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CLB
Core Laboratories Inc.
NYSE· Energy· Oil & Gas Equipment & Services· CUSIP 21867A105
$9.40-7.21%Price as of Oct 23, 00:50 UTC · updated once a day, after the close
At a glance
Core Laboratories Inc. (CLB) is listed on NYSE and classified in Oil & Gas Equipment & Services, part of the Energy sector. It is headquartered in Houston, United States and has 3,300 employees. The company is worth $431.31M and trades at 19.6x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 14.7x. Revenue was $526.52M in fiscal 2025, up 0.5% from the year before. Net income was $29.67M. The share price is 53.8% below its 52-week high of $20.36. It pays a dividend yielding 0.43%. 3 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Ken Griffin (Citadel Advisors), at $4.33M. In that quarter, 1 of them opened or added to the position. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Key metrics
- Market cap
- $431.31M
- P/E
- 19.6x
- Forward P/E
- 13.6x
- P/B
- 1.6x
- Dividend yield
- 0.43%
- Payout
- 8.33%
- EPS
- $0.48
- ROE
- 9.05%
- Profit margin
- 4.69%
- Revenue growth
- -4.30%
- Beta
- 1.14
- 52-week high
- $20.36
- 52-week low
- $9.13
History
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Investors holding this
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
Price over time
▼ -56.3% over 5Y.
today you would have $388.91▼ -61.1%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
Indicators, year by year
The last 5 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $16.03 | $17.31 | $17.66 | $20.27 | $22.31 | |
| P/E | 26.2x | 25.4x | 26.2x | 22.9x | 48.3x | 53.1x |
| P/S | 1.6x | 1.4x | 1.5x | 1.6x | 1.9x | 2.2x |
| P/B | 3.7x | 2.8x | 3.3x | 3.7x | 5.1x | 6.5x |
Fair price, seven ways
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Earnings
$8.01
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings
$5.32
Earnings growing 10.7% a year plus a 0.4% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Earnings
$7.08
Median P/E of 14.7 among peers in the sector.
Earnings
$12.59
Median P/E of 26.2 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow
$11.98
Cash flow growing 10.7% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Operating
$10.70
Sector median of 8.2x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
Dividends
—
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Others in the same sector
Companies of similar size in Energy, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SGUStar Group L.p | $12.98 | 5.7x | 1.1x | 6.09% | 24.07% | $425.89M |
| SMCSummit Midstream Corp | $30.70 | — | 0.8x | 0.00% | -2.92% | $423.16M |
| GTEGran Tierra Energy Inc | $11.35 | — | 3.0x | 0.00% | -97.85% | $401.56M |
| NGSNatural Gas Services Group Inc | $30.04 |
About the company
- 3,300
- Houston, United States