Golar LNG Limited designs, converts, owns, and operates marine infrastructure for the liquefaction of natural gas. The company operates through three segments: FLNG, Corporate and Other, and Shipping. It engages in the regasification, storage, and offloading of liquefied natural gas (LNG); operation of floating liquefaction natural gas (FLNG) vessels or projects; transportation of LNG carriers; and vessel management activities. Golar LNG Limited was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda.

Golar LNG Limited

Golar LNG Limited (GLNG) reported mixed second-quarter 2025 results wherein earnings missed the Zacks Consensus Estimate and revenues surpassed the same.
Quarterly earnings of 26 cents per share missed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 29 cents and declined year over year. Revenues of $75.7 million outpaced the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $66.3 million and improved 17% year over year.
In June 2025, FLNG Gimi achieved Commercial Operations Date, reflecting the start of the 20-year lease term with BP under the Lease and Operate Agreement. Gimi is now in the process of offloading its eighth cargo.
On Aug. 6, 2025, SESA reached Final Investment Decision for the charter of Golar’s 3.5 MTPA MKII FLNG, per the terms of the definitive agreements executed by SESA and Golar in May 2025. Subject to regulatory conditions and satisfaction of other customary closing conditions, the MKII charter is anticipated to be completed by 2025.
Golar LNG Limited Price, Consensus and EPS Surprise
Adjusted EBITDA of $49.25 million declined 16% year over year.
GLNG exited the second quarter of 2025 with cash and cash equivalents of $783.42 million compared with $521.43 million at the end of the prior quarter. GLNG’s share of contractual debt at the end of the reported quarter increased 71% year over year to $2.05 billion.
GLNG’s board of directors approved a second-quarter 2025 dividend of 25 cents per share. The dividend will be paid on or around Sept. 2, 2025, to shareholders of record at the close of business on Aug. 26.
As of June 30, 2025, 102.3 million shares are issued and outstanding.
Currently, GLNG carries a Zacks Rank #5 (Strong Sell).
Q2 Performance of Some Other Stocks Belonging to GLNG's Industry
Vista Energy S.A.B. de CV’s VIST reported second-quarter 2025 adjusted earnings per share of 55 cents, which missed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $2.15. The bottom line declined from the prior-year quarter’s 74 cents.
Quarterly revenues increased to $610.5 million from $396.7 million in the year-ago period. The top line beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $592 million.
ExxonMobil XOM reported second-quarter 2025 earnings per share of $1.64 (excluding identified items), which beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.49. The bottom line, however, declined from the year-ago level of $2.14. ExxonMobil’s total quarterly revenues of $81.5 billion missed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $82.8 billion. The top line decreased from the year-ago figure of $93.1 billion.
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Golar LNG Misses Q2 Earnings Estimates, Beats on Revenues

