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Scorpio Tankers Inc (STNG)

Energy Oil & Gas Midstream
77.90 $
+3.1% vs. previous close
Closing price · As of: 31. Jul 2026
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Trading Day

Previous Close
75.50$
Open
75.80$
Day High
78.40$
Day Low
74.80$
Volume
1,143,781shares

Key levels of the most recently completed trading day — not a live quote.

52-Week Range

52-Week Low 52-Week High
44.10 $ 86.60 $
08/11/2025 05/05/2026

Current price 77.90 $ — 80% of the range above the low.

Lowest and highest closing price over the last 52 weeks. The marker shows where the current price sits within that range: close to the high speaks for strength, close to the low for weakness.

Basics

Market Cap
3.9$B
Shares Outstanding
50Mio.
Float
77.1%
Beta
-0.3

Performance

Perf. 1M
-5.50%
Perf. 3M
-6.90%
Perf. 6M
39.00%
YTD Performance (%)
62.60%
52-Week-High Distance
-13.7%
Perf. 1Y
77.03%
Perf. 3Y
79.85%
Perf. 5Y
436.52%
Perf. 10Y
112.84%
Perf. Since Inception
-6.16%

Technical Indicators

MA 38 Days
77.00$
MA 50 Days
77.10$
MA 200 Days
68.90$
RSI (14)
51.0
Volatility 30 Days
40.4%
Volatility 250 Days
37.2%

Calculated from the price history · as of 08/03/2026

Valuation

P/E
7.4
Forward P/E
6.0
PEG
2.5
P/B
1.1
P/S
3.8
EV/EBITDA
2.6
Price/FCF
8.4

Profitability

Gross Margin
73.0%
EBIT Margin
49.1%
Net Margin
67.2%
Return on Equity
15.9%
Return on Assets
8.2%

Balance Sheet & Safety

Equity Ratio
83.7%
Debt/Equity
0.2
fortress balance sheet
Altman Z″
13.02
Piotroski
7 out of 9

Growth

Sales Growth Last Quarter
46.20%
EPS Growth Last Quarter
254.10%
Sales Growth (Year)
-24.58%
Forward Sales Growth
-28.25%
Forward EPS Growth
-49.40%

Dividend

Dividend Yield
2.31%
Dividend Per Share (TTM)
1.72$
Payout Ratio
16.4%
Years Without a Cut
5Years
Increase Streak
3Years

Quality & Screener

Stage
2
RS Rating
83
Top 10%
EPS Rating
92
Piotroski
7 out of 9
Fundamental Rating
B (57 out of 100)
fortress balance sheet
Altman Z″
13.02

AI Rating

Uses AI

Scorpio Tankers setzt Künstliche Intelligenz laut Jahresbericht (20-F) für das Geschäftsjahr 2025 operativ ein — belegt in den Risikofaktoren (Item 3.D). Das Unternehmen hat KI-Technologien in mehreren Bereichen integriert (Voyage-/Reiseoptimierung, technisches Schiffsmanagement, Crew-Management), teils über Drittanbieter-SaaS-Plattformen mit KI-Funktionen, teils über intern entwickelte KI-Agenten, die operative Daten zusammenführen und auswerten; es kündigt an, den KI-Einsatz für weitere Arbeitsabläufe auszuweiten. KI ist keine Umsatzquelle (kein KI-Produkt), sondern ein internes Effizienz-/Betriebswerkzeug — daher greift Kategorie 'nutzt' (operativer Einsatz konkret belegt, keine KI-Erlöse). Ein 'bedroht'-Beleg fehlt: Der KI-Bezug in den Risikofaktoren betrifft die eigene KI-Nutzung (Fehler/Halluzinationen, Regulierung wie der EU AI Act), nicht eine KI-getriebene Bedrohung des Produktentanker-Geschäftsmodells.

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„We have integrated artificial intelligence ("AI") technologies across several areas of our business, including voyage optimization, technical vessel management, and crew management, through a combination of third-party SaaS platforms - some of which incorporate AI functionality at the vendor level - and internally developed AI agents used to aggregate and synthesize operational data."

Wir haben Technologien der Künstlichen Intelligenz ("KI") in mehrere Bereiche unseres Geschäfts integriert, darunter die Reiseoptimierung, das technische Schiffsmanagement und das Crew-Management - über eine Kombination aus Drittanbieter-SaaS-Plattformen, von denen einige auf Anbieterseite KI-Funktionen enthalten, und intern entwickelten KI-Agenten, die operative Daten zusammenführen und auswerten.

