Assessing New Era Energy & Digital (NUAI) Valuation After AI Data Center Pivot And Texas Campus Acquisition
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New Era Energy & Digital (NUAI) has closed the acquisition of the remaining 50% stake in Texas Critical Data Centers LLC and is partnering with Primary Digital Infrastructure to build a hyperscale campus in Ector County, Texas.
This move shifts the project from planning into execution and places New Era Energy & Digital at the center of a planned data center development with capacity targeted beyond one gigawatt, designed to support large scale AI compute needs.
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That pivot into AI focused data centers has arrived during a period of sharp share price swings, with a 68.48% 7 day share price return and a 112.06% year to date share price return contrasted against a 148.13% 1 year total shareholder return and a 28.41% 3 year total shareholder loss. This suggests momentum has picked up recently, while longer term holders have had a much rougher ride.
If this AI infrastructure move has caught your attention, it could be a good moment to see what else is shaping the sector through high growth tech and AI stocks.
With New Era Energy & Digital now fully committed to AI focused data centers, a recent share price surge and a US$350 million shelf in place, the key question is whether the rerating is done or if the market is still underpricing future growth.
On a P/B of 30.1x at a last close of $7.30, New Era Energy & Digital trades at a very rich level compared to its US Oil and Gas peers.
P/B compares the company’s market value to the book value of its net assets. This can be a useful reference point when a business is unprofitable and earnings-based metrics are less helpful. For NUAI, this lens matters because the company currently reports a loss of $23.47m on revenue of $843k and has a negative Return on Equity of 181.33%, so investors do not have a profit base to lean on.
Within its selected peer set, NUAI screens as good value on P/B, with its 30.1x ratio sitting well below the peer average of 1,376x, which is a very large gap. That peer comparison suggests there are companies in the group priced on far higher multiples of book value, even though NUAI itself is unprofitable, has less than one year of cash runway and has seen losses deepen over the past five years.
Compared with the broader US Oil and Gas industry, though, the picture flips. The sector average P/B sits at 1.4x, which makes NUAI’s 30.1x multiple look extremely expensive in that wider context. Investors are paying more than 20x the sector’s typical price per dollar of book equity, while also accepting a track record that includes a 90.7% annual decline in earnings over five years and recent shareholder dilution.
