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Our current read (analysis of 2026-10-08): Designation Low · Gem Score -41 (−100…+100 Quality+Value blend) · Quality 20 · Value -82 · Sentiment -16 (timing only, not weighted) · Composite fair value $63.80 vs $275.79 at analysis
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Targa Resources Corp.
TRGP NYSETarga Resources Corp. is a midstream energy company that provides infrastructure for the gathering, processing, transportation, storage, and fractionation of natural gas and natural gas liquids. The company operates a network of assets across major U.S. production regions, including the Permian Basin, and supports the movement of hydrocarbons from wellhead to market. Its business also includes natural gas liquids pipelines, fractionation facilities, and export operations that help connect supply with domestic and international demand. Targa Resources Corp. plays an important role in the energy value chain by enabling the handling and distribution of key feedstocks used in fuel, petrochemical, and industrial markets.
Price Overview
Price History (1 Year)
Revenue & Net Income Trend
| Period | Revenue | Net Income | Net Margin | YoY/QoQ |
|---|
Key Metrics
EPS (Diluted): 8.49
Total Equity: $3.20B
Shares: 216,900,000
Total Debt: $17.43B
Cash: $166.10M
EBITDA: $4.85B
Total Debt: $17.43B
Cash: $166.10M
Revenue: $17.03B
Revenue: $17.03B
Revenue: $17.03B
Total Equity: $3.20B
Tax Rate: 21.3%
Equity: $3.20B
Total Debt: $17.43B
Cash: $166.10M
Current Liabilities: $3.55B
Long-Term Debt: $17.43B
Total Debt: $17.43B
Total Equity: $3.20B
Shares: 216,900,000
Shares: 216,900,000
CapEx: -$3.33B
Shares: 216,900,000
Stock Price: $275.79
Net Income: $1.92B
Industry Benchmarks
Income Statement (Annual)
Last updated: Aug 14, 2026 8:50am (54d ago)| Metric | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $16.9B | $20.9B | $16.1B | $16.4B | $17.0B |
| Cost of Revenue | $13.7B | $16.9B | $10.7B | $10.7B | $10.5B |
| Gross Profit | $3.2B | $4.0B | $5.4B | $5.7B | $6.5B |
| Operating Expenses | $2.4B | $2.3B | $2.8B | $3.0B | $3.2B |
| Operating Income | $864.8M | $1.7B | $2.6B | $2.7B | $3.3B |
| Net Income | $71.2M | $1.2B | $1.3B | $1.3B | $1.9B |
| EBITDA | $1.7B | $2.8B | $4.0B | $4.1B | $4.8B |
| EPS | $-0.07 | $3.95 | $3.69 | $5.77 | $8.52 |
| EPS (Diluted) | $-0.07 | $3.88 | $3.66 | $5.74 | $8.49 |
Balance Sheet (Annual)
Last updated: Aug 11, 2026 12:50pm (57d ago)| Metric | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | $158.5M | $219.0M | $141.7M | $157.3M | $166.1M |
| Total Current Assets | $1.8B | $2.4B | $2.2B | $2.3B | $2.4B |
| Total Assets | $15.2B | $19.6B | $20.7B | $22.7B | $25.2B |
| Current Liabilities | $2.3B | $3.1B | $2.8B | $3.2B | $3.5B |
| Long-Term Debt | $6.6B | $11.5B | $13.0B | $14.2B | $17.4B |
| Total Liabilities | $10.0B | $14.6B | $16.1B | $18.3B | $22.0B |
| Total Equity | $5.2B | $5.0B | $4.6B | $4.4B | $3.2B |
| Retained Earnings | -$1.8B | -$626.8M | $492.0M | $1.2B | $2.3B |
Cash Flow (Annual)
Last updated: Aug 14, 2026 8:50am (54d ago)| Metric | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating Cash Flow | $2.3B | $2.4B | $3.2B | $3.6B | $3.9B |
| Capital Expenditure | -$505.1M | -$1.3B | -$2.4B | -$3.0B | -$3.3B |
| Free Cash Flow | $1.8B | $1.0B | $826.2M | $683.9M | $584.1M |
| Acquisitions (net) | — | -$3.5B | — | — | -$122.8M |
| Net Debt Issued / (Repaid) | $1.0B | $2.7B | $3.7B | $999.4M | $5.2B |
| Dividends Paid | — | — | — | — | — |
| Stock Buybacks | — | — | — | — | — |
| Net Change in Cash | -$84.3M | $60.5M | -$77.3M | $15.6M | $8.8M |
Growth Trends (YoY %)
