CNX Resources
CNX on NYSE. CNX Resources Resources sells natural gas to utilities and industrial customers. Market value $4.8bn.
Price checks use the past 12 months to June 2026. Some use the latest annual report instead, as marked. Quality checks use five annual reports, the latest for the year to December 2025.
Should I look at this?
Worth a closer look
Why it could be worth it
What to watch out for
Nothing stood out in the numbers we check.
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For every $100 of what the whole company costs, it produced $10.70 of spare cash in the past 12 months. A savings account pays about $4.
The filings do not give us enough to work this out.
The filings do not give us enough to work this out.
Quality score: 80 of 100. Price score: 83 of 100. Our list needs 70 on quality and 60 on price.
$33.24 a share, 8% above its 1-year low
Over the past year the price has ranged from $30.78 to $43.62.
Pays no dividend
Prices from Tuesday’s close (6 October).
Five years of cash, in billions
| Revenue | |||||
| Revenue | $757m | $1.3bn | $3.4bn | $1.3bn | $2.2bn |
| Operating margin | |||||
| Operating margin | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Debt to equity | |||||
| Debt to equity | 0.60 | 0.75 | 0.51 | 0.53 | 0.57 |
| Shares outstanding | |||||
| Shares outstanding | 0.18bn | 0.16bn | 0.15bn | 0.13bn | 0.15bn |
Health checks
- Free cash flow positive5 of 5 years
- Accounting looks honest (Beneish)Not enough data
- Financial strength (Piotroski)7 of 8 checks we could run
- Profit backed by cash (accruals)Yes
- Debt0.57× equity
- Revenue growth, five yearsStrong, 12.2% a year
- Buying back its own sharesYes, 18% fewer since 2021
The quarter to June 2026
How the business did, compared with the same quarter a year earlier.
- Sales: $618 million last quarter, down 36% on a year ago.
- Profit: $203 million, down 53% on a year ago.
- Spare cash over the past 12 months: $526 million, up from $472 million.
- 10% fewer shares than a year ago. Each share owns a bit more of the company.
- Debt is $2.2 billion more than cash, down from $2.6 billion a year ago.
- Sales grew on a year ago in 3 of the last 4 quarters.
| Quarter to | Amount |
|---|---|
| September 2024 | $424m |
| December 2024 | $137m |
| March 2025 | $82m |
| June 2025 | $962m |
| September 2025 | $584m |
| December 2025 | $610m |
| March 2026 | $787m |
| June 2026 | $618m |
| Quarter to | Amount |
|---|---|
| September 2024 | $66m |
| December 2024 | -$145m |
| March 2025 | -$198m |
| June 2025 | $433m |
| September 2025 | $202m |
| December 2025 | $196m |
| March 2026 | $348m |
| June 2026 | $203m |
From the company's quarterly reports to the SEC.
Dates
- Next results (estimated)
- n/a
- Last annual report (10-K)
- 10 February 2026
- Next quarterly (estimated, 10-Q)
- 29 October 2026
Who owns it
5 long-term investors we follow own it, unchanged from 5 last quarter. 385 funds in all.
- GAMCO InvestorsMario Gabelli
- Value
- $7m
- Share of fund
- <0.1%
| Fund | Value | Share of that fund | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southeastern Asset Management (Longleaf)Mason Hawkins | $158m | 8.3% | Added |
| Orbis Investment ManagementOrbis team (Allan Gray lineage) | $30m | 0.1% | Added |
| LSV Asset ManagementJosef Lakonishok | $15m | <0.1% | Added |
| Gotham Asset ManagementJoel Greenblatt | $10m | <0.1% | Added |
| GAMCO InvestorsMario Gabelli | $7m | <0.1% |
Largest holders overall
- BlackRock$651mAdded
- Dimensional Fund Advisors LP$301m
- State Street$260mAdded
- Vanguard Portfolio Management$252mAdded
- Neuberger Berman Group$236m
- Vanguard Capital Management$208m
- American Century Companies$161mAdded
- Southeastern Asset Management (Longleaf)$158mAdded
- Geode Capital Management$150mAdded
- Capital World Investors$122mCut
From 13F filings for the quarter ended 30 June 2026.
Big holders and activists
5 investors own more than 5%.
