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Core Laboratories Inc. CLB

5 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$526.5M
▲ 0.5% YoY
$29.7M
▼ 5.5% YoY
$25.8M
▼ 42.0% YoY

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In brief

What this company does

Core Laboratories Inc. provides proprietary and patented reservoir description and production enhancement services and products to the oil and gas industry, primarily through client relationships with many of the world's major, national and independent oil companies. As of December 31, 2025, it had approximately 3,300 employees, approximately 10% of which were represented under collective bargaining agreements. It operates its business in two complementary segments, which provide different services and products and use different technologies for evaluating and improving reservoir performance and increasing oil and gas recovery from new and existing fields. The Reservoir Description segment characterizes petroleum reservoir rock and reservoir fluid samples to increase production and improve recovery of crude oil and natural gas from clients' reservoirs. The Production Enhancement segment includes services and manufactured products associated with reservoir well completions, perforations, stimulation, production and well abandonment, and provides integrated diagnostic services to evaluate and monitor the effectiveness of well completions. Core Laboratories Inc. was established in 1936 and is a Delaware corporation. On May 1, 2023, Core Laboratories N.V., a holding company in the Netherlands, completed a redomestication transaction that resulted in its migration out of Luxembourg and domestication as Core Laboratories Inc., a Delaware corporation.

Written from the business description in CORE LABORATORIES INC.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 23 March 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 526.5M
Revenue, FY2025 · full 5-year series below
Revenue $M Net income $M
FY2025 · Revenue 526.5 · Net income 29.7
200M400M
202120242025
Compound annual growth
+2.4%
+15.1%
+14.5%
+0.0%
+35.4%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability

6 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 10.7% · Net 5.8%
5%10%
202120232025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 11.6%
5%10%15%
202120232025
Three returns, three denominators.

Each USD of equity produced 12 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

USD 14.3M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 25.8
20M40M
202120232025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends 1.9 · Net buybacks 12.4
10M20M-20M-40M
20212022202320242025

USD 1.9M in dividends and USD 12.4M in buybacks — 48% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 584.0M
EquityUSD 266.0M
CashUSD 22.7M
Gross debtUSD 110.3M
Net debtUSD 87.6M
Current ratio2.02×

Net debt stands at 33% of equity.

The 5-year record

5 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative—not applicable◌not available in our data
CLB, 5-year financial record
Metric 20252024202320222021
Revenue $B0.50.50.50.50.5
Operating income $B0.10.10.10.00.0
EBITDA $B0.10.10.10.10.1
Income tax $B0.00.00.00.00.0
Net income $B0.00.00.00.00.0
Free cash flow $B0.00.00.00.00.0
EPS, diluted $0.630.660.770.420.42
Dividend / sh $0.040.040.040.040.04
Payout %665109
ROE %11.613.317.911.312.3
Shares out B0.050.050.050.05◌

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 18 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 5 of the 5 fiscal years we could check. 28 checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2021. 15 checks were skipped: cost of revenue is not tagged before 2022. 14 checks were skipped: EPS is not tagged before 2021.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivityOil & Gas Field Services, NEC
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inDelaware
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2021

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