Forensic Analysis · Energy / Oil & Gas · as of Aug 10, 2026

Sandridge Energy Inc (SD)

A forensic read on Sandridge 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

3.3

Distress distance

Clean

Earnings quality

Forensic signals

6.5

P / E (ttm)

13.7%

ROE

$531M

Market cap

3.87%

Dividend yield

24.8%

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.

Sandridge Energy Inc earns a B (Sound & dependable) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 3.3, placing it in the Safe zone. 3 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by return on invested capital.

What the filings flag

11.8%

FY2025

Return on invested capital. Return on invested capital is 11.8% in the latest fiscal year and slipping from 56% — a modest positive spread over its ~8% cost of capital — growth adds value, though not dramatically.

-0.2%/yr

FY2022–FY2025

Share count. Diluted share count changed -1% over the last 3 years to FY2025 (-0.2%/yr). Roughly flat — buybacks ($6M) are about offsetting stock comp ($3M), not shrinking the count. Per-share value isn't being meaningfully helped or hurt by the count.

-78%

FY2024→FY2025

Dividend — cut. The payout was CUT ~78% in FY2025 (from FY2024). It still returns some cash, but it is NOT the dependable, rising dividend an unbroken streak implies.

Key fundamentals

Latest Revenue$156.4M

Revenue Growth YoY+24.8%

Revenue CAGR (3yr)-15.0%

Net Margin44.9%

Free Cash Flow$41.5M

Return on Equity13.7%

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Data from SEC EDGAR public filings · metrics as of Aug 10, 2026. Forensic signals flag probability, not certainty.