# Scorpio Tankers (STNG.US)

Canonical: https://gigainvestors.com/s/STNG

Analysis as of: 2026-10-16T07:32:08.441Z. Financial observations: FY2007–FY2026.

Listing currency: USD. Reporting currency: USD.

## Verdict

Not a wonderful business

Quality tests for Buy: not passed (profit record: fail; earnings resilience is evidence only). Published buy qualification: no.

Share price: $82.85 per share; close as of 2026-10-15.

Estimated value: low $173.67 per share, central $192.61 per share, high $217.84 per share. Buy at or below the central value $192.61 per share. Valuation as of 2026-10-16T07:32:08.441Z; scenarios are not confidence intervals.

Expected annual return: 27.8% at the stated quote. About 27.8% a year at today's price (required return 10.0%). required return 10.0% a year (10% floor; US 10-year bond 5.1% + 4 points).

## Checklist

### understandable: fail

- 5 revenue declines in the last 10 years (informational)

- more than 2 net loss years

- operating margin variation exceeds 0.35

- Financial history: 10 years

- Years with declining revenue: 5

- Years with a net loss: 4

- Operating margin variation: 0.97×

Chart: Operating margin; fiscal year observations.

- FY2017: -0.09×

- FY2018: 0.02×

- FY2019: 0.18×

- FY2020: 0.27×

- FY2021: -0.17×

- FY2022: 0.51×

- FY2023: 0.53×

- FY2024: 0.61×

- FY2025: 0.33×

- LTM to Jun 2026: 0.47×

### moat: fail

- ROIC median below threshold

- ROIC worst years below threshold (more than 1 bad year allowed)

- ROIC, median of available years: 2.7%

- ROIC, second-lowest year: -0.8%

- Typical minus recent gross margin: -14.6 pp

- Typical gross margin (annual median): 31.6%

- Recent gross margin (lower of latest and 3-year median): 46.2%

- Years with nonpositive capital: 0

- Capital spending / revenue: 8.9%

- ROIC including acquisitions, ten-year median: 1.2%

Chart: ROIC excluding acquisitions; fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: 2.0%

- FY2017: -0.8%

- FY2018: 0.2%

- FY2019: 2.1%

- FY2020: 3.2%

- FY2021: -1.5%

- FY2022: 18.0%

- FY2023: 18.7%

- FY2024: 18.2%

- FY2025: 8.0%

### economics: pass

- Owner earnings / net income, 5-yr: 1.38×

- Cash conversion uses consolidated totals: No

- Owner earnings, five-year total: $2.7B

- Net income, five-year total: $2.0B

- Return on incremental invested capital: >100%

- Working capital / revenue, annual change: 0.7 pp

- Working capital / revenue, change between three-year averages: 4.0 pp

- Working capital / revenue, final three-year average: 14.4%

Chart: Annual owner cash / profit; fiscal year observations.

- FY2021: 0.18×

- FY2022: 1.27×

- FY2023: 1.33×

- FY2024: 1.14×

- FY2025: 1.31×

### management: pass

- Historical market-dollar context (not the management verdict): 2016 to 2025 (9 years)

- potential debt-funded buybacks (informational)

- buybacks leaned toward cheaper years (informational)

- ROIC first 3 years vs last 3 years: 0.2% vs 18.2%

- Per-share earnings: -1.54 to 10.03 (three-year endpoint medians)

- Management verdict uses per-share economic progress: Yes

- Ordinary dilution, 10-year annual growth: 9.2%

- Ordinary dilution, 5-year annual growth: -2.0%

- Market cap gain: $1.8B

- Cumulative retained earnings: $1.4B

- Diluted shares, 10-year annual growth: 9.2%

- Diluted shares, 5-year annual growth: -2.0%

- $1 test, starting fiscal year: FY2016

- $1 test, ending fiscal year: FY2025

- Per-share value change: $11.57

- Per-share value, starting three-year median: -$1.54

- Per-share value, ending three-year median: $10.03

- Buybacks concentrated in cheaper years (correlation): 0.45

- Average buyback yield: 5.0%

- Buyback history: 9 years

- Debt-funded buybacks: Yes

- Acquisition spending: $27M

- Cumulative net income, 10 years: $1.6B

- ROIC, first three-year median: 0.2%

- ROIC, last three-year median: 18.2%

Chart: Earnings per share; fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: -$1.54

