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Chord Energy (CHRD) FY2025 results: revenue $4.9 billion, down 7.1% on the year

Chord Energy Corp. (CHRD) reported revenue of $4.9 billion for fiscal 2025, the year ended 31 December 2025, down 7.1% on the year before. Net income was $44 million, down 94.8%, and diluted earnings per share $0.74. The figures are the company's own, from the 10-K it filed with the SEC on 26 February 2026.

Revenue
$4.9 billion
-7.1% on the year
FY2018FY2025
Operating margin
4.0%
20.9% a year earlier
FY2018FY2025
Net income
$44 million
-94.8% on the year
FY2018FY2025
Diluted EPS
$0.74
-95.4% on the year
FY2018FY2025

this yearthe year beforeHover a bar for its figure.

The year in brief

What management said about the year

Guidance figures: 16 new, 1 kept.

  • Cash flow exceeded expectations in 4Q25: Operating cash flow and Adjusted FCF were above expectations, helped by oil volumes at the high end of guidance and capital below expectations.
  • Free cash flow gains from initiatives: Continuous improvement initiatives added about $160MM of incremental run-rate free cash flow in FY25.
  • Oil volumes at top of guidance: 4Q25 oil output was 153.0 MBopd, the high end of the guided range. Total output was 272.8 MBoepd, 56.1% of it oil.
  • Seven 4-mile wells turned in line: Seven 4-mile wells were turned in line in FY25, three of them after 3Q25. Production from the program is at or above expectations.
  • Breakeven lowered over 10%: Weighted average breakeven of inventory fell more than 10% year over year, improving inventory quality.
Read the Q4 FY2025 earnings call summary

From this 10-K

Chord Energy is an independent exploration and production company that acquires, explores, develops and produces crude oil, NGLs and natural gas, primarily in the Williston Basin, with limited non-operated interests in the Marcellus Shale. On May 31, 2024 it acquired Enerplus Corporation, a Canadian company, in a stock-and-cash transaction. In 2025 its production averaged 276,620 net barrels of oil equivalent per day, 56% of it oil.

Chord Energy Corp., the 10-K for 2025

Chord Energy is an independent exploration and production company that acquires, explores, develops and produces crude oil, NGLs and natural gas, primarily in the Williston Basin, with limited non-operated interests in the Marcellus Shale. On May 31, 2024 it acquired Enerplus Corporation, a Canadian company, in a stock-and-cash transaction. In 2025 its production averaged 276,620 net barrels of oil equivalent per day, 56% of it oil.

Acreage and wells

As of December 31, 2025 the company held 1,302,921 net leasehold acres in the Williston Basin, approximately all of it held by production, and states that this is the largest acreage position of any operator in the basin. It is developing the Middle Bakken and Three Forks formations, which are present across much of that acreage. It had 5,025 gross, or 3,937.3 net, operated producing wells, with an average working interest of 78% in the wells it operates. At year end it had four operated rigs running. For 2026 it states a plan to bring online approximately 135 to 165 gross operated wells with an average working interest of approximately 75%.

Reserves

Its independent reserve engineers, Netherland, Sewell & Associates, estimated net proved reserves at 917.5 MMBoe at December 31, 2025, of which 69% were proved developed and 56% were crude oil. By product, that was crude oil of 514.7 MMBbls, NGL of 174.1 MMBbls and natural gas of 1,372.1 Bcf. Properties the company operates accounted for 89% of estimated net proved reserves.

Selling the barrels

The company sells its oil, NGLs and natural gas principally to refiners, marketers and other purchasers with access to nearby pipeline and rail facilities. It manages its commodities marketing in-house. Much of its crude oil production is sold through gathering systems connected to rail facilities.

Returning cash and management

The company runs a return of capital program that pays a base cash dividend, supplemented by share repurchases and variable dividends. Its senior management has an average of 25 years of industry experience.

From Chord Energy's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2025. The filing

Written from the 10-K filed 26 February 2026: read the full 10-K.

The four quarters: Q1 FY2025 · Q2 FY2025 · Q3 FY2025 · Q4 FY2025

Income statement (profit and loss)

$ millionFY2025FY2024FY2023On the yearLast 8 years
Revenue4,8775,2513,897-7.1%
Cost of revenue9751,412761-31.0%
Gross profit3,9023,8393,135+1.6%
Gross margin80.0%73.1%80.5%
Operating income1971,1001,273-82.1%
Operating margin4.0%20.9%32.7%
Interest expense80.256.528.6+41.8%
Pre-tax income243n/an/a
Income tax199264315-24.6%
Effective tax rate81.7%n/an/a
Net income44.58491,024-94.8%
Net margin0.9%16.2%26.3%
Diluted EPS$0.74$16.02$23.51-95.4%
$ million except per share.
Read moreFree cash flow is operating cash flow less capital expenditure; the effective tax rate is income tax over pre-tax income; margins are the line over revenue. Gross profit is revenue less cost of revenue, and operating income is revenue less the company's own total costs, where the statement does not print those lines. Those four are arithmetic on the filed numbers; everything else is as filed. Money is in $ million as the company files it, or in $ billion by the switch above the tables; per share figures and share counts are as they are.

Cash flow

$ millionFY2025FY2024FY2023On the yearLast 8 years
Operating cash flow2,0412,0971,820-2.7%
Cash from investing-1,806-1,754-1,430
Cash from financing-82.1-624-665
Depreciation and amortisation1,4701,108599+32.7%
Share-based compensation25.723.046.1+11.8%
Buybacks365444239-17.9%
Dividends paid318530500-40.0%
Dividend per share$5.20$10.15$11.88-48.8%
Diluted shares, weighted58m53m43m+9.7%
Shares outstanding at period end57m60m41m-5.5%

Balance sheet

$ millionFY2025FY2024FY2023On the yearLast 8 years
Shareholders' equity8,0808,7025,077-7.2%
Debt1,480843396+75.6%
Operating lease liabilities10.515.218.7-30.8%
Finance lease liabilities3.53.61.9-2.6%
Other liabilities3,5013,4681,433+0.9%
Total liabilities and equity13,07413,0326,926+0.3%
Fixed assets11,33710,6865,315+6.1%
Goodwill0.05310.0
Cash and equivalents19037.0318+412.9%
Receivables1,1171,299943-14.0%
Inventory11694.372.6+22.7%
Other assets316385278-18.0%
Total assets13,07413,0326,926+0.3%

10-K for the year ended 31 December 2025, filed 26 February 2026: the filing.