SLB · Materials · $78.4B mkt cap · FY2025 filings · Narrow moat ·
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2021–2025 (latest 5 aligned FYs; v3 window cap 5): revenue $22.9B to $35.7B, increasing; diluted EPS 1.32 to 2.35, increasing. Latest-filed diluted EPS remains usable for Business Trend, but an integer share-count change lacks enough evidence to confirm a comparable EPS basis; valuation growth therefore stays at 0%.
Median gross margin 73.6% over 2y, very stable.
Median ROIC 7.5%, above the 12% hurdle in 25% of years.
Insufficient leverage/coverage inputs to score the balance sheet.
Owner earnings changed +32.1%/yr over up to the ten most recent annual observations.
The balanceSheet component abstained: Insufficient leverage/coverage inputs to score the balance sheet. The other four 20% weights were renormalized over the scored 80%.
A cautious baseline, not a price target: what the shares may support if normalized owner earnings simply hold steady.
What today’s price assumes: owner earnings growing ~10%/yr over 5 years. The zero-growth estimate assumes owner earnings stay flat (0% growth).
We solve for the constant annual change in owner earnings that would make the five-year zero-growth estimate equal today’s price. This keeps the existing model inputs and calculation unchanged; it is an expectations lens, not a forecast.
This zero-growth estimate assumes trailing owner earnings persist — unreliable for declining businesses. The recent FY revenue series does not trigger the three-consecutive-declines flag.
Among the current top-score group, the median current price is 239% above the zero-growth estimate across 48 of the current top 50 companies by Moat Score with both values.
Score records captured Jul 26, 2026.
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Missing a usable price or zero-growth estimate: ANF, BKNG.
Model details under moat-index@3.0.0: zero-growth multiple 11.1×, capped-growth comparison at no more than 18×; 9% discount rate; high-end growth 0% (capped at 4%) using min(5y revenue CAGR, 5y diluted-EPS CAGR), clamped to 0%–4%; maintenance capex uses min(capex, D&A); abstain when D&A is unavailable. This is a disclosed model range, not intrinsic value as fact.
Across the filed record, revenue grew from $23.3B (FY2007) to $35.7B (FY2025) — about 2.4% a year compounded over 18 years.
ROIC is not available for the latest filed year, FY2025. Across the full 11-year measurable filed record, median ROIC was 8.8%. Over the v3 recent window (8 measurable filed years), median ROIC was 7.5%. The Returns on Capital filter above scores it 20/100.
The balance sheet carried $9.7B of total debt in FY2025 against $4.3B of owner earnings — roughly 2.3 years of owner earnings to retire it all.
This breakdown is generated from the filed numbers and sub-scores above — no outside narrative, no estimates. Where a filing doesn’t disclose an input, the sentence that would need it is omitted instead of guessed.
Gaps in a line mean that item isn’t in SLB’s filings for that year. The series is never interpolated or estimated. The Table view lists every filed value, including operating and net margins, total debt, and share count.
Flagship explainer
SLB LIMITED/NV's filing does not supply enough comparable lines for a truthful flow chart — here's what is filed:
| Filed line | Value | % of revenue | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| $35.7B | 100% |
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| Income before tax | $4.3B | 12% |
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| Income tax | $840M | 2% |
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| $3.4B | 9% |
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Flagship explainer
SLB LIMITED/NV's filing tags don't support a full breakdown — here's what is filed:
| Filed line | Value | % of assets | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | $54.9B | 100% |
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| $9.7B | 18% |
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| Stockholders’ equity | $26.1B | 48% |
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Flagship explainer
One or more filed inputs needed for the five-factor decomposition are unavailable.
| Input | Value | Fiscal year | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net income | $3.4B | FY2025 |
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| Income before tax | $4.3B | FY2025 |
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| Operating income | Unavailable | FY2025 |
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| Revenue | $35.7B | FY2025 |
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| Ending assets | $54.9B | FY2025 |
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| Beginning assets | $48.9B | FY2024 |
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| Ending equity | $26.1B | FY2025 |
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| Beginning equity | $21.1B | FY2024 |
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Flagship explainer
SLB LIMITED/NV’s filing does not supply enough provenance-matched cash-flow lines for a truthful flow chart — here’s what is filed:
| Filed line | Value | % of cash from operations | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash from operations | $6.5B | 100% |
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| Depreciation and amortization | $2.6B | 41% |
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Curated 19-manager tier
Delayed public 13F reports for 2026-Q2—not live positions, trades, or recommendations.
