“Investing activities For the Six Months Ended June 30, Amount Change Between Periods 2026 2025 (in millions) Net cash used in investing activities $ (485) $ (839) $ 354 Net cash used in investing activities decreased for the six months ended June 30, 2026, co…”10-Q · Aug 6, 2026 ↗
SM Energy Company
SM
Market read
SM Energy Company's current read is isolated; its market group is not confirming.
The latest filing evidence is available. 0 of 20 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 1 directly disclosed connection is confirming.
- Revenue increased 215.3% versus the comparable filing period.
- Interest expense increased after SM assumed Civitas Senior Notes in the merger.
- Capital expenditures increased after the merger, while investing cash use was partly offset by South Texas divestiture proceeds.
Invalidation: The isolated read changes if SM's group or a disclosed connection begins moving with it.
Research brief
The story so far
The latest filing evidence is available. 0 of 20 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 1 directly disclosed connection is confirming.
- Revenue increased 215.3% versus the comparable filing period.
- Operating margin improved 22.6 percentage points.
- Net income increased 430.2% versus the comparable filing period.
No thresholded adverse filing evidence is available yet.
- Interest expense increased after SM assumed Civitas Senior Notes in the merger.
- Capital expenditures increased after the merger, while investing cash use was partly offset by South Texas divestiture proceeds.
Company research
Understand the business, not just the ticker
Use the company’s filings to identify the few operating, demand, cost, capital and regulatory variables that determine its earnings power.
- Which operating variable is changing?
- Is that change durable, cyclical or one-off?
- What evidence would disprove the current interpretation?
- Latest annual revenue changed +17.2% year over year.
- Operating cash flow covered net income at 3.10x in the latest annual period.
- Capital investment and capacity has repeated favorable evidence across 5 filings.
- Credit and interest rates has repeated favorable evidence across 5 filings.
- Operating margin changed -8.3 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- Net margin changed -8.1 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- Energy and commodity prices has repeated adverse evidence across 5 filings.
- Demand and volume has repeated adverse evidence across 3 filings.
- Tariffs and trade policy has repeated adverse evidence across 3 filings.
- P/E is 41% below the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
- EV/sales is 62% below the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
Price as of Sep 10, 2026
38.19Reported annual revenue and per-share history. This is accounting history, not a forecast.
What management says matters
Persistent and emerging business drivers
“Interest expense increased 157 percent YTD 2026-over-YTD 2025 primarily driven by interest expense attributable to our Civitas Senior Notes assumed in connection with the Merger.”10-Q · Aug 6, 2026 ↗
“Other operating income For the Three Months Ended For the Six Months Ended June 30, 2026 March 31, 2026 June 30, 2026 June 30, 2025 (in millions) Other operating income $ 82 $ 2 $ 84 $ 13 Other operating income increased $80 million sequentially and $71 milli…”10-Q · Aug 6, 2026 ↗
“These tariffs, along with retaliatory tariffs from other countries, could lead to reduced trade resulting from increased costs for imported goods and decreased demand for U.S.”10-K · Feb 26, 2026 ↗
Valuation discipline
Descriptive valuation snapshot
Price/sales 1.4× · EV/sales 1.3×. Comparisons use only industry-matched filing peers.
Mechanical 2.0-year scenarios are available as editable assumptions, not consensus.
Price action
How the market is pricing the story
Jodie does not have enough daily observations to draw a useful short-term chart for this asset. The latest quoted price was checked 11 Sept, 09:30 GMT-4; this is a coverage limitation, not a flat-price conclusion.
Developments
No sourced recent-development timeline yet
Jodie has not returned a relevant primary source or news item for SM. This is an evidence-coverage gap, not a conclusion that nothing material happened.
Business and financial condition
Reported financial figures are not available yet
Jodie has not returned structured SEC XBRL fundamentals for this asset. This is a coverage limitation, not an assessment of the business or its financial health.
Latest filing assessment
Fundamentals strengthened in the latest filing
10-Q filed 2026-08-06 against the comparable filing from 2025-08-01.
Capital and cash conversion
Reported investment and cash context
- Stock compensation / revenue
- +1.4%
Capex, revenue, and operating cash flow are matched to the same reported duration. Reported accounting context, not a forecast or trading recommendation.
What improved
- Revenue increased 215.3% versus the comparable filing period.
- Operating margin improved 22.6 percentage points.
- Net income increased 430.2% versus the comparable filing period.
What weakened
No thresholded deterioration was identified.
Filing receipts
“This increase was primarily driven by an 18 percent sequential quarterly increase in average daily equivalent production to 439.7 MBOE per day, reflecting a full quarter of production from the assets acquired in the Merger, and a 22 percent sequential quarterly increase in total realized price per BOE, before the effect of net derivative settlements (“realized price” or “realized prices”), resulting from increases in benchmark oil prices.”
“Production tax expense per BOE increased 34 percent sequentially and 58 percent YTD 2026-over-YTD 2025, primarily due to higher realized oil prices, and a higher production tax rate associated with our acquired DJ Basin assets relative to our pre-merger asset base, with the sequential increase also reflecting a full quarter of DJ Basin operations.”
“Our realized price on a per BOE basis increased 12 percent YTD 2026-over-YTD 2025 primarily due to increases in benchmark oil prices, partially offset by decreases in realized gas prices driven by unfavorable price differentials at Waha and CIG Rockies during the first half of 2026.”
Historical filing backfill generated after the original filing window. It is not part of Jodie's live track record.
Business ecosystem
The relationships behind SM
Customers, suppliers, partners and competitors named in company filings—not inferred from headlines.
Depended on by
NOGNorthern Oil and Gas, Inc.partnerFeb 26, 2026 ▾
“At closing, the Company acquired a 20 % undivided working interest in the assets sold by XCL, with SM Energy Company, an unaffiliated third party, acquiring the other 80 % and becoming the operator of the acquired assets.”
Filing peers
Companies whose filings use similar operating language.
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What is moving around it
Live connections
SM is currently a Follower in the organic co-movement group Oil & Gas Producers. This group is discovered from market behaviour rather than assigned from an industry taxonomy. 1 filing-linked name are in the relationship map; none is currently confirmed as moving with the group.
Context history
Theme membership history
No durable theme membership has been observed for this name yet.