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Baker Hughes Company
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-0.90%
2026-03-04
From 2026-03-04 session.
Drifts lower in line with energy peers amid broad market weakness
Baker Hughes announced fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 results on January 25, 2026. The company reported record adjusted EBITDA of $4.825 billion for the full year, up 5 percent year-over-year, and record free cash flow of $2.732 billion. Fourth-quarter revenue was flat year-over-year at $7.4 billion, with adjusted diluted EPS of $0.78.
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What does Baker Hughes Company do?
Baker Hughes is a major energy technology and oilfield services company providing equipment, digital solutions, and services across the oil, gas, and industrial energy sectors. Its Industrial & Energy Technology (IET) division has become a growth engine, with record $14.9 billion in 2025 orders driven by LNG infrastructure, data center power systems, and emerging nuclear contracts. The company is currently advancing a significant acquisition of Chart Industries to expand its engineered systems portfolio.
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The magnitude of the beat is striking across every metric: revenue, earnings, margins, and forward guidance all cleared estimates by wide margins. The ISG unit's 14.8% operating margin versus the 12.9% estimate is particularly significant — it demonstrates the stock can pass through surging memory costs to customers, the key bear thesis that had weighed on shares since Morgan Stanley's January downgrade. Citi called it an "exceptional beat+raise" while Barclays highlighted the $34 billion in Q4 AI server orders alone, a near-tripling from the prior quarter's $12 billion. Morgan Stanley, the most prominent the stock bear, raised its price target to $110 from $101 but maintained its Underweight rating, noting skepticism about margin sustainability — a notable holdout against otherwise unanimous bullishness. Volume at 4.2x normal confirms heavy institutional conviction behind the move. The stock is outperforming its technology sector peers by roughly 18 percentage points, with the broader XLK index down 1.2%, underscoring this as an entirely company-specific event.