Diamondback Energy, Inc.

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Diamondback Energy, Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $15.0 billion, up 35.8% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue grew 51.2%, EPS grew 179.4%, free cash flow grew 219.2% and total debt fell 16.6%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Member of the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100.

203.83 8.23 +4.21%
Market cap
$54.8B
P/E
39.7×
Fwd P/E
11.5×
Dividend yield
2.09%
F-score
4/9
Altman Z
1.25
Beneish M
−3.13
Dividend safety
37/100

Diamondback Energy, Inc. (FANG) Altman Z-score

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Diamondback Energy, Inc.'s Altman Z-score for fiscal 2025 is 1.25, in the distress zone (below 1.81).

Altman Z-score, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Altman Z-score Change (points)
FY2025 1.25 0.06
FY2024 1.19 (1.17)
FY2023 2.36 (0.24)
FY2022 2.59 0.66
FY2021 1.94 2.57
FY2020 −0.63 (1.98)
FY2019 1.35 0.27
FY2018 1.08 (2.66)
FY2017 3.74 0.05
FY2016 3.69 0.67

How fiscal 2025’s score is made up

Component This year Year before Result Points
Working capital / total assets (0.04) — −0.05
Retained earnings / total assets 0.07 — 0.09
EBIT / total assets 0.02 — 0.06
Market value of equity / total liabilities 1.55 — 0.93
Sales / total assets 0.21 — 0.21
Altman Z-score Distress zone 1.25
Z″ Variant for non-manufacturing and asset-light companies (drops the sales/assets term, uses book equity) Grey zone 1.70

Z and Z″ put Diamondback Energy, Inc. in different zones: distress zone by Z, grey zone by Z″.

How the Altman Z-score works

Z = 1.2 × working capital ÷ total assets + 1.4 × retained earnings ÷ total assets + 3.3 × EBIT ÷ total assets + 0.6 × market value of equity ÷ total liabilities + 1.0 × revenue ÷ total assets (Altman, 1968). The market value of equity is the close on the last trading day of the fiscal year times weighted basic shares.

Z″ = 6.56 × working capital ÷ total assets + 3.26 × retained earnings ÷ total assets + 6.72 × EBIT ÷ total assets + 1.05 × book equity ÷ total liabilities (Altman, Hartzell and Peck, 1995), the variant for non-manufacturing and asset-light companies.

Zone Z Z″
Safe zoneabove 2.99above 2.60
Grey zone1.81–2.991.10–2.60
Distress zonebelow 1.81below 1.10

Not worked out for banks, insurers and REITs, whose balance sheets the model does not describe, nor when a figure is missing or there is no share price in the week to the fiscal year end.

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What Altman Z-score is

The Altman Z-Score weighs working capital, retained earnings, operating profit, market value and sales against assets and debts to gauge the risk of distress.

1.2 × working capital ÷ total assets + 1.4 × retained earnings ÷ total assets + 3.3 × EBIT ÷ total assets + 0.6 × market value of equity ÷ total liabilities + 1.0 × revenue ÷ total assets

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