Golar LNG(NASDAQ:GLNG) reported fiscal Q2 2025 earnings on August 14, 2025, highlighting a transformational quarter driven by a $13.7 billion increase in EBITDA backlog, a projected fourfold increase in adjusted EBITDA upon full fleet delivery compared to the last twelve months as of fiscal Q2 2025, before commodity upside, and the execution of new twenty-year charters. Management confirmed a reinforced balance sheet with nearly $900 million in cash and detailed progress on both current FLNG operations and future growth initiatives.
Golar LNG delivers $13.7 billion EBITDA backlog and full fleet chartering
This quarter saw Golar LNG finalize a twenty-year redeployment charter for the Hilli FLNG unit in Argentina, sign definitive agreements for Mark II FLNG, and achieve commercial operations for the Gimi vessel, collectively bringing the total EBITDA backlog to approximately $17 billion before commodity upside, spanning the next twenty years. Notably, these milestones lock in twenty-year visibility across Golar LNG's three operational or under-conversion FLNG units, all under fully contracted charters, with $5.7 billion in EBITDA backlog specifically tied to the redeployment of Hilli.
"This quarter, we've added $13.7 billion of EBITDA backlog, now giving our total backlog at around $17 billion. Our adjusted fully delivered adjusted EBITDA is set to grow four times versus the last twelve months EBITDA before commodity upside. This provides a pathway to increase our dividend distributions to shareholders by more than or significantly more than four times as fully delivered adjusted EBITDA is far greater than the debt service increase. Our balance sheet with a fully delivered net debt to EBITDA standing at 3.4x provides capacity to fund additional FLNG growth while maintaining an attractive and increasing free cash flow to equity. Our focus is now on ordering an accretive fourth FLNG unit,"
-- Karl Fredrik Staubo, CEO
Securing long-term fleet commitments and unprecedented EBITDA backlog materially strengthens free cash flow visibility and provides a robust foundation for both expanded shareholder distributions and disciplined FLNG growth.
Convertible bond issuance and strategic buybacks fortify financial position
Golar LNG raised $575 million through a convertible bond offering in June 2025, using approximately $103 million to repurchase just under 2.5% of shares and bolstering cash reserves to nearly $900 million. The bond was priced with a fixed 2.75% coupon and an 87% premium to the post-buyback reference price of $41.90, with net proceeds of approximately $464 million, providing flexibility to fund additional FLNG expansion without near-term equity dilution.
"In June, we raised $575 million of convertible bonds. As part of this transaction, we also bought back 2.5 million shares for just under $103 million at an average share price of $41.09 per share during Q2 2025. The notes were priced with a fixed coupon of 2.75 and a 40% premium. One important point to note is the effect of the buyback. When considering them, the notes are net dilutive to our share count prior to the notes offering only when our share price exceeds $76.7 at maturity in December 2030 before adjusting any dividends paid in the period. This represents a premium of close to 87% above the reference price of $41.9."
-- Eduardo Maranhão, CFO
By executing accretive buybacks alongside low-cost debt issuance, management demonstrates effective capital allocation while preserving ample optionality to pursue high-return FLNG investments underpinned by long-term contracts.
Commodity-linkage in contracts offers asymmetric upside for Golar LNG
Across new and existing FLNG charters, Golar LNG secured unique profit-sharing mechanisms indexed to Brent oil, TTF (Dutch Title Transfer Facility) gas, and LNG Free On Board (FOB) prices, with the CESA contract offering approximately $100 million in EBITDA uplift per $1/MMBtu above $8, with minimal downside exposure. The company's platform is differentiated as the only independent FLNG-as-a-service provider, enabling exposure to a structurally favorable supply-demand landscape as traditional land-based liquefaction faces cost inflation and U.S. LNG market share is expected to rise to approximately 37% of theglobal marketby 2030.
"Some of our contracts have meaningful upside through commodity links. For the case of Hilli in Cameroon, Golar earns $3.1 million in excess cash earnings for every dollar Brent is above $60. We also make $3.7 million of annual free cash flow for every incremental dollar per MMBtu of the TTF gas price with no ceiling. In the case of Gimi, we do not have a commodity-linked upside, but we have a utilization-linked upside if we achieve commercial utilization north of 90% of nameplate. In the case of the CESA contracts for Hilli, Mark II, and our ownership in Southern Energy, we make approximately $100 million in excess annual earnings for every dollar offtake is above $8 per MMBtu. The total downside is around 28. So we have a $28 million downside of less than $7.5 per FOB, and we have $100 million upside. So it's a highly skewed risk-reward and one that we think could provide significant excess value to Golar."
-- Karl Fredrik Staubo, CEO
These contractual structures embed substantial long-term leverage to global LNG price upside, positioning Golar LNG to capture outsized returns if commodity markets tighten or pricing remains elevated, while downside is quantitatively capped.
Looking Ahead
Management expects to conclude regulatory conditions precedent for the Mark II FLNG charter and finalize shipyard agreements for a fourth unit within 2025, with financing initiatives for Mark II FLNG progressing and full delivery of the unit targeted for Q4 2027. With full operations of the contracted fleet expected in 2028, projected annual free cash flow could exceed $600 million, with each $1/MMBtu increase in LNG FOB driving an incremental $100 million in annual free cash flow under the CESA charters. There was no formal update to long-term dividend guidance, though management signaled intent to meaningfully scale shareholder distributions in line with EBITDA growth, with plans to significantly increase returns as fully contracted EBITDA grows (as discussed on the fiscal Q2 2025 earnings call).
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Golar LNG Gains $13.7 Billion Backlog

