Is the business good?
How good a business is TALO?
Talos Energy Inc. earns −21% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
−21%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 30 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- −42%
Operating margin · Oil & Gas E&P median 30% · 12 months to Q1 2026
- Share count, year on year
- −6.6%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | −73% |
| FY2021 | 30% |
| FY2022 | 45% |
| FY2023 | 14% |
| FY2024 | 8.8% |
| FY2025 | −31% |
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- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2026
- −42%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2026
- −43%
- Free cash flow margin
- 19%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $1.74B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $336M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- −$741M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- −21%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.