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How good a business is HAL?
Halliburton earns 13% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
13%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 3.6 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 11%
Operating margin · Oil & Gas Equipment & Services median 10% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.08×
Cash conversion · 1.15× a year ago · every dollar of reported profit arrived as cash, and more
- Share count, year on year
- −2.2%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | −17% |
| FY2021 | 12% |
| FY2022 | 13% |
| FY2023 | 18% |
| FY2024 | 17% |
| FY2025 | 10% |
Details›
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 11%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 7.2%
- Free cash flow margin
- 7.7%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $22.4B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $1.73B
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $1.60B
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 13%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Oil & Gas Equipment & Services
Ranks #3 of 27 by Smart Score