Expand Energy key statistics and ratios
In fiscal 2025, Expand Energy had return on equity of 10.1%, an operating margin of 20.4%, debt equal to 27.0% of equity and a current ratio of 1.01. Each ratio below is calculated from the figures on its income statement, balance sheet and cash flow pages.
Financial ratios
| Fiscal year | 2008Dec 2008 | 2009Dec 2009 | 2010Dec 2010 | 2011Dec 2011 | 2012Dec 2012 | 2013Dec 2013 | 2014Dec 2014 | 2015Dec 2015 | 2016Dec 2016 | 2017Dec 2017 | 2018Dec 2018 | 2019Dec 2019 | 2020Dec 2020 | 2022Dec 2022 | 2023Dec 2023 | 2024Dec 2024 | 2025Dec 2025 | LTMSept 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 12.5% | −116.1% | 29.9% | 25.1% | −13.8% | 10.8% | 15.0% | −148.2% | −56.0% | −1.4% | 3.8% | −0.4% | −166.1% | 32.2% | 36.0% | −19.0% | 20.4% | 25.7% |
| Net margin | 5.2% | −75.7% | 18.9% | 15.0% | −6.2% | 3.8% | 8.3% | −114.1% | −55.8% | −5.0% | 2.3% | −3.6% | −185.8% | 42.0% | 27.7% | −16.9% | 15.0% | 19.8% |
| Free-cash-flow margin | −36.9% | −22.6% | −19.5% | 8.0% | −91.5% | −13.5% | −8.8% | −18.6% | −21.0% | 3.9% | 16.0% | 18.6% | 0.4% | 19.6% | 6.3% | 0.2% | 15.2% | 18.6% |
| Return on equity | 3.5% | −41.0% | 13.3% | 10.9% | −4.8% | 4.6% | 11.7% | −153.0% | — | — | 28.3% | −9.5% | — | — | 24.4% | −5.0% | 10.1% | 14.5% |
| Return on assets | 1.6% | −17.0% | 5.3% | 4.4% | −1.8% | 1.7% | 4.7% | −50.3% | −28.9% | −4.0% | 1.8% | −2.1% | −85.5% | 44.8% | 16.2% | −3.4% | 6.5% | 9.5% |
| Asset turnover | 0.30 | 0.22 | 0.28 | 0.29 | 0.30 | 0.46 | 0.56 | 0.44 | 0.52 | 0.79 | 0.80 | 0.59 | 0.46 | 1.06 | 0.58 | 0.20 | 0.43 | 0.48 |
| Current ratio | 1.19 | 0.91 | 0.73 | 0.45 | 0.47 | 0.66 | 1.32 | 0.67 | 0.59 | 0.65 | 0.55 | 0.52 | 0.36 | 1.00 | 1.99 | 0.64 | 1.01 | 0.90 |
| Debt to equity | 77.4% | 107.4% | 82.8% | 63.9% | 81.1% | 80.6% | 68.2% | 500.1% | — | — | 369.1% | 216.7% | — | 33.9% | 18.9% | 32.4% | 27.0% | 23.8% |
| Interest cover (operating income ÷ interest) | 5.4x | n/m | 147.6x | 66.4x | n/m | 9.1x | 39.1x | n/m | n/m | n/m | 0.6x | n/m | n/m | 23.6x | 30.2x | n/m | 10.5x | 17.4x |
| Effective tax rate | 39.1% | — | 38.5% | 39.0% | — | 38.0% | 35.8% | — | — | — | −4.6% | — | — | −35.2% | 22.4% | — | 20.3% | 20.3% |
| Capital spending as % of revenue | 83.0% | 79.1% | 74.2% | 42.8% | 114.6% | 37.7% | 28.8% | 28.3% | 18.4% | 0.9% | 1.3% | 0.4% | 21.8% | 15.5% | 21.0% | 36.8% | 22.6% | 21.8% |
| Free cash flow ÷ net income | −711.1% | — | −103.0% | 53.3% | — | −355.8% | −106.1% | — | — | — | 708.8% | — | — | 46.6% | 22.8% | — | 101.1% | 94.2% |
| Dividends ÷ net income | 24.5% | — | 10.7% | 11.9% | — | 32.2% | 12.2% | — | — | — | — | — | — | 24.6% | 20.1% | — | 42.1% | 19.9% |
| Dividends and buybacks ÷ free cash flow | — | — | — | 22.3% | — | — | — | — | — | 0.0% | — | 0.0% | 0.0% | 99.3% | 152.8% | >999% | 47.0% | 55.9% |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | −19.3% | −12.2% | 34.4% | 24.4% | 22.8% | 34.8% | 22.3% | 19.5% |
| Net margin | −19.9% | −11.3% | 26.2% | 18.4% | 16.9% | 26.4% | 17.6% | 15.8% |
| Free-cash-flow margin | −7.7% | 24.3% | 18.0% | 14.4% | 6.6% | 38.5% | 11.6% | 10.3% |
| Current ratio | 0.64 | 0.59 | 0.78 | 0.81 | 1.01 | 1.11 | 0.96 | 0.90 |
| Debt to equity | 32.3% | 30.5% | 28.6% | 27.6% | 27.0% | 25.6% | 19.0% | 23.8% |
Financial health
- Short-term assets cover short-term liabilities $3.1bn of assets due within a year against $3.4bn of liabilities due within a year.
- Short-term assets cover long-term liabilities $3.1bn short-term assets against $6.8bn of longer-dated liabilities.
- More cash than debt $118m of cash against $4.6bn of debt.
- Debt below 40% of shareholders' equity Debt is 24% of equity.
- Debt burden no higher than five years ago Debt to equity moved from 52% to 24% over five years.
- A year's operating cash flow covers at least 20% of debt $5.6bn of operating cash flow against $4.6bn of debt.
- Operating profit covers interest at least five times over Operating income of $3.6bn against $205m of interest.
Moat
Moderate moat
How hard Expand Energy'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 2 / 20
Net income has been a median 2.8% of total assets over 10 years.
- Durability 1 / 20
Operating margin has been a median 6.7%; its worst year was -153.0%.
- Cash conversion 14 / 20
Free cash flow was positive in 8 of 10 years, at a median 12.0% of revenue.
- Discipline 20 / 20
The diluted share count fell 73.6% over five years; stock-based pay has been a median 0.4% 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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