Sable Offshore

SOC

Oil & Gas Drilling · Energy

Exchange

New York Stock Exchange

Winston Score

Winston is worried

Weak fundamentals across most pillars.

Data as of Aug 23, 2026 · filings through Jun 30, 2026

How the score breaks down

Quality

Weak

Growth

Mixed

Cash Flow

Weak

Stability

Mixed

Valuation

Data not available

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Winston Score History

The full picture

Sable Offshore Corp. is a small oil and gas company focused on restarting offshore oil production near Santa Barbara, California. Its main asset is the Santa Ynez Unit, a group of offshore oil platforms and an onshore processing facility that were shut down after a pipeline spill in 2015. The company's goal is to bring these existing platforms back into production rather than drill new wells.

Sable makes money by selling crude oil once production resumes. It operates entirely in California, making it a very geographically concentrated, single-asset company. The deeply negative margins reflect the fact that the company is still in a pre-revenue restart phase, spending money on repairs and regulatory approvals without yet selling oil. The biggest risk is regulatory and legal — California's permitting environment is challenging, and any further delays or denials in getting the pipeline approved to restart could significantly threaten the company's ability to generate revenue at all.

Growth Profile

For growth stock investors

When traditional metrics don't capture the full picture, these are the signals growth stock investors use instead.

Revenue Growth

Revenue data limited

EPS Growth

+70.0% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

EPS growth accelerating

Insider Activity

24.8%ownership

Insiders own a meaningful stake in the company

Cash Runway

~3 months

$22M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↓ Burn rate worsening

Short runway — potential dilution ahead through share issuance

Cash watch

Sable Offshore has less than a year of cash at its current burn rate. Growth investors should watch for potential share dilution from future fundraising — that directly reduces your ownership.

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

Profit per sale

Gross Margin

17.2%

Thin — 17.2% gross margin

Profit after running costs

Operating Margin

-48.8%

Losing money on operations — -48.8%

Return on the money invested

ROCE

-64.1%

Weak — -64.1% return on capital

Negative ROIC means the business is losing money on every dollar invested in it.

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Growth

Sales growth

Sales YoY

N/A

—

Data not available

Profit growth

EPS YoY

N/A

—

Data not available

How steady the profit is

EPS Consistency

5/8 quarters

Mixed — about half the quarters showed growth

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Cash Flow

Profit that turns into cash

Cash Conversion

N/A

—

Data not available

Spare cash per sale

FCF Margin

-403.9%

Burning cash (-403.9%)

Free cash flow is negative. They are burning cash, not generating it.

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Stability

What it owes vs what it owns

Debt / Equity

0.60

Conservative — low debt load (0.60)

Covers its interest

Interest Cover

N/A

Data not available

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Valuation

Price vs profit

P/E Ratio (TTM)

N/M

no trend

Negative earnings — P/E not meaningful

Cheaper or dearer next year

P/E vs Forward

N/A

not available

Data not available

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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.

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