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Golar Lng Ltd (GLNG)

Nasdaq: GLNG · Water Transportation · Hamilton, BM · filing with the SEC since 2002
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Grade5.3
◀ Past 5.5● Present 5.2▶ Future 5.1
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The grade of Golar Lng Ltd

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
5.3/10
◀ Past5.530% of the headline
● Present5.240% of the headline
▶ Future5.130% of the headline

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

Of the nine metrics, 8 read as filed from the record and 1 is an SI estimate, each with its reasoning, its confidence and what would change it on its card.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

5.5/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
7.4/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 33% of this tense · 74th percentile among 19 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Golar Lng Ltd's filings since 2017 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
4.4/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+19.3% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 4 of 10.

weight 45% of this tense · 44th percentile among 19 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Golar Lng Ltd's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $80 million in fiscal 2016 to $394 million in fiscal 2025, up 19.3% a year; it rose in 6 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 42% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2021; net income was positive in 4 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span19.3%top 21% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 42% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profitbottom 21% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak42.0%bottom 34% of its family

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

Shareholder treatment

as filed
5.0/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 1.4% a year. 0% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 0 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 50th percentile among 16 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Golar Lng Ltd's diluted share count shrank about 1.4% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 0% of its net income over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 14% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 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?

5.2/1040% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Financial health

as filed
4.8/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 3%: 3¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 61%: owes 61¢ per asset dollar.

weight 33% of this tense · 48th percentile among 18 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Golar Lng Ltd earned about 3 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 61 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 0.9% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 47% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 26% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 31% of its family

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

Industry position

as filed
5.2/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 48% of 18 in its family; net margin 16.7%.

weight 45% of this tense · 52nd percentile among 18 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Golar Lng Ltd's standing among 18 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $394 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 42% by size; a net margin of 16.7% ranks in the top 42%; revenue growth of 13.7% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 44% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$394Mbottom 42% of its family
  • net margin16.7%top 42% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth13.7%top 44% of its family

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

Leadership

SI estimate
5.8/10

What are the people in charge doing?

SI estimate 5.8/10, confidence 20 of 100 (family median).

weight 22% of this tense · 50th percentile among 10 sector filers · read for its shareholders

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
It files no Form 8-K (a foreign issuer reports on Form 6-K), so officer and director changes cannot be read there; the record of its people begins on 2026-03-17 (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 8 months and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 10 members with one.
What the record cannot read
It files no Form 8-K (a foreign issuer reports on Form 6-K), so officer and director changes cannot be read there; the record of its people begins on 2026-03-17 (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 8 months and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge.
How it was reasoned
family median, 10 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: Golar Lng Ltd's leadership is put at 5.8 of 10 with a confidence of 20 of 100, because it files no Form 8-K (a foreign issuer reports on Form 6-K), so officer and director changes cannot be read there; the record of its people begins on 2026-03-17 (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 8 months and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 10 members with one. Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

5.1/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
4.5/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 45% of 17 in its family for room to expand.

weight 22% of this tense · 45th percentile among 17 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Golar Lng Ltd's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $1.2 billion against debt of $2.8 billion leaves -30.2% of its assets as net cash, bottom 39% of its family; research spending of 4.9% of revenue (top 50%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-30.2%bottom 39% of its family
  • research spending against revenue4.9%top 50% of its family

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

Growth drivers

as filed
6.0/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 40% of 17 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 45% of this tense · 60th percentile among 17 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Golar Lng Ltd's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 13.7% a year over the last three filed years against 19.3% over all 10, slowing (bottom 32% of its family); the newest year grew 51.2% (top 3%); research spending grew 33.9% a year (top 50%) (its annual reports). Golar Lng Ltd reported 4 product lines in fiscal 2025: Liquefaction Services Revenue at $227 million (58%), Sales Type Lease Revenue at $91 million (23%), Vessel Management Fees and Other Revenues at $74 million (19%), and 1 more; 2 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-5.6 points a yearbottom 32% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth51.2%top 3% of its family
  • three-year growth of research spending33.9%top 50% of its family

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

Expectations vs reality

as filed
4.2/10

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

bottom 42% of 16 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 42nd percentile among 16 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Golar Lng Ltd's newest year against its own record: revenue of $394 million in fiscal 2025 came in 53.3% above the $257 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 3% of its family); net income of $66 million against a prior three-year average of $264 million (bottom 21%); a net margin of 16.7% against 99.4% before (bottom 9%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace53.3%top 3% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average-75%bottom 21% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-82.7 pointsbottom 9% of its family

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

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 GLNG · research, not advice