Is the business good?
How good a business is CHRD?
Chord Energy Corporation earns 1.6% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
1.6%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 7.4 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 3.6%
Operating margin · Oil & Gas E&P median 30% · 12 months to Q1 2026
- Share count, year on year
- −4.9%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
- Gross margin
- 74%
Gross margin
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2021 | 51% |
| FY2022 | 43% |
| FY2023 | 33% |
| FY2024 | 21% |
| FY2025 | 4.0% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 74%
- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 3.6%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2026
- −1.3%
- Free cash flow margin
- 9.4%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $5.33B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $501M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- −$67M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 1.6%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.