Magnolia Oil & Gas Corp key statistics and ratios
In fiscal 2025, Magnolia Oil & Gas Corp had return on equity of 16.4% and a net margin of 24.8%. Each ratio below is calculated from the figures on its income statement, balance sheet and cash flow pages.
Financial ratios
| Fiscal year | 2017Dec 2017 | 2019Dec 2019 | 2020Dec 2020 | 2021Dec 2021 | 2022Dec 2022 | 2023Dec 2023 | 2024Dec 2024 | 2025Dec 2025 | LTMJun 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | 44.4% | 5.3% | −223.2% | 38.7% | 52.7% | 31.6% | 27.8% | 24.8% | 28.8% |
| Return on equity | — | 3.7% | −67.7% | 44.3% | 64.2% | 21.4% | 19.0% | 16.4% | 20.5% |
| Return on assets | 27.4% | 2.4% | −49.1% | 26.1% | 41.4% | 14.6% | 13.1% | 11.4% | 14.1% |
| Effective tax rate | 1.5% | 14.8% | — | 1.6% | 0.6% | 19.5% | 19.4% | 19.2% | 19.6% |
| Dividends ÷ net income | — | 0.0% | — | 3.4% | 8.4% | 22.7% | 26.7% | 34.8% | 27.5% |
Financial health
- Short-term assets cover short-term liabilities $489m of assets due within a year against $309m 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 $296m of cash against $394m of debt.
- Debt below 40% of shareholders' equity Debt is 18% of equity.
- Debt burden no higher than five years ago Debt to equity moved from 37% to 18% over five years.
- A year's operating cash flow covers at least 20% of debt $1.0bn of operating cash flow against $394m of debt.
- Operating profit covers interest at least five times over Interest not separately reported. Not assessable.
Moat
Strong moat
How hard Magnolia Oil & Gas's competitive advantage looks for rivals to wear away, judged from 8 years of its own filings: returns on capital, pricing power, profit durability, cash conversion and discipline.
- Returns on capital 20 / 20
Net income has been a median 13.5% of total assets over 8 years.
- Durability 10 / 20
Operating margin has been a median 40.9%; its worst year was -260.5%.
- Cash conversion 20 / 20
Free cash flow was positive in 7 of 7 years, at a median 36.9% of revenue.
- Discipline 14 / 20
The diluted share count rose 8.6% over five years; stock-based pay has been a median 1.4% 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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