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
| Fiscal year | 2009Dec 2009 | 2010Dec 2010 | 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 | LTMSept 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | 7.8% | −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 equity | 11.9% | −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 assets | 5.1% | −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 rate | 34.7% | — | — | 33.5% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 31.9% | 19.6% | — | 84.1% | 63.6% |
Financial health
- 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.
Moat
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.
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