RPC, Inc. (RES)

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RPC, 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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RPC, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $729 million in fiscal 2016 to $1.6 billion in fiscal 2025, up 9.3% a year; it rose in 6 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 65% from fiscal 2018 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 7 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, RPC, Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 0.2% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 15% of its operating cash flow 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 2026-11-04 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, RPC, Inc. earned about 3 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 27 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 25 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 0.4% over the year (the filed statements).

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RPC, Inc.'s standing among 20 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $1.6 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 31% by size; a net margin of 2% ranks in the bottom 38%; revenue growth of 0.5% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 43% (its annual reports).

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RPC, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Palmer, Ben M (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2022-05-19, 4.5 years (bottom 37% of its family); the 13 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5.8 years (bottom 32%); 9 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 13 people in charge now (bottom 14%; 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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RPC, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $210 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 14.3% of its assets as net cash, top 13% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 3.3% of revenue (top 47%); a gross margin of 24.2% (top 23%) (its annual report).

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RPC, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 0.5% a year over the last three filed years against 9.3% over all 10, slowing (bottom 33% of its family); the newest year grew 15% (top 12%); capital spending grew 2.1% a year (bottom 33%) (its annual reports). RPC, Inc. reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Technical Service at $1.5 billion, Support Services at $91 million. 2 of 2 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 94% of revenue (its annual report).

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RPC, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $1.6 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 22.3% above the $1.3 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 14% of its family); net income of $32 million against a prior three-year average of $168 million (bottom 19%); a net margin of 2% against 10.7% before (bottom 14%) (its annual reports).