- FY2017: -$5.58

- FY2018: -$4.10

- FY2019: -$0.85

- FY2020: $1.73

- FY2021: -$4.24

- FY2022: $10.03

- FY2023: $10.03

- FY2024: $13.15

- FY2025: $7.03

### accounting: pass

- latest-year receivables to sales index (DSRI) exceeds 1.465

- Sloan accruals: -3.8%

- Receivables to sales index (DSRI): 1.60×

- Restructuring years, last five: 0

- Stock compensation / operating cash flow: 14.6%

- Earnings backed by cash: Yes

- Operating cash / earnings: 1.43×

- Accounting red flags: 1

- Goodwill and intangibles / equity: 0.00×

Chart: Sloan accruals; fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: -6.3%

- FY2017: -4.4%

- FY2018: -5.2%

- FY2019: -5.0%

- FY2020: -6.3%

- FY2021: -6.1%

- FY2022: -2.9%

- FY2023: -7.5%

- FY2024: -4.1%

- FY2025: -3.8%

## Holders

- [Matthew McLennan](https://gigainvestors.com/FE): tracked 13F investor; follow the investor page for holding quarter and amounts.

## Price story

Price needs cash profits to shrink 14.6% a year for ten years · sales +29.6%

Story as of 2026-10-16T09:59:38.175Z; price observation 2026-10-15.

Price needs cash profits to shrink 14.6% a year for ten years

- 2025-07-30: Scorpio Tankers Inc. (NYSE:STNG) Surpasses Q2 2025 Earnings Forecasts and Announces Dividend ([chartmill.com](https://www.chartmill.com/news/STNG/Chartmill-31861-Scorpio-Tankers-Inc-NYSESTNG-Surpasses-Q2-2025-Earnings-Forecasts-and-Announces-Dividend))

- 2026-09-30: Strong Rates Boost Revenues and Cash Flow at Scorpio Tankers ([finance.yahoo.com](https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/strong-rates-boost-revenues-cash-155200256.html))

### Sales · FY2025–2026

sales +29.6%; source https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1483934/000148393426000021/stng-20251231.htm; observed 2026-03-20.

- FY2017: $513M 

- FY2018: $585M 

- FY2019: $704M 

- FY2020: $916M 

- FY2021: $541M 

- FY2022: $1.6B 

- FY2023: $1.3B 

- FY2024: $1.2B 

- FY2025: $938M 

- FY2026: $1.2B 

### Gross margin · FY2025

gross margin 46.2%; source https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1483934/000148393426000021/stng-20251231.htm; observed 2026-03-20.

- FY2016: 25.6% 

- FY2017: 11.0% 

- FY2018: 10.8% 

- FY2019: 27.3% 

- FY2020: 35.9% 

- FY2022: 60.1% 

- FY2023: 60.4% 

- FY2024: 57.0% 

- FY2025: 46.2% 

## Owner memo

Memo as of 2026-10-16T08:06:05.509Z.

### How it makes money

Operates in oil & gas midstream; annual sales are USD 938.2 million.

- Source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1483934/000148393426000021/stng-20251231.htm (filed 2026-03-20); FY2025: revenue 938222000; grossProfit 433104000; margin = grossProfit / revenue.

### Why customers stay

Margins ranged from 46.2% to 60.4% during 2023–25; it earns 2.7% on its capital.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-03-20); FY2023: grossProfit / revenue = 60.4%.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-03-20); FY2024: grossProfit / revenue = 57%.

- Source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1483934/000148393426000021/stng-20251231.htm (filed 2026-03-20); FY2025: grossProfit / revenue = 46.2%.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-03-20); 10-year return on capital observations [[2016,0.019571280641602275],[2017,-0.008346290441997391],[2018,0.0020096304777715976],[2019,0.021016457773609516],[2020,0.03243075216024219],[2021,-0.015165716864899077],[2022,0.1801716655878936],[2023,0.18663412248216635],[2024,0.18232781472745746],[2025,0.08000569644054217]]; median 0.02672360496692585. ROIC follows the displayed moat series; financial companies use return on tangible equity.

### Where the cash goes

Paid dividends in 10 of 10 years; bought back USD 309000 of shares.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-03-20); FY2020: growth capex 0; upkeep 174477000; owner earnings 165465000. Growth capex / owner earnings = 0.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-03-20); FY2022: growth capex 0; upkeep 34480000; cash acquisitions 1750000; owner earnings 809606000. Growth capex plus acquisitions / owner earnings = 0.002161545245465078.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-03-20); FY2023: growth capex 0; upkeep 23089000; cash acquisitions 0; owner earnings 726312000. Growth capex plus acquisitions / owner earnings = 0.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-03-20); FY2024: growth capex 0; upkeep 93367000; cash acquisitions 1937000; owner earnings 760726000. Growth capex plus acquisitions / owner earnings = 0.0025462518699242566.

