Comstock Resources Inc key statistics and ratios

In fiscal 2025, Comstock Resources Inc had return on equity of 16.2%, an operating margin of 29.1%, debt equal to 107.6% of equity and a current ratio of 0.49. Each ratio below is calculated from the figures on its income statement, balance sheet and cash flow pages.

Financial ratios

US$ thousands unless shown otherwise. Fiscal years, plus the last twelve months (LTM) when newer.

Comstock Resources Inc: financial ratios, annual
Fiscal year	2010Dec 2010	2011Dec 2011	2012Dec 2012	2013Dec 2013	2014Dec 2014	2017Dec 2017	2019Dec 2019	2020Dec 2020	2021Dec 2021	2022Dec 2022	2023Dec 2023	2024Dec 2024	2025Dec 2025	LTMJun 2026
Operating margin	−3.4%	−9.5%	−35.4%	−17.2%	−5.8%	−0.1%	35.8%	19.0%	48.7%	62.9%	14.5%	−13.4%	29.1%	28.8%
Net margin	−5.6%	−7.7%	−24.5%	9.8%	−10.3%	−43.6%	12.6%	−6.1%	−14.0%	31.0%	13.5%	−18.3%	17.8%	23.3%
Free-cash-flow margin	−64.7%	−86.5%	−30.0%	−38.3%	−42.1%	−2.3%	−4.6%	7.7%	9.2%	17.4%	−26.1%	−38.0%	−20.3%	−33.8%
Return on equity	−1.8%	−3.2%	−10.2%	4.4%	−6.3%	−44.5%	25.0%	−4.4%	−22.7%	68.4%	9.1%	−10.0%	16.2%	19.5%
Return on assets	−1.0%	−1.5%	−3.8%	1.7%	−2.6%	−7.0%	3.5%	−1.1%	−5.6%	21.7%	3.5%	−3.6%	5.9%	7.0%
Asset turnover	0.18	0.19	0.16	0.18	0.25	0.16	0.28	0.18	0.40	0.70	0.26	0.20	0.33	0.30
Current ratio	0.88	0.60	0.56	0.29	0.38	1.80	0.74	0.45	0.50	0.85	0.68	0.46	0.49	0.48
Debt to equity	48.0%	115.4%	141.9%	83.9%	123.0%	—	218.7%	198.7%	266.0%	96.1%	113.2%	134.0%	107.6%	120.1%
Interest cover (operating income ÷ interest)	n/m	n/m	n/m	n/m	n/m	n/m	1.7x	0.7x	4.1x	13.3x	1.3x	n/m	2.9x	2.8x
Effective tax rate	—	—	—	—	—	—	22.3%	—	—	18.6%	14.2%	—	17.4%	15.7%
Capital spending as % of revenue	153.9%	149.9%	94.1%	100.5%	114.3%	70.7%	63.3%	59.4%	37.3%	29.4%	91.0%	87.5%	60.8%	71.4%
Free cash flow ÷ net income	—	—	—	−392.3%	—	—	−36.7%	—	—	56.1%	−193.4%	—	−113.7%	−144.7%
Dividends ÷ net income	—	—	—	43.9%	—	—	—	—	—	3.1%	65.8%	—	0.0%	—
Dividends and buybacks ÷ free cash flow	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0%	0.0%	5.5%	—	—	—	—

US$ thousands unless shown otherwise. Fiscal quarters.

Comstock Resources Inc: financial ratios, quarterly
Quarter	2024 Q3Sept 2024	2024 Q4Dec 2024	2025 Q1Mar 2025	2025 Q2Jun 2025	2025 Q3Sept 2025	2025 Q4Dec 2025	2026 Q1Mar 2026	2026 Q2Jun 2026
Operating margin	−20.1%	−0.5%	24.6%	19.0%	11.2%	48.3%	29.8%	6.4%
Net margin	−9.5%	−15.8%	−23.6%	26.5%	24.7%	35.7%	18.3%	2.5%
Free-cash-flow margin	−43.1%	−3.5%	−24.0%	0.7%	−41.9%	−17.9%	−24.5%	−74.1%
Current ratio	0.60	0.46	0.40	0.36	0.41	0.49	0.41	0.48
Debt to equity	128.5%	131.7%	143.8%	134.5%	132.4%	106.1%	106.9%	120.1%

Returns use average equity or assets over the year. Return on equity is left blank when equity is negative or so small that the ratio says nothing (above ±200%); interest cover is left blank above 200 times. Price-based ratios such as P/E are on the valuation page.

Financial health

2 of 7 checks passed · June 30, 2026

What it owns · $7.5bn

Short-term assets $339mLonger-term assets $7.2bn

What it owes, and who funded it · $6.9bn

Short-term liabilities $712mLonger-term liabilities $3.6bnShareholders' equity $2.6bn

Short-term assets cover short-term liabilities $339m of assets due within a year against $712m of liabilities due within a year.
Short-term assets cover long-term liabilities $339m short-term assets against $3.6bn of longer-dated liabilities.
More cash than debt $45m of cash against $3.1bn of debt.
Debt below 40% of shareholders' equity Debt is 120% of equity.
Debt burden no higher than five years ago Debt to equity moved from 258% to 120% over five years.
A year's operating cash flow covers at least 20% of debt $819m of operating cash flow against $3.1bn of debt.
Operating profit covers interest at least five times over Operating income of $628m against $221m of interest.

From Comstock Resources Inc's latest balance sheet as filed. Checks are fixed, documented rules (methodology), counted only where the company reports the figures — a dot means the filing doesn't break the item out. Descriptions of reported data, not advice.

Moat

25 /100

Weak moat

How hard Comstock Resources's competitive advantage looks for rivals to wear away, judged from 10 years of its own filings: returns on capital, pricing power, profit durability, cash conversion and discipline.

Returns on capital 0 / 20

Net income has been a median -0.8% of total assets over 10 years.
Durability 8 / 20

Operating margin has been a median 24.6%; its worst year was -270.1%.
Cash conversion 3 / 20

Free cash flow was positive in 2 of 8 years, at a median -24.9% of revenue.
Discipline 10 / 20

The diluted share count rose 1876.8% over five years; stock-based pay has been a median 0.9% of revenue.

AI disruption exposure: Low. In this industry, the business rests on physical assets, regulated networks or products AI itself depends on.

A rules-based reading of reported figures, not a forecast and not investment advice. How the score is built: methodology.

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Figures from Comstock Resources Inc's SEC filings (10-K and 10-Q), retrieved October 26, 2026. How we read and check them: methodology and data sources. Not investment advice. Back to Comstock Resources Inc.