Diversified Energy (DEC) Q2 2026 earnings — TrendMatrix coverage
Reported
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Key numbers
- Reported EPS
- $3.31
- Estimate
- $0.05
- Surprise
- +6012.6%
- Score at report (before → after)
- 7.2 → 7.1/10
Revenue for this quarter isn’t shown: the reported figure hasn’t cleared TrendMatrix’s freshness and sanity checks yet, and consensus revenue isn’t tracked. EPS above is the available figure.
How the report landed
Diversified Energy (DEC) beat the $0.05 estimate with diluted EPS of $3.31 — a large 6012.6% upside surprise. TrendMatrix's engine moved from Buy (Wait) (7.2/10) to Hold at 7.1/10 after the report — the engine's score fell despite the beat.
Where TrendMatrix's rating stands now
TrendMatrix currently rates DEC Sell at 6.3/10.
1 of the last 3 quarters beat the estimate; this quarter's +6012.6% surprise compares with a +25.2% four-quarter average. Next scheduled report: 2026-11-05.
What supports the rating
- Sector modifier (Energy): +1.2
- Attractive valuation
What argues against it
- Concentration risk — Commodity: natural gas (73.0%)
- Leverage penalty (D/E 3.1): -1.5
- Overbought (RSI 76)
This section and the ones below it reflect TrendMatrix’s latest engine read — they update after the report date and are not frozen to it.
The levels TrendMatrix's engine tracks
- Current price
- $15.43
- Price target
- $19.02
- Stop
- $14.59
- Upside to target
- +23.3%
- Reward-to-risk
- 2.0:1
Forward estimates sit below the trailing run-rate (4.3× forward vs 2.6× trailing) — consensus expects earnings to decline from here.
Risk check: RSI 76 — a level conventionally read as overbought; gains at these levels often lean on momentum.
Model outputs from TrendMatrix’s engine as of 2026-09-05 — shown for context, not personalized investment advice.
DEC at TrendMatrix's latest read
Energy results are commodity-price arithmetic first; the operational beat or miss is read net of what the strip already told the market.
- Industry
- Oil & Gas Integrated
- Market cap
- $1.07B
- P/E (fwd)
- 4.3
- P/E (ttm)
- 2.6
- 52-week range
- $12.33–$18.90
- Off 52-week high
- 18.4%
- RSI (14)
- 76
- Volume vs avg
- 0.74×
- Score today
- 6.3/10