SDRL · Energy(drilling oil & gas wells) · 7 years of annual accounts filed with the SEC · latest fiscal year ended 2025-12-31
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Seadrill Ltd reported revenue of $1.1 billion in fiscal 2025. Of the $347.0 million its operations generated over 7 years, 229.1% went to buybacks. On the accounting screens, it passes 4 of 8 Piotroski tests and its Altman Z'' of 4.19 is in the safe zone; 1 of the six cross-checks between its statements fires.
Revenue, fiscal 20251.1B
Operating margin4.3%gross margin —
Return on invested capital2.0%6.1% on average over 3 years
Free cash flow—
Net debt ÷ EBITDA1.0×net debt 274.0M
Piotroski F-score4/8tests 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
00.5B1.0B1.5B
2021
2022
2022
2022
2023Revenue 1.2BOperating income 329.0M
2024Revenue 1.0BOperating income 412.0M
2025Revenue 1.1BOperating income 47.0M
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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
-20%0%20%40%60%
2021
2022
2022
2022
2023Operating 28.5%Net 26.0%
2024Operating 40.8%Net 44.2%
2025Operating 4.3%Net -7.1%
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Return on invested capital
Return on invested capital
0.0%2.5%5.0%7.5%10.0%
2021
2022
2022
2022
2023Return on invested capital 8.7%
2024Return on invested capital 7.7%
2025Return on invested capital 2.0%
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Economic profit
Needs a cost of capital, which comes from the valuation below.
Return on equity
-2.7%
Return on assets
-2.0%
Asset turnover
0.28×
Overheads (SG&A)
9.5% 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
-200M0200M400M600M
2021
2022
2022
2022
2023Net income 300.0M
2024Net income 446.0M
2025Net income -77.0M
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Where 7 years of operating cash went, 2021–2025
347.0M generated by the business. Each band is its share of that total.
Reinvested in the business 0%0
Acquisitions 0%0
Dividends 0%0
Share buybacks 229%795.0M
More than it generated: funded with cash or new debt -129%-448.0M
Over the same years it paid 45.0M in stock. 750.0M of the buybacks went beyond offsetting that dilution.
Per share
Earnings per shareFree cash flow per shareDividend per share
-$2$0$2$4$6$8
2021
2022
2022
2022
2023Earnings per share $4.05
2024Earnings per share $6.28
2025Earnings per share $-1.18
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Shares outstanding
Diluted shares
65.0M67.5M70.0M72.5M75.0M
2021
2022
2022
2022
2023Diluted shares 74.0M
2024Diluted shares 71.0M
2025Diluted shares 65.0M
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Debt and liquidity
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
-0.5B00.5B1.0B
2021
2022
2022Net debt 965.0M
2022
2023Net debt -89.0M
2024Net debt 132.0M
2025Net debt 274.0M
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Net debt ÷ EBITDA
1.0×
Interest coverage
1× operating income ÷ interest
Current ratio
2.03 current assets ÷ current liabilities
Cash conversion cycle
— collects in 54d
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.
4of 8 tests passed
✕ProfitableReturn on assets above zerofailed
✕Cash from operationsOperating cash flow above zerofailed
✕Profitability improvedReturn on assets higher than a year beforefailed
✓Profit backed by cashOperating cash flow above net income (low accruals)passed
✕Less long-term debtLong-term debt as a share of assets fellfailed
✓More liquidCurrent ratio higher than a year beforepassed
✓No new sharesShare count did not growpassed
–Better gross marginGross margin higher than a year before — not reportedno data
✓Sells more per assetAsset turnover higher than a year beforepassed
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?
4.19safe zone
1.12.6
Working capital ÷ assets 0.10 × 6.56+0.64
Retained earnings ÷ assets 0.22 × 3.26+0.72
Operating income ÷ assets 0.01 × 6.72+0.08
Equity ÷ liabilities 2.62 × 1.05+2.76
Where it misleads: buybacks. A company that returns so much cash that its equity turns small or negative sinks the last two ratios without being anywhere near bankruptcy. Banks and insurers do not fit the model at all.
Beneish M-score
Do the accounts resemble those of companies that manipulated their earnings?
The accounts lack too many of the lines it needs.
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.
The effective tax rate is -51.0%.
Benign
A favourable geographic mix, or legitimate tax credits.
Worrying
Not sustainable; projecting it forward inflates the valuation.
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.
Every Form 4 filed in the last twelve months, read line by line: 6 filings by 6 people. Open-market purchases and sales are counted apart from awards, option exercises and shares withheld for taxes.
Bought on the open market—none in the period
Sold on the open market$5.4M6 sale(s) by 4 insider(s)
Under pre-arranged plans0%of the sales followed a 10b5-1 plan set months earlier
A Form 4 says what happened, when, how many shares and at what price. It does not say why: a sale can be diversification, a tax bill or a plan fixed months earlier, and an award is pay, not a purchase. Nothing here is a reason to buy or sell anything.
Which large funds report holding it
From the Form 13F of the 28 institutions followed on this site, as of the end of their last reported quarter. A 13F is filed up to 45 days later and shows only long positions in US-listed shares.
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.
