Imperial Petroleum share price today

Imperial Petroleum Inc.'s share price was $4.62 at the close on 4 November 2026. That is 2.7% below its average price over the last 200 trading days. In the last 52 weeks it traded between $3 and $6, and at that close it sat 51% 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 better than the S&P 500, and it has stayed ahead for 6 weeks in a row.

Over the last 1 year the share price moved +43% while the S&P 500 moved +23%, so it is ahead of the index over that whole period. 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.

Imperial Petroleum Inc. pays no dividend. In the last 12 reported quarters it declared no dividend per share, so there is no payout history to chart and no yield to show. Companies like this usually keep their earnings in the business, so the cash-flow sections show where that cash goes.

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

Imperial Petroleum Inc. earned $33.8 M of net profit in the Jun 2026 quarter, +183.8% on the same quarter a year earlier. That is the 4th quarter in a row of profit growth. Full-year FY25 profit was $46.6 M. That is 38.8% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier earned $11.9 M.

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

1 of the last 12 reported quarters were loss-making.

For the full year, FY25 profit was $46.6 M (+1.0% on the year before).

Why profit moved: revenue changed +139.5% on a year earlier and the margin moved +15.9 percentage points. Most of the change came from keeping more of each sale.

On average over the last four quarters, profit changed +163.6% and revenue +88.1%. Profit is growing faster than sales: fixed costs are spread over more sales, so each extra dollar of revenue adds more to profit.

Imperial Petroleum Inc. reported $87.1 M of revenue in the Jun 2026 quarter, +139.5% on the same quarter a year earlier. That is the 4th quarter in a row with growth on the year before. Over 4 years it has grown 74.5% a year on average. The last full year, FY25, came in at $161 M.

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

The last four reported quarters add to $241 M.

FY25 revenue was $161 M, +9.2% on the year before.

Recent pace: the last four quarters grew +88.1% on average, against 74.5% a year over the longer run, so this year is growing faster than its own long-run rate.

Is growth speeding up? Revenue over the last 12 months grew +89.0%, against +27.9% a year over the last 8 quarters (accelerating); profit over the last 12 months grew +143.0%, against +42.7% a year (accelerating).

Imperial Petroleum Inc.'s operating margin was 38.4% in the Jun 2026 quarter, 15.9 percentage points higher than the same quarter a year ago. Across 5 years it has been between −20.1% and 36.4%. 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 +15.9 percentage points on the year while gross margin changed +6.7 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, 156% of Imperial Petroleum Inc.'s reported profit came in as cash from its operations, so the profit is backed by cash. In FY25 it brought in $80.8 M of operating cash against $46.6 M of profit. After $1.7 M of spending on assets, $79.1 M was left over as free cash.

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.

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.

Imperial Petroleum 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 $105 M on assets over the last 3 years. Averaged over those years that is 21.6% 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: $105 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.

Imperial Petroleum Inc.'s P/E is 2.3×, about the lowest it has ever been. Its usual P/E (the middle reading) is 3.1×, over 1 year 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 −8.2% while the price moved −14.1%. Earnings did better than the price, which pulled the multiple down within its own range.

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

Imperial Petroleum Inc.'s business is getting better. Profit growth hit its low 7 quarters ago at −44.9% and has recovered to +143.0%, with ROCE rising at 16.1%. 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: a lasting rise from a low is what this page is built to show.

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.

Imperial Petroleum Inc. earned a ROE of 9% in FY25. That is up from a low of −4% in FY21. Its return on capital used (ROIC) is 1.4 percentage points below its cost of capital, so growth here does not yet pay for the capital it uses.

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.

It comes from a 28.9% net margin and 0.29× asset turnover (sales divided by assets).

Why the return is what it is (FY25): a 28.9% net margin × 0.29× asset turnover × 1.03× leverage (assets divided by equity) ≈ 8.6% on equity. The margin does most of the work; borrowing plays a small part, so this return is earned, not borrowed.

The key test, return on capital used minus the cost of capital: 10.0% − 11.4% = −1.4 percentage points. The 11.4% 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.

Imperial Petroleum Inc. has total debt of $101 K against shareholder equity of $587 M as of Jun 2026, so its debt is 0.00× its equity, which is very little. Year by year, that ratio went from 0.29 in FY21 to 0.00 in FY24. So the returns on this page come from the business, not from borrowed money.

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.

17.5% of Imperial Petroleum Inc.'s tradable shares are in short positions, which are bets that the price will fall, so a large group of traders is betting against it. At normal trading volumes, closing those positions would take about 7.6 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 Imperial Petroleum Inc., the Z-score is 3.56. A Z-score above about 3 is safe and below about 1.8 signals danger, so this is well clear of danger. 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 3.56 is well clear of the danger zone, so the balance sheet is not the risk here.

There is no score against its industry: Imperial Petroleum Inc. is not among the largest members shown in this industry comparison for Oil & Gas Midstream.

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.

Imperial Petroleum is the 47th largest of 47 Oil & Gas Midstream companies on Sector Alpha by market value (scores of 4 November 2026). Just above it: Permian Basin Royalty Trust, Navigator Holdings, Teekay Corporation, Sabine Royalty Trust, Summit Midstream Corporation and KNOT Offshore Partners LP. It is the smallest.

Oil & Gas Midstream companies close in size

41. Permian Basin Royalty Trust $1.3 billion
42. Navigator Holdings Ltd. $1.2 billion
43. Teekay Corporation Ltd. $1.2 billion
44. Sabine Royalty Trust $986 million
45. Summit Midstream Corporation $399 million
46. KNOT Offshore Partners LP $302 million
47. Imperial Petroleum Inc. $205 million

All 47 Oil & Gas Midstream companies, largest first

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