Valaris Limited (VAL)

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Valaris Limited's filings since 2017 show 5 warning events of 3 kinds: a bankruptcy or receivership notice (8-K item 1.03, 2 times, the latest 2021-03-05); a debt default or acceleration notice (8-K item 2.04, the latest 2020-08-19); a notice about its exchange listing (8-K item 3.01, 2 times, the latest 2020-08-25) (its current reports).

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Valaris Limited's 9 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $2.8 billion in fiscal 2016 to $2.4 billion in fiscal 2025, down 1.7% a year; it rose in 5 of 8 years; the deepest fall was 49% from fiscal 2016 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 5 of 9 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Valaris Limited's diluted share count shrank about 2.1% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 36% 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 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Valaris Limited earned about 31 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 14 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 40 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 2.7% over the year (the filed statements).

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Valaris Limited's standing among 11 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $2.4 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 39% by size; a net margin of 41.5% ranks in the top 5%; revenue growth of 13.9% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 50% (its annual reports).

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Valaris Limited's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Dibowitz, Anton (President & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2021-12-10, 4.9 years (top 50% of its family); the 11 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 4.5 years (bottom 8%); 3 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 11 people in charge now (top 33%; 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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Valaris Limited's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $599 million against debt of $1.1 billion leaves -9.2% of its assets as net cash, top 23% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 8.6% of revenue (top 50%); a gross margin of 31.2% (bottom 17%) (its annual report).

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Valaris Limited's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 13.9% a year over the last three filed years against -1.7% over all 9, speeding up (top 23% of its family); the newest year grew 0.3% (bottom 41%); capital spending grew 18.4% a year (top 36%) (its annual reports). Valaris Limited reported 4 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Floaters at $1.2 billion, Jackups at $823 million, ARO at $571 million, and 1 more. 3 of 4 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 44% of revenue (its annual report).

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Valaris Limited's newest year against its own record: revenue of $2.4 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 17.4% below the $2.9 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 41% of its family); net income of $983 million against a prior three-year average of $472 million (top 23%); a net margin of 41.5% against 25.1% before (top 14%) (its annual reports).