Is the business good?
How good a business is NOV?
NOV Inc. earns 4.7% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
4.7%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 4.3 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 4.5%
Operating margin · Oil & Gas Equipment & Services median 10% · 12 months to Q1 2026
- Share count, year on year
- −5.0%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
- Gross margin
- 20%
Gross margin
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | −40% |
| FY2021 | −2.4% |
| FY2022 | 3.6% |
| FY2023 | 7.6% |
| FY2024 | 9.9% |
| FY2025 | 5.7% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 20%
- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 4.5%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 1.1%
- Free cash flow margin
- 8.4%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $8.69B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $734M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $91M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 4.7%
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 #21 of 27 by Smart Score