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Saudi Aramco

2222 · Tadawul · Oil & Gas

Saudi Aramco is one of the world’s largest integrated energy and chemicals companies, with operations across oil exploration, production, refining, natural gas, petrochemicals, trading, lubricants, and related energy…

Current price

SAR 25.78

▲ +SAR 0.02 (0.08%) today

Share price

Live market data
▲ +0.88 (+3.59%)2025-10-12 — 2026-10-13
SAR 28.23SAR 27.21SAR 26.19SAR 25.18SAR 24.16SAR 23.142025-10-122026-10-13
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ET&A View

Last reviewed 16 September 2026

Buy

ET&A sees significant upside from the current price with an attractive risk/reward profile.

Fair Value
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12M Price Target
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Preferred Entry
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ET&A Score
8.6/ 10Strong overall
Members see what we think Saudi Aramco is worth today, our 12-month Price Target, the price we would prefer to buy at and the return we expect. See membership

Saudi Aramco is one of the highest-quality integrated energy businesses globally, supported by an enormous reserve base, structurally low upstream production costs, world-scale infrastructure and a balance sheet that remains…

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Why we like it

  • Very profitable — keeps about 42% of its sales as profit.
  • Turns about 18% of its sales into spare cash.
  • Little debt — less than a year's earnings would repay it.

What worries us

  • Sales are shrinking (−7% a year).
  • Profits are falling (−12%).
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Business Health

Is the business financially healthy?

Mostly healthy

Margins, cash generation and the balance sheet stand out. Watch revenue and earnings.

Overall

Good

  • Revenue

    SAR 1.82tn · ↓ −7% last year

    Growth Weak

  • Earnings

    SAR 408.4bn · ↓ −12% last year

    Growth Weak

  • Margins

    Keeps 42% of sales as operating profit

    Excellent

  • Cash generation

    SAR 320.4bn spare cash a year · 18% of sales

    Excellent

  • Balance sheet

    Debt ≈ 0.1 years of earnings

    Strong

  • Dividend

    5.3% yield · Pays out 79% of earnings · covered 1.3×

    Yield Strong
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Our full viewET&A's complete thesis — why we hold the view we do.

Saudi Aramco is one of the highest-quality integrated energy businesses globally, supported by an enormous reserve base, structurally low upstream production costs, world-scale infrastructure and a balance sheet that…

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See our full reasoning, what could drive the shares higher or go wrong, our Fair Value and Preferred Entry, and how our view has changed.

  • Our View in full
  • What could drive it higher / go wrong
  • Fair Value & Preferred Entry
  • How our view has changed
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What could drive it higher — and what could go wrongThe catalysts and risks we are watching.
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Valuation discussionWhere today's price sits, and how it compares with the company's own history and its peers.
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Who it suitsStrategy suitability and investment style.

Investors who want regular income

Also suits: Investors who want a mix of growth and stability

Investment styleQualityValueIncomeET&A strategies: Income, Balanced · what these mean
How it compares with peersOther companies we cover in Oil & Gas.

Compare Saudi Aramco with any company → The model’s own peer calculations are in the Research View.

What the company doesThe full company profile.

Saudi Aramco is one of the world’s largest integrated energy and chemicals companies, with operations across oil exploration, production, refining, natural gas, petrochemicals, trading, lubricants, and related energy products. The company manages Saudi Arabia’s vast hydrocarbon resource base and plays a central role in supplying crude oil, gas, fuels, chemicals, and industrial feedstocks to customers across global markets.

Aramco’s strength comes from its scale, low-cost resource base, operational reliability, and strategic integration across upstream and downstream energy markets. Its core business remains closely tied to oil and gas production, but the company is also expanding in chemicals, gas, refining, trading, lower-carbon technologies, and downstream integration. This gives Aramco a unique position as both a national champion for Saudi Arabia and one of the most important companies in the global energy system.

Oil & Gas · Saudi Arabia

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Financial statementsEvery published figure with its source, the market snapshot and connected sheets.

