Forensic Analysis · Energy / Oil & Gas · as of Aug 9, 2026

Cheniere Energy, Inc. (LNG)

A forensic read on Cheniere Energy, Inc. built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.

B · Sound & dependable

Forensic grade

Safe

Financial health

3.7

Distress distance

Watch

Earnings quality

Forensic signals

37.4

P / E (ttm)

67.3%

ROE

$53.7B

Market cap

0.84%

Dividend yield

27.2%

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). 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.

Cheniere Energy, Inc. earns a B (Sound & dependable) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 3.7, placing it in the Safe zone. 2 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by accruals ratio (% of noa).

What the filings flag

+13.7%

FY2024→FY2025

Accruals ratio (% of NOA). Net operating assets grew +13.7% relative to their own average in FY2025 — scaled by NOA itself, not total assets (see the Forensic Screens card's differently-scaled Sloan Accrual Ratio for that read). Accruals are building faster than is comfortable — part of profit is sitting in the balance sheet rather than turning to cash. The build is led by receivables up +87% against revenue +27% and payables paid down 28% on the year. The cash-flow cross-check is more mixed: reported earnings ran in line with operating cash by 1% of net operating assets, diverging from the balance-sheet accrual read.

129% of FCF

FY2025

Shareholder returns. Returned $3.2B to shareholders (buybacks + dividends) in FY2025 — 129% of free cash flow, but 57% of operating cash flow. Returns run ahead of free cash flow because the business is also funding heavy growth capex (usually debt-financed); the payout itself is covered by operating cash — sustainable as long as that spending is genuine expansion, not upkeep. Counting the $161M of stock-based comp paid out in shares on top of that, the combined claim on free cash flow is 136%.

Key fundamentals

Latest Revenue$19.98B

Revenue Growth YoY+27.2%

Revenue CAGR (3yr)-15.8%

Net Margin26.7%

Free Cash Flow$2.46B

Return on Equity67.3%

Debt / Equity2.91x

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Data from SEC EDGAR public filings · metrics as of Aug 9, 2026. Forensic signals flag probability, not certainty.