profit from every £100 of sales.
£0£100
Gulf Keystone Petroleum
£1.90-1.45% today
+5.0% in 1 year
1-year low £1.631-year high £2.32
Trading in the middle of its range for the past year.
The essentials
Four questions every investor asks, answered in one line each.
more sales each year, on average, 2021 to 2024.
0%20% a year
You pay £76.32 for every £1 of profit it makes in a year.
CheapExpensive
It holds more cash than debt.
No debt5 years
Money in, money out
What Gulf Keystone Petroleum sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from $301 million in 2021 to $151 million in 2024, with $7.16 million of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Gulf Keystone Petroleum handed back 68% of the cash it generated last year.
$35M
Free cash flow 2024$66M
Bought back its own shares$10M
Paid as dividends$35M
Cash vs. debt$102M vs. $2M
Gulf Keystone Petroleum vs. similar companies
Gulf Keystone Petroleum grows the slowest of these 5 and is the most expensive for its profits.
| Company | Profit from £100 of sales | Sales growth a year | Price per £1 of profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gulf Keystone Petroleum | 76.3× · Very expensive | ||
 CNOOC | 12.0× · Cheap | ||
 ConocoPhillips | 21.1× · Fair price | ||
 Canadian Natural Resources | 13.4× · Cheap | ||
 EOG Resources | 16.5× · Fair price |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Gulf Keystone Petroleum's last five years, its segments, earnings, insiders and peers, and writes the bull case, the bear case and what the price expects.
Run the AI analysisFull statementsIncome, balance sheet and cash flow, year by year
Income statement
| In millions of USD | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 301 | 460 | 124 | 151 | |
| 197 | 300 | 8 | 21 | |
| 175 | 274 | -13 | 5 | |
| 230 | 355 | 32 | 88 | |
| 165 | 266 | -12 | 7 | |
| 0.73 | 1.19 | -0.05 | 0.03 | |
| 65.3% | 65.1% | 6.6% | 13.6% | |
| 57.9% | 59.5% | -10.6% | 3.1% | |
| 54.6% | 57.8% | -9.3% | 4.7% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of USD | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 764 | 744 | 697 | 668 |
| Cash | 170 | 119 | 82 | 102 |
| Total debt | 100 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Total liabilities | 243 | 171 | 150 | 155 |
| 522 | 573 | 547 | 512 | |
| 225 | 224 | 218 | 229 | |
| 21.1% | 35.7% | -1.3% | 1.4% | |
| 31.5% | 46.4% | -2.1% | 1.4% |
Cash flow
| In millions of USD | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 179 | 374 | 51 | 94 | |
| 56 | 107 | 65 | 28 | |
| 123 | 267 | -14 | 66 | |
| Dividends paid | 100 | 215 | 25 | 35 |
| 0 | – | 0 | 10 | |
| 1 | 2 | 10 | 3 |
Valuation
- 76.3×
- –
- –
- 0.7×
- 3.6×
- 8.3×
- 5.0×
- 12.1%
- 1.3%
- 6.4%
Profitability
- 13.6%
- 3.1%
- 4.7%
- –
- 1.4%
- 14.2%
- –
- –
- –
- –
Growth
- −20.5%
- −65.0%
- –
- –
- +0.5%
Financial health
- -1.1×
- 0.00
- –
- 5.7×
- 1.18
- –
- –
How it ranks in Energy
Each dot is where the company stands among every company over $300M in the sector. Further right is better.
Bottom 14%of 467
Bottom 18%of 466
Bottom 7%of 387
Bottom 4%of 461
Top 15%of 460
6.4%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$64a year at today's yield, before tax
–per share
Raised–not every year
How safe it looks
488.0% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 53.0%
News
Oil is now flowing out of the Persian Gulf like before the Iran war. Why prices may still not come down anytime soon.MarketWatch · Oct 22, 2026Hurricane Isaias disrupts U.S. oil production in Gulf of Mexico, threatens refineriesCNBC · Oct 9, 2026Oil prices jump as Iran steps up tanker attacks, hurricane threatens U.S. Gulf productionCNBC · Oct 8, 2026Supertanker chartered from Gulf Coast to China for $76 million, 10 times higher than pre-war levelCNBC · Oct 7, 2026What Is Microsoft (MSFT) Planning With Its $10 Billion Gulf Cloud And AI Push?Yahoo Finance · Sep 25, 2026Insider trades
Our insider feed has not updated since May 26, 2026. Trades filed after that are not listed yet.
No insider trades on file.
The seven classic investing rulebooks
0/7Passes 0 of 7. Each bar is how well the company fits that investor's published rules, from 0 to 100; 60 or more counts as a pass.
Warren Buffett
37No pass
Benjamin Graham
42No pass
Philip Fisher
20No pass
Peter Lynch
21No pass
Joel Greenblatt
2No pass
Charlie Munger
31No pass
Terry Smith
24No pass
Questions about Gulf Keystone Petroleum
Is Gulf Keystone Petroleum a good stock to buy?
A business with weak numbers, priced as if everything goes right. 0 of the 7 famous investors' published rulebooks we apply pass it. Whether it suits you depends on your goals and the price you pay; invest-like never tells anyone to buy or sell. The AI analysis lays out the case for and against. Read the Gulf Keystone Petroleum AI analysis
What does Gulf Keystone Petroleum do?
Gulf Keystone Petroleum Limited, together with its subsidiaries, explores, evaluates, develops, and produces oil and gas in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. It is in Oil & Gas E&P, based in Pembroke, Bermuda, with 433 employees.
Does Gulf Keystone Petroleum pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 6.4% a year. In 2024 it paid out £34.9 million in dividends.
Is Gulf Keystone Petroleum stock halal?
Yes. Gulf Keystone Petroleum passes our halal screen: its business is permitted and its debt is 0.3% of its market value, under the 30% limit. How we check
How has Gulf Keystone Petroleum stock done over the past year?
Up 5.0% over the past twelve months, to £1.90. It traded between £1.63 and £2.32 and is 18.0% below its high.
Who are Gulf Keystone Petroleum's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are CNOOC, ConocoPhillips, Canadian Natural Resources and EOG Resources. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with Gulf Keystone Petroleum's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 13, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.