Company Analysis

TETRA Technologies, Inc. (TTI)

NYSE: TTI · Crude Petroleum & Natural Gas · Spring, TX · filing with the SEC since 1996
Grade4.1
◀ Past 3.3● Present 4.6▶ Future 4.8

The grade of TETRA Technologies, Inc.

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
4.1/10
◀ Past3.340% of the headline
● Present4.635% of the headline
▶ Future4.825% of the headline

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

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

3.3/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
3.2/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

2 warning events since 2017; the latest 2020-06-18.

weight 45% of this tense · 32nd percentile among 83 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

TETRA Technologies, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 2 warning events of 2 kinds: a notice about its exchange listing (8-K item 3.01, the latest 2020-04-01); an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, the latest 2020-06-18) (its current reports).

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

Track record

as filed
3.8/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+0.2% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 5 of 10.

weight 33% of this tense · 38th percentile among 74 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

TETRA Technologies, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $617 million in fiscal 2016 to $631 million in fiscal 2025, up 0.2% a year; it rose in 6 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 48% from fiscal 2017 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 5 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span0.2%bottom 20% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosetop 28% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profitbottom 29% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak47.8%bottom 30% of its family

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

Shareholder treatment

as filed
3.0/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 1.4% a year. 0% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 4 sales, 2 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 30th percentile among 61 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, TETRA Technologies, Inc.'s diluted share count grew about 1.4% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 0% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 4 sales (2 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 2 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-05, buying about $282 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearsbottom 48% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 12% 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?

4.6/1035% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
3.7/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 1%: 1¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 58%: owes 58¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 37th percentile among 76 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, TETRA Technologies, Inc. earned about 1 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 23 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 58 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 2.2% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 34% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 31% of its family
  • gross profit against assetsbottom 40% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforebottom 44% of its family

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

Industry position

as filed
4.9/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 49% of 76 in its family; net margin 0.5%.

weight 33% of this tense · 49th percentile among 76 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

TETRA Technologies, Inc.'s standing among 76 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $631 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 48% by size; a net margin of 0.5% ranks in the bottom 31%; revenue growth of 4.5% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 32% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$631Mbottom 48% of its family
  • net margin0.5%bottom 31% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth4.5%top 32% of its family

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

Leadership

as filed
5.8/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 42% of 51 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2019.

weight 22% of this tense · 58th percentile among 51 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

TETRA Technologies, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Murphy, Brady M (President & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2019-05-06, 7.5 years (top 11% of its family); the 16 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5 years (bottom 36%); 7 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 16 people in charge now (bottom 48%; 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.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge7 in three years among 16 peoplebottom 48% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed5.0 yearsbottom 36% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record7.5 yearstop 11% of its family

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

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

4.8/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
2.4/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 24% of 74 in its family for room to expand.

weight 22% of this tense · 24th percentile among 74 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

TETRA Technologies, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $73 million against debt of $181 million leaves -16.1% of its assets as net cash, bottom 43% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 3.1% of revenue (bottom 22%); a gross margin of 24.7% (bottom 7%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-16.1%bottom 43% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue3.1%bottom 22% of its family
  • gross margin24.7%bottom 7% of its family

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

Growth drivers

as filed
7.7/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 23% of 72 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 77th percentile among 72 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

TETRA Technologies, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 4.5% a year over the last three filed years against 0.2% over all 10, speeding up (top 6% of its family); the newest year grew 5.3% (top 43%); capital spending grew 26.4% a year (top 21%) (its annual reports). TETRA Technologies, Inc. reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Completion Fluids Products Division at $376 million (60%), Water Flowback Services at $254 million (40%); 1 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span+4.2 points a yeartop 6% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth5.3%top 43% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending26.4%top 21% 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
3.9/10

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

bottom 39% of 69 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 45% of this tense · 39th percentile among 69 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

TETRA Technologies, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $631 million in fiscal 2025 came in 1.2% above the $623 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 40% of its family); net income of $3 million against a prior three-year average of $47 million (bottom 25%); a net margin of 0.5% against 7.9% before (top 47%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace1.2%bottom 40% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average-94%bottom 25% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-7.4 pointstop 47% 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 TTI · research, not advice