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California Resources Corporation (CRC)

NYSE / Energy / Oil & Gas Exploration & Production

Share price

53.15 USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026

Market capitalisation

4.72B USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026
Market data
Oct 15, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2025, filed Mar 2, 2026
Ratios computed
Oct 15, 2026
Filed years
12, FY2012 to FY2025
Four kinds of sourceSEC filingCompany statementMarket dataComputedWhat each means
SEC filingFiled with the SEC
Read from a statement the company filed with the SEC, with the form, fiscal year, filing date and accession beside it.
Company statementCompany statement
What the company says about itself in a filing: an 8-K item, the auditor, its own segment names.
Market dataMarket data
Prices, market value and what analysts publish, with the date they are as of.
ComputedComputed by ValueScreener
Worked out by us from the other three, with the inputs and the formula one press away. A score is a research output, not a rating or a recommendation.
Reading

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Overview

What the business is, what it costs, and how it reads on four questions.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Four questions, at a glance

Quality

Return on invested capital, after tax

8.8% Computed

From the FY2025 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

12.75x Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

11.7% Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2015 Revenue: 2.40B USDFY2015 Net income: -3.55B USDFY2016 Revenue: 1.55B USDFY2016 Net income: 279.0M USDFY2017 Revenue: 2.01B USDFY2017 Net income: -266.0M USDFY2018 Revenue: 3.06B USDFY2018 Net income: 328.0M USDFY2019 Revenue: 2.63B USDFY2019 Net income: -28.0M USDFY2021 Revenue: 1.89B USDFY2021 Net income: 612.0M USDFY2022 Revenue: 2.71B USDFY2022 Net income: 524.0M USDFY2023 Revenue: 2.80B USDFY2023 Net income: 564.0M USDFY2024 Revenue: 3.20B USDFY2024 Net income: 376.0M USDFY2025 Revenue: 3.67B USDFY2025 Net income: 363.0M USD
Revenue Net income10 filed fiscal years, from the annual reports; the table in Filings names each document.
Named tests met
6 of 30 Which tests
The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it cheap

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.

Is it good

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%.

Is it safe

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.

Year by year against peers
Whether California Resources Corporation's return on equity stayed above the median of the Oil & Gas Exploration & Production industry, year by year. (FY2023 to FY2025, 3 fiscal years of California Resources Corporation with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way California Resources Corporation's operating margin has moved, and how steadily. (FY2015 to FY2025, 10 filed years of California Resources Corporation)
What could explain it
What in California Resources Corporation's filed statements could explain the movements. (10 readings drawn from the statement lines California Resources Corporation filed)
What to check next
What to check next on California Resources Corporation, and where in its filings. (5 questions for California Resources Corporation)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on California Resources Corporation's returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (14 of sixteen figures read for California Resources Corporation)

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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What changed

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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Quality

The returns the business earns on its capital, and the margins behind them.

SEC filingComputed

California Resources Corporation: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Return on invested capital, after tax8.8% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051
Return on equity9.9% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051
Return on capital employed, pre-tax9.4% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051
Return on assets4.9% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051
Gross margin
Why n/a

Our 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 margin16.3% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051
Net margin9.9% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051
CRC 9.9%
MUR 3.8%CLMT -0.8%MTDR 20.5%CRGY 3.7%CRK 17.8%
-0.8%20.5%
Net margin: CRC against the 5 companies named under Valuation context, each as filed for its own latest year. Placement only: no average is drawn.

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Financial strength

What it owes against what it owns, and whether it can meet what falls due.

SEC filingComputedCompany statement

California Resources Corporation: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Debt to equity0.37 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051
Current ratio0.89 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051
Quick ratio0.79 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051
Interest coverage5.64x ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051
Altman Z-score1.85 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051
Net debt1.23B ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051
Total assets 7.40BTotal liabilities 3.73BShareholders' equity 3.67BOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

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).

California Resources Corporation: balance sheet position
Total assets7.40B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026
Total liabilities3.73B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026
Shareholders' equity3.67B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026
Cash132.0M FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026
Total debt1.36B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026
Net debt1.23B
Current ratio0.89
Debt to equity0.37

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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Valuation context

What the market charges for it, against its own record and companies like it.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

California Resources Corporation: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings12.75x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051
P/E on trailing twelve months16.90x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book1.26x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051
Price to sales1.27x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051
Enterprise value to EBIT9.82x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051
Enterprise value to EBITDA5.30x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051
Price to earnings over growth
Why n/a

We 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 share4.15 USD FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051
Graham number62.80 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.

Its own record, and companies like it

Valuation

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.

California Resources Corporation: valuation
Share price53.15 USD
Market capitalisation4.72B USD
Enterprise value to EBITDA5.30x
Graham number62.80 USD
Diluted earnings per share, FY20254.15 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.

Companies like California Resources Corporation

  1. Murphy Oil Corporation (MUR)Market cap 5.71B USD
  2. Calumet, Inc. (CLMT)Market cap 5.12B USD
  3. Matador Resources Company (MTDR)Market cap 6.65B USD
  4. Crescent Energy Company (CRGY)Market cap 4.13B USD
  5. Comstock Resources, Inc. (CRK)Market cap 3.96B USD

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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Cash generation

Whether profit arrives as cash, and what is paid back to shareholders.

