Is the business good?
How good a business is MUR?
Murphy Oil Corporation earns 7.0% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
7.0%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 2.0 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 19%
Operating margin · Oil & Gas E&P median 30% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Share count, year on year
- +2.1%
Share count, year on year · shareholders own a smaller slice than a year ago
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | −69% |
| FY2021 | 12% |
| FY2022 | 40% |
| FY2023 | 30% |
| FY2024 | 20% |
| FY2025 | 11% |
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- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 19%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 9.8%
- Free cash flow margin
- 50%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $3.01B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $1.52B
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $294M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 7.0%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.