EQT Corporation key statistics and ratios
In fiscal 2025, EQT Corporation had return on equity of 9.2%, an operating margin of 37.6%, debt equal to 32.8% of equity and a current ratio of 0.76. Each ratio below is calculated from the figures on its income statement, balance sheet and cash flow pages.
Financial ratios
| Fiscal year | 2016Dec 2016 | 2017Dec 2017 | 2018Dec 2018 | 2019Dec 2019 | 2020Dec 2020 | 2021Dec 2021 | 2022Dec 2022 | 2023Dec 2023 | 2024Dec 2024 | 2025Dec 2025 | LTMSept 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | 36.5% | 62.3% | 62.8% | 60.3% | 44.1% | 71.5% | 71.8% | 68.8% | 63.7% | 82.3% | 83.5% |
| Operating margin | −54.4% | 12.4% | −61.1% | −26.1% | −28.7% | −20.0% | 36.3% | 33.5% | 13.0% | 37.6% | 41.8% |
| Net margin | −32.7% | 48.8% | −49.2% | −27.7% | −31.3% | −16.8% | 23.6% | 25.1% | 4.4% | 23.6% | 28.4% |
| Free-cash-flow margin | 8.8% | 2.5% | −0.5% | 5.6% | 16.2% | 8.9% | 27.5% | 16.8% | 10.9% | 32.8% | 40.7% |
| Return on equity | −7.7% | 15.7% | −18.5% | −11.8% | −10.1% | −11.9% | 16.8% | 13.4% | 1.3% | 9.2% | 10.8% |
| Return on assets | −2.9% | 6.7% | −8.9% | −6.2% | −5.2% | −5.8% | 8.0% | 7.2% | 0.7% | 5.0% | 6.4% |
| Asset turnover | 0.09 | 0.14 | 0.18 | 0.22 | 0.17 | 0.34 | 0.34 | 0.29 | 0.16 | 0.21 | 0.22 |
| Current ratio | 2.27 | 0.94 | 0.84 | 1.30 | 0.69 | 0.44 | 1.08 | 0.99 | 0.70 | 0.76 | 0.71 |
| Debt to equity | 56.1% | 35.3% | 42.9% | 54.0% | 53.2% | 56.2% | 50.8% | 39.2% | 45.3% | 32.8% | 21.8% |
| Interest cover (operating income ÷ interest) | n/m | 2.3x | n/m | n/m | n/m | n/m | 10.9x | 10.5x | 1.5x | 7.4x | 11.2x |
| Effective tax rate | — | — | — | — | — | — | 23.7% | 17.5% | 8.4% | 21.9% | 21.7% |
| SG&A as % of revenue | 15.8% | 6.8% | 5.1% | 3.9% | 5.7% | 2.9% | 3.4% | 3.4% | 6.4% | 4.4% | 4.6% |
| Capital spending as % of revenue | 68.0% | 50.4% | 65.8% | 36.3% | 34.1% | 15.5% | 18.7% | 29.2% | 42.7% | 26.5% | 26.8% |
| Free cash flow ÷ net income | — | 5.2% | — | — | — | — | 116.6% | 66.8% | 248.6% | 139.1% | 143.3% |
| Dividends ÷ net income | — | 1.4% | — | — | — | — | 11.5% | 13.2% | 141.6% | 19.1% | 15.5% |
| Dividends and buybacks ÷ free cash flow | 16.6% | 26.5% | — | 12.3% | 1.5% | 2.1% | 29.7% | 37.0% | 57.0% | 13.7% | 10.8% |
| Quarter | 2024 Q4Dec 2024 | 2025 Q1Mar 2025 | 2025 Q2Jun 2025 | 2025 Q3Sept 2025 | 2025 Q4Dec 2025 | 2026 Q1Mar 2026 | 2026 Q2Jun 2026 | 2026 Q3Sept 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | 76.2% | 78.3% | 84.8% | 80.7% | 83.8% | 88.2% | 78.7% | 79.1% |
| Operating margin | 48.1% | 28.5% | 44.3% | 30.8% | 42.5% | 60.3% | 21.8% | 26.0% |
| Net margin | 25.8% | 13.9% | 30.7% | 17.1% | 28.4% | 44.0% | 11.7% | 15.7% |
| Free-cash-flow margin | 10.1% | 71.4% | 27.1% | 20.0% | 21.5% | 72.7% | 22.0% | 24.6% |
| Current ratio | 0.70 | 0.57 | 0.71 | 0.58 | 0.76 | 0.66 | 0.67 | 0.71 |
| Debt to equity | 45.3% | 40.5% | 38.8% | 35.5% | 32.8% | 23.9% | 22.4% | 21.8% |
| SG&A as % of revenue | 6.6% | 5.3% | 3.2% | 5.0% | 4.5% | 2.8% | 5.9% | 6.6% |
Financial health
- Short-term assets cover short-term liabilities $1.1bn of assets due within a year against $1.6bn of liabilities due within a year.
- Short-term assets cover long-term liabilities $1.1bn short-term assets against $10.9bn of longer-dated liabilities.
- More cash than debt $79m of cash against $5.6bn of debt.
- Debt below 40% of shareholders' equity Debt is 22% of equity.
- Debt burden no higher than five years ago Debt to equity moved from 55% to 22% over five years.
- A year's operating cash flow covers at least 20% of debt $6.3bn of operating cash flow against $5.6bn of debt.
- Operating profit covers interest at least five times over Operating income of $3.9bn against $350m of interest.
Moat
Moderate moat
How hard EQT's competitive advantage looks for rivals to wear away, judged from 9 years of its own filings: returns on capital, pricing power, profit durability, cash conversion and discipline.
- Returns on capital 13 / 20
Cash operating profit has been a median 10.5% of total assets over 9 years.
- Pricing power 12 / 20
Gross margin has been a median 63.2%, moving by 17.5 percentage points (standard deviation) across 9 years.
- Durability 2 / 20
Operating margin has been a median 11.0%; its worst year was -76.6%.
- Cash conversion 12 / 20
Free cash flow was positive in 7 of 9 years, at a median 8.8% of revenue.
- Discipline 10 / 20
The diluted share count rose 111.3% over five years; stock-based pay has been a median 0.8% of revenue.
AI disruption exposure: Low. In this industry, the business rests on physical assets, regulated networks or products AI itself depends on.
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