- Source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1483934/000148393426000021/stng-20251231.htm (filed 2026-03-20); FY2025: growth capex 0; upkeep 74383000; cash acquisitions 0; owner earnings 450244000. Growth capex plus acquisitions / owner earnings = 0.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-03-20); Dividend observations: [[2016,86923000],[2017,9561000],[2018,15127000],[2019,21278000],[2020,23302000],[2021,23320000],[2022,23313000],[2023,57660000],[2024,83515000],[2025,82520000]]. Zero only counted when supported by a complete cash-flow statement.

- Source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1483934/000148393426000021/stng-20251231.htm (filed 2026-03-20); FY2025: cash repurchases 309000 USD.

### Are managers owners

Insiders own 16.7% of the company.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16); STNG.US SharesStats.PercentInsiders = 16.722 percentage points; cache date 2026-10-16.

### What the price says

The price assumes cash profits shrink 14.6% yearly over ten years; actual decline was 1.6%.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-03-20); Ten-year compound average after fade. Initial solved rate -0.21544906271529857. Price 82.85; FX 1; discount 0.1; same standard ten-year fade to terminal 0.03. FY2015 owner earnings/share 10.76840527963365 → FY2025 9.198128635454296. Closing-price date 2026-10-15.

## Monthly share-price history (USD per share)

- 2016-10: $38.30 per share

- 2016-11: $42.30 per share

- 2016-12: $45.30 per share

- 2017-01: $38.30 per share

- 2017-02: $38.50 per share

- 2017-03: $44.40 per share

- 2017-04: $44.00 per share

- 2017-05: $37.20 per share

- 2017-06: $39.70 per share

- 2017-07: $37.10 per share

- 2017-08: $40.70 per share

- 2017-09: $34.30 per share

- 2017-10: $35.60 per share

- 2017-11: $31.00 per share

- 2017-12: $30.50 per share

- 2018-01: $26.60 per share

- 2018-02: $23.00 per share

- 2018-03: $19.60 per share

- 2018-04: $26.60 per share

- 2018-05: $29.00 per share

- 2018-06: $28.10 per share

- 2018-07: $21.50 per share

- 2018-08: $19.20 per share

- 2018-09: $20.10 per share

- 2018-10: $17.90 per share

- 2018-11: $20.70 per share

- 2018-12: $17.60 per share

- 2019-01: $18.73 per share

- 2019-02: $18.41 per share

- 2019-03: $19.84 per share

- 2019-04: $25.78 per share

- 2019-05: $26.03 per share

- 2019-06: $29.52 per share

- 2019-07: $26.21 per share

- 2019-08: $26.29 per share

- 2019-09: $29.76 per share

- 2019-10: $31.81 per share

- 2019-11: $34.39 per share

- 2019-12: $39.34 per share

- 2020-01: $23.34 per share

- 2020-02: $19.78 per share

- 2020-03: $19.12 per share

- 2020-04: $21.89 per share

- 2020-05: $17.74 per share

- 2020-06: $12.81 per share

- 2020-07: $13.22 per share

- 2020-08: $11.84 per share

- 2020-09: $11.07 per share

- 2020-10: $8.82 per share

- 2020-11: $11.54 per share

- 2020-12: $11.19 per share

- 2021-01: $12.44 per share

- 2021-02: $14.76 per share

- 2021-03: $18.46 per share

- 2021-04: $18.14 per share

- 2021-05: $22.38 per share

- 2021-06: $22.05 per share

- 2021-07: $16.35 per share

- 2021-08: $16.21 per share

- 2021-09: $18.54 per share

- 2021-10: $16.02 per share

- 2021-11: $13.91 per share

- 2021-12: $12.81 per share

- 2022-01: $13.61 per share

- 2022-02: $17.39 per share

- 2022-03: $21.38 per share

- 2022-04: $24.73 per share

- 2022-05: $33.05 per share

- 2022-06: $34.51 per share

- 2022-07: $38.61 per share

- 2022-08: $41.60 per share

- 2022-09: $42.04 per share

- 2022-10: $47.94 per share

- 2022-11: $51.02 per share

- 2022-12: $53.77 per share

- 2023-01: $47.87 per share