Last updated: Aug 14, 2026 8:50am (54d ago)| Metric | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue Growth | +23.5% | -23.3% | +2.0% | +3.9% |
| Gross Profit Growth | +25.7% | +33.0% | +5.5% | +14.8% |
| Operating Income Growth | +99.9% | +51.9% | +2.6% | +23.6% |
| Net Income Growth | +1,579.1% | +12.6% | -2.5% | +46.6% |
| EBITDA Growth | +62.8% | +40.0% | +4.1% | +17.7% |
Dividend History (Last 20)
Last updated: Aug 11, 2026 12:50pm (57d ago)| Date | Dividend | Declaration | Record | Payment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-31 | $1.25 | — | — | — |
| 2026-04-30 | $1.25 | — | — | — |
| 2026-01-30 | $1.00 | — | — | — |
| 2025-10-31 | $1.00 | — | — | — |
| 2025-07-31 | $1.00 | — | — | — |
| 2025-04-30 | $1.00 | — | — | — |
| 2025-01-31 | $0.75 | — | — | — |
| 2024-10-31 | $0.75 | — | — | — |
| 2024-07-31 | $0.75 | — | — | — |
| 2024-04-29 | $0.75 | — | — | — |
| 2024-01-30 | $0.50 | — | — | — |
| 2023-10-30 | $0.50 | — | — | — |
| 2023-07-28 | $0.50 | — | — | — |
| 2023-04-27 | $0.50 | — | — | — |
| 2023-01-30 | $0.35 | — | — | — |
| 2022-10-28 | $0.35 | — | — | — |
| 2022-07-28 | $0.35 | — | — | — |
| 2022-04-28 | $0.35 | — | — | — |
| 2022-01-28 | $0.35 | — | — | — |
| 2021-10-28 | $0.10 | — | — | — |
Deep Analysis
Risk : Reward — upside vs downside from this company's own quarters
Computed 2026-10-08 02:02A +1σ run of quarters pays -20%; a −1σ run costs 78%. Ratio -0.3:1 (μ -0.4%, σ 17.4% floored by sector, 16 pairs).
Older method (repeat-worst-quarter): -0.7 : 1
| Case | Growth | Margin | Fair value | vs price ($275.79) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bull — recovery | +1% | 17.3% | $152.85 | -45% |
| Base — stabilizes | +1% | 15.0% | $132.42 | -52% |
| Bear — keeps slipping | +0% | 12.8% | $112.64 | -59% |
| Stress — last quarter repeats | -10% | 14.9% | $89.18 | -68% |
| Upside — a +1σ run of quarters (v2) | +17% | 14.9% | $219.40 | -20% |
| Stress — a −1σ run of quarters (v2) | -18% | 13.1% | $60.45 | -78% |
Narrative Economics
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Growth Outlook
Analyzed 2026-08-17 16:28The question every valuation on this page silently assumes: is this company likely to grow? Judged forward — the business, its category, the world — against what's already printed.
Claude Reading
The raw numbers tell a story the synthesis is under-weighting. Revenue is basically flat — $16.06B (2023) → $16.38B (2024) → $17.03B (2025) — a 3% CAGR that hardly justifies a 32x P/E. But the earnings and margin trajectory is genuinely improving: gross margin expanded from 15.4% (2021) to 38.3% (TTM), operating margin from 4% to 19.6%, and TTM net income tracking ~$2.27B versus $1.31B in 2024 — a legitimate 46% YoY jump. Q2 2026 at $4.44B revenue and $764.6M NI (17.2% margin) is the best quarter in the file. So this is not a stagnant business; it's a business monetizing a fixed footprint at higher margins as legacy contracts reprice and Permian volumes hit fractionation capacity. That's the bull anchor.
The bear anchor is the balance sheet and FCF conversion, and here I side with the synthesis directionally but not on magnitude. $17.43B debt against $3.20B equity (D/E 5.45) and $166M cash is aggressive even by midstream standards. Current ratio 0.67. FCF of $584M against $3.92B operating CF means capex is eating 85% of cash from operations — the -15.9% FCF CAGR is the tell. At $59B market cap, the implied FCF yield is under 1%. Dividend yield 1.63% is being funded partly with debt, not free cash. ROE of 60% is a leverage artifact, not a quality signal — ROIC of 12.8% is the honest number, and it's fine but not exceptional for a business trading at 3.5x sales and 18.7x book.
