“Our net cash provided by operating activities and capital expenditures were as follows (in millions): Six Months Ended June 30, 2026 2025 Net cash provided by operating activities $ 88.1 $ 275.9 Capital expenditures $ (206.4) $ (167.4) During the six months e…”10-Q · Aug 6, 2026 ↗
Valaris Limited
VAL
Market read
Valaris Limited's current read is isolated; its market group is not confirming.
The latest filing evidence is available. 0 of 5 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 3 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
- Revenue decreased 12.4% versus the comparable filing period.
- VAL's market-adjusted activity becomes unusual and at least one connected name confirms.
Invalidation: The isolated read changes if VAL's group or a disclosed connection begins moving with it.
Research brief
The story so far
The latest filing evidence is available. 0 of 5 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 3 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
No thresholded supportive filing evidence is available yet.
- Revenue decreased 12.4% versus the comparable filing period.
- Operating margin fell 17.2 percentage points.
- Net income decreased 56.2% versus the comparable filing period.
- VAL's market-adjusted activity becomes unusual and at least one connected name confirms.
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 +24.0% year over year.
- Operating margin changed +338.6 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- Net margin changed +4369.2 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- Foreign exchange has repeated adverse evidence across 5 filings.
- Credit and interest rates has repeated adverse evidence across 4 filings.
- P/E is 68% below the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
- EV/sales is 32200% above the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
Price as of Sep 10, 2026
85.72Reported annual revenue and per-share history. This is accounting history, not a forecast.
What management says matters
Persistent and emerging business drivers
“Our backlog excludes ARO's backlog but includes backlog from our rigs leased to ARO at the contractual lease rates, which are subject to adjustment under the terms of the shareholder agreement governing the joint venture (the "Shareholder Agreement").”10-Q · May 5, 2026 ↗
“Net foreign currency exchange losses were $3.4 million during the six months ended June 30, 2026 compared to $14.3 million in the prior year period, primarily driven by favorable exchange rate movements in euros and British pounds, partially offset by unfavor…”10-Q · Aug 6, 2026 ↗
“Interest expense, net increased by $14.0 million, or 17%, in 2025 compared to 2024, primarily due to lower capitalized interest for VALARIS DS-13 and VALARIS DS-14, which were delivered at the end of 2023 and mobilized to the shipyard in 2024.”10-K · Feb 20, 2026 ↗
Valuation discipline
Descriptive valuation snapshot
Price/sales 510.7× · EV/sales 551.6×. 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 10 Sept, 15:55 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 VAL. 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
The latest filing shows material pressure
10-Q filed 2026-08-06 against the comparable filing from 2025-07-31.
Capital and cash conversion
Investment load increased
Capital spending consumed more revenue while free-cash-flow margin declined.
- Capital spending YoY
- +23.3%
- Capital spending / revenue
- +20.5%
- Free-cash-flow margin
- -11.8%
- FCF margin change
- -20.6 pts
Capex, revenue, and operating cash flow are matched to the same reported duration. Reported accounting context, not a forecast or trading recommendation.
What improved
No thresholded improvement was identified.
What weakened
- Revenue decreased 12.4% versus the comparable filing period.
- Operating margin fell 17.2 percentage points.
- Net income decreased 56.2% versus the comparable filing period.
Filing receipts
“Further contributing to the offsetting increase was a net $5.4 million increase attributable to non-recurring items, comprised of a $17.1 million accrual reversal in the prior year period related to a favorable arbitration outcome for a previously disclosed patent license litigation, partially offset by an $11.7 million reversal of previously recognized bad debt expense during the current year period in connection with the execution of a favorable settlement resulting in the collection of outstanding customer invoices from 2020.”
“Other income (expense), net, increased primarily due to favorable foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations relative to the prior year period of $10.9 million and a net $8.2 million increase from the recognition of pre-tax gains on sales of assets, driven by the sale of VALARIS 104 during the six months ended June 30, 2026, partially offset by gains from the sales of VALARIS 75 and an office in Angola in the prior year period.”
“Jackup depreciation expense increased $5.4 million, or 20%, during the six months ended June 30, 2026 compared to the prior year period, primarily due to new assets placed in service for certain rigs that underwent capital upgrades.”
Historical filing backfill generated after the original filing window. It is not part of Jodie's live track record.
Business ecosystem
The relationships behind VAL
Customers, suppliers, partners and competitors named in company filings—not inferred from headlines.
Depends on
Depended on by
RIGTransocean Ltd.investeeFeb 23, 2026 ▾
“Agreement to acquire Valaris Limited On February 9, 2026, we and Valaris Limited, an exempted company limited by shares incorporated under the laws of Bermuda ("Valaris"), entered into a Business Combination Agreement (the "Agreement") providing for the combi…”
Filing peers
Companies whose filings use similar operating language.
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What is moving around it
Live connections
VAL is currently a Early Follower in the organic co-movement group Offshore Oilfield Services. This group is discovered from market behaviour rather than assigned from an industry taxonomy. 3 filing-linked names 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.