Income

Revenue
SAR 1.82tn
Gross profit
SAR 1.03tn
EBITDA
SAR 898.2bn
Operating profit (EBIT)
SAR 739.2bn
Net income
SAR 408.4bn
Earnings per share (EPS)
SAR 1.69

Growth

Revenue growth, latest year
−7.2%
Revenue growth, 3-year average
−9.7%
Earnings growth, latest year
−11.6%
Earnings growth, 3-year average
−16.5%
Revenue growth, latest quarter vs a year earlier
28.2%
Earnings growth, latest quarter vs a year earlier
42.9%

Margins & returns

Gross margin
56.6%
EBITDA margin
49.3%
Operating margin
41.5%
Net margin
22.4%
Return on equity (ROE)
23.7%
Return on assets (ROA)
19.8%

Cash flow

Operating cash flow
SAR 499.2bn
Free cash flow
SAR 320.4bn
Free-cash-flow margin
17.6%
Free cash flow ÷ net income
0.8×

Balance sheet

Cash
SAR 229.5bn
Total debt
SAR 355.3bn
Net debt
SAR 125.8bn
Net debt ÷ EBITDA
0.1×
Debt ÷ equity
0.2×
Current ratio
2.0×

Shares & dividends

Shares outstanding
241.91bn
Market capitalisation
SAR 6.14tn
Dividend per share
SAR 1.35
Dividend yield
5.3%
Payout ratio
79.0%
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Market data

Live
PriceSAR 25.78
Day+SAR 0.02 (+0.08%)
52-week rangeSAR 23.41 – SAR 27.96
vs 52-week low+10.12%
vs 52-week high−7.80%

As of 13 October 2026

P/E Ratio
15.02x
Valuation multiplesP/E, forward P/E, EV/EBITDA, Price/Sales and FCF yield — today and at Fair Value.

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Historical dataValuation history, how our view has changed, and the share-price history.

Valuation history

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Share-price history

Use the 5Y and Max ranges on the price chart at the top of the page.

ForecastsWhat analysts expect — market consensus, not ET&A estimates.

Forecasts

Forward EPS (next year, consensus)
SAR 1.67
Expected EPS growth, next year
17.2%
Expected revenue growth, next year
10.9%

Forecasts are market consensus or calculated from forward EPS — not ET&A estimates, and they can be wrong.

MethodologyHow ET&A values a company and reaches a view.

How we value Saudi Aramco

  1. 1. The right method for the business. Each business is valued on the method that suits its economics — earnings for most companies, book value and returns for banks and insurers, cash flows or dividends where earnings mislead.
  2. 2. What the business deserves. ET&A builds a fair multiple from the company's own quality, sustainable growth, earnings predictability and risk. History, peers and the market are checked against it, but they don't set it.
  3. 3. Fair Value. The earnings (or other basis) per share multiplied by that fair multiple, cross-checked against independent methods.
  4. 4. Preferred Entry. A price below Fair Value that leaves room for the return ET&A requires for the company's risk.
  5. 5. Is it expensive? Today’s price is placed on ET&A’s Valuation Attractiveness scale — the same measure the ET&A Score uses. Cheap is the Preferred Entry; above Fair Value the shares are Expensive, and Very Expensive once they are more than 25% above it.

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How we reach a view

The ET&A View combines our assessment of the business with where today’s price sits against our Preferred Entry and Fair Value. It is a considered judgement, not a mechanical score.

  • Business quality
  • Financial performance
  • Growth outlook
  • Debt and financial strength
  • Valuation
  • Risk
  • What could drive it higher
Buy
ET&A sees significant upside from the current price with an attractive risk/reward profile.
Accumulate
ET&A likes the company but would prefer investors to build exposure gradually.
Hold
ET&A sees limited reason to buy aggressively or sell at the current price.
Reduce
ET&A believes the current valuation or risk profile makes a smaller position more appropriate.
Sell
ET&A believes the downside risk materially outweighs the potential return at the current price.

ET&A Score: ET&A's overall assessment of business quality, valuation, growth and risk, out of 10. It weighs business quality, financial strength, growth, valuation, risk, future prospects.

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Scoring calculationsBehind the ET&A Score and the Business Health ratings.