Exxon Mobil (XOM) came out with quarterly earnings of $1.64 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.49 per share. This compares to earnings of $2.14 per share a year ago. These figures are adjusted for non-recurring items.
This quarterly report represents an earnings surprise of +10.07%. A quarter ago, it was expected that this oil and natural gas company would post earnings of $1.74 per share when it actually produced earnings of $1.76, delivering a surprise of +1.15%.
Over the last four quarters, the company has surpassed consensus EPS estimates four times.
Exxon, which belongs to the Zacks Oil and Gas - Integrated - International industry, posted revenues of $81.51 billion for the quarter ended June 2025, missing the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 1.59%. This compares to year-ago revenues of $93.06 billion. The company has not been able to beat consensus revenue estimates over the last four quarters.
The sustainability of the stock's immediate price movement based on the recently-released numbers and future earnings expectations will mostly depend on management's commentary on the earnings call.
Exxon shares have added about 3.8% since the beginning of the year versus the S&P 500's gain of 7.8%.
What's Next for Exxon?
While Exxon has underperformed the market so far this year, the question that comes to investors' minds is: what's next for the stock?
There are no easy answers to this key question, but one reliable measure that can help investors address this is the company's earnings outlook. Not only does this include current consensus earnings expectations for the coming quarter(s), but also how these expectations have changed lately.
Empirical research shows a strong correlation between near-term stock movements and trends in earnings estimate revisions. Investors can track such revisions by themselves or rely on a tried-and-tested rating tool like the Zacks Rank, which has an impressive track record of harnessing the power of earnings estimate revisions.
Ahead of this earnings release, the estimate revisions trend for Exxon was mixed. While the magnitude and direction of estimate revisions could change following the company's just-released earnings report, the current status translates into a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) for the stock. So, the shares are expected to perform in line with the market in the near future. You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here.
It will be interesting to see how estimates for the coming quarters and the current fiscal year change in the days ahead. The current consensus EPS estimate is $1.67 on $84.74 billion in revenues for the coming quarter and $6.58 on $330.97 billion in revenues for the current fiscal year.
Investors should be mindful of the fact that the outlook for the industry can have a material impact on the performance of the stock as well. In terms of the Zacks Industry Rank, Oil and Gas - Integrated - International is currently in the bottom 28% of the 250 plus Zacks industries. Our research shows that the top 50% of the Zacks-ranked industries outperform the bottom 50% by a factor of more than 2 to 1.
One other stock from the same industry, Golar LNG (GLNG), is yet to report results for the quarter ended June 2025. The results are expected to be released on August 14.
This operator of carriers for natural gas shipping is expected to post quarterly earnings of $0.29 per share in its upcoming report, which represents a year-over-year change of -31%. The consensus EPS estimate for the quarter has remained unchanged over the last 30 days.
Golar LNG's revenues are expected to be $66.27 million, up 5.2% from the year-ago quarter.
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Exxon Mobil (XOM) Q2 Earnings Beat Estimates

