Diana Shipping Inc. key statistics and ratios

In fiscal 2025, Diana Shipping Inc. had return on equity of 3.5%, an operating margin of 19.8%, debt equal to 105.3% of equity and a current ratio of 2.73. 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.

Diana Shipping Inc.: financial ratios, annual
Fiscal year	2011Dec 2011	2012Dec 2012	2013Dec 2013	2014Dec 2014	2015Dec 2015	2016Dec 2016	2017Dec 2017	2018Dec 2018	2019Dec 2019	2020Dec 2020	2021Dec 2021	2022Dec 2022	2023Dec 2023	2024Dec 2024	2025Dec 2025
Gross margin	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	93.9%	92.0%	97.4%	—	—	—	—
Operating margin	43.4%	28.6%	−5.3%	−10.4%	−29.9%	−77.3%	−298.9%	16.9%	8.0%	−66.4%	29.7%	49.2%	32.7%	25.8%	19.8%
Net margin	42.0%	24.7%	−12.9%	−8.7%	−44.7%	−148.8%	−316.1%	7.3%	−4.8%	−79.1%	26.8%	41.1%	19.0%	5.6%	8.3%
Free-cash-flow margin	37.5%	−23.2%	−80.0%	−38.0%	−83.3%	−62.9%	−63.2%	34.2%	21.3%	6.6%	33.8%	−24.6%	15.5%	35.0%	21.5%
Return on equity	8.9%	4.4%	−1.7%	−1.2%	−5.6%	−14.9%	−60.9%	2.6%	−1.8%	−26.9%	14.0%	27.0%	10.2%	2.6%	3.5%
Return on assets	6.7%	3.3%	−1.2%	−0.9%	−3.9%	−9.7%	−35.1%	1.4%	−0.9%	−13.8%	6.7%	11.8%	4.2%	1.1%	1.5%
Asset turnover	0.16	0.13	0.10	0.10	0.09	0.07	0.11	0.19	0.20	0.17	0.25	0.29	0.22	0.20	0.18
Current ratio	9.00	7.60	4.04	2.43	3.29	1.47	1.73	1.13	2.09	1.70	1.93	1.07	2.14	2.58	2.73
Debt to equity	31.0%	36.4%	34.6%	37.9%	49.7%	57.0%	96.8%	85.2%	83.9%	98.7%	109.8%	108.8%	105.7%	103.5%	105.3%
Interest cover (operating income ÷ interest)	24.7x	9.0x	n/m	n/m	n/m	n/m	n/m	1.3x	0.6x	n/m	3.1x	5.2x	1.7x	1.2x	1.0x
SG&A as % of revenue	9.8%	11.3%	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Capital spending as % of revenue	22.8%	77.5%	121.1%	63.6%	98.5%	44.6%	77.7%	1.1%	1.3%	3.5%	8.1%	79.4%	11.3%	1.6%	0.8%
Free cash flow ÷ net income	89.3%	−93.9%	—	—	—	—	—	466.6%	—	—	126.0%	−60.0%	81.6%	626.2%	257.1%
Dividends ÷ net income	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	15.4%	67.0%	83.1%	227.6%	26.0%
Dividends and buybacks ÷ free cash flow	1.2%	—	—	—	—	—	—	19.6%	105.5%	106.8%	74.9%	—	101.9%	36.3%	60.4%

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

1 of 6 checks passed · December 31, 2025

What it owns · $1.2bn

Short-term assets $245mLonger-term assets $925m

What it owes, and who funded it · $592m

Short-term liabilities $90mShareholders' equity $502m

Short-term assets cover short-term liabilities $245m of assets due within a year against $90m of liabilities due within a year.
Short-term assets cover long-term liabilities Not assessable from the reported split. Not assessable.
More cash than debt $51m of cash against $523m of debt.
Debt below 40% of shareholders' equity Debt is 104% of equity.
Debt burden no higher than five years ago Debt to equity moved from 89% to 104% over five years.
A year's operating cash flow covers at least 20% of debt $48m of operating cash flow against $523m of debt.
Operating profit covers interest at least five times over Operating income of $42m against $43m of interest.

From Diana Shipping 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

Not assessed: fewer than five years of comparable figures in the filings. AI disruption exposure for this industry: Medium.

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 Diana Shipping Inc.'s SEC filings (10-K and 10-Q). How we read and check them: methodology and data sources. Not investment advice. Back to Diana Shipping Inc.