SEC filingComputed

California Resources Corporation: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield11.7% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051
Free cash flow543.0M USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051
Free cash flow margin14.8% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051
Dividend yield3.0% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051
Payout ratio37.5% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051
FY2015 Free cash flow: 2.0M USDFY2015 Net income: -3.55B USDFY2016 Free cash flow: 55.0M USDFY2016 Net income: 279.0M USDFY2017 Free cash flow: -123.0M USDFY2017 Net income: -266.0M USDFY2018 Free cash flow: -229.0M USDFY2018 Net income: 328.0M USDFY2019 Free cash flow: 221.0M USDFY2019 Net income: -28.0M USDFY2021 Free cash flow: 466.0M USDFY2021 Net income: 612.0M USDFY2022 Free cash flow: 311.0M USDFY2022 Net income: 524.0M USDFY2023 Free cash flow: 468.0M USDFY2023 Net income: 564.0M USDFY2024 Free cash flow: 355.0M USDFY2024 Net income: 376.0M USDFY2025 Free cash flow: 543.0M USDFY2025 Net income: 363.0M USD
Free cash flow Net incomeProfit that arrives as cash stands level with net income; a gap year after year is worth reading about.

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Filings

Every figure, the year it is for and the document it was read from.

SEC filingMarket data

The filed figures

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.

California Resources Corporation: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
12.75xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
1.26xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
9.82xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
11.7%FY2025Oct 15, 2026
8.8%FY2025Mar 2, 2026
3.0%FY2025Oct 15, 2026
0.37FY2025Mar 2, 2026
0.89FY2025Mar 2, 2026
1.27xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/aFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/a This figure compares a year against the one before it, and we hold one filed year for this company.
1.85FY2025Oct 15, 2026
-2.65FY2025Mar 2, 2026
4/9FY2025Mar 2, 2026

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.

Ten years of filed figures, year by year

Ten years of filed figures

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.

California Resources Corporation: revenue, earnings, free cash flow and returns, by fiscal year, with the filing each year was read from
YearRevenueOperating incomeNet incomeEPS, dilutedFree cash flowOperating marginReturn on equityFiling
FY20253.67B598.0M363.0M4.15543.0M16.3%9.9%10-K, Mar 2, 20260001609253-26-000051
FY20243.20B620.0M376.0M4.62355.0M19.4%10.6%10-K, Mar 3, 20250001609253-25-000027
FY20232.80B808.0M564.0M7.78468.0M28.9%25.4%10-K, Feb 28, 20240001609253-24-000043
FY20222.71B812.0M524.0M6.75311.0M30.0%28.1%10-K, Feb 24, 20230001609253-23-000017
FY20211.89B293.0M612.0M7.37466.0M15.5%36.3%10-K, Feb 25, 20220001609253-22-000010
FY20192.63B429.0M-28.0M-0.57221.0M16.3%n/m10-K, Feb 26, 20200001609253-20-000066
FY20183.06B769.0M328.0M6.77-229.0M25.1%n/m10-K, Feb 27, 20190001609253-19-000058
FY20172.01B73.0M-266.0M-6.26-123.0M3.6%n/m10-K, Feb 27, 20180001609253-18-000041
FY20161.55B-293.0M279.0M6.7655.0M-18.9%n/m10-K, Feb 24, 20170001609253-17-000047
FY20152.40B-5.14B-3.55B-92.792.0M-214.0%n/m10-K, Feb 29, 20160001609253-16-000194
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2015 to FY2025: 4.3%
  • Earnings: Earnings was not positive in both 2015 and 2025, so a compound rate across the window is not defined. Both figures are in the table.
  • Earnings per share: Earnings per share was not positive in both 2015 and 2025, so a compound rate across the window is not defined. Both figures are in the table.
  • Free cash flow, compound annual growth FY2015 to FY2025: 75.1%

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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Risks and guardrails

The accounting screens, the published tests, and the lines you can set to be told.

ComputedCompany statement

California Resources Corporation: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-2.65 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051
Piotroski F-score4/9 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, 0001609253-26-000051
Named tests met6 of 30 Computed
Beta0.52 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026

The named tests

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.

Which tests, by name(all 30)
Meets
EV/EBITDA and coverage; High yield, low payout; ROIC at or above WACC; P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); Owner earnings yield; Cash-covered dividend
Does not
Defensive investor (Benjamin Graham); Deep value; Large cap, low P/E; Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); High F-score, low P/B (Joseph Piotroski); Three forensic scores; Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); High returns and growth; Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx); Dividends and buybacks; Low beta, profitable; Near the 52-week low; Z-score and coverage (Edward Altman); Two thirds of NCAV (Benjamin Graham); High returns, low debt; High return on tangibles; Low P/S, rising earnings (James O'Shaughnessy); Book or below, low debt (Walter Schloss); Tangible book or below; Cash-flow yield and ROIC; Clean books, high ROIC; Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman); Cheapest quarter on P/B (David Dreman); Low P/E, growth, yield (John Neff)
Figures we could not read(4)
  • Positive Earnings Streak: We hold 5 profitable filed years in a row; the test needs 10.
  • PEG Ratio: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Eps Growth 5Y: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Gross Margin: Our 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.

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Declared positions

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 this cannot tell you

  • 4 figures could not be read on this company, among them Positive Earnings Streak, PEG Ratio, Eps Growth 5Y. Each blank in the table above names the rest, with its reason.

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