20-F · 2026-03-20 · View SEC filing
„We intend to expand our use of AI as additional workflows are identified for automation, though there is no guarantee such implementation will proceed as planned."

Wir beabsichtigen, unseren Einsatz von KI auszuweiten, sobald weitere Arbeitsabläufe für eine Automatisierung identifiziert werden, wobei es keine Garantie dafür gibt, dass eine solche Umsetzung wie geplant verläuft.

20-F · 2026-03-20 · View SEC filing

Filings Reviewed: 20-F 2026-03-20 · 20-F 2025-03-21 · 20-F 2024-03-22 · 6-K 2026-05-05 · 6-K 2026-07-01

Rated on July 10, 2026 · How the Rating Is Built

What the Earnings Calls Reveal

Unremarkable pledges largely kept

Across ten calls from 2024-Q1 to 2026-Q2, Scorpio's management delivered its balance-sheet and breakeven commitments with remarkable precision: debt reduction, prepayments and cost cuts arrived exactly as announced every time. A cross-check against the original transcripts also clears management on several points that look like broken promises at first glance. The 11,500 dollar breakeven target was tied to a condition that was never met and was openly carried forward, the DHT stake was explicitly described as liquid from day one, and the rejection of VLCC purchases was a snapshot without any time horizon. Two charges hold up: the self-imposed 4.9 percent cap on DHT, which was exceeded to 5.5 percent without comment, and a clearly missed expectation for the winter of 2024/25. Add to that a deliberate, openly explained reticence on detailed questions about the use of capital.

10 calls reviewed, 2024-Q1 through 2026-Q2 · As of August 2, 2026

DHT: 4.9 percent cap exceeded

In 2024-Q3, President Bugbee drew a clear line: the company was stopping at 4.9 percent by design, since a 6, 7 or 8 percent holding would be too aggressive and would suggest it was no longer a passive investor. That line was crossed. After buying another 4.3 million shares the stake stood at 5.5 percent in 2025-Q2, openly disclosed in the presentation but never reconciled with the earlier statement. Two further charges do not survive a check against the transcript. No holding period was ever pledged: Bugbee said this could become a very good long-term position and added that it was like any other investment, you watch how it goes. And the stake was not reframed as tradable after the fact, because the opening remarks of that same call already called it a passive but liquid investment. It was held for roughly 14 months and sold at a 24 percent gain. What remains is the uncommented breach of a self-imposed cap.

VLCC pivot: statement without horizon

In 2024-Q3, asked about further crude exposure, Bugbee said the company did not see itself acquiring VLCCs and that there was no thought at all of doing so. A year later, in October and November 2025, Scorpio ordered two VLCC newbuildings at Hanwha, and in 2026-Q2 it added a minority interest in a joint venture covering eight VLCCs. This does not hold up as a broken pledge. The statement was a snapshot without a time horizon and came directly out of the DHT purchase: in the same breath Bugbee explained that through the DHT shares they had effectively acquired four to five VLCC equivalents at 20 percent below market price. Interest in the segment was there from the start; only the route was in question. CEO Lauro framed the pivot exactly that way in 2026-Q2: after exiting DHT they moved into physical exposure. The fair criticism is that this framing came only after the fact. The fact that the options on further VLCCs were deliberately allowed to expire in December 2025 argues against unchecked expansion.

Winter 2024/25 mis-forecast

This charge survives verification. On the 2024-Q3 call, management said rates had bottomed at high levels, that the risk was to the upside, and that Q4 and Q1 tanker earnings had consistently exceeded Q3 over the past 30 years, adding they expected that to continue. The opposite happened. Adjusted EBITDA fell from 166 million dollars in 2024-Q3 to 105 million in 2024-Q4, the weakest quarter of the entire review period, and at 123 million it was still clearly below in 2025-Q1. On the February call, analyst Jon Chappell noted rates had been below prior-year levels for six months. What does not hold up is the reading of a covert tone shift: Bugbee announced his unusually structured opening remarks himself, saying he wanted to separate what was known from what was speculative, and the analyst who called them the most scripted he had ever heard explicitly added that they were very helpful. Nor did Bugbee retract a high-rate forecast of his own; he rejected an analyst's hypothesis, adding that it had never been their forecast.

