Company Analysis

Pure Cycle Corporation (PCYO)

Nasdaq: PCYO · Water Supply · Watkins, CO · filing with the SEC since 1995
Grade5.2
◀ Past 4.0● Present 5.8▶ Future 5.4

The grade of Pure Cycle Corporation

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
5.2/10
◀ Past4.025% of the headline
● Present5.845% of the headline
▶ Future5.430% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

4.0/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
3.6/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

5 warning events since 2017; the latest 2022-09-19.

weight 45% of this tense · 36th percentile among 14 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Pure Cycle Corporation's filings since 2017 show 5 warning events of 2 kinds: an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, 4 times, the latest 2022-09-19); a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, the latest 2017-11-15) (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
3.3/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+56.9% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 8 of 10.

weight 22% of this tense · 33rd percentile among 14 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Pure Cycle Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $452 thousand in fiscal 2016 to $26 million in fiscal 2025, up 56.9% a year; it rose in 6 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 44% from fiscal 2020 to fiscal 2023; net income was positive in 8 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span56.9%top 4% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 14% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profitbottom 18% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak43.6%bottom 4% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
5.0/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count steady. 7% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 0 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 33% of this tense · 50th percentile among 11 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-08-31, Pure Cycle Corporation's diluted share count held steady, and dividends and buybacks returned about 7% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 5% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 4% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

5.8/1045% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
7.3/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 9%: 9¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 12%: owes 12¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 73rd percentile among 14 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-08-31, Pure Cycle Corporation earned about 9 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 10 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 12 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 0.1% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 11% of its family
  • return on equitytop 25% of its family
  • gross profit against assetsbottom 42% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 14% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
4.2/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 42% of 14 in its family; net margin 50.3%.

weight 33% of this tense · 42nd percentile among 14 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Pure Cycle Corporation's standing among 14 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $26 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 19% by size; a net margin of 50.3% ranks in the top 4%; revenue growth of 4.3% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 11% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$26.1Mbottom 19% of its family
  • net margin50.3%top 4% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth4.3%bottom 11% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed
5.0/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 50% of 13 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2020.

weight 22% of this tense · 50th percentile among 13 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Pure Cycle Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Harding, Mark W (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, as filed), filing under that title since 2020-09-25, 6.1 years (top 50% of its family); the 11 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 4.8 years (bottom 42%); 5 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 11 people in charge now (top 42%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge5 in three years among 11 peopletop 42% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed4.8 yearsbottom 42% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record6.1 yearstop 50% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

5.4/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
8.7/10

How much room does it have to grow?

top 13% of 14 in its family for room to expand.

weight 22% of this tense · 87th percentile among 14 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Pure Cycle Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $22 million against debt of $7 million leaves 9.3% of its assets as net cash, top 11% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 50.5% of revenue (top 4%); a gross margin of 61.4% (top 25%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets9.3%top 11% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue50.5%top 4% of its family
  • gross margin61.4%top 25% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
3.4/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 34% of 14 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 45% of this tense · 34th percentile among 14 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Pure Cycle Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 4.3% a year over the last three filed years against 56.9% over all 10, slowing (bottom 4% of its family); the newest year grew -9.3% (bottom 4%); capital spending grew 195.8% a year (top 4%) (its annual reports). Pure Cycle Corporation reported 7 product lines in fiscal 2025: Lot Sales at $14 million (53%), Water Tap Fees Recognized Excluding Waste Water Tap Fee at $6 million (23%), Water and Wastewater Activities at $3 million (12%), and 4 more; 3 of 7 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-52.6 points a yearbottom 4% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth-9.3%bottom 4% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending195.8%top 4% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
6.0/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

top 40% of 13 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 60th percentile among 13 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Pure Cycle Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $26 million in fiscal 2025 came in 18.8% below the $32 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 19% of its family); net income of $13 million against a prior three-year average of $9 million (top 12%); a net margin of 50.3% against 38.1% before (top 27%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace-18.8%bottom 19% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average+52%top 12% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average+12.1 pointstop 27% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton PCYO · research, not advice