Quality
Return on invested capital, after tax
From the FY2025 filing
ValueScreener company report
NYSE / Energy / Oil & Gas Exploration & Production
Share price
53.15 USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026Market capitalisation
4.72B USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 20261 of 10
What the business is, what it costs, and how it reads on four questions.
Market dataSEC filingComputed
Return on invested capital, after tax
From the FY2025 filing
Debt to equity
From the FY2025 filing
Price to earnings
FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close
Free cash flow yield
FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close
Price to earnings is 12.75x at the close of 2026-10-15 on FY2025 figures; the lines are 15.00x (Graham's defensive ceiling) and, by market convention, 10.00x, 25.00x and 40.00x, and this sits between 10.00x and 15.00x.
Today, against the Oil & Gas Exploration & Production industry (48 companies), 12.75x sits at the 37th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 10.64x to 25.81x.
Return on invested capital was 8.8% in FY2025, in the band labelled "Around the cost of capital" (8.0% to 12.0%), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data.
Today, against the Energy sector (108 companies), 8.8% sits at the 61st percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 2.6% to 11.9%.
Interest coverage was 5.64x in FY2025, in the band labelled "Investment grade" (3.00x to 6.00x), on lines anchored on Damodaran's interest-coverage table.
These are CRC’s filed figures. The research desk says what they mean, against peers and its own years, with what to check next.
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The newest filing, what it moved, and when the next one is due.
SEC filingCompany statement
The newest accounts on file are the FY2025 annual report: 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, accession 0001609253-26-000051.
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The returns the business earns on its capital, and the margins behind them.
SEC filingComputed
| Figure | Value, source and document |
|---|---|
| Return on invested capital, after tax | 8.8% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051 |
| Return on equity | 9.9% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051 |
| Return on capital employed, pre-tax | 9.4% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051 |
| Return on assets | 4.9% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051 |
Gross marginWhy n/aOur archived statements for this filer carry no gross profit line, so there is nothing to compute a gross margin from and trace back to source. That may be because the filer presents no cost of revenue, or because we have not captured the concept. We do not guess which. | n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051 |
| Operating margin | 16.3% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051 |
| Net margin | 9.9% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051 |
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What it owes against what it owns, and whether it can meet what falls due.
SEC filingComputedCompany statement
| Figure | Value, source and document |
|---|---|
| Debt to equity | 0.37 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051 |
| Current ratio | 0.89 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051 |
| Quick ratio | 0.79 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051 |
| Interest coverage | 5.64x ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051 |
| Altman Z-score | 1.85 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051 |
| Net debt | 1.23B ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051 |
What California Resources Corporation owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2025, from the balance sheet it filed (10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051).
| Total assets | 7.40B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Total liabilities | 3.73B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026 |
| Shareholders' equity | 3.67B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026 |
| Cash | 132.0M FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026 |
| Total debt | 1.36B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026 |
| Net debt | 1.23B |
| Current ratio | 0.89 |
| Debt to equity | 0.37 |
Read from the filed balance sheet for each year, with the income statement of the same year supplying operating profit where a ratio needs it. Nothing here is a view on whether this company is sound.
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What the market charges for it, against its own record and companies like it.
Market dataSEC filingComputed
| Figure | Value, source and document |
|---|---|
| Price to earnings | 12.75x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051 |
| P/E on trailing twelve months | 16.90x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings |
| Price to book | 1.26x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051 |
| Price to sales | 1.27x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051 |
| Enterprise value to EBIT | 9.82x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051 |
| Enterprise value to EBITDA | 5.30x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051 |
Price to earnings over growthWhy n/aWe do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show. | n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051 |
| Diluted earnings per share | 4.15 USD FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051 |
| Graham number | 62.80 USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051 |
We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value CRC on your own assumptions in the DCF workbench, starting from the filed figures.