Where I disagree with the synthesis: the $90.76 fair value looks like a DCF that punished the -15.9% FCF CAGR without crediting the fact that FY25 capex ($3.33B) is growth capex, not maintenance. If you normalize maintenance capex to ~$800M-$1B (typical midstream ratio), owner-earnings look closer to $2.5-3B, which at a 15-18x multiple gets you to $37-54B — still below the $59B market cap, but a $130-180 fair value, not $91. The narrative layer nailed it: this is a re-rating driven by portfolio-allocation flows into "energy security" infrastructure, not a doubling of cash flows. That re-rating is real but rests on continued Permian volume growth and no macro accident. Market Forces calling this a "laggard losing market share" contradicts the accelerating quarterly revenue trend and 46% earnings YoY — those two models are inconsistent with each other, and I'd trust the trajectory data over the sector-relative claim.
The contrarian case worth taking seriously: midstream re-rated globally (ENB, KMI, WMB all trading at premium multiples versus 2019-2022), so TRGP's 15.8x EV/EBITDA is only modestly above peers, not 2x. If the market has permanently re-priced midstream from "commodity-linked utilities" to "strategic infrastructure," then $91 DCF fair value is anchored to a dead regime. That said, "permanently" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. Insider activity is thin — three F-InKind (tax withholding, not conviction signals) and one small award — no open-market buying, which is what I'd want to see at $275 if management thought the re-rating had further to run. The anomaly of quarterly dates in 2026 suggests this data file has a timestamp issue worth flagging; I'm treating the trajectory as directionally valid but wouldn't stake precision on the exact quarters.
GPT Reading
At $275.79, Targa is being valued like a compounding growth infrastructure asset, but the reported fundamentals still look like a capital-hungry midstream operator with improving earnings and only modest true cash conversion. The operating story is undeniably better than a few years ago: annual operating income rose from $865 million in 2021 to $3.33 billion in 2025, and net income went from just $71 million to $1.92 billion over the same span. The last four quarters are also strong, with trailing net income around $2.42 billion and a clear step-up in quarterly profitability, including $764.6 million in 2Q26 on a 17.2% margin. But revenue is not exploding — 2025 sales were $17.03 billion versus $16.38 billion in 2024, and quarterly revenue has mostly sat in a $4.0-4.5 billion band. This is not a business showing hyper-growth at the top line; it is a business showing better monetization and operating leverage. That matters, because the stock is priced at 32.5x earnings, 15.8x EV/EBITDA, and 18.7x book while carrying $17.43 billion of debt against just $166 million of cash and only $3.20 billion of equity. For a midstream name, that is a premium multiple on a heavily levered capital structure.
The biggest disconnect is between earnings strength and free-cash-flow reality. In 2025, operating cash flow was a healthy $3.92 billion, but capex consumed $3.33 billion, leaving just $584 million of free cash flow. Against a $59.1 billion market cap, that is roughly a 1% FCF yield. Even if one argues the capex is growth-oriented and therefore should not be fully penalized, the market is still paying today for years of future successful execution. The balance sheet leaves less room for error than the equity multiple suggests: debt-to-equity of 5.45x and a current ratio of 0.67 are not signs of a fortress. High ROE at 60% is not evidence of extraordinary equity economics here; it is mostly what happens when equity is thin relative to the asset base and debt load. I do not buy the simplistic “mature laggard” framing, because the earnings trajectory is too strong for that, but I also do not buy the idea that this deserves a quasi-infrastructure scarcity premium this large when revenue growth is 3% CAGR and FCF CAGR is negative.
What stands out most in the raw numbers is that Targa’s improvement is real, but the stock already capitalizes not just the improvement we have seen, but a long runway of continued project returns at high incremental margins. If I annualize the first half of 2026, net income is running near $2.49 billion, so the forward P/E is closer to 24x than 32x — better, but still rich for a business with this leverage and capex intensity. The market is effectively saying that recent margin gains are durable, that growth capex will keep converting into EBITDA without meaningful slippage, and that investors should look through weak present FCF because future cash harvest is coming. That can happen, but the current valuation leaves very little discount for execution risk, commodity-linked volume sensitivity, or the possibility that returns on the next dollars of capital are lower than on the last. For me, a fairer framing is a premium midstream asset, not a premium-growth equity. That points to a much lower acceptable multiple than the market is using now.
The best argument against my skepticism is the recent earnings cadence. Quarterly net income has gone from $270.5 million in 1Q25 to $629.1 million in 2Q25, then held around the high-$400 million to mid-$500 million range before jumping to $764.6 million in 2Q26. Gross margin improved to 38.3% in 2025 from 34.7% in 2024 and 25.2% in 2022, while operating margin reached 19.6%, up from 16.5% and 8.3% in those years. If these are the early innings of a larger earnings power reset rather than a cyclical good patch, the stock may deserve a persistent premium. A bull would also say that midstream accounting often flatters neither current replacement value nor normalized distributable cash flow, so P/B and even plain FCF can understate economics during expansion cycles. I weigh that less heavily because markets eventually need cash yield, and at nearly $60 billion of equity value, Targa has to prove that today’s capex burden will translate into materially higher future owner cash flow, not just higher adjusted earnings.