Capital allocation: details withheld

On tactical questions about the use of capital, management does stonewall. In 2024-Q2, Bugbee refused to say how the buybacks were being funded, stating the market would get no read at all, and deflected a question about adjacent segments with a curt deferral. In 2025-Q2, CFO Avella explicitly declined to set out a long-term capital allocation strategy amid the prevailing uncertainty, and in 2025-Q3 the question of buyback timing was passed on verbatim. Two of the originally cited examples do not hold. In 2024-Q3 no leverage target was withheld; on the contrary, Bugbee named it explicitly as net debt around the scrap value of the fleet and declined only further detail. And the deflection of scenario questions in 2026-Q1 concerned geopolitical market assumptions, not the use of capital. Conversely, management repeatedly volunteered the framework: no special dividend, no payout tied to a share of income, no corporate acquisitions, no overnight bulk order. What stays open is timing and size, not direction.

Counterweight: financial pledges all met

On hard, datable financial pledges the record is spotless. The prepayment of up to 223 million dollars announced in 2024-Q1 together with the 12,500 dollar breakeven was executed in 2024-Q2, and the 154.6 million dollar prepayment promised in 2025-Q3 with the reduction to roughly 11,000 dollars was confirmed in 2025-Q4. Net debt fell from 2.9 billion dollars at the end of 2021 to a net cash position of 1.3 billion in 2026-Q2. The 2025-Q3 market call that conditions would stay very strong into the first quarter of 2026 came true: after five consecutive quarters of rising rates through 2025-Q4, adjusted EBITDA rose further to 214 million dollars in 2026-Q1 and 300.5 million in 2026-Q2, the strongest quarter in company history. The frequently cited 11,500 dollar breakeven target from 2024-Q2 is not a broken promise either: it was explicitly tied to full repayment of two facilities, only one of which was retired, and the CFO openly quantified the remaining effect at almost 850 dollars per day as early as 2024-Q3.

Management promises

  • 2024-Q1 kept

    Prepayment of up to 223 million dollars on the 1 billion credit facility to lower the daily cash breakeven to 12,500 dollars.

    Executed in 2024-Q2: about 400 million dollars of debt repaid, breakeven at 12,500 dollars as announced.

  • 2024-Q3 broken

    DHT stake deliberately capped at 4.9 percent in order to remain identifiable as a passive investor.

    After buying another 4.3 million shares the stake stood at 5.5 percent in 2025-Q2, openly disclosed but never reconciled with the pledge. No holding period was ever promised: the position ran roughly 14 months and was sold at a 24 percent gain.

  • 2025-Q3 kept

    Prepayment of 154.6 million dollars in the fourth quarter of 2025, lowering the cash breakeven to roughly 11,000 dollars per day.

    Confirmed in 2025-Q4: prepayment executed, breakeven at roughly 11,000 dollars, unchanged at that level in 2026-Q2.

  • 2026-Q1 open

    Renewed review of a dividend increase in July or September 2026.

    On the July call (2026-Q2) the dividend stayed at 0.45 dollars without an increase; the September window is still open.

Based on public earnings call transcripts. Reviewed: 10 transcripts 2024-Q1 through 2026-Q2.

Growth Score

4 of 10 Weak growth

Ten checks against the annual reports — each one passed counts a point.

  • Revenue grows by more than 15% a year over three years -15.6% failed
  • More than 10% revenue growth is expected for the coming year -28.3% failed
  • Share count grows by less than 3% a year -8.3% passed
  • Revenue growth plus cash-flow margin add up to at least 40 ("Rule of 40") 19.9% failed
  • Gross margin at 40% or higher and without meaningful erosion 46.2% failed
  • Goodwill from acquisitions does not grow faster than revenue 0.2% failed
  • Net debt below twice EBITDA 133 m net cash passed
  • Operating cash flow covers the profits of the last three years 622 m passed
  • Return on capital at 15% or higher, or up versus two years ago 8.2% failed
  • Insiders hold at least 10% or are net buyers 12.8% passed

A criterion without figures counts neither as passed nor as failed; a score is only produced from 7 judgeable criteria upwards. Source: fundamental data. All ten criteria in detail

Highlighted are things our editorial team noticed: green = stands out as strong, red = deserves a closer look. No single metric is a verdict on its own — always read it in context.

Analysts & Price Target

Current Price 77.90 $
Price Target (average) 96.30 $

The price target sits 23.6% above the current price.

Consensus
Strong Sell
Analyst Ratings
9
Distribution of Recommendations
Strong Buy 7
Buy 1
Hold 1
Sell 0
Strong Sell 0

Combined picture of the price targets and recommendations of every analyst covering the stock. Price targets are expectations for the next 12 months, not promises — and they often follow the price rather than predict it.

