Gulfport Energy

GPOR

Oil & Gas Exploration & Production · Energy

Price

$152.91

-0.47 (-0.31%)

Market Cap

$2.75B

Winston Score

Winston is curious

A decent business — some strong pillars, some weaker.

Share count falling — buybacks

−10.5% over 4y

The company has reduced its share count over this period, returning value to shareholders through buybacks.

Diluted shares outstanding: 20.6M (2021) → 18.4M (2025)

Gulfport Energy is an oil and natural gas company that finds and pulls fuel out of the ground. It focuses mainly on natural gas, with its key drilling areas in the Utica Shale in Ohio and the SCOOP play in Oklahoma. The company sells natural gas, natural gas liquids, and some oil to utilities, industrial buyers, and energy marketers across the United States.

Gulfport makes money by selling the fuel it produces, so its revenue rises and falls with commodity prices. It operates entirely in the U.S. and has a market cap of around $3.1 billion, putting it in the mid-size range for independent producers. The company emerged from bankruptcy in 2021 and has since focused on paying down debt and returning cash to shareholders through buybacks. The biggest risk it faces is a sustained drop in natural gas prices, which would directly shrink its revenue and cash flow since it has little control over what buyers pay.

Winston Score History

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Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+24.8% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Steady revenue growth

EPS Growth

+144.8% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

EPS growth accelerating

R&D Spend

$0/ year

0.0% of revenue

Below sector average (1%)

Research and development spending

Insider Activity

1.5%ownership

→ Flat

Insiders holding steady — not selling despite ability to

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

$2M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

→ Burn rate stable

Company generates more cash than it spends — no dilution risk from fundraising

Growth + cash flow

Gulfport Energy is a rare growth stock that's already generating positive cash flow while growing at 25%. The Winston Score doesn't fully credit this transition from "burner" to "earner."

The Winston Score above measures business quality today. Growth stocks often score lower because they invest in the future rather than maximising current profits. These metrics show what matters most for evaluating that future.

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Quality

Gross Margin

69.8%

Premium pricing power — 69.8% gross margin

Operating Margin

38.2%

Excellent — 38.2% operating margin

ROCE

5.2%

Weak — 5.2% return on capital

ROIC between 5% and 15%. They earn 5 to 15 cents back per year on every dollar invested.

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Growth

Sales YoY

+42.5%

Fast-growing sales (42.5% YoY)

EPS YoY

N/A

Data not available

EPS Consistency

6/8 quarters

Earnings grew in most of the last 8 quarters

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion

188%

Turns 188% of profit into real cash

FCF Margin

20.8%

Converts sales into free cash efficiently (20.8%)

Free cash flow margin above 20%. Out of every $100 in sales, more than $20 is real cash they keep.

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Stability

Debt / Equity

0.43

Conservative — low debt load (0.43)

Interest Cover

10.36x

Comfortably covers interest (10.4x)

Interest coverage above 8. Profits cover interest many times over.

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)

7.4x

Attractive valuation — P/E 7.4

P/E under 10. The price tag is small relative to last year's profit.

P/E vs Forward

+2.9

GROWING

Earnings expected to grow — slightly cheaper on forward P/E

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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.

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