What would change my mind is straightforward. If over the next 12-18 months Targa can sustain quarterly net income above $700 million, push annual operating cash flow toward $4.5-5.0 billion, and bring free cash flow comfortably above $1.5-2.0 billion without levering further, then the premium multiple would look more earned than speculative. I would also want to see debt stop being the quiet problem — either through meaningful deleveraging or enough EBITDA growth to make the present balance sheet look conservative rather than stretched. Absent that, I think the stock is pricing in the successful completion of the story rather than the messy middle of it.
Grok Reading
Targa’s operating story is real improvement layered on a mature midstream footprint, but the equity price has completely detached from it. Annual revenue crawled from $16.06B in 2023 to $16.38B in 2024 to $17.03B in 2025—a roughly 3% CAGR—while net income jumped from $1.35B to $1.31B to $1.92B as gross margin expanded to 38.3% and operating margin to 19.6%. The latest quarter (rev $4.44B, NI $764.6M, 17.2% net margin) is the cleanest print in the set and confirms earnings power is rising faster than top line. That is the bull case in the numbers: fee-based gathering, processing, and NGL infrastructure converting volume and mix into higher incremental margins. Everything else on the sheet fights the $275.79 price. Operating cash flow of $3.92B is swallowed by $3.33B of capex, leaving only $584M of free cash flow; FCF CAGR is −15.9%. Debt sits at $17.43B against $166M cash and $3.20B of equity—a 5.45× debt-to-equity ratio and a 0.67 current ratio. The 60% ROE is an artifact of that thin equity base, not capital-light excellence; ROIC is a more sober 12.8%. At 32.5× earnings, 18.7× book, 15.8× EV/EBITDA and a 1.6% dividend yield, the market is paying growth-stock multiples for mid-single-digit revenue growth and heavily reinvested cash flow.
The quantitative models’ ~$91–96 fair value versus $276 is directionally correct even if the absolute DCF is harsh. A 3–4% revenue grower with FCF conversion under 15% of OCF and leverage this high does not clear a 32× P/E in any normalized midstream framework; peer mature gatherer-processors historically clear closer to the mid-teens on earnings and low-double-digits on EV/EBITDA when growth capex is this elevated. The “premium infrastructure / energy security” narrative explains the gap—investors are capitalizing a multi-year Permian-to-Gulf Coast NGL and fractionation build-out at returns that have not yet shown up in free cash flow. Until that capex cycle turns and FCF steps up materially, the stock is priced for perfection that the income statement has only partially delivered.
The strongest case against an overvalued call is the earnings trajectory itself. Net income is compounding at a 19.5% CAGR, recent earnings are up 46% year-on-year, quarterly margins have moved from the mid-single digits to the mid-teens, and revenue confidence is tagged high with an accelerating quarterly trend. If the $3.3B annual growth program is truly earning double-digit unlevered returns and simply has not yet rolled into the FCF line, today’s multiple could compress naturally through earnings growth rather than through a price collapse. A smart opponent would also note that midstream cash flows are contracted and volume-driven, so the leverage is serviceable as long as Permian and NGL throughput holds; interest coverage and refinancing risk look worse on a static balance-sheet snapshot than in a rising-EBITDA path. I weigh those points as real but insufficient: FCF is still only $584M against a $59B equity value, the balance sheet leaves almost no margin for a volume or rate shock, and 32× forward earnings already assumes the optimistic path is fully realized.
What would flip the verdict is concrete evidence that the capex cycle is converting. Specifically: trailing twelve-month free cash flow sustained above ~$2B (implying FCF yield moving toward mid-single digits at this market cap), net debt/EBITDA compressing meaningfully below current elevated levels, and another two quarters of net margins holding in the mid-teens without revenue re-acceleration being required. A clear reduction in growth capex guidance with retained EBITDA would also re-rate the equity toward a cash-return story. Absent those prints, the stock remains a high-quality operator priced like a scarce growth compounder it has not yet proven itself to be on free-cash-flow terms.
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Advanced Analysis Forensic deep-dive · separate lenses
Targa shows a clean operational improvement story across five years: gross margin expanded from 19% in 2021 to 38.3% in 2025, operating margin from 5.1% to 19.6%, and net income scaled from $71M to $1.92B on essentially flat revenue ($16.95B to $17.03B). This is the signature of a fee-based midstream footprint maturing as gathering/processing assets ramp and commodity-linked contract mix stabilizes. Diluted share count declined from 228.6M to 216.9M, a modest ~5% reduction indicating capital returns are actually reaching per-share value rather than being offset by issuance.
