PCYO | Market Cap: $260.5M (07/13/26)
Industry:
Utilities Real Estate Development & Services

DESCRIPTION

Pure Cycle is a vertically integrated water utility, land developer, and single-family rental company operating along the eastern Denver metro corridor in Colorado. All three businesses are built around the same asset base — water rights, land, and infrastructure — centered on a ~930-acre master planned community called Sky Ranch, located about 16 miles east of downtown Denver along the I-70 corridor. Pure Cycle owns or controls approximately 30,600 acre-feet of water rights, which it claims can support up to ~60,000 single-family equivalent connections, and holds exclusive water and wastewater service rights for a 24,000-acre area at Lowry Ranch through 2081. Today, Pure Cycle serves roughly 1,600 water and 1,153 wastewater connections — a small fraction of its theoretical capacity. Water revenue comes from one-time tap fees (~$40,000 combined per connection at current rates), recurring monthly usage fees, and lumpy industrial water sales to oil and gas operators for hydraulic fracturing. In land development, Pure Cycle buys raw land, builds finished lots with roads and utilities, and sells them to national homebuilders including D.R. Horton, KB Home, and Pulte, targeting the entry-level Denver market at sub-$500,000 home prices. Pure Cycle purchased the Sky Ranch site in 2010 for ~$4M and now sells finished lots at ~$125,000 each. The community is zoned for up to 3,200 residential units, of which roughly 22% have been delivered. Pure Cycle also retains select lots and builds single-family rental homes, currently owning 14 units rented at ~$2,800–$3,000/month, with plans to scale to ~100 homes. The three segments reinforce each other: lot sales create water customers, water customers generate recurring revenue, and retained lots generate rental income — all on a shared infrastructure base.

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