Noble Corporation PLC

NE Energy Oil & Gas Drilling

Noble Corporation PLC’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $3.3 billion, up 7.45% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
−8.68%
EPS
−463.9%
Free cash flow
−116.8%
Total debt
−4.46%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

40.27 0.76 −1.85%
Market cap
$6.4B
P/E
116×
Fwd P/E
−169×
Dividend yield
4.97%
F-score
5/9
Altman Z
1.66
Beneish M
−2.85
Dividend safety
38/100

Noble Corporation PLC (NE) Operating margin

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Noble Corporation PLC's operating margin over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 12.0%, down 0.7 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (12.7%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from −422.8% (fiscal 2020) to 27.4% (fiscal 2015); the current reading is higher than 64% of that period. That is above the Oil & Gas Drilling industry median of 8.58% and below the Energy sector median of 15.2%.

Operating margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
FY2025 12.7% (7.10)
FY2024 19.8% (2.45)
FY2023 22.2% 6.02
FY2022 16.2% 8.84
FY2021 7.34% 430.10
FY2020 −422.8% (371.72)
FY2019 −51.0% 36.33
FY2018 −87.4% (73.97)
FY2017 −13.4% 19.62
FY2016 −33.0% (60.46)

Quarterly newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
Sep 2026 8.24% 4.01
Jun 2026 4.23% (24.45)
Mar 2026 28.7% 23.11
Dec 2025 5.57% (0.75)
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low −422.8% High 27.4%
Ten-year median 7.34%
Current reading's percentile 56

Operating margin against peers

Company Operating margin
BORR Borr Drilling Limited compare 20.8%
RIG Transocean Ltd. compare 20.4%
NE Noble Corporation PLC 12.0%
VAL Valaris Limited compare 8.98%
SDRL Seadrill Limited compare 8.58%
NBR Nabors Industries Ltd. compare 8.40%
HP Helmerich & Payne, Inc. compare 2.25%
PTEN Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc. compare 0.86%
SOC Sable Offshore Corp. compare 0.00%
Oil & Gas Drilling industry median 8.58%
Energy sector median 15.2%
Market median 0.00%

What Operating margin is

EBIT Margin tells an investor how much operating profit, before interest and taxes, a company keeps from each unit of revenue.

EBIT ÷ Revenue

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