Forensic Analysis · Energy / Oil & Gas · as of Sep 25, 2026
Chord Energy Corp (CHRD)
A forensic read on Chord Energy Corp built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.
D · Weak — demands caution
Forensic grade
Grey Zone
Financial health
2.2
Distress distance
Clean
Earnings quality
5
Forensic signals
9.3
P / E (ttm)
0.6%
ROE
$7.5B
Market cap
7.35%
Dividend yield
-7.1%
Revenue growth
This free snapshot doesn't read filing or proxy text, so the auditor-quality and governance checks that can lower a grade were not evaluated (red flags, auditor quality, say on pay, board independence, going concern, valuation). Those checks only ever lower a grade, so the full analysis can land below the grade above but never above it — treat it as the most favourable reading, not the settled one.
Chord Energy Corp earns a D (Weak — demands caution) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 2.2, placing it in the Grey zone. 5 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by return on invested capital.
What the filings flag
1.1%
FY2025
Return on invested capital.Return on invested capital is 1.1% in the latest fiscal year and slipping across FY2023–FY2025 from 18.5%. After-tax operating profit was $1.0B in FY2023 and $128M in FY2025, with operating income at 32.7% of revenue in FY2023, 20.9% in FY2024 and 4.0% in FY2025. The capital base behind it grew +110% across FY2023–FY2025, from $5.4B to $11.4B, while the return fell 17.4 points, so the dollars added over that window earned less than the 18.5% the older base was already earning. FY2025's operating profit carried a $539M goodwill write-off that alone took about 3.1 points off that year's return, so about 3.1 of the 17.4-point fall across FY2023–FY2025 is that charge landing in the latest year rather than the capital earning less.
+15.5%/yr
FY2023–FY2025
Share-count dilution.Diluted share count changed +33% over the last 2 years to FY2025 (+15.5%/yr). The count is growing: more stock was issued than repurchased over this window, so aggregate results grew faster than their per-share equivalents. That's ~15.5% shaved off per-share growth every year — total profit has to grow that much just to keep earnings-per-share flat, and a stake held since FY2023 has been diluted ~25%.
$539M
FY2025–FY2025
Goodwill impairments.Took $539M of goodwill writedowns across 1 year (FY2025 ($539M)) — about 1213% of net income over the span. A large writedown means an acquisition turned out worth far less than was paid — a real mark against M&A discipline.
0.5% of rev
FY2025
Stock-based comp load.Stock-based compensation ran 0.5% of revenue in FY2025 — about $0.44 per diluted share. No cash left the business to pay it, which is why operating cash flow adds it back. Net of repurchases the diluted count still rose about 15.6% a year, and the rate is falling. Stock compensation is one source of that issuance; acquisition consideration, equity raises, convertibles and other employee plans also net into the count, and these figures do not separate them.
Key fundamentals
Latest Revenue$4.88B
Revenue Growth YoY-7.1%
Revenue CAGR (2yr)+11.9%
Net Margin0.9%
Return on Equity0.6%
Debt / Equity0.18x
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Data from SEC EDGAR public filings · metrics as of Sep 25, 2026. Forensic signals flag probability, not certainty.
-45%
FY2024→FY2025
Dividend — cut.The payout was CUT ~45% in FY2025 (from FY2024). It still returns some cash, but it is NOT the dependable, rising dividend an unbroken streak implies.
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