PSX · Energy(petroleum refining) · 10 years of annual accounts filed with the SEC · latest fiscal year ended 2025-12-31
Phillips 66 reported revenue of $132.4 billion in fiscal 2025, after growing 5.1% a year over the previous 9 years. Of the $54.1 billion its operations generated over 10 years, 36.1% went to buybacks and 30.2% to dividends; the share count fell 23.0%. On the accounting screens, it passes 8 of 9 Piotroski tests and its Beneish M-score is below the -1.78 line; 1 of the six cross-checks between its statements fires.
Revenue, fiscal 2025132.4B+5.1% a year over 9 years
Operating margin—gross margin 12.3%
Return on invested capital—
Free cash flow—
Net debt ÷ EBITDANet cash78.0M more cash than debt
Piotroski F-score8/9tests of improvement passed
Is it growing?
Revenue and the operating income it turns into. Growth that does not reach operating income is growth bought with margin.
RevenueOperating income
-50.0B050.0B100.0B150.0B200.0B
2016Revenue 84.3BOperating income 2.2B
2017Revenue 102.4BOperating income 3.6B
2018Revenue 111.5BOperating income 7.9B
2019Revenue 107.3BOperating income 4.7B
2020Revenue 64.1BOperating income -4.4B
2021Revenue 111.5B
2022Revenue 170.0B
2023Revenue 147.4B
2024Revenue 143.2B
2025Revenue 132.4B
2016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Compound growth a year
3 yrs
5 yrs
9 yrs
Revenue
-8.0%
+15.6%
+5.1%
Net income
-26.4%
—
+12.3%
Earnings per share
-22.6%
—
+15.6%
Dividend per share
+7.6%
+5.6%
+7.7%
Shares
-4.9%
-1.5%
-2.9%
Falling shares are buybacks: each remaining share owns more of the company.
Does it earn more than its capital costs?
Margins say how much of each sale is kept; return on invested capital says how much the business earns on the money it needs to operate. Growth only creates value when that return is above the cost of the capital.
GrossOperatingNetFree cash flow
-10.0%0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%
2016Gross 25.9%Operating 2.6%Net 1.8%
2017Gross 22.4%Operating 3.5%Net 5.0%
2018Gross 12.1%Operating 7.1%Net 5.0%
2019Gross 11.0%Operating 4.4%Net 2.9%
2020Gross 10.0%Operating -6.9%Net -6.2%
2021Gross 8.4%Net 1.2%
2022Gross 11.8%Net 6.5%
2023Gross 13.1%Net 4.8%
2024Gross 9.2%Net 1.5%
2025Gross 12.3%Net 3.3%
2016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Return on invested capital
Return on invested capital
-40.0%-20.0%0.0%20.0%40.0%
2016Return on invested capital 7.0%
2017Return on invested capital 7.4%
2018Return on invested capital 25.3%
2019Return on invested capital 14.9%
2020Return on invested capital -27.7%
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Economic profit
Needs a cost of capital, which comes from the valuation below.
Return on equity
15.1%
Return on assets
6.0%
Asset turnover
1.80×
Research & development
0.0% of revenue
Overheads (SG&A)
1.8% of revenue
Is the profit cash, and where does the cash go?
Net income is an accounting opinion; free cash flow is what was left in the bank after investing. Stock-based pay does not leave the bank — shareholders pay it through dilution — so it is shown taken off as well.
Net incomeFree cash flowAfter stock-based pay
-5.0B05.0B10.0B15.0B
2016Net income 1.6B
2017Net income 5.1B
2018Net income 5.6B
2019Net income 3.1B
2020Net income -4.0B
2021Net income 1.3B
2022Net income 11.0B
2023Net income 7.0B
2024Net income 2.1B
2025Net income 4.4B
2016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Where 10 years of operating cash went, 2016–2025
54.1B generated by the business. Each band is its share of that total.
Reinvested in the business 0%0
Acquisitions 9%4.7B
Dividends 30%16.3B
Share buybacks 36%19.6B
Kept, or used to pay down debt 25%13.5B
Over the same years it paid 1.8B in stock. The share count fell 23.0%. 17.8B of the buybacks went beyond offsetting that dilution.
