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CVR ENERGY INC CVI
CVR ENERGY INC (CVI) earns a Piotroski F-score of 7/9 (strong financial health), with an Altman Z″ in the distress zone. It pays a dividend yielding 5.54% (safety: no dividend). FY2025 revenue was $7.2B at a 0.4% net margin.
Quality score trend · recomputed for each fiscal year
Each year's score is computed from that year's filing — a rising Piotroski F or Altman Z″ means improving financial health, a fall is worth a look.
Analyst price target
Recent analyst actions
| Date | Firm | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-27 | Mizuho | Underperform (main) |
| 2026-04-22 | Scotiabank | Sector Underperform (main) |
| 2026-03-25 | Raymond James | Market Perform (up) |
| 2026-03-17 | Mizuho | Underperform (main) |
| 2026-03-12 | Goldman Sachs | Sell (main) |
| 2025-10-22 | Goldman Sachs | Sell (main) |
Wall Street analyst consensus — a sentiment gauge, not our scoring.
Smart money · insiders, last 12 months
Open-market insider purchases minus sells (SEC Form 4) — real buying with their own money is a bullish “smart money” signal; grants and option exercises are excluded.
How it ranks in Manufacturing · percentile among 1957 companies
Percentile vs other Manufacturing companies we cover — e.g. “stronger than 90%” means only 10% score higher on that measure.
Piotroski F breakdown · 7/9 tests passed
- Positive return on assets
- Positive operating cash flow
- Rising ROA
- Cash flow exceeds net income
- Lower long-term debt
- Rising current ratio
- No share dilution
- Rising gross margin
- Rising asset turnover
Altman Z″ components · distress zone
| Component | Value |
|---|---|
| Working capital / assets | 0.151 |
| Retained earnings / assets | -0.21 |
| EBIT / assets | 0.049 |
| Equity / liabilities | 0.32 |
Sector peers · similar-size Manufacturing companies compare side by side →
| Ticker | Company | Piotroski F | Altman Z″ | P / E | Revenue growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVI | CVR ENERGY INC | 7/9 | 0.98 | 100.9 | -5.9% |
| IEP | ICAHN ENTERPRISES L.P. | 2/9 | — | — | -3.6% |
| CLMT | Calumet, Inc. /DE | 6/9 | -1.84 | — | -1.2% |
| DK | Delek US Holdings, Inc. | 4/9 | -0.2 | — | -9.5% |
| SUNC | SunocoCorp LLC | 4/9 | — | — | +11.1% |
| SUN | Sunoco LP | 5/9 | — | 25.8 | +11.1% |
| PBF | PBF Energy Inc. | 3/9 | 1.91 | — | -11.4% |
About CVR ENERGY INC
CVR Energy, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in renewable fuels and petroleum refining and marketing, and nitrogen fertilizer manufacturing activities in the United States. It operates through three segments: Petroleum, Renewables, and Nitrogen Fertilizer. The Petroleum segment refines and markets transportation fuels, such as gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and distillates; and includes crude gathering and logistics activities that support refinery operations. This segment also owns and operates a coking, medium-sour crude oil refinery in Kansas; and a crude oil refinery in Oklahoma. This segment serves retailers, railroads, farm cooperatives, and other refiners/marketers. The Renewables segment refines renewable feedstocks, including soybean oil, corn oil, and other renewable feedstocks into renewable diesel; and marketing of renewables products. The Nitrogen Fertilizer segment owns and operates a nitrogen fertilizer plant in Coffeyville, Kansas that utilizes a pet coke gasification process to produce nitrogen fertilizer products; and a nitrogen fertilizer facility in East Dubuque, Illinois that produces nitrogen fertilizers in the form of ammonia and urea ammonium nitrate (UAN) and nitric acid. This segment primarily markets UAN products to agricultural customers; and ammonia products to agricultural and industrial customers. The company was founded in 1906 and is headquartered in Sugar Land, Texas. CVR Energy, Inc. is a subsidiary of Icahn Enterprises Holdings L.P.
FAQ
Is CVI financially healthy?
CVR ENERGY INC's Piotroski F-score is 7/9 (8–9 is excellent, 0–3 weak), and its Altman Z″ distress score is in the distress zone.
Does CVI pay a dividend, and is it safe?
Yes. CVR ENERGY INC pays a dividend yielding about 5.54% with a None payout ratio, rated “no dividend” for safety.
How profitable is CVI?
In FY2025, CVR ENERGY INC had a net margin of 0.4% and a return on equity of 3.0%.
Is CVI overvalued or undervalued?
CVR ENERGY INC trades at about 129.8× trailing earnings — above its 10-year norm (10-year range 4.4×–315.8×, median 19.2×). Stocktoria reports the data, not buy/sell advice.
What is the analyst price target for CVI?
The average Wall-Street price target for CVR ENERGY INC is $30.00, about 14.4% below the recent price, from 5 analysts (consensus: underperform).
Is CVI a good stock to buy?
Stocktoria doesn't give buy or sell advice, but here is the data on CVR ENERGY INC: a Piotroski F-score of 7/9, an Altman Z″ in the distress zone, a P/E of about 100.9×, a dividend yield of 5.54%. Weigh these quality and valuation signals against your own goals.
Computed from company filings · US · as of 2025-12-31. Facts plus Stocktoria's own computed scores — not investment advice.