- 2023-02: $60.36 per share

- 2023-03: $56.31 per share

- 2023-04: $52.25 per share

- 2023-05: $45.77 per share

- 2023-06: $47.23 per share

- 2023-07: $47.04 per share

- 2023-08: $50.51 per share

- 2023-09: $54.12 per share

- 2023-10: $56.15 per share

- 2023-11: $54.89 per share

- 2023-12: $60.80 per share

- 2024-01: $70.70 per share

- 2024-02: $67.13 per share

- 2024-03: $71.55 per share

- 2024-04: $70.36 per share

- 2024-05: $82.07 per share

- 2024-06: $81.29 per share

- 2024-07: $76.68 per share

- 2024-08: $71.54 per share

- 2024-09: $71.30 per share

- 2024-10: $58.27 per share

- 2024-11: $50.66 per share

- 2024-12: $49.69 per share

- 2025-01: $47.62 per share

- 2025-02: $39.85 per share

- 2025-03: $37.58 per share

- 2025-04: $37.69 per share

- 2025-05: $39.74 per share

- 2025-06: $39.13 per share

- 2025-07: $45.21 per share

- 2025-08: $50.40 per share

- 2025-09: $56.05 per share

- 2025-10: $61.70 per share

- 2025-11: $57.33 per share

- 2025-12: $50.83 per share

- 2026-01: $63.62 per share

- 2026-02: $79.08 per share

- 2026-03: $74.66 per share

- 2026-04: $81.33 per share

- 2026-05: $74.51 per share

- 2026-06: $69.26 per share

- 2026-07: $77.86 per share

- 2026-08: $78.86 per share

- 2026-09: $83.70 per share

- 2026-10: $82.85 per share

## Annual estimated value (USD per share)

- FY2023: low $66.44 per share, central $92.33 per share, high $107.40 per share

- FY2024: low $152.14 per share, central $179.84 per share, high $208.14 per share

- FY2025: low $123.51 per share, central $138.47 per share, high $158.39 per share

Historical values use today's bond yield for every fiscal year

Historical values use today's FX rate into trading currency for every fiscal year

Historical values use current restated fundamentals and current commodity classification; they are not point-in-time estimates

## Sources

[Original 20-F filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1483934/000148393426000021/stng-20251231.htm); period 2025-12-31, filed 2026-03-20.

Estimates depend on assumptions and are not guarantees or investment advice. Underlying data remains subject to its source licenses; public reading does not grant bulk redistribution rights.

## Reported holder observations

- [Matthew McLennan](https://gigainvestors.com/FE): 228,718 STNG shares; USD 15,841,000 reported position value; 0.03% of portfolio; reduce; quarter 2026 Q2.

# STNG — Scorpio Tankers Inc.

Held by 1 investor · USD 15,841,000 total · 2026 Q2 · reported price USD 69.26 (split-adjusted).
Page: https://gigainvestors.com/s/STNG

## Holders (2026 Q2)

| Investor | Value | % of their portfolio | This quarter |
|---|---:|---:|---|
| Matthew McLennan (https://gigainvestors.com/FE) | USD 15,841,000 | <0.1% | reduce -2.7% |

## Total held by quarter

- 2021 Q1: USD 3,509,246 · 1 holder · USD 18.46
- 2021 Q2: USD 13,230,000 · 1 holder · USD 22.05
- 2021 Q3: USD 0 · 0 holders
- 2021 Q4: USD 0 · 0 holders
- 2022 Q1: USD 0 · 0 holders
- 2022 Q2: USD 0 · 0 holders
- 2022 Q3: USD 0 · 0 holders
- 2022 Q4: USD 0 · 0 holders
- 2023 Q1: USD 0 · 0 holders
- 2023 Q2: USD 0 · 0 holders
- 2023 Q3: USD 0 · 0 holders
- 2023 Q4: USD 0 · 0 holders
- 2024 Q1: USD 0 · 0 holders
- 2024 Q2: USD 4,550,198 · 1 holder · USD 81.30
- 2024 Q3: USD 10,785,408 · 1 holder · USD 71.30
- 2024 Q4: USD 11,009,714 · 1 holder · USD 49.69
- 2025 Q1: USD 9,108,189 · 1 holder · USD 37.58
- 2025 Q2: USD 8,216,048 · 1 holder · USD 39.13
- 2025 Q3: USD 11,998,511 · 1 holder · USD 56.05
- 2025 Q4: USD 10,881,076 · 1 holder · USD 50.83
- 2026 Q1: USD 17,550,177 · 1 holder · USD 74.66
- 2026 Q2: USD 15,841,000 · 1 holder · USD 69.26