VAALCO Energy share price today

VAALCO Energy, Inc.'s share price was $5.40 at the close on 4 November 2026. That is 4.6% below its average price over the last 200 trading days. In the last 52 weeks it traded between $3 and $7, and at that close it sat 63% of the way up from that low.

A share price tends to move through four phases: moving sideways (stage 1), rising (stage 2), stalling near a high (stage 3) and falling (stage 4). The phase helps read everything below.

Over the past 13 weeks it has done worse than the S&P 500, and it has been behind for 1 week running.

Over the last 1 year the share price moved +38% while the S&P 500 moved +23%, so it is ahead of the index over that whole period. It was last ahead over 13 weeks in the week of 30 October 2026. The chart above shows the 13-week comparison for every week.

This page treats a rise as over when the price closes below its 200-day average on two Fridays in a row.

VAALCO Energy, Inc. paid $0.25 per share over the last four reported quarters. The most recent declaration was $0.06 for Jun 2026. At today's price of $5.40 that is a yield of 4.63%, based on dividends already paid, not a forecast.

A dividend is cash paid out for each share. The 12-month total is the four most recent quarters added together.

VAALCO Energy is not in the Nasdaq 100, the S&P 500 or the Dow Jones 30, and is not on the US tech stocks list.

VAALCO Energy, Inc. earned $41.2 M of net profit in the Jun 2026 quarter, +398.2% on the same quarter a year earlier. The full FY25 year was a loss of $41.9 M. That is 30.5% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier earned $8.3 M. 2 of the last 12 reported quarters were loss-making.

Net profit is what is left after every cost, interest and tax. Earnings per share, dividends and book value all grow from it.

For the full year, FY25 profit was −$41.9 M (−172.5% on the year before).

Why profit moved: revenue changed +39.5% on a year earlier and the margin moved +29.4 percentage points. Most of the change came from keeping more of each sale.

On average over the last four quarters, profit changed −405.7% and revenue −21.4%. Profit is growing slower than sales: rising costs are taking part of the growth.

VAALCO Energy, Inc. reported $135 M of revenue in the Jun 2026 quarter, +39.5% on the same quarter a year earlier. Over 4 years it has grown 15.9% a year on average. The last full year, FY25, came in at $359 M. The last four reported quarters add to $350 M.

Revenue is everything the company billed its customers in the period.

FY25 revenue was $359 M, −25.0% on the year before.

Recent pace: the last four quarters grew −21.4% on average, against 15.9% a year over the longer run, so this year is growing slower than its own long-run rate.

Is growth speeding up? Revenue over the last 12 months grew −25.5%, against −14.8% a year over the last 8 quarters (rolling over).

VAALCO Energy, Inc.'s operating margin was 47.5% in the Jun 2026 quarter, 29.4 percentage points higher than the same quarter a year ago. Across 5 years it has been between 13.8% and 37.7%. The latest quarter is above every full year in that period.

Operating margin is what is left from every $100 of sales after the costs of running the business, before interest and tax. It shows pricing power and cost control.

Why the margin moved: operating margin changed +29.4 percentage points on the year while gross margin changed +8.1 points. So the gain came mostly from costs below the gross margin, such as staff and overheads, measured against sales.

Over the last 3 years, 276% of VAALCO Energy, Inc.'s reported profit came in as cash from its operations, so the profit is backed by cash. In FY25 it brought in $213 M of operating cash against −$41.9 M of profit.

The profit and loss account shows what was earned. The cash-flow statement shows the cash that actually came in. Comparing operating cash flow with profit is one of the best checks that a profit is real.

After $256 M of spending on assets, free cash was −$43.2 M: it spent more than its operations brought in.

Cash-flow figures here are yearly, because quarterly cash statements are not published, so this section changes once a year.

Why: the cash figure is clear, but the day counts behind it are not in our data, so we show it without guessing the reason.

What to look at next: the main use of cash is spending on assets. The next section checks what that spending is building.

VAALCO Energy, Inc. does not report the customer, stock and supplier day counts a cash cycle needs, so this section looks at its spending on assets instead. It spent $456 M on assets over the last 3 years. Averaged over those years that is 42.3% of FY25 revenue a year.

Working capital is the cash tied up between paying suppliers and getting paid. Debtor days: how long customers take to pay. Inventory days: how long stock sits. The cash cycle: the whole loop, in days of sales.

Nothing is estimated in place of the missing day counts, so no cash-cycle chart is drawn.

Spending on assets: $456 M over the last 3 years.

In short: the cash is going into new capacity, not getting stuck in the daily cycle. The question is whether the new capacity earns.

VAALCO Energy, Inc.'s P/E is 24.0×, about the highest it has ever been. Its usual P/E (the middle reading) is 13.9×, over 10 months of weekly prices. This compares the share price with the company’s own past. It does not say what the business is worth.

P/E is the share price divided by a year's profit per share: how many dollars the market pays for each dollar of yearly profit.

Why the multiple is where it is: over the past year earnings per share moved −172.2% while the price moved +37.8%. The price did better than earnings, which pushed the multiple up within its own range.

In short: the multiple is high against its own past, so the earnings trend underneath matters more than the multiple.

