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Diversified Energy Company (DEC)

NYSE: DEC · Crude Petroleum & Natural Gas · Birmingham, AL · filing with the SEC since 2022
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Grade5.4
◀ Past 5.5● Present 5.0▶ Future 5.6
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The grade of Diversified Energy Company

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
5.4/10
◀ Past5.540% of the headline
● Present5.035% of the headline
▶ Future5.625% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

Of the nine metrics, 7 read as filed from the record and 2 are SI estimates, each with its reasoning, its confidence and what would change it on its card.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

5.5/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
7.7/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2022.

weight 45% of this tense · 77th percentile among 83 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Diversified Energy Company's filings since 2022 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
2.8/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

-3.1% a year over 3 filed years; profitable in 2 of 3.

weight 33% of this tense · 28th percentile among 74 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Diversified Energy Company's 3 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $1.9 billion in fiscal 2023 to $1.8 billion in fiscal 2025, down 3.1% a year; it rose in 1 of 2 years; the deepest fall was 61% from fiscal 2023 to fiscal 2024; net income was positive in 2 of 3 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span-3.1%bottom 12% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 32% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 50% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak61.1%bottom 18% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
5.1/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 25.2% a year. 35% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 1 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 51st percentile among 61 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 2 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Diversified Energy Company's diluted share count grew about 25.2% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 35% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 1 sale and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-01 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearsbottom 18% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowtop 15% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

5.0/1035% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Financial health

as filed
3.9/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 34%: 34¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 84%: owes 84¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 39th percentile among 76 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Diversified Energy Company earned about 34 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 84 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 55.1% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 10% of its family
  • return on equitytop 1% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforebottom 7% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
6.4/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 36% of 76 in its family; net margin 18.6%.

weight 33% of this tense · 64th percentile among 76 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Diversified Energy Company's standing among 76 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $1.8 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 37% by size; a net margin of 18.6% ranks in the top 23%; revenue growth of -3.1% a year over the last 2 filed years ranks in the top 48% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$1.83Btop 37% of its family
  • net margin18.6%top 23% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth-3.1%top 48% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

SI estimate
5.2/10

What are the people in charge doing?

SI estimate 5.2/10, confidence 35 of 100 (one part).

weight 22% of this tense · 52nd percentile among 61 sector filers · read for its shareholders

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
Read from one part only, officer and director changes on Form 8-K over three years, against the people in charge, which ranks in the top 48% of 61 in its family; the record of its people begins on 2025-12-01 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 11 months and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge.
What the record cannot read
The record of its people begins on 2025-12-01 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 11 months and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge.
How it was reasoned
one part: officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge, the one part on file, ranked among 61 in its family.
Confidence
35 of 100
What would change it
A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: Diversified Energy Company's leadership is put at 5.2 of 10 with a confidence of 35 of 100, because read from one part only, officer and director changes on Form 8-K over three years, against the people in charge, which ranks in the top 48% of 61 in its family; the record of its people begins on 2025-12-01 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 11 months and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge. A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

5.6/1025% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Room to expand

as filed
2.2/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 22% of 74 in its family for room to expand.

weight 22% of this tense · 22nd percentile among 74 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Diversified Energy Company's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $145 million against debt of $2.7 billion leaves -41.7% of its assets as net cash, bottom 6% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 15.3% of revenue (bottom 38%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-41.7%bottom 6% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue15.3%bottom 38% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
9.1/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 9% of 72 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 91st percentile among 72 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Diversified Energy Company's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -3.1% a year over the last three filed years against -3.1% over all 3, speeding up (top 18% of its family); the newest year grew 141.7% (top 3%); capital spending grew 57.6% a year (top 6%) (its annual reports). Diversified Energy Company reported 4 product lines in fiscal 2025: Commodity Revenue at $1.5 billion (85%), Natural Gas Per Thousand Cubic Feet at $208 million (11%), Natural Gas Midstream at $40 million (2%), and 1 more; 4 of 4 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span+0.0 points a yeartop 18% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth141.7%top 3% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending57.6%top 6% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

SI estimate
4.8/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

SI estimate 4.8/10, confidence 20 of 100 (family median).

weight 45% of this tense · 50th percentile among 69 sector filers · read for its shareholders

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
The record does not carry four filed years of revenue and two of the three parts: revenue against the prior pace, earnings against the prior average, the margin change, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 69 members with one.
What the record cannot read
The record does not carry four filed years of revenue and two of the three parts: revenue against the prior pace, earnings against the prior average, the margin change.
How it was reasoned
family median, 69 readings behind it.
Confidence
20 of 100
What would change it
Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: Diversified Energy Company's expectations vs reality is put at 4.8 of 10 with a confidence of 20 of 100, because the record does not carry four filed years of revenue and two of the three parts: revenue against the prior pace, earnings against the prior average, the margin change, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 69 members with one. Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton DEC · research, not advice