Is the business good?
How good a business is WFRD?
Weatherford International plc earns 22% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
22%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 13 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 13%
Operating margin · Oil & Gas Equipment & Services median 10% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.44×
Cash conversion · 0.98× a year ago · every dollar of reported profit arrived as cash, and more
- Share count, year on year
- −0.28%
Share count, year on year · flat: no meaningful dilution
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | −40% |
| FY2021 | 3.2% |
| FY2022 | 9.5% |
| FY2023 | 16% |
| FY2024 | 17% |
| FY2025 | 15% |
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- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 13%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 7.7%
- Free cash flow margin
- 11%
- R&D as % of revenue
- 1.9%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $4.78B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $526M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $366M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 22%
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 #1 of 27 by Smart Score