Star Bulk Carriers Corp.

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Star Bulk Carriers Corp.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $1.0 billion, down 17.6% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue grew 44.5%, EPS grew 433,233.3%, free cash flow grew 25.8% and total debt fell 12.6%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Insiders bought in the last twelve months.

27.79 0.19 −0.68%
Market cap
$3.1B
P/E
10.9×
Fwd P/E
7.5×
Dividend yield
6.77%
F-score
5/9
Altman Z
1.26
Beneish M
−2.46
Dividend safety
57/100

Star Bulk Carriers Corp. (SBLK) Piotroski F-score

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Star Bulk Carriers Corp.'s Piotroski F-score for fiscal 2025 is 5 out of 9: 5 of nine tests of profitability, leverage and efficiency passed, down from 8 in fiscal 2024.

Piotroski F-score, annual

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Period Piotroski F-score Change (points)
FY2025 5 (3.00)
FY2024 8 3.00
FY2023 5 1.00
FY2022 4 (4.00)
FY2021 8 1.00
FY2020 7 4.00
FY2019 3 (3.00)
FY2018 6 0.00
FY2017 6 2.00
FY2016 4 —

How fiscal 2025’s score is made up

Test This year Year before Result Points
Positive return on assets 2.13% 8.56% Pass 1
Positive operating cash flow 295.94m 471.15m Pass 1
Rising return on assets 2.13% 8.56% Fail 0
Cash flow above net income 211.76m 166.50m Pass 1
Falling long-term leverage 0.21 0.29 Pass 1
Rising current ratio 1.78 1.65 Pass 1
No new shares issued 115,003,000 106,883,000 Fail 0
Rising gross margin 38.62% 47.69% Fail 0
Rising asset turnover 0.26 0.36 Fail 0
Piotroski F-score Mixed 5

How the Piotroski F-score works

One point for each of nine tests, this fiscal year against the one before: positive return on assets, positive operating cash flow, rising return on assets, cash flow above net income, falling long-term leverage, a rising current ratio, no new shares issued, a rising gross margin and rising asset turnover. The ratios are the ones on this site, so each can be checked.

Joseph Piotroski (2000) called 8–9 high and 0–1 low; reading it in three bands is the common convention:

7–9Strong — most fundamentals improved
4–6Mixed
0–3Weak — most fundamentals deteriorated

Where this differs from the paper: return on assets is on average rather than beginning-of-year assets, and weighted basic shares stand in for shares issued. The score is shown only when all nine tests can be worked out, which takes three fiscal years; banks and insurers, which report no current assets or gross profit, have none.

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What Piotroski F-score is

The Piotroski F-Score tells an investor how many signs of improving profitability, funding and efficiency a company shows against a year earlier.

One point for each of nine tests against a year earlier: positive return on assets, positive operating cash flow, rising return on assets, cash flow above net income, falling long-term leverage, rising current ratio, no new shares issued, rising gross margin, and rising asset turnover

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