Verify before trusting this (5)
- Long-term debt, net leverage ratio, and interest coverage from latest 10-K
- Growth capex vs maintenance capex split explaining FCF compression
- Contract mix: fee-based vs commodity-exposed percentages
- Customer/basin concentration (Permian exposure)
- Dividend and buyback capital return policy vs FCF coverage
The valuation stack is uniformly below the tape: DCF $49.88, EPV floor $127.39, anchored PE $155.63, composite $95.70, signal-adjusted $90.76. Even the most generous of these methods (anchored PE at $155.63) implies roughly 44% downside from $275.79. The EPV floor of $127.39 - which represents a no-growth capitalization of current earning power - sits at 46% of the current price, meaning today's quote requires that a very large slug of future growth NGL/Permian/LNG-linked cash flow materializes and gets awarded a premium multiple. That is exactly the bear's point: the market has repriced Targa from stranded-asset skepticism to strategic-infrastructure euphoria in a short window. I discount the DCF ($49.88) somewhat - a fair value under a fifth of price often flags a runaway discount-rate or terminal-value assumption - but even ignoring it, the EPV and PE anchors both say the business is worth well under $200. The Company-Quality lens (Solid, score 20) supports a premium to EPV, not a doubling of it, especially with FCF having collapsed from $1.8B to $584M. Margin of safety here is negative: buyers are paying for the bull case in full and taking execution/commodity risk for free.
Verify before trusting this (4)
- Whether elevated capex is producing contracted, high-return backlog (segment IRRs, take-or-pay coverage)
- Sustainability of NGL/Permian volume growth assumed in sell-side numbers
- Leverage trajectory and coverage ratios as growth capex normalizes
- Any one-off gains inflating the anchored-PE earnings base
The macro tape is mildly supportive: risk-on regime, VIX at 14.3, and a low 0.72 beta mean TRGP barely feels market stress either way. Rates at 4.63% and a stretched market PE are a background drag on all equities but not a decisive press on a defensive midstream cash generator. Recent news is a net positive nudge - Q2 EBITDA hit a record $1.6B on Permian volumes and marketing gains, EPS beat, revenue missed on lower commodity sales - the kind of print that reinforces the 'fortress infrastructure' bull story. The dominant force is the narrative tension itself: a strong, moderately durable post-bubble-cynicism story sits underneath the price, arguing the market has flipped midstream from 'stranded asset' to 'must-own infrastructure' without a matching fundamental step-change. That is a latent headwind - the kind that bleeds multiple slowly rather than crashing the tape - and it is amplified by rising leverage (D/E 2.81 to 5.45) which gives skeptics ammunition. Analyst tone is not flagged as diverging, momentum is neutral, and cult coefficient is low, so there is no mania to unwind violently. Net: crosswinds roughly cancel, with a slight lean to headwind because the narrative pressure is stronger than the tape support for this specific name.
Verify before trusting this (4)
- Whether sell-side price targets get raised on the Q2 beat or stay static (a divergence would flag fading conviction)
- Any crack in the U.S. LNG/petrochemical demand narrative - a single high-profile downgrade of the midstream cohort would accelerate the post-bubble-cynicism story
- Energy sector relative strength versus S&P over the next 4-6 weeks to see if the 'must-own infrastructure' bid is holding
- Credit spreads on TRGP debt given rising leverage - widening would be an early sentiment tell
The world is short of processing and NGL take-away in the Permian and long of demand for U.S. ethane/LPG in Asian and European crackers — that structural mismatch is what Targa monetizes, and it persists regardless of crude's price level as long as the basin keeps drilling. Macro headwinds (10y at 4.63) raise the cost of a capex-heavy build program and modestly compress the return spread on new plants. The genuine variable is not energy demand but Permian activity: a sustained low-crude regime slows new-well associated gas, and Targa's growth then narrows to escalators plus already-sanctioned projects. Petrochemical feedstock demand and export dock utilization are the swing factor on top of that base.
When we made this prediction on Aug 15, 2026, TRGP was $275.79. We expect it to be $240.00 by Feb 2027, and we consider it great value under $170.00. This is an early model (v0.6.0) — the direction is more reliable than the exact price. Made Aug 15, 2026.
Blue is our prediction, starting the day we made it. Grey is a slower route to the same place — the same destination, taking longer. Black is the actual price, so you can see how we are doing.