Estimates by Fiscal Year

Estimates by Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EPS Estimate ($) EPS Range ($) Revenue Estimate ($M) Expected Growth Analysts
12/31/2026 11.37 10.05 – 12.98 1,219 106.4% 8
12/31/2027 5.94 2.79 – 7.46 852 -47.8% 10

Average of the analyst estimates for the coming fiscal years. The range shows how far the most optimistic and the most cautious estimate sit apart — the wider it is, the less certain the expectation.

Revenue & Profit

Cash Flow

Balance Sheet

Margins

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Sales Per Quarter ($M)
2024: Q4 · 204.0 $M Q4 2025: Q1 · 214.0 $M Q1 2025: Q2 · 230.2 $M Q2 2025: Q3 · 241.4 $M Q3 2025: Q4 · 252.7 $M Q4 2026: Q1 · 312.9 $M Q1

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Quarterly Figures

Quarterly Figures
Quarter EPS (Earnings Per Share) EPS YoY (%) Sales ($M) Sales YoY (%) Net Margin (%) OCF ($M) FCF ($M)
2024: Q4 1.43 -39.00 204 -39.40 33.60 113 74
2025: Q1 1.22 -70.40 214 -45.30 27.20 64 39
2025: Q2 1.53 -64.70 230 -39.50 31.90 128 104
2025: Q3 1.73 -45.30 241 -9.90 35.00 137 120
2025: Q4 2.59 81.60 253 23.90 50.70 165 156
2026: Q1 4.32 254.50 313 46.20 69.10 163 86
What Do These Terms Mean?
EPS (Earnings Per Share):
Quarterly profit divided by the total share count — how much of the profit works out to a single share.
YoY (Year over Year):
Change versus the same quarter a year ago — this is how you compare without seasonal distortion (e.g. the holiday shopping season).
Sales:
All revenue for the quarter, before any costs are deducted — the top line of the income statement.
Net Margin:
What percentage of sales is left over as profit in the end. Negative means the company is posting a loss.
OCF (Operating Cash Flow):
The cash that actually flows into the till from the core business during the quarter — harder to dress up than book profit.
FCF (Free Cash Flow):
Operating cash flow minus capital expenditures — the money that's genuinely free to use, say for paying down debt, buybacks, or dividends.

Annual Figures

Annual Figures
Fiscal Year Revenue ($M) EBIT ($M) Net Income ($M) EPS ($) Operating Cash Flow ($M) Equity ($M) Total Assets ($M)
2016 523 77 -25 -1.55 179 1,315 3,230
2017 513 -45 -158 -7.35 42 1,685 4,498
2018 585 11 -190 -5.46 58 1,839 4,784
2019 704 130 -48 -0.97 210 1,977 5,164
2020 916 245 94 1.67 419 2,066 5,159
2021 541 -91 -234 -4.28 73 1,837 5,014
2022 1,563 798 637 10.03 769 2,507 4,559
2023 1,341 705 547 10.03 865 2,554 4,229
2024 1,244 765 669 13.15 825 2,866 3,834
2025 938 310 344 7.03 491 3,199 3,918

Fiscal years from the audited annual reports, oldest first. EBIT is the operating profit before interest and taxes; total assets are everything the company owns.

About the Company

Scorpio Tankers Inc. befasst sich gemeinsam mit ihren Tochtergesellschaften weltweit mit dem Seetransport von Rohöl und raffinierten Erdölprodukten.

Employees24
HeadquartersMonaco, Monaco
Address99 Boulevard du Jardin Exotique, 98000 Monaco, Monaco
Phone377 9798 5716
Websitescorpiotankers.com
IPO Date31. Mar 2010
ISINMHY7542C1306
Stock Split1:10 on 01/18/2019

Management

Management
Name Title Birth Year
Emanuele A. Lauro Founder, Chairman & CEO 1978
Robert L. Bugbee President & Director 1960
Christopher Avella Chief Financial Officer 1980
Cameron Mackey Chief Operating Officer 1968
James Doyle Head of Corporate Development & Investor Relations
Auste Adelborg Secretary 1991
Lars Dencker Nielsen Commercial Director
David Rodney Morant Managing Director - Scorpio UK

Executives per the latest required filings; titles kept in their original language. Source: fundamental data.

Insider Transactions

Insider Transactions
Date Person Role Type Shares Price Value
10. Jul 2026 Camerana Niccolo Director Sell 2,500 191,325.00 478,312,500

Reportable transactions by officers and major shareholders from SEC Form 4 filings. "Other" includes things like stock grants and option exercises without a buy/sell character.

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Data as of: July 31, 2026 · Source: fundamental data & SEC filings (annual and quarterly reports, 10-K/10-Q)

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