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National Fuel GAS Co. NFG

18 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
16 YEARS OF DIVIDEND GROWTH
$2.2B
▲ 30.0% YoY
$518.5M
▲ 568.9% YoY
$187.2M
▲ 39.0% YoY
In brief

What this company does

The company is engaged principally in the production, gathering, transportation, storage, and distribution of natural gas. As of September 30, 2025, it and its wholly-owned subsidiaries had a total of 2,322 full-time employees. Revenue from one customer of its Integrated Upstream and Gathering segment represented approximately $258 million, or 11.3%, of the company's consolidated revenue for the year ended September 30, 2025. The company reports financial results for three business segments: Integrated Upstream and Gathering, Pipeline and Storage, and Utility. Seneca is engaged in the exploration for, and development of, natural gas reserves in the Appalachian region of the United States. Supply Corporation and Empire provide interstate natural gas transportation services for affiliated and nonaffiliated companies through integrated natural gas pipeline systems in Pennsylvania and New York. Distribution Corporation provides natural gas utility services to approximately 756,000 customers through a local distribution system located in western New York and northwestern Pennsylvania. National Fuel Gas Company, incorporated in 1902, is a holding company organized under the laws of the State of New Jersey.

Written from the business description in NATIONAL FUEL GAS CO's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 21 November 2025. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth
USD 2.2B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 18-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 2.2 · Net income 0.5
2B2008201120142017202020232025
Compound annual growth
−10.2%
+7.5%
+1.6%
−2.9%
+5.7%
−2.6%
+5.0%
+4.1%
+3.6%
+3.0%
+2.9%
+13.0%
+9.6%
+6.4%
+5.4%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +7.5% 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
23 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 36.7% · Net 23.4%
10%20%30%-10%-20%2008201120142017202020232025
ROE

No chart to show — the reason differs by year; see each year in the table below.

Cash & shareholders
USD 242.9M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 187.2
100M200M-200M2008201120142017202020232025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends 188.4 · Net buybacks 54.4
200MDividendsNet buybacks2008201120142017202020232025

USD 188.4M in dividends and USD 54.4M in buybacks — 47% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 8.7B
CashUSD 43.2M
Gross debtUSD 2.7B
Net debtUSD 2.6B
Current ratio0.44×

Not available: we don't have the shareholders' equity figure for this period.

The 18-year record
18 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative
Metric 202520242023202220212020201920182017201620152014201320122011201020092008
Revenue $B2.21.72.33.11.71.51.71.61.61.5···1.61.81.8··
Operating income $B0.80.20.80.80.60.00.50.50.6−0.4−0.60.60.50.40.40.40.20.5
EBITDA $B1.30.71.21.21.00.30.80.80.8−0.2−0.31.00.80.70.70.60.40.7
Income tax $B0.20.00.20.10.10.00.1−0.00.2−0.2−0.30.20.20.20.20.10.10.2
Net income $B0.50.10.50.60.4−0.10.30.40.3−0.3−0.40.30.30.20.30.20.10.3
Free cash flow $B0.20.10.20.00.00.0−0.10.00.20.0−0.2−0.00.0−0.4−0.20.00.30.1
EPS, diluted $5.680.845.176.153.97−1.413.514.533.30−3.43−4.503.523.082.633.092.731.253.18
Dividend / sh $2.102.021.941.861.801.761.721.681.641.601.561.521.481.441.401.361.32·
Payout %36237373045−124483749−46−34424754444910339
ROE %··················
Shares out B0.090.090.090.090.090.090.090.090.090.090.080.080.080.080.080.080.08·

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Provenance
Company facts, as filed
How we verify · 0 failures in 70 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 18 of 19 fiscal years. 17 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures
ActivityNatural Gas Distribution
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inNew Jersey
Fiscal year endsSeptember 30
Data on record since2008

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