# Imperial Petroleum share price today (Imperial Petroleum Inc., IMPP)

> Imperial Petroleum Inc.'s share price has fallen more than its earnings. Earnings per share fell 8.2% in a year while the price moved −11.1%. IMPP · Energy · Oil & Gas Midstream · data as of 3 November 2026. Page: https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/impp

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## Key numbers

- Business trend: Getting better, from the last 12 quarters
- Price: $4.90 (−11.1% in a year)
- P/E: 2.5× (lower than 96% of the last 1 year)
- Revenue (Jun 2026): $87.1 M (+139.5% on a year ago)
- Profit (Jun 2026): $33.8 M (+183.8% on a year ago)
- Operating margin: 38.4% (+15.9 points on a year ago)
- ROE: 9%, FY25
- ROIC: 10.0%, against a 11.3% cost of capital: −1.3 points

Biggest thing to watch: the price is not yet in a clear uptrend, so timing is the risk more than the business. ## What is the Imperial Petroleum share price today? Imperial Petroleum Inc.'s share price was $4.90 at the close on 3 November 2026. That is 3.4% above 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 63% of the way up from that low. 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 +52% while the S&P 500 moved +21%, 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. ## What dividend does Imperial Petroleum pay? 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. ## Which stock lists is Imperial Petroleum on? 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. ## Is Imperial Petroleum profitable? 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. 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. ## How much revenue does Imperial Petroleum make, and is it growing? 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. 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). ## How much of every $100 of sales does Imperial Petroleum keep? 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. 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. ## Is Imperial Petroleum's profit turning into cash? 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. 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. ## Where does Imperial Petroleum's cash go? 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. 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. ## What is Imperial Petroleum's P/E ratio, and how does it compare with its own history? Imperial Petroleum Inc.'s P/E is 2.5×, near the low end of its own history: it has been lower only 4% of the time. 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. Why the multiple is where it is: over the past year earnings per share moved −8.2% while the price moved −11.1%. 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. ## Is the Imperial Petroleum business getting better or worse? 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. Why it matters: a lasting rise from a low is what this page is built to show. ## How much does Imperial Petroleum earn on its capital? 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 1.3 percentage points below its cost of capital, so growth here does not yet pay for the capital it uses. 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% − 11.3% = −1.3 percentage points. The 11.3% 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. ## Does Imperial Petroleum have too much debt? 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. ## What is the Imperial Petroleum shareholding pattern? 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. 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 holds the short positions or why, so we show the level without guessing the story. ## How far is Imperial Petroleum from balance-sheet trouble? 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. 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. ## How does Imperial Petroleum rank in its industry? 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. ## Which companies is Imperial Petroleum compared with? No sector comparison is shown here, not among the largest members shown in this industry comparison. ## Which companies are close to Imperial Petroleum in size? Imperial Petroleum is the 47th largest of 47 Oil & Gas Midstream companies on Sector Alpha by market value (scores of 3 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

1. [Permian Basin Royalty Trust](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/pbt) $1.3 billion
2. [Navigator Holdings Ltd.](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/nvgs) $1.2 billion
3. [Teekay Corporation Ltd.](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/tk) $1.2 billion
4. [Sabine Royalty Trust](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/sbr) $1 billion
5. [Summit Midstream Corporation](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/smc) $412 million
6. [KNOT Offshore Partners LP](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/knop) $306 million
7. Imperial Petroleum Inc. $218 million

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## What else do people ask about Imperial Petroleum? ### What were Imperial Petroleum's latest quarterly results? Imperial Petroleum Inc. reported revenue of $87.1 M and net profit of $33.8 M for the Jun 2026 quarter. Revenue rose 139.5% and profit rose 183.8% compared with a year earlier. Earnings per share were $0.70. The operating margin was 38.4%, 15.9 percentage points higher than a year earlier (as of 3 November 2026). ### What is Imperial Petroleum's market cap? Imperial Petroleum Inc.'s market capitalisation is $218 M at a stock price of $4.90. Market cap is the share price times the number of shares, so it changes whenever the price moves (as of 3 November 2026). ### How is Imperial Petroleum performing? Imperial Petroleum Inc.'s latest readings are below. In its latest quarter, revenue rose 139.5% and profit rose 183.8% compared with a year earlier. Over the past 13 weeks it has done better than the S&P 500, for 6 weeks running. This describes what the data did, not a rating (as of 3 November 2026). ### Will Imperial Petroleum's stock price go up? This page does not forecast Imperial Petroleum Inc.'s stock price. What it shows instead: the stock price is $4.90. Its P/E of 2.5× is higher than 4% of its own last 1 years. Nobody can reliably say which way a price will move, and this site does not try (as of 3 November 2026). ### Where is Imperial Petroleum in its business cycle? Imperial Petroleum Inc.'s FY25 operating margin was 24.2%, against a 5-year range of −20.1% to 36.4%: the middle of its own range, neither a peak nor a low. The latest quarter was 38.4%. Comparing margins with a company's own long history is a good way to see where it is in its cycle (as of 3 November 2026). ### What could break the Imperial Petroleum story? Biggest thing to watch: the price is not yet in a clear uptrend, so timing is the risk more than the business. On price, this page treats a rise as over when the share price closes below its 200-day average on two Fridays in a row (as of 3 November 2026). ### Is Imperial Petroleum a stock worth studying right now? What the numbers show: Imperial Petroleum Inc.'s share price has fallen more than its earnings. Earnings per share fell 8.2% in a year while the price moved −11.1%. The main open question: the next one or two quarters of results. Every number on this page is worked out by code from the published figures, with no forecasts and no price opinions (as of 3 November 2026). This is research, not advice. We’re not SEBI-registered.