Texas Pacific Land Corporation
The Texas Pacific Land Corporation is a publicly traded real estate operating company with its administrative office in Dallas, Texas. Owning well over 880,000 acres (3,600 km2) in 20 West Texas counties, TPL is among the largest private landowners in the state of Texas. It was previously organized as an unusual legal entity, a publicly traded trust taxed as a corporation, and operated under the name Texas Pacific Land Trust.[2]
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Founded | February 1, 1888 as Texas Pacific Land Trust |
Headquarters | Dallas, Texas, U.S. |
Key people | Tyler Glover (CEO & President) Chris Steddum (CFO) |
Products | Oil/Gas Land Royalties |
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Number of employees | 92 (2021) |
Website | www |
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History
TPL was created in February 1888 in the wake of the Texas and Pacific Railway bankruptcy, as a means to dispose of the T&P's vast land holdings. TPL received over 3,500,000 acres (14,000 km2), and certain T&P bondholders were allowed to exchange their (now worthless) bonds for trust certificates. The certificates were later divided into "sub-share" certificates (3,000 sub-share certificates is the equivalent of one trust certificate), and the sub-share certificates have been traded on the NYSE since January 1927.
On March 23, 2020 the trust announced plans to convert the land trust to a C Corporation under Delaware law. This was completed January 11, 2021.
Current operations
Despite having sold 75 percent of its original landholdings since inception, TPL is still among the largest private landowners in the State of Texas. As of December 31, 2021, TPL owned 880,501 acres (3,563.26 km2) of land in 20 West Texas counties, of which the largest amount is located in Culberson (288,912 acres), Reeves (188,681 acres), and Hudspeth (154,247 acres) counties. In addition, TPL owns a 1/128th nonparticipating perpetual royalty interest in 84,934 acres, and a 1/16th nonparticipating perpetual royalty interest in 370,737 acres.[1]
Trust income is derived from land sales, oil and gas royalties, grazing and sundry leases, interest on notes receivable, and interest on investments.[3] The trust does not actively seek to sell its landholdings, and on rare occasions actually purchases land. (It last did so in 2008, acquiring 640 acres (2.6 km2) from the State of Texas in a parcel adjacent to existing holdings.) In June 2017, TPL established the formation of Texas Pacific Water Resources, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Trust.[4] TPWR is a full service water business that offers brackish water sourcing, water disposal, water recycling, and other hydrocarbon extraction related water services.
Sub-share Buy Back Policy
TPL has a long-standing policy to repurchase sub-shares with excess cash. As noted in the 2015 annual report, "As provided in Article Seventh of the Declaration of Trust, dated February 1, 1888, establishing the Trust, it will continue to be the practice of the Trustees to purchase and cancel outstanding certificates and sub-shares. These purchases are generally made in the open market and there is no arrangement, contractual or otherwise, with any person for any such purchase."[5]
In 2015, the Trust purchased and retired 204,335 sub-shares at a cost of $28,771,073, representing an average cost of $140.80 per sub-share. The number of sub-shares purchased and retired in 2015 amounted to 2.5% of the total number of sub-shares outstanding as of December 31, 2014.[5]
The policy of buy backs has reduced the sub-share count by 26% between 2004 and 2015 (from 10,971,375 at the end of 2004[6] to 8,118,064[7] at the end of 2015.) According to the most recent 10-Q filed for 2020, as required by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the stock has since shot up to an average of $1,600-$1,800 a share.[8][9]
References
- "Texas Pacific Land Corp 2021 Annual Report 10-K". 2022.
- "Archived copy" (PDF). www.tpltrust.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 May 2016. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - http://www.tpltrust.com/uploads/2008_Annual_Report.pdf TPL 2008 Annual Report, p. 19.
- "Texas Pacific Land Trust Announces Formation of Water Resources Company". Retrieved 2018-11-27.
- http://www.tpltrust.com/uploads/2015_Annual_Report.pdf TPL 2015 Annual Report, p. 2.
- http://www.tpltrust.com/uploads/2007_Annual_Report.pdf TPL 2007 Annual Report, p. 16.
- http://www.tpltrust.com/uploads/2015_Annual_Report.pdf TPL 2015 Annual Report, p. 16.
- https://www.tpltrust.com/investors/sec-filings/all-sec-filings/content/0000097517-20-000056/0000097517-20-000056.pdf
- "TPL: Texas Pacific Land Corp Stock Price Quote - New York - Bloomberg". Bloomberg News.
External links
- Official website
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