NOV Inc. (NOV)

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NOV Inc.'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).

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NOV Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $7.3 billion in fiscal 2016 to $8.7 billion in fiscal 2025, up 2.1% a year; it rose in 6 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 35% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2021; net income was positive in 4 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, NOV Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 1.6% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 34% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 6 sales and 2 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30, buying about $1 million (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, NOV Inc. earned about 2 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 16 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 44 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 5.3% over the year (the filed statements).

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NOV Inc.'s standing among 16 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $8.7 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 16% by size; a net margin of 1.7% ranks in the bottom 41%; revenue growth of 6.5% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 34% (its annual reports).

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NOV Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Bayardo, Jose A (Chairman, President, and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2026-02-09, 9 months (bottom 15% of its family); the 14 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5 years (bottom 15%); 9 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 14 people in charge now (bottom 11%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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NOV Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $1.6 billion against debt of $1.7 billion leaves -1.2% of its assets as net cash, bottom 47% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 10% of revenue (top 41%); a gross margin of 20.2% (bottom 32%) (its annual report).

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NOV Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 6.5% a year over the last three filed years against 2.1% over all 10, speeding up (top 30% of its family); the newest year grew -1.4% (bottom 43%); capital spending grew 20.6% a year (top 39%) (its annual reports). NOV Inc. reported 4 product lines in fiscal 2025: Product at $5.8 billion (66%), Service at $2.0 billion (22%), Rental at $963 million (11%), and 1 more; 0 of 4 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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NOV Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $8.7 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 10.9% below the $9.8 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 32% of its family); net income of $145 million against a prior three-year average of $594 million (bottom 32%); a net margin of 1.7% against 7% before (bottom 39%) (its annual reports).