What the market charges for California Resources Corporation today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.
| Share price | 53.15 USD |
|---|---|
| Market capitalisation | 4.72B USD |
| Enterprise value to EBITDA | 5.30x |
| Graham number | 62.80 USD |
| Diluted earnings per share, FY2025 | 4.15 USD |
Price to earnings on trailing twelve months, a different basis from the fiscal-year P/E above, since Oct 3, 2016: low 0.56x, median 6.04x, high 46.23x, latest 16.90x. 1,552 trading days with a meaningful ratio, 896 more on a loss and left out. Each close over the trailing twelve months of earnings as known that day: a quarter counts from the day it was filed.
Same industry (Oil & Gas Exploration & Production) and size band (Mid, 2B to 10B), nearest in market value, net margin and current ratio. Each of those counts equally, by how many of the companies considered sit between the two on it. Closest first: the order is likeness and nothing else.
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Whether profit arrives as cash, and what is paid back to shareholders.
SEC filingComputed
| Figure | Value, source and document |
|---|---|
| Free cash flow yield | 11.7% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051 |
| Free cash flow | 543.0M USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051 |
| Free cash flow margin | 14.8% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051 |
| Dividend yield | 3.0% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051 |
| Payout ratio | 37.5% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051 |
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Every figure, the year it is for and the document it was read from.
SEC filingMarket data
Computed from the accounts this company filed with the SEC and, in a ratio with a price in it, the last close, dated on this page. Every filed figure below carries the fiscal year and the filing date its accounts were read from, and every blank carries the reason it is blank. Nothing here is a view on this company.
| Figure | Value | Year | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12.75x | FY2025 | Oct 15, 2026 | |
FormulaShare price / earnings per share. Where the filing states no earnings per share this listing can be priced on, which is every 20-F and 40-F filer because theirs is stated per ordinary share, it is market capitalisation / net income: the same multiple, undiluted. As ofThe close on Oct 15, 2026, over the filed figures of FY2025: a price is in this figure, and it moved after the filing. Form10-KFiledMar 2, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001609253-26-000051What we read from itIncome statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001609253-26-000051, leaves this page and opens in a new tab | |||
| 1.26x | FY2025 | Oct 15, 2026 | |
FormulaMarket capitalisation / shareholders equity As ofThe close on Oct 15, 2026, over the filed figures of FY2025: a price is in this figure, and it moved after the filing. Form10-KFiledMar 2, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001609253-26-000051What we read from itBalance sheetFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001609253-26-000051, leaves this page and opens in a new tab | |||
| 9.82x | FY2025 | Oct 15, 2026 | |
Formula(Market capitalisation + total debt - cash) / operating income, or over the filing's own EBIT (income before tax + interest expense) where the filer tags no operating line, as Johnson & Johnson does not in any of its ten filed years. As ofThe close on Oct 15, 2026, over the filed figures of FY2025: a price is in this figure, and it moved after the filing. Form10-KFiledMar 2, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001609253-26-000051What we read from itIncome statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001609253-26-000051, leaves this page and opens in a new tabForm10-KFiledMar 2, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001609253-26-000051What we read from itBalance sheetFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001609253-26-000051, leaves this page and opens in a new tab | |||
| 11.7% | FY2025 | Oct 15, 2026 | |
FormulaFree cash flow per share / share price x 100 As ofThe close on Oct 15, 2026, over the filed figures of FY2025: a price is in this figure, and it moved after the filing. Form10-KFiledMar 2, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001609253-26-000051What we read from itCash flow statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001609253-26-000051, leaves this page and opens in a new tab | |||
| 8.8% | FY2025 | Mar 2, 2026 | |
FormulaVendor trailing-twelve-month return on invested capital where one is published, which uses after-tax operating profit over total assets less current liabilities. Otherwise our own recompute: NOPAT / (shareholders equity + total debt - cash) x 100, where NOPAT is the filed operating profit after tax, or the filing's own EBIT after tax where the filer tags no operating line. As ofThe filing date of the statements below, for FY2025. Form10-KFiledMar 2, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001609253-26-000051What we read from itIncome statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001609253-26-000051, leaves this page and opens in a new tabForm10-KFiledMar 2, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001609253-26-000051What we read from itBalance sheetFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001609253-26-000051, leaves this page and opens in a new tab | |||
