projected from its own operating driver, rolled up into consolidated cash flow, and discounted back to a fair value per share. The assumptions below are editable — change them and every number on this page moves with them.

What is disclosed and what is not. Vista reports one operating segment, so the three lines here are not IFRS segments - they are the revenue disaggregation Vista prints on the face of every quarterly income statement: crude oil, natural gas, and LPG. They sum to consolidated revenue to the dollar in all fourteen quarters, with no apportionment and no estimated actuals. Production for the same three products is disclosed in the same releases. Nothing is split by concession, because Vista publishes production by block but never revenue by block. The basis question that matters. This model projects IFRS gross revenue from contracts with customers, which is what the actuals are: 1,234.9 $MM in Q2 2026. Vista's own headline figures are different numbers on different bases - 1,211.9 $MM stake-adjusted for YPF's 16.3% non-controlling interest in Bandurria Sur Participaciones, and 1,154.4 $MM after also netting hedges and the sea freight its trading arm collects inside revenue. Its guided 'total revenues' of 4.2, 4.9 and 5.3 $Bn are on that last basis. In the first half of 2026 the gross figure ran 13.6% above it. Comparisons here are stated on the gross basis and converted before being set against guidance; the same care applies to price, where the model's derived 97.29 $/bbl is gross revenue over produced barrels and the company's published 89.4 $/bbl is net of duties, freight and hedges. What the model reproduces. Calibrated to the guidance Vista filed on 11 May 2026 after the Equinor transaction closed. The volume path averages 155,999 boe/d in 2026 against the guided 158,000, an error of -1.27%; 186,178 in 2027 against 185,000; 209,685 in 2028 against 208,000; and 248,653 in 2030 against the 250,000 of the filed 2030 vision. Projected 2027 and 2028 revenue land within 0.6% of the guided figures converted to the gross basis, and projected 2028 Adjusted EBITDA within 0.1% of the guided 3.6 $Bn. What is assumed. The 13% discount rate, the 4.5x exit multiple, the 30% forward tax rate against a 26.5% effective rate in Q2 2026 and a 35% statutory rate, the margin glide from 68.8% to 67.1% at vertical level, and the entire 2029-2031 volume path, which interpolates between the filed 2028 and 2030 anchors and then plateaus. Sixty-nine point seven percent of enterprise value sits in the terminal value. What is left out. The non-controlling interest is inside the revenue lines but is not deducted from equity value here; at 190.0 $MM of balance-sheet equity and 11.3 $MM of quarterly profit it is worth roughly a dollar a share against a $106.98 base case. Vista pays no dividend and the model assumes none.

VIST forward model
Horizon
Fair value per share $138.42 +112% against $65.35
Terminal-year revenue $7.80B last four projected quarters
Enterprise value $18.48B $5.09B explicit + $13.39B terminal

Vista's own long-range case, raised on 11 May 2026 alongside the guidance: 250 Mboe/d of production and 2.0 billion dollars of recurring annual free cash flow by 2030, twenty-five and thirty-three percent above the vision published at the November 2025 Investor Day six months earlier. This is the only case that treats the 2030 anchors as commitments rather than as a ceiling on extrapolation. What it does not reach is anything past 2030: no filed figure supports production or cash flow beyond that year, so the last two projected quarters plateau rather than compound, and the case says nothing about the balance sheet that gets there.

VIST REVENUE MODEL

Latest: $2.03B (2031Q2E)

Period Value
2023Q1 $317M
2023Q2 $240M
2023Q3 $303M
2023Q4 $309M
2024Q1 $317M
2024Q2 $397M
2024Q3 $462M
2024Q4 $471M
2025Q1 $438M
2025Q2 $611M
2025Q3 $706M
2025Q4 $719M
2026Q1 $865M
2026Q2 $1.23B
2026Q3E $1.25B
2026Q4E $1.27B
2027Q1E $1.29B
2027Q2E $1.34B
2027Q3E $1.37B
2027Q4E $1.40B
2028Q1E $1.44B
2028Q2E $1.49B
2028Q3E $1.54B
2028Q4E $1.56B
2029Q1E $1.61B
2029Q2E $1.67B
2029Q3E $1.71B
2029Q4E $1.74B
2030Q1E $1.79B
2030Q2E $1.85B
2030Q3E $1.89B
2030Q4E $1.92B
2031Q1E $1.96B
2031Q2E $2.03B
Scenarios

Where each case comes from

Bear case — primary sources

The primary sources this case is built from — filings, calls and posts. Where they are claims by an interested party rather than disclosures, every number in the Bear column is what happens if they are taken at face value.

Base case — primary sources

The primary sources this case is built from — filings, calls and posts. Where they are claims by an interested party rather than disclosures, every number in the Base column is what happens if they are taken at face value.

