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Tetra Technologies Inc key statistics and ratios

In fiscal 2025, Tetra Technologies Inc had return on equity of 1.1% and a net margin of 0.5%. 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.

Tetra Technologies Inc: financial ratios, annual
Fiscal year2009Dec 20092010Dec 20102011Dec 20112012Dec 20122013Dec 20132014Dec 20142015Dec 20152016Dec 20162017Dec 20172018Dec 20182019Dec 20192020Dec 20202021Dec 20212022Dec 20222023Dec 20232024Dec 20242025Dec 2025LTMSept 2026
Net margin7.8%−5.0%1.9%1.8%0.0%−15.7%−11.2%−26.2%−5.4%−11.0%−26.3%−13.5%26.6%1.4%4.1%18.1%0.5%1.4%
Return on equity11.9%−8.0%3.1%3.0%0.0%−36.7%−41.8%−69.1%−17.7%−32.3%−141.9%——7.6%20.1%53.7%1.1%2.5%
Return on assets5.1%−3.3%1.3%1.3%0.0%−10.4%−6.8%−10.9%−3.0%−4.6%−11.1%−4.3%13.5%1.9%5.6%20.0%0.5%1.2%
Effective tax rate34.7%——33.5%—————————31.9%19.6%—84.1%63.6%

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

3 of 5 checks passed · September 30, 2026
What it owns · $809m
Short-term assets $394mLonger-term assets $415m
What it owes, and who funded it · $578m
Short-term liabilities $162mShareholders' equity $415m
  • Short-term assets cover short-term liabilities $394m of assets due within a year against $162m 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 $84m of cash against $183m of debt.
  • Debt below 40% of shareholders' equity Debt is 44% of equity.
  • Debt burden no higher than five years ago Debt to equity moved from 141% to 44% over five years.
  • A year's operating cash flow covers at least 20% of debt $63m of operating cash flow against $183m of debt.
  • Operating profit covers interest at least five times over Interest not separately reported. Not assessable.

From Tetra Technologies 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

19 /100

Weak moat

How hard Tetra Technologies'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 0.7% of total assets over 10 years.

  • Pricing power 0 / 20

    Gross margin has been a median 18.8%, moving by 28.3 percentage points (standard deviation) across 10 years.

  • Durability 0 / 20

    Net margin has been a median 0.8%; its worst year was -176.3%.

  • Cash conversion 6 / 20

    Free cash flow was positive in 6 of 10 years, at a median 0.3% of revenue.

  • Discipline 13 / 20

    The diluted share count rose 11.5% over five years; stock-based pay has been a median 1.2% 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 Tetra Technologies Inc's SEC filings (10-K and 10-Q), retrieved November 2, 2026. How we read and check them: methodology and data sources. Not investment advice. Back to Tetra Technologies Inc.