Company Analysis

Navigator Holdings Ltd. (NVGS)

NYSE: NVGS · Deep Sea Foreign Transportation of Freight · London, GB · filing with the SEC since 2013
Grade5.7
◀ Past 4.8● Present 6.1▶ Future 6.1
1 est.

The grade of Navigator Holdings Ltd.

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
5.7/10
◀ Past4.830% of the headline
● Present6.140% of the headline
▶ Future6.130% 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?

4.8/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
1.9/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

1 warning event since 2017; the latest 2021-04-30.

weight 33% of this tense · 19th percentile among 44 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Navigator Holdings Ltd.'s filings since 2017 show 1 warning event: a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, the latest 2021-04-30) (its current reports).

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

Track record

as filed
6.5/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+8% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 6 of 10.

weight 45% of this tense · 65th percentile among 42 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Navigator Holdings Ltd.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $294 million in fiscal 2016 to $587 million in fiscal 2025, up 8% a year; it rose in 8 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 3% from fiscal 2018 to fiscal 2019; net income was positive in 6 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span8.0%bottom 45% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosetop 10% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profitbottom 36% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak2.8%top 11% of its family

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

Shareholder treatment

as filed
5.7/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 4.3% a year. 6% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 4 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 57th percentile among 38 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Navigator Holdings Ltd.'s diluted share count shrank about 4.3% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 6% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 4 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 18% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 33% 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?

6.1/1040% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Financial health

as filed
6.5/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 8%: 8¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 46%: owes 46¢ per asset dollar.

weight 33% of this tense · 65th percentile among 43 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Navigator Holdings Ltd. earned about 8 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 46 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 5.3% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 48% of its family
  • return on equitytop 50% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 9% of its family

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

Industry position

as filed
6.0/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 40% of 43 in its family; net margin 17.1%.

weight 45% of this tense · 60th percentile among 43 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Navigator Holdings Ltd.'s standing among 43 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $587 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 35% by size; a net margin of 17.1% ranks in the bottom 48%; revenue growth of 7.4% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 32% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$587Mtop 35% of its family
  • net margin17.1%bottom 48% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth7.4%top 32% 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 8 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 2026-03-16 (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 8 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 2026-03-16 (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, 8 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: Navigator Holdings 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 2026-03-16 (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 8 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?

6.1/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
5.3/10

How much room does it have to grow?

top 47% of 42 in its family for room to expand.

weight 22% of this tense · 53rd percentile among 42 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Navigator Holdings Ltd.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $155 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 6.8% of its assets as net cash, top 31% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 19.9% of revenue (bottom 37%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets6.8%top 31% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue19.9%bottom 37% 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 41 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 45% of this tense · 60th percentile among 41 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Navigator Holdings Ltd.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 7.4% a year over the last three filed years against 8% over all 10, slowing (top 33% of its family); the newest year grew 3.6% (top 35%); capital spending grew 23% a year (bottom 48%) (its annual reports). Navigator Holdings Ltd. tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-0.6 points a yeartop 33% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth3.6%top 35% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending23.0%bottom 48% 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
6.7/10

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

top 33% of 39 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 67th percentile among 39 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Navigator Holdings Ltd.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $587 million in fiscal 2025 came in 5.3% below the $620 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 49% of its family); net income of $100 million against a prior three-year average of $74 million (top 22%); a net margin of 17.1% against 13.8% before (top 27%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace-5.3%bottom 49% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average+36%top 22% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average+3.3 pointstop 27% 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 NVGS · research, not advice