Bull case — primary sources

The primary sources this case is built from — filings, calls and posts. Where they are claims by an interested party rather than disclosures, every number in the Bull column is what happens if they are taken at face value.

2030 vision case — primary sources

The primary sources this case is built from — filings, calls and posts. Where they are claims by an interested party rather than disclosures, every number in the 2030 vision column is what happens if they are taken at face value.

Valuation

From cash flow to fair value

The published model, discounted at 13.0% a year with an exit multiple of 4.9x on EBITDA. The horizon and sliders above do not change this walk.

Present value of free cash flow, 20 quarters$5.09B
Terminal-year revenue$7.80B
Terminal-year EBITDA$5.03B
Exit multiple, on EBITDA4.9x
Terminal value$24.67B
Discounted at 13.0% a year, terminal value becomes$13.39B
Share of enterprise value from the terminal72%
Enterprise value$18.48B
Net cash−$3.06B
Equity value$15.43B
Shares0.11B
Fair value per share$138.42
Against the deployed price of $65.35, as of +112%

A 13% discount rate is a US energy cost of capital plus an Argentine country risk premium; for a company whose every producing asset sits in one Argentine basin, that premium matters more than any beta. The 4.5x exit on trailing four-quarter EBITDA assumes partial, not full, convergence toward US shale peers: Vista trades at 3.7x its own guided 2026 Adjusted EBITDA today, on an enterprise value of 11.0 $Bn against a 7.96 $Bn market capitalisation and 3,056.8 $MM of net debt. Sixty-nine point seven percent of enterprise value sits in the terminal, so the multiple is the single most consequential input: 3.5x gives $86.16 a share, 4.5x gives $106.98, and 5.5x gives $127.81.

Read the other way round: at $65.35 the market is paying 1.9x terminal-year EBITDA, holding every other assumption on this page fixed. That is the number to argue about.

Quarter by quarter

The projected path

The published model's 20 quarters. The horizon and sliders above do not change this table.

Quarter Crude oilNatural gasNGL and LPG Revenue YoY EBITDA Capex FCF R40 PV of FCF
2026 Q3E $1.22B$33M$2M $1.25B +77% $825M $477M $244M +97 $237M
2026 Q4E $1.24B$22M$2M $1.27B +76% $831M $474M $250M +96 $235M
2027 Q1E $1.27B$23M$2M $1.29B +50% $847M $474M $262M +70 $239M
2027 Q2E $1.30B$37M$2M $1.34B +9% $875M $476M $280M +29 $247M
2027 Q3E $1.34B$36M$2M $1.37B +10% $895M $479M $291M +31 $250M
2027 Q4E $1.37B$25M$2M $1.40B +11% $910M $484M $298M +32 $248M
2028 Q1E $1.41B$26M$2M $1.44B +11% $935M $490M $311M +33 $251M
2028 Q2E $1.45B$41M$2M $1.49B +12% $969M $498M $330M +34 $259M
2028 Q3E $1.49B$41M$2M $1.54B +12% $995M $506M $342M +34 $260M
2028 Q4E $1.53B$28M$2M $1.56B +12% $1.01B $514M $349M +34 $257M
2029 Q1E $1.58B$29M$2M $1.61B +12% $1.04B $524M $362M +34 $259M
2029 Q2E $1.62B$46M$2M $1.67B +12% $1.08B $533M $382M +34 $265M
2029 Q3E $1.66B$45M$3M $1.71B +11% $1.11B $544M $394M +34 $265M
2029 Q4E $1.71B$31M$3M $1.74B +11% $1.12B $554M $399M +34 $260M
2030 Q1E $1.75B$32M$3M $1.79B +11% $1.15B $565M $412M +34 $260M
2030 Q2E $1.79B$51M$3M $1.85B +11% $1.19B $576M $432M +34 $265M
2030 Q3E $1.84B$50M$3M $1.89B +10% $1.22B $588M $443M +34 $264M
2030 Q4E $1.88B$34M$3M $1.92B +10% $1.24B $599M $447M +34 $258M
2031 Q1E $1.93B$35M$3M $1.96B +10% $1.27B $611M $459M +33 $257M
2031 Q2E $1.97B$56M$3M $2.03B +10% $1.31B $623M $480M +33 $261M

Every row is projected. A year-over-year change is shown only where the quarter it compares against exists — an em dash means there is no comparable quarter, not a flat year.

Track record

Model revisions

Assumptions are marked to reality as each quarter prints. Every change is appended here, with the fair value the model produced at the time, so the model's own history stays visible.

DateFair value thenNote
2026-09-01 $106.98 Model created on the 2026 Q2 basis, calibrated to the 11 May 2026 guidance update that followed the Equinor transaction.