VAALCO Energy, Inc.'s business is getting worse. Revenue and EPS growth are shrinking: revenue growth is −25.5% in the latest quarter, against +32.4% at its best in 12 quarters, with ROCE falling at 10.6%. This is based on 12 quarters of 4 measures.

Every business is somewhere on a path of getting better or worse, and this section names where. The last 12 quarters of growth in revenue, profit and earnings per share, plus the return the business earns on its capital, are read as lines. Getting worse: the lines are falling. Turning around: a low point has just formed and the last few quarters are rising from it. Getting better: the rise from the low has lasted. Growing steadily: steady growth with healthy returns. Slowing from a peak: still high, but slowing. When the lines disagree the result is mixed; too little history means no reading. CAGR (compound annual growth rate) is the steady yearly rate that would turn the starting value into the latest one. It is the fairest way to compare growth over different periods. If the 1-year figure is much bigger than the 10-year one, recent growth is running faster than the long-run trend. A dash means there is no figure for that period, or the starting year was a loss, where a growth rate means nothing.

Why it matters: falling lines mean any ratio below that looks low should be read with that direction in mind.

The latest quarter’s profit includes a one-off item bigger than the normal business, so the profit line is shown but does not count in this reading.

Compound annual growth rate (%)

Compound annual growth rate over each period, %. Revenue, profit and EPS come from yearly figures; the stock price row is price growth over the same periods. A dash means no figure for that period, or the starting year was a loss.

VAALCO Energy, Inc. earned a ROE of −9% in FY25. Its return on capital used (ROIC) is 7.1 percentage points below its cost of capital, so growth here does not yet pay for the capital it uses. It comes from a −11.7% net margin and 0.39× asset turnover (sales divided by assets).

Return on equity (ROE) is the profit the business earns on its shareholders’ money. We do not have the full capital split, so ROE is the longest history we can draw here.

Why the return is what it is (FY25): a −11.7% net margin × 0.39× asset turnover × 2.06× leverage (assets divided by equity) ≈ −9.4% on equity. The margin does its share; borrowing is a big part of it.

The key test, return on capital used minus the cost of capital: −2.7% − 4.4% = −7.1 percentage points. The 4.4% is an estimate of this company's own cost of capital. Read the sign and size of the gap, not the decimals. Negative: growth at these returns loses value until returns improve.

The −2.7% ROIC above is the latest reading, as reported. The yearly chart below shows FY25 at 9.4%, and the quarterly chart works out each 12-month window from the quarterly figures, so the readings differ by date, not by method.

VAALCO Energy, Inc. has total debt of $262 M against shareholder equity of $380 M as of Jun 2026, so its debt is 0.69× its equity. Year by year, that ratio went from 0.07 in FY21 to 0.33 in FY25. Keep that borrowing in mind when reading the returns on this page.

Debt-to-equity shows how much of the business is paid for with borrowed money. Lower is safer, and the direction matters as much as the level.

7.6% of VAALCO Energy, Inc.'s tradable shares are in short positions, which are bets that the price will fall, so some traders are betting against it. At normal trading volumes, closing those positions would take about 5.7 days. US companies do not publish a quarter-by-quarter list of owners, so this page uses short interest instead.

There is no quarter-by-quarter list of owners here, so we look at short interest: the share of tradable shares held in short positions, which gain if the price falls.

It is a single reading at one point in time; we do not have its history.

Why it is at this level: the figure does not say who has the short positions or why, so we show the level without guessing the story.

For VAALCO Energy, Inc., the Z-score is 0.77. A Z-score above about 3 is safe and below about 1.8 signals danger, so this is in the danger zone. It estimates how far the balance sheet is from trouble; it is not a forecast of failure.

The Z-score estimates how far a company is from balance-sheet trouble. Above about 3 is safe; below about 1.8 is the danger zone. It was built for manufacturers, so it is not used for banks and lenders.

Why it matters: a Z-score of 0.77 is inside the danger zone, so the balance sheet is a real risk.

There is no score against its industry: VAALCO Energy, Inc. is not among the largest members shown in this industry comparison for Oil & Gas Exploration & Production.

The score ranks a company within its industry: each measure is scored against the other members. Without that group there is no score, so none is shown.

No sector comparison is shown here, not among the largest members shown in this industry comparison.

VAALCO Energy is the 46th largest of 57 Oil & Gas Exploration & Production companies on Sector Alpha by market value (scores of 4 November 2026). Just above it: Vitesse Energy, Inc., Obsidian Energy and Granite Ridge Resources, Inc. Just below it: W&T Offshore, Inc., SandRidge Energy, Inc. and Gran Tierra Energy Inc.

Oil & Gas Exploration & Production companies close in size

43. Vitesse Energy, Inc. $618 million
44. Obsidian Energy Ltd. $617 million
45. Granite Ridge Resources, Inc. $611 million
46. VAALCO Energy, Inc. $568 million
47. W&T Offshore, Inc. $497 million
48. SandRidge Energy, Inc. $467 million
49. Gran Tierra Energy Inc. $356 million

All 57 Oil & Gas Exploration & Production companies, largest first

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Sector Alpha, written by code from the published numbers. Data as of 4 November 2026.

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