Behind the ET&A Score

The automatic, rules-based scores that feed our research. The ET&A Score blends these with our own analysis of the business and its value. How the framework works →

ET&A Quant Score

8.1/ 10Strong

Highly profitable · Strong balance sheet · Soft

Profitability & margins · Highly profitable10.0
Balance sheet · Strong balance sheet8.3
Price momentum · Soft3.9

Context — not part of the score

  • Valuation multiplesFairly priced
  • Share-price steadinessLow volatility
  • IncomeHigh yield

Valuation and share-price swings describe the shares, not the company, so they are judged in the ET&A Score and View instead.

Annualised volatility
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Max drawdown (1y)
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12-month return
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3-month return
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P/E
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Price / Sales
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EV / EBITDA
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EBITDA margin
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Net debt / EBITDA
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Dividend yield
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The detailed figures behind these scores — price swings, past falls, returns, valuation and margins — are part of ET&A membership. View plans

Based on the factors that could be measured (45% of the model).

Business Health ratings

Each area is scored from 0 to 10 on ET&A’s methodology scales — the same ones our research uses — then given a word: Excellent from 8.5, Strong from 7, Good from 5.5, Average from 4.5, Below Average from 3, Weak below 3. The overall answer is the average of the areas we could rate (at least three); the dividend isn’t part of it.

AreaBased onScoreRating
Revenue
  • Revenue growth, 3-year average −9.7% → 2.0

Rated on 3-year average revenue growth, on ET&A's growth scale.

2.0 / 10Weak
Earnings
  • Earnings growth, 3-year average −16.5% → 2.0

Rated on 3-year average earnings growth, on ET&A's growth scale.

2.0 / 10Weak
Margins
  • Operating margin 41.5% → 9.5
  • Net margin 22.4% → 8.5

The average of operating and net margin, each scored on ET&A's margin scales. A negative margin scores 1 (Weak).

9.0 / 10Excellent
Cash generation
  • Free-cash-flow margin 17.6% → 9.0

Free cash flow as a share of sales, on ET&A's cash-generation scale.

9.0 / 10Excellent
Balance sheet
  • Net debt ÷ EBITDA 0.1× → 8.4

Net debt ÷ EBITDA — roughly how many years of operating earnings would repay the debt — on ET&A's leverage scale.

8.4 / 10Strong
Dividend
  • Dividend yield 5.3% → 8.2

Dividend yield on ET&A's income scale. Not part of the overall health rating.

8.2 / 10Strong
OverallAverage of the 5 rated areas6.1 / 10Good

ET&A's scales

Where each band starts on the scales above. They are fixed and identical for every company we cover; they come straight from ET&A’s methodology, so a company is judged the same way here as in our research.

MeasureExcellentStrongGoodAverageBelow AverageWeak
GrowthStructural Growth (Fundamental Conviction)18%+10%+5.0%+1.7%+−2.5%+below −2.5%
Operating marginCompetitive Position (Fundamental Conviction)29%+20%+13%+7.5%+0%+below 0% (loss)
Net marginEarnings Durability (Fundamental Conviction)23%+15%+9.8%+6.0%+0%+below 0% (loss)
Free-cash-flow marginCapital Allocation (Fundamental Conviction)15%+8.5%+3.8%+1.3%+−2.5%+below −2.5%
Net debt ÷ EBITDAStructural Risk (Fundamental Conviction)net cash≤ 1.5×≤ 2.8×≤ 3.6×≤ 5.0×above 5.0×
Return on equity (banks & insurers)Bank and insurer quality16%+12%+9.0%+6.7%+2.7%+below 2.7%
Equity ÷ assetsBank capital7.5%+6.0%+4.7%+4.0%+any—
Dividend yieldIncome factor (ET&A Quant Score)5.8%+4.0%+2.5%+1.8%+1.0%+below 1.0%

Band floors: Excellent 8.5 · Strong 7 · Good 5.5 · Average 4.5 · Below Average 3 (scores out of 10). Utilities and property companies’ structural debt is scored 6.5, as in ET&A’s risk model.

Valuation model outputsFair Value, the 12-Month Price Target, Preferred Entry and the expected return — and how each was calculated.
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Peer calculationsThe comparable companies the valuation model used, with their multiples and returns.
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Detailed assumptionsEvery input the valuation model used, with its source.
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