0 holding0 exited1 not holding1/19 resolved18 unavailable
| Manager | Reported position | Quarter-over-quarter | Filing accession |
|---|---|---|---|
| Markel / Markel-Gayner | No position reported | No position reported |
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| Abrams Capital | Unavailable | Comparison unavailable | Filing unavailable |
| Akre Capital | Unavailable | Comparison unavailable | Filing unavailable |
| Baupost Group | Unavailable | Comparison unavailable | Filing unavailable |
| Berkshire Hathaway | Unavailable | Comparison unavailable | Filing unavailable |
| Brave Warrior Advisors | Unavailable | Comparison unavailable | Filing unavailable |
| Dodge & Cox | Unavailable | Comparison unavailable | Filing unavailable |
| First Eagle | Unavailable | Comparison unavailable | Filing unavailable |
| Fundsmith | Unavailable | Comparison unavailable | Filing unavailable |
| Gardner Russo & Quinn | Unavailable | Comparison unavailable | Filing unavailable |
| Gates Foundation Trust | Unavailable | Comparison unavailable | Filing unavailable |
| Mairs & Power | Unavailable | Comparison unavailable | Filing unavailable |
| Oakmark / Harris Associates | Unavailable | Comparison unavailable | Filing unavailable |
| Pershing Square | Unavailable | Comparison unavailable | Filing unavailable |
| Polen Capital | Unavailable | Comparison unavailable | Filing unavailable |
| Sequoia / Ruane Cunniff | Unavailable | Comparison unavailable | Filing unavailable |
| Southeastern Asset Management | Unavailable | Comparison unavailable | Filing unavailable |
| Tweedy, Browne | Unavailable | Comparison unavailable | Filing unavailable |
| Yacktman Asset Management | Unavailable | Comparison unavailable | Filing unavailable |
Position size uses shares and filed value from each manager’s 13F. Portfolio weight uses the eligible long-share filing denominator. Changes compare only with the immediately preceding calendar quarter.
Flagship explainer
Records still being gathered — partial as of retrieval Aug 17, 2026.
Partial coverage: the incomplete Form 4 walk cannot establish no activity, an activity date, or zero counts.
Breaks in the line mark methodology or normalizer upgrades — readings across versions aren’t compared, so a level shift there isn’t a change in the business.
Tier changesSame-methodology and same-normalizer crossings of the Wide / Narrow / Shallow bars
Scores are logged append-only and never overwritten — this record cannot be reconstructed retroactively, which is exactly why it’s worth keeping.
Form 4 reports mix P/S market or private transactions with compensation-plan mechanics. Activity casually described as “insider selling” can include compensation mechanics; awards, tax withholding, and option exercises are shown by their exact filed class here, never collapsed into “Bought” or “Sold.”
These are disclosed filing facts and arithmetic aggregates, not a signal or verdict.
This machine-readable surface covers SEC ownership filings from 2003; it does not represent earlier paper-era records.
Records still being gathered — partial as of retrieval Aug 17, 2026.
31 filings were skipped because the SEC primary document returned 404; the omission is disclosed and aggregates are withheld.
Trailing-12-month totals and the 90-day cluster result are withheld because this issuer walk is incomplete.
No reported Form 4 rows were captured for SLB; the incomplete walk cannot establish zero activity, zero counts, or a negative cluster result.
A filing source-event date will appear when a Form 4 row is captured.
Retrieved .
How SLB LIMITED/NV’s moat rated in each of the years we can reconstruct from its filings — scored only on what was knowable at the time — and what its price and returns did afterward. The score never saw a price; the two are joined only in hindsight, for education, not as a signal.
How to read this: each dot is what the engine would have scored SLB on that December 31; the line below is its total-return price path (dividends reinvested) in the years since.
Two tracks, one timeline: the score has its own 0–100 scale (top), the price its own 100-based scale (bottom) — never a shared axis. The price path is a total-return (dividends reinvested) index built from the same data the forward returns use; gaps in the score line are years with no reconstructed rating (see the table for why). The Table view carries every value.
In the reconstructed history shown, SLB did not rate Wide-moat in any year, so there is no wide-moat track record to report. That absence is itself the honest answer — we don’t manufacture a comparison where the rating never earned one.
#28 of 309 scored Materials companies, ranked by Moat Score.
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