Smart Sand, Inc. (SND)
Energy
- Fundamental
- 4
- Sentiment
- 2
- Technical
- 4
Do Nothing: qualitativeScore 2 is below the required floor of 3 (absent-setup qualitative read — no chart pattern overrides it), and liquidity fails on both measures — avgDollarVolume20 $1.17M below the $5M floor and recent 3-session dollar volume $1.30M below the $1.5M floor; neither a pullback limit nor a breakout stop can be sized in a name this thin.
Company overview
Smart Sand, Inc. supplies frac and industrial sand and provides logistics solutions to customers in the U.S. and Canada. It operates through its Sand and SmartSystems segments, offering proppant supply and wellsite storage solutions. The company serves oil and gas exploration and production companies, oilfield service companies, and industrial customers.
Fundamental
goodSmart Sand shows strong cash generation and stable financial health, but remains exposed to cyclical risks and thin margins.
Smart Sand shows improving operating momentum in the latest SEC filings, with manageable leverage and ample revolver availability. The stock looks inexpensively valued on EV/Sales and EV/EBITDA with a high trailing free-cash-flow yield, but the business remains cyclical (oil and gas activity), concentrated in a few large customers, and structurally low-margin.
Sentiment
weakMedia sentiment is constructive but cooling, with no retail engagement or actionable catalysts in the near term.
No actionable catalyst sits in the 1–30 trading-day window: the record Q2 2026 print is 41 days old and fully digested, the ABL expansion is 18 days trailing, and the only forward item is a context-only conference appearance. The sentiment delta is determinate and flat-to-mildly-cooling within positive territory (baseline record-Q2 coverage scored +0.6 → scoring-window credit-facility coverage +0.2), retail engagement is absent, and the Red-Flag Screen is clean — an Absent setup.
Technical
goodThe stock is in a bullish multi-timeframe trend, but liquidity constraints limit tradability.
Chart is in a clean multi-timeframe uptrend — price 5.31 above the rising SMA20 (5.17), SMA50 (4.87) and SMA200 (4.70), with the 20>50>200 stack bullish, EMA9 (5.26) and EMA21 (5.15) below price and rising, and ADX14 26.70 (>25) confirming an UP trend when read with price above all MAs. RSI14 58.36 is bullish-not-overbought. The one weak signal is cooling momentum: MACD line 0.12 is above zero but just under its signal (histogram -0.01) after fading from the early-September thrust, and the 09-21 session is red, fading from its open. The trade itself is hard-blocked upstream of the plan: qualitativeScore 2 is below the required floor of 3 (absent-setup qualitative read — no chart pattern overrides it), and liquidity fails on both measures (avgDollarVolume20 ~$1.17M vs the $5M floor; recent 3-session regular-session dollar volume ~$1.30M vs the $1.5M floor). technicalScore 4 reflects chart quality only; tradability verdict is Do Nothing.
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