- Dimensional Fund Advisors LPPassive investor6.0%Since 30 June 2025
- Vanguard Portfolio ManagementPassive investor5.1%Since 31 March 2026
- Vanguard Capital ManagementPassive investor5.1%Since 31 March 2026
- STATE STREET CORPORATIONPassive investor5.0%+0.2 ptsSince 31 March 2026
- Neuberger Berman Group LLCPassive investorat least 4.9%(filed with 1 related holder)Since 27 February 2026
- MFN Partners, LPPassive investorSold down below 5%Since 31 March 2026
- The Vanguard GroupPassive investorSold down below 5%Since 13 March 2026
| Holder | Stake | Since | |
|---|---|---|---|
Dimensional Fund Advisors LP Passive investor | 6.0% | 30 June 2025 | |
Vanguard Portfolio Management Passive investor | 5.1% | 31 March 2026 | |
Vanguard Capital Management Passive investor | 5.1% | 31 March 2026 | |
STATE STREET CORPORATION Passive investor | 5.0%+0.2 pts | 31 March 2026 | |
Neuberger Berman Group LLC Passive investor | at least 4.9% (filed with 1 related holder) | 27 February 2026 | |
MFN Partners, LP Passive investor | Sold down below 5% | 31 March 2026 | |
The Vanguard Group Passive investor | Sold down below 5% | 13 March 2026 |
From Schedule 13D and 13G filings: anyone owning more than 5% must file one.
What insiders did
No insider bought shares on the open market in the last 12 months. 3 sold $4m.
- Thorndike William N JrDirectorSold
- Date
- 4 May 2026
- Shares
- 28,800
- Price
- $38.25
- Value
- $1m
- Lally-Green MaureenDirectorSold
- Date
- 23 March 2026
- Shares
- 23,631
- Price
- $39.51
- Value
- $933,715
- LANIGAN BERNARD JRDirectorSold
- Date
- 19 February 2026
- Shares
- 46,119
- Price
- $40.60
- Value
- $2m
| Date | Who | Did | Shares | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 May 2026 | Thorndike William N Jr Director | Sold | 28,800 | $38.25 | $1m |
| 23 March 2026 | Lally-Green Maureen Director | Sold | 23,631 | $39.51 | $933,715 |
| 19 February 2026 | LANIGAN BERNARD JR Director | Sold | 46,119 | $40.60 | $2m |
From Form 4 filings: insiders must report trades in their own company's shares within two days.
Warning signs in its filings
Problems the company itself reported to the SEC, in its own words.
None of the warning signs we check for were found.
We look for five warning signs: doubt it can keep going, weak checks on its own accounts, a notice that its past accounts can't be relied on, a change of auditor, and one customer bringing in a big share of sales. We don't check lawsuits, investigations or debt yet.
We checked the auditor's report, internal controls, restatement notices, auditor changes and big customers in the 10-K filed 10 Feb 2026, plus the 10-Q filed 30 Jul 2026 and 8 later 8-Ks.
A 10-K is the yearly report every US company files with the SEC. An 8-K is a short notice of a big event.
What could go wrong
Cheap for a reason is the question the numbers cannot answer.
Whether the price already reflects the risks is what the deep dive is for.
What changed in the risks this year
Companies must list what could hurt them each year. These are the parts that changed since last year’s report.
Increasing attention to environmental, social and governance matters may adversely impact our business.
Could happenIncreasing public scrutiny of systemic issues—such as affordability, corporate influence, executive compensation, and ethics—may amplify anti-corporate sentiment and narratives portraying our industry as exploitative. These dynamics can lead to reputational harm, consumer backlash, regulatory attention, and heightened security risks for executives and employees. Addressing these risks may require additional investments in governance, safety, and crisis management. Failure to mitigate these impacts could adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
Read moreClimate change risk, legislation, litigation, and regulation of greenhouse gas emissions at the federal or state level may increase our operating costs and reduce the value of our natural gas assets. Any such regulation that may be implemented, as well as uncertainty concerning such regulation and public policy pressures, could adversely impact the market for natural gas, as well as for our securities.
Could happenThe EPA’s March 2024 methane‑emissions standards for existing oil and natural gas facilities (Subpart OOOOc) obligate states, including Pennsylvania, to adopt regulations conforming to the federal performance guidelines covering preexisting wells, including conventional wells. While these federal standards remain subject to change, and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) is still in the early stages of developing its state implementation plan, the model regulations potentially impose burdens that may render certain conventional wells uneconomic to continue to produce potentially affecting mineral rights held by production of those wells. Additionally, some states have issued mandates to reduce emissions of GHGs, primarily through the planned development of GHG emission inventories and potential cap-and-trade programs. Most of these types of programs require major sources of emissions or major producers of fuels to acquire and subsequently surrender emission allowances, with the number of allowances available being reduced each year until a target goal is achieved. The cost of these allowances could increase over time. While new laws and regulations that are aimed at reducing GHG emissions will increase demand for natural gas, they may also result in increased costs for permitting, equipping, monitoring, and reporting GHGs associated with natural gas production and use.
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The deep dive
Everything above is arithmetic on public filings. The deep dive reads the last ten years of annual reports, the proxy statements, and the earnings calls, then argues the case the way Buffett, Klarman, and Hohn would, and checks every claim against the source.
- What the business is worth, as a range, and the margin of safety at today’s price
- Prices to start buying, buy, and buy hard
- The three things that would make this a mistake
- Every number footnoted to the filing it came from
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Not advice. Numbers on this page come from SEC filings and are updated each night; prices are updated again after the US market closes. The five-year figures are rounded.