NYSE$VAL

Valaris Limited · Q1 2024 earnings

Q1 2024 earnings · · Investor relations

Briefing

Delivered strong safety and operational performance, benefited from drillship reactivation, and awarded new contracts and extensions.

Valaris reported first quarter 2024 results with a net income of $26 million and revenues of $525 million. The company achieved a fleetwide revenue efficiency of 97% and secured new contracts and extensions with associated contract backlog of more than $520 million. Total contract backlog increased to more than $4.0 billion as of April 30, 2024.

  • Net income of $26 million, Adjusted EBITDA of $54 million and Adjusted EBITDAR of $84 million.
  • Revenue efficiency of 97% during the quarter.
  • Strong safety performance, including no Lost Time Incidents (LTI) during the quarter.
  • Awarded new contracts and extensions with associated contract backlog of more than $520 million during the first quarter.

Headline financials

Total Revenue

$525M

Previous: $430M+22.1%
EPS

$0.35

Previous: $0.61-42.6%
Avg Daily Revenue

$153K

No prior period
Floaters Avg Day Rate

$312K

No prior period
Jackups Avg Day Rate

$108K

No prior period
Total Fleet Utilization

64.0%

No prior period
Capital Expenditures

-$151M

Previous: -$56.3M-168.7%
Free Cash Flow

-$126M

Previous: -$9.6M-1210.4%
Net Income

$25.5M

Previous: $46.7M-45.4%
Operating Income

$29.3M

Previous: $8.5M+244.7%
Gross Profit

$80.2M

Previous: $52.9M+51.6%
Cash & Equivalents

$494M

Previous: $823M-39.9%
Total Assets

$4.35B

Previous: $2.95B+47.5%
Stock-Based Comp

$8M

Previous: $5.7M+40.4%

Revenue & EPS history

Valaris · Revenue · Quarterly

$525M

Q1 2024+22.1%vs Q1 2023
Beat estimate in 13 of 15 quarters(87%)
ActualEstimate

Revenue by segment

Valaris · $455M total across 3 segments · Q3 2023

  • Floaters
    $243M+20.6%
  • Jackups
    $166M-15.3%
  • Other
    $45.9M+15.9%

Forward guidance

Valaris is focused on securing attractive contracts that support anticipated earnings and cash flow growth over the next few years and intends to return all future free cash flow to shareholders unless there is a better or more value accretive use for it.

Historical earnings impact

How earnings announcements have historically affected this stock's price.

Avg. return before/after earnings

Based on 20 quarterly earnings reports · overlaid with Q1 2024

Historical avgQ1 2024

+0.2%

Avg return

Earnings day

-3.1%

Avg return

5 days after

+0.6%

Avg return

30 days after

55%

11 / 20 earnings

Positive

+11.9%

Q1 2022

Best reaction

-9.0%

Q4 2022

Worst reaction

Earnings price reactions
QuarterReport dateReaction (Day 0)+5 days+30 days
Q1 2026+0.0%-7.2%-9.3%
Q4 2025+3.3%+1.8%+0.0%
Q3 2025+2.3%-3.1%-0.1%
Q1 2025+3.5%-24.7%-9.4%
Q4 2024-4.4%-8.7%-11.5%
Q3 2024+4.3%+2.5%-4.8%
Q2 2024-4.9%-17.1%-21.1%
Q1 2024-0.0%+8.8%+19.0%
Q4 2023+8.8%+5.1%+16.7%
Q3 2023-5.4%-0.8%-6.0%
Q2 2023-2.4%-0.7%-1.9%
Q1 2023-5.2%-4.9%-3.8%
Q4 2022-9.0%-11.6%-15.2%
Q3 2022-3.2%-3.7%+1.6%
Q2 2022+1.5%-4.1%+1.6%
Q1 2022+11.9%+12.8%+21.8%
Q4 2021+0.1%-1.4%+25.1%
Q3 2021+1.2%-0.9%-13.9%
Q4 2020-0.0%-1.0%+14.9%
Q2 2021+1.1%-4.1%+8.5%
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