Kosmos Energy Ltd. (KOS) — payout ratio, two ways
Fiscal year ending 2023-12-31 · sector Energy · payout ratios computed from SEC filings, not taken from a data vendor.
| Basis | Payout | Why it differs |
|---|---|---|
| GAAP earnings | 0.1% | Swings with the commodity, not with the business. A payout ratio for a producer says as much about the oil price in that fiscal year as about the dividend. |
| Free cash flow | negative | Operating cash flow was $84.8m short of capital spending, so no ratio exists. The dividend was not funded from free cash flow this year. |
No operating cash flow figure is shown. This company does not report the inputs for it in its XBRL filings — capital expenditure, in particular, is often folded into a single investing total rather than tagged on its own. The figure is absent from the filings, not zero, and inventing one from a balance-sheet movement would be a guess dressed as a measurement.
Nothing is marked as applying, deliberately. The basis that governs here is free cash flow, and this year it yields no ratio at all. The figure above is shown for completeness; treating it as the answer is the substitution this page exists to prevent.
Coverage rating 90 / 100 — Comfortable. ? Peer standing 50/50Direction 30/30Stability 10/20
Free cash flow payout, last 2 years
| Fiscal year | Payout |
|---|---|
| 2022-12-31 | 0.1% |
| 2019-12-31 | 38.7% |
Among the 32 energy companies here, 100% pay out a larger share on this basis — this is comfortable for the sector.
The arithmetic
- GAAP earnings — dividends declared per share $0.00 ÷ diluted EPS $0.44
- Free cash flow — dividends paid $0.2m ÷ (operating cash flow $765.2m − capex $850.0m)
Where the figures came from
- 10-K filed 2026-03-02 · accession
0001509991-26-000017 - 10-K filed 2024-02-26 · accession
0001509991-24-000029 - 10-K filed 2025-02-24 · accession
0001509991-25-000026
Every one is public at sec.gov and free to check. That is the point — you should not have to take my word for any of it.
Caveats on this company
- DPS derived from dividends paid ($0.00); no per-share tag filed
- basis discarded as outside the sane band (ratio too small to state): ocf
Computed by an open pipeline reading SEC XBRL directly. If any number here looks wrong to you, tell me — that is more useful to me than agreement.