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Kosmos Energy Ltd. KOS

17 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$1.3B
▼ 23.1% YoY
$-699.8M
▼ 468.6% YoY
In brief

What this company does

Kosmos Energy Ltd. produces oil and gas from assets offshore Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, Mauritania, Senegal, and the Gulf of America. As of December 31, 2025, it had 216 employees, with 175 based in the United States and 41 in its foreign offices. Kosmos was founded in 2003 to find oil and gas in under-explored or overlooked parts of West Africa. It discovered the Jubilee Field offshore Ghana in 2007 and the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim Field, comprising the Ahmeyim and Guembeul discoveries offshore Mauritania and Senegal, in 2015 and 2016, respectively. It acquired the Ceiba Field and Okume Complex assets offshore Equatorial Guinea in 2017 and acquired Deep Gulf Energy, a deepwater company operating in the Gulf of America, in 2018.

Written from the business description in KOSMOS ENERGY LTD.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 2 March 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth
USD 1.3B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 17-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 1.3 · Net income -0.7
0.80B1.60B-0.25B-0.50B200920112013201520172019202120232025
Compound annual growth
−16.9%
+9.9%
+10.6%
+38.9%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +9.9% a year over five years.

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
−54 cents
lost on every revenue dollar
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating -49.3% · Net -54.3%
-1000%-2000%200920112013201520172019202120232025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE -80.9%
10%20%30%-50%200920112013201520172019202120232025

Each USD of equity lost 81 cents this year.

Cash & shareholders
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $B
FY2024 · FCF 0.7
0.4B0.8B-0.2B-0.4B200920112013201520172019202120232025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends 0.0 · Net buybacks —
80M160M20122014201620182020202220242025

Total assetsUSD 4.7B
EquityUSD 528.6M
CashUSD 91.5M
Gross debtUSD 3.1B
Net debtUSD 3.0B
Current ratio0.75×

Net debt stands at 560% of equity.

The 17-year record
17 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative
Metric 20252024202320222021202020192018201720162015201420132012201120102009
Revenue $B1.31.71.72.21.30.81.50.90.60.30.50.90.90.70.70.00.0
Operating income $B−0.60.30.40.3−0.0−0.40.0−0.1−0.2−0.30.10.6·····
EBITDA $B−0.10.80.80.80.40.10.60.30.1−0.10.30.8·····
Income tax $B0.10.20.20.10.0−0.00.10.00.0−0.00.20.30.20.10.1−0.10.0
Net income $B−0.70.20.20.2−0.1−0.4−0.1−0.1−0.2−0.3−0.10.3−0.1−0.1−0.0−0.3−0.1
Free cash flow $B·0.70.81.1−0.1−0.10.2−0.10.2−0.6·······
EPS, diluted $−1.470.400.440.48−0.19−1.02−0.14−0.23−0.57−0.74−0.180.72−0.24−0.180.09··
Dividend / sh $·····0.050.180.000.00········
Payout %−0000−1−5−130−0−0········
ROE %−80.917.023.534.4−16.1−64.2−6.3−10.2−22.5−23.6−5.224.0−9.0−6.5−1.0··

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

Provenance
Company facts, as filed
How we verify · 1 failures in 64 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 16 of 19 fiscal years. 12 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente1 failures
ActivityCrude Petroleum & Natural Gas
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inDelaware
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2009

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