Per share
Earnings per shareFree cash flow per shareDividend per share
$-10.00$0.00$10.00$20.00$30.00
2016Earnings per share $2.93Dividend per share $2.42
2017Earnings per share $9.85Dividend per share $2.69
2018Earnings per share $11.80Dividend per share $3.03
2019Earnings per share $6.78Dividend per share $3.46
2020Earnings per share $-9.04Dividend per share $3.58
2021Earnings per share $2.99Dividend per share $3.60
2022Earnings per share $23.27Dividend per share $3.78
2023Earnings per share $15.48Dividend per share $4.15
2024Earnings per share $5.02Dividend per share $4.46
2025Earnings per share $10.79Dividend per share $4.71
2016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Shares outstanding
Diluted shares
400.0M450.0M500.0M550.0M
2016Diluted shares 530.1M
2017Diluted shares 518.5M
2018Diluted shares 474.0M
2019Diluted shares 453.9M
2020Diluted shares 439.5M
2021Diluted shares 440.4M
2022Diluted shares 473.7M
2023Diluted shares 453.2M
2024Diluted shares 421.9M
2025Diluted shares 408.1M
2016201720182019202020212022202320242025
How strong is the balance sheet?
Debt is not bad in itself; debt the business cannot service in a bad year is. Net debt is debt minus cash, and below zero the company holds more cash than it owes.
Net debt
-6.0B-4.0B-2.0B02.0B
2016Net debt -1.7B
2017Net debt -3.1B
2018Net debt -3.0B
2019Net debt -1.1B
2020Net debt -1.5B
2021Net debt -1.7B
2022Net debt -5.6B
2023Net debt -1.8B
2024Net debt 93.0M
2025Net debt -78.0M
2016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Net debt ÷ EBITDA
—
Interest coverage
— operating income ÷ interest
Current ratio
1.30 current assets ÷ current liabilities
Cash conversion cycle
— collects in 27d
Three classic screens of the accounts
Each asks a different question of the same statements — is it improving, does it look like a company heading for distress, do the accounts resemble ones that were manipulated. None is a verdict; each shows what moves it.
Piotroski F-score
Is the business improving? Nine yes-or-no tests, this year against last.
8of 9 tests passed
✓ProfitableReturn on assets above zeropassed
✓Cash from operationsOperating cash flow above zeropassed
✓Profitability improvedReturn on assets higher than a year beforepassed
✓Profit backed by cashOperating cash flow above net income (low accruals)passed
✓Less long-term debtLong-term debt as a share of assets fellpassed
✓More liquidCurrent ratio higher than a year beforepassed
✓No new sharesShare count did not growpassed
✓Better gross marginGross margin higher than a year beforepassed
✕Sells more per assetAsset turnover higher than a year beforefailed
Where it misleads: it measures change, not level. An excellent business that stood still for a year scores low; a poor one recovering from a disaster scores high.
Altman Z''-score
Does the balance sheet look like those of companies that went bankrupt?
The accounts lack a line it needs (retained earnings, current assets or liabilities).
Beneish M-score
Do the accounts resemble those of companies that manipulated their earnings?
-2.70below the -1.78 line
-1.78
Receivables vs sales 0.96+0.88
Gross margin slipping 0.75+0.40
Soft assets 1.00 (not reported, set to 1)+0.40
Sales growth 0.92+0.82
Slower depreciation 1.00 (not reported, set to 1)+0.12
Overheads vs sales 0.94-0.16
Profit not in cash -0.01-0.04
Leverage rising 0.87-0.28
Where it misleads: fast growth and acquisitions. Sales growth carries a heavy weight, so a company growing 50% a year scores like a suspect without having done anything. It is a screen from a 1999 study, not an accusation.
Where the statements disagree
Cross-checks between the income statement, the balance sheet and the cash flow for the latest year, each with the benign reading and the worrying one.
Inventory is growing 28% against revenue growing -8%.
Benign
Stocking up for a launch, or securing supply.
Worrying
Demand is softening; discounts or write-downs tend to follow.
What is it worth, under which assumptions?
A company is worth the cash it will generate, brought back to today. This model projects revenue with growth that fades over the years, applies a free cash flow margin, and discounts the result at the cost of capital. Every assumption says where it came from, and all of them can be changed.
The SEC accounts lack the lines needed for revenue, free cash flow or the share count, so there is no DCF for this company.
What it has filed lately
The last twelve months at the SEC, most important first: annual and quarterly reports, events, large holders and insiders.
Accounts from the company's own SEC filings; lines some companies do not report are shown as a dash rather than estimated. The risk-free rate is the 10-year US Treasury yield. A DCF is a way of making assumptions explicit, not a forecast: it states what the company would be worth if the assumptions held. The scores are screens that point where to look, not verdicts. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell.