TALOTalos Energy Inc.

$16.80+88% 1Y

Is the business good?

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Margins compressing. That is the only one of 4 checks this filer's data supports, so take it as a single data point rather than a settled answer.

1 to watch, 3 without data
Margin direction, 3 years−39.2 ptsderived

Operating margin has narrowed over the past few years, profitability per dollar of sales is eroding.

Against the whole market›

Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.

Leverage (Debt/EBITDA)better than 70% of the market

Where this answer is blind. The F-score rewards improvement, so an already-elite company can score mid-pack.

How good a business is TALO?

Talos Energy Inc. earns −7.4% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.

−7.4%

Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 16 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value

Operating margin
−13%

Operating margin · Oil & Gas E&P median 25% · 12 months to Q2 2026

Share count, year on year
−4.1%

Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company

Operating margin by fiscal year
YearOperating margin
FY2020−73%
FY202130%
FY202245%
FY202314%
FY20248.8%
FY2025−31%
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Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
−13%
Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
−20%
Free cash flow margin
17%
Revenue, trailing twelve months
$1.98B
Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
$331M
Net income, trailing twelve months
−$405M
Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
−7.4%

Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.