| 3.0% | FY2025 | Oct 15, 2026 | |
FormulaCommon dividends paid in the latest filed year / market capitalisation x 100. n/a where the filing cannot support it: a special or first-year payment, a total that mixes preferred dividends, or a cash-flow statement over 15 months old. As ofThe close on Oct 15, 2026, over the filed figures of FY2025: a price is in this figure, and it moved after the filing. Form10-KFiledMar 2, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001609253-26-000051What we read from itCash flow statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001609253-26-000051, leaves this page and opens in a new tab | |||
| 0.37 | FY2025 | Mar 2, 2026 | |
FormulaTotal debt / shareholders equity As ofThe filing date of the statements below, for FY2025. Form10-KFiledMar 2, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001609253-26-000051What we read from itBalance sheetFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001609253-26-000051, leaves this page and opens in a new tab | |||
| 0.89 | FY2025 | Mar 2, 2026 | |
FormulaCurrent assets / current liabilities As ofThe filing date of the statements below, for FY2025. Form10-KFiledMar 2, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001609253-26-000051What we read from itBalance sheetFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001609253-26-000051, leaves this page and opens in a new tab | |||
| 1.27x | FY2025 | Oct 15, 2026 | |
FormulaMarket capitalisation / revenue As ofThe close on Oct 15, 2026, over the filed figures of FY2025: a price is in this figure, and it moved after the filing. Form10-KFiledMar 2, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001609253-26-000051What we read from itIncome statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001609253-26-000051, leaves this page and opens in a new tab | |||
| n/a | FY2025 | Oct 15, 2026 | |
| n/a This figure compares a year against the one before it, and we hold one filed year for this company. | |||
FormulaPrice to earnings / the annual earnings growth rate, in percentage points As ofThe close on Oct 15, 2026, over the filed figures of FY2025: a price is in this figure, and it moved after the filing. Form10-KFiledMar 2, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001609253-26-000051What we read from itIncome statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001609253-26-000051, leaves this page and opens in a new tab | |||
| 1.85 | FY2025 | Oct 15, 2026 | |
Formula1.2 x working capital/assets + 1.4 x retained earnings/assets + 3.3 x EBIT/assets + 0.6 x market value of equity/total liabilities + 1.0 x revenue/assets As ofThe close on Oct 15, 2026, over the filed figures of FY2025: a price is in this figure, and it moved after the filing. Form10-KFiledMar 2, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001609253-26-000051What we read from itIncome statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001609253-26-000051, leaves this page and opens in a new tabForm10-KFiledMar 2, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001609253-26-000051What we read from itBalance sheetFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001609253-26-000051, leaves this page and opens in a new tab | |||
| -2.65 | FY2025 | Mar 2, 2026 | |
FormulaAn eight-variable index of year-on-year changes in receivables, gross margin, asset quality, revenue, depreciation, overheads, leverage and accruals As ofThe filing date of the statements below, for FY2025. Form10-KFiledMar 2, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001609253-26-000051What we read from itIncome statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001609253-26-000051, leaves this page and opens in a new tabForm10-KFiledMar 2, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001609253-26-000051What we read from itBalance sheetFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001609253-26-000051, leaves this page and opens in a new tabForm10-KFiledMar 2, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001609253-26-000051What we read from itCash flow statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001609253-26-000051, leaves this page and opens in a new tab | |||
| 4/9 | FY2025 | Mar 2, 2026 | |
FormulaOne point each for: positive return on assets, positive operating cash flow, rising return on assets, operating cash flow above net income, falling leverage, rising current ratio, no new shares issued, rising gross margin, rising asset turnover. As ofThe filing date of the statements below, for FY2025. Form10-KFiledMar 2, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001609253-26-000051What we read from itIncome statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001609253-26-000051, leaves this page and opens in a new tabForm10-KFiledMar 2, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001609253-26-000051What we read from itBalance sheetFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001609253-26-000051, leaves this page and opens in a new tabForm10-KFiledMar 2, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001609253-26-000051What we read from itCash flow statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001609253-26-000051, leaves this page and opens in a new tab | |||
The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2025, the newest full year on file. 12 filed fiscal years on record, FY2012 to FY2025, from SEC EDGAR. Prices as of Oct 15, 2026. Ratios recomputed Oct 15, 2026. Two facts, because a recompute is not a fresh quote.
The year and the filing date name the statement each figure’s accounts are read from, and they stand even where the figure itself could not be computed: the line beneath a blank says what that statement did not carry. A figure’s name opens its formula and the filings behind it; a statement that names no SEC filing has no filing date, and reads n/a.
10 filed fiscal years, FY2015 to FY2025, read from the annual reports California Resources Corporation filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in USD, as filed.
| Year | Revenue | Operating income | Net income | EPS, diluted | Free cash flow | Operating margin | Return on equity | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 3.67B | 598.0M | 363.0M | 4.15 | 543.0M | 16.3% | 9.9% | 10-K, Mar 2, 20260001609253-26-000051 |
| FY2024 | 3.20B | 620.0M | 376.0M | 4.62 | 355.0M | 19.4% | 10.6% | 10-K, Mar 3, 20250001609253-25-000027 |
| FY2023 | 2.80B | 808.0M | 564.0M | 7.78 | 468.0M | 28.9% | 25.4% | 10-K, Feb 28, 20240001609253-24-000043 |
| FY2022 | 2.71B | 812.0M | 524.0M | 6.75 | 311.0M | 30.0% | 28.1% | 10-K, Feb 24, 20230001609253-23-000017 |
| FY2021 | 1.89B | 293.0M | 612.0M | 7.37 | 466.0M | 15.5% | 36.3% | 10-K, Feb 25, 20220001609253-22-000010 |
| FY2019 | 2.63B | 429.0M | -28.0M | -0.57 | 221.0M | 16.3% | n/m | 10-K, Feb 26, 20200001609253-20-000066 |
| FY2018 | 3.06B | 769.0M | 328.0M | 6.77 | -229.0M | 25.1% | n/m | 10-K, Feb 27, 20190001609253-19-000058 |
| FY2017 | 2.01B | 73.0M | -266.0M | -6.26 | -123.0M | 3.6% | n/m | 10-K, Feb 27, 20180001609253-18-000041 |
| FY2016 | 1.55B | -293.0M | 279.0M | 6.76 | 55.0M | -18.9% | n/m | 10-K, Feb 24, 20170001609253-17-000047 |
| FY2015 | 2.40B | -5.14B | -3.55B | -92.79 | 2.0M | -214.0% | n/m | 10-K, Feb 29, 20160001609253-16-000194 |
Every figure in this section is a line of a filed annual statement or a ratio of two of them. Nothing here is estimated or smoothed. Earnings per share filed before a share split are put on today's share count, and say so. Nothing here is a verdict on the company.
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The accounting screens, the published tests, and the lines you can set to be told.
ComputedCompany statement
| Figure | Value, source and document |
|---|---|
| Beneish M-score | -2.65 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051 |
| Piotroski F-score | 4/9 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051 |
| Named tests met | 6 of 30 Computed |
| Beta | 0.52 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 |
Of 30 tests value investors published: 6 met, 24 not met, 0 we could not complete. Counts, never a score: a single figure would have to decide that meeting one investor’s criteria and meeting another’s are worth the same.
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Whether anybody here owns this company.
Positions declared by the founder: no holding in any company shown here, as of October 3, 2026.
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What to do with what you have read.
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