The NASDAQ 100 Pre-Market Indicator is up 95.31 to 22,333.05. The total Pre-Market volume is currently 155,943,518 shares traded.
The following are the most active stocks for the pre-market session:
Altimmune, Inc. (ALT) is -4.56 at $3.15, with 21,157,349 shares traded. As reported by Zacks, the current mean recommendation for ALT is in the "buy range".
Direxion Daily TSLA Bull 2X Shares (TSLL) is +0.06 at $12.64, with 10,767,047 shares traded. This represents a 100.95% increase from its 52 Week Low.
NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA) is +2.36 at $156.67, with 7,203,843 shares traded. Over the last four weeks they have had 9 up revisions for the earnings forecast, for the fiscal quarter ending Jul 2025. The consensus EPS forecast is $0.93. , following a 52-week high recorded in prior regular session.
Golar LNG Limited (GLNG) is +0.21 at $41.30, with 5,024,292 shares traded. As reported by Zacks, the current mean recommendation for GLNG is in the "strong buy range".
Surf Air Mobility Inc. (SRFM) is +0.3599 at $2.90, with 3,339,882 shares traded. As reported by Zacks, the current mean recommendation for SRFM is in the "strong buy range".
BigBear.ai, Inc. (BBAI) is +0.12 at $4.93, with 3,262,293 shares traded. BBAI's current last sale is 98.6% of the target price of $5.
ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ (SQQQ) is -0.28 at $20.42, with 3,100,249 shares traded., following a 52-week high recorded in prior regular session.
Micron Technology, Inc. (MU) is +2.5987 at $129.85, with 3,061,527 shares traded. As reported by Zacks, the current mean recommendation for MU is in the "buy range".
NIO Inc. (NIO) is +0.0097 at $3.48, with 2,249,331 shares traded. NIO's current last sale is 86.99% of the target price of $4.
Circle Internet Group, Inc. (CRCL) is +6.98 at $205.60, with 2,165,674 shares traded. CRCL's current last sale is 93.45% of the target price of $220.
QuantumScape Corporation (QS) is -0.05 at $5.62, with 1,679,782 shares traded. QS's current last sale is 112.4% of the target price of $5.
J P Morgan Chase & Co (JPM) is +1.05 at $285.11, with 1,257,747 shares traded. Over the last four weeks they have had 4 up revisions for the earnings forecast, for the fiscal quarter ending Jun 2025. The consensus EPS forecast is $4.47. , following a 52-week high recorded in prior regular session.
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(RTTNews) - Golar LNG Limited (GLNG) announced that it intends to offer $500 million aggregate principal amount of Convertible Senior Notes due 2030 in a private placement. The company also intends to grant the initial purchasers of the Notes a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional $75 million aggregate principal amount of the Notes in connection with the offering.
The Notes will be senior, unsecured obligations of the Company, pay interest semiannually in arrears on June 15 and December 15, mature on December 15, 2030, and be convertible into the company's common shares, cash, or a combination of shares and cash, at the company's election.
The company said it plans to use the net proceeds from the sale of the Notes to repurchase up to 2.5 million of the company's common shares in connection with the offering of the Notes and for general corporate purposes, which may include, among other things, future growth investments including a contemplated fourth FLNG unit, MKII FLNG conversion costs, FLNG Hilli redeployment costs, repaying indebtedness, and funding working capital and capital expenditures.
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Golar LNG To Offer $500 Mln Of Convertible Senior Notes Due 2030

GOLAR LNG ($GLNG) is expected to release its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, May 27th after market close, per Finnhub. Analysts are expecting revenue of $66,956,706 and earnings of $0.22 per share.
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GOLAR LNG Hedge Fund Activity
We have seen 151 institutional investors add shares of GOLAR LNG stock to their portfolio, and 162 decrease their positions in their most recent quarter.
Here are some of the largest recent moves:
MILLENNIUM MANAGEMENT LLC removed 4,583,156 shares (-98.8%) from their portfolio in Q1 2025, for an estimated $174,114,096
WOLF HILL CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LP added 1,618,193 shares (+inf%) to their portfolio in Q1 2025, for an estimated $61,475,152
HEALTHCARE OF ONTARIO PENSION PLAN TRUST FUND added 1,522,700 shares (+1136.3%) to their portfolio in Q1 2025, for an estimated $57,847,373
RUBRIC CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LP added 1,264,938 shares (+16.4%) to their portfolio in Q1 2025, for an estimated $48,054,994
UBS AM, A DISTINCT BUSINESS UNIT OF UBS ASSET MANAGEMENT AMERICAS LLC added 1,176,139 shares (+inf%) to their portfolio in Q1 2025, for an estimated $44,681,520
AMERICAN CENTURY COMPANIES INC removed 1,115,901 shares (-95.8%) from their portfolio in Q1 2025, for an estimated $42,393,078
CARTENNA CAPITAL, LP added 1,050,000 shares (+inf%) to their portfolio in Q1 2025, for an estimated $39,889,500
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GOLAR LNG Earnings Preview: Recent $GLNG Insider Trading, Hedge Fund Activity, and More

Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Alphabet Inc (Symbol: GOOG), where a total volume of 120,918 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 12.1 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 46.8% of GOOG's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 25.9 million shares. Especially high volume was seen for the $165 strike call option expiring May 02, 2025, with 9,855 contracts trading so far today, representing approximately 985,500 underlying shares of GOOG. Below is a chart showing GOOG's trailing twelve month trading history, with the $165 strike highlighted in orange:
Golar LNG Ltd (Symbol: GLNG) options are showing a volume of 9,178 contracts thus far today. That number of contracts represents approximately 917,800 underlying shares, working out to a sizeable 46.5% of GLNG's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 2.0 million shares. Particularly high volume was seen for the $50 strike call option expiring May 16, 2025, with 3,277 contracts trading so far today, representing approximately 327,700 underlying shares of GLNG. Below is a chart showing GLNG's trailing twelve month trading history, with the $50 strike highlighted in orange:
And Chord Energy Corp (Symbol: CHRD) options are showing a volume of 4,585 contracts thus far today. That number of contracts represents approximately 458,500 underlying shares, working out to a sizeable 45.8% of CHRD's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 1.0 million shares. Especially high volume was seen for the $70 strike put option expiring May 16, 2025, with 3,000 contracts trading so far today, representing approximately 300,000 underlying shares of CHRD. Below is a chart showing CHRD's trailing twelve month trading history, with the $70 strike highlighted in orange:
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Notable Thursday Option Activity: GOOG, GLNG, CHRD

Investors in Golar LNG Ltd (Symbol: GLNG) saw new options become available this week, for the December 19th expiration. One of the key data points that goes into the price an option buyer is willing to pay, is the time value, so with 242 days until expiration the newly available contracts represent a possible opportunity for sellers of puts or calls to achieve a higher premium than would be available for the contracts with a closer expiration. At Stock Options Channel, our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the GLNG options chain for the new December 19th contracts and identified one put and one call contract of particular interest.
The put contract at the $37.00 strike price has a current bid of $5.90. If an investor was to sell-to-open that put contract, they are committing to purchase the stock at $37.00, but will also collect the premium, putting the cost basis of the shares at $31.10 (before broker commissions). To an investor already interested in purchasing shares of GLNG, that could represent an attractive alternative to paying $37.50/share today.
Because the $37.00 strike represents an approximate 1% discount to the current trading price of the stock (in other words it is out-of-the-money by that percentage), there is also the possibility that the put contract would expire worthless. The current analytical data (including greeks and implied greeks) suggest the current odds of that happening are 61%. Stock Options Channel will track those odds over time to see how they change, publishing a chart of those numbers on our website under the contract detail page for this contract. Should the contract expire worthless, the premium would represent a 15.95% return on the cash commitment, or 24.05% annualized — at Stock Options Channel we call this the YieldBoost.
Below is a chart showing the trailing twelve month trading history for Golar LNG Ltd, and highlighting in green where the $37.00 strike is located relative to that history:
Turning to the calls side of the option chain, the call contract at the $38.00 strike price has a current bid of $6.30. If an investor was to purchase shares of GLNG stock at the current price level of $37.50/share, and then sell-to-open that call contract as a "covered call," they are committing to sell the stock at $38.00. Considering the call seller will also collect the premium, that would drive a total return (excluding dividends, if any) of 18.13% if the stock gets called away at the December 19th expiration (before broker commissions). Of course, a lot of upside could potentially be left on the table if GLNG shares really soar, which is why looking at the trailing twelve month trading history for Golar LNG Ltd, as well as studying the business fundamentals becomes important. Below is a chart showing GLNG's trailing twelve month trading history, with the $38.00 strike highlighted in red:
Considering the fact that the $38.00 strike represents an approximate 1% premium to the current trading price of the stock (in other words it is out-of-the-money by that percentage), there is also the possibility that the covered call contract would expire worthless, in which case the investor would keep both their shares of stock and the premium collected. The current analytical data (including greeks and implied greeks) suggest the current odds of that happening are 41%. On our website under the contract detail page for this contract, Stock Options Channel will track those odds over time to see how they change and publish a chart of those numbers (the trading history of the option contract will also be charted). Should the covered call contract expire worthless, the premium would represent a 16.80% boost of extra return to the investor, or 25.33% annualized, which we refer to as the YieldBoost.
The implied volatility in the put contract example is 58%, while the implied volatility in the call contract example is 57%.
Meanwhile, we calculate the actual trailing twelve month volatility (considering the last 249 trading day closing values as well as today's price of $37.50) to be 41%. For more put and call options contract ideas worth looking at, visit StockOptionsChannel.com.
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Interesting GLNG Put And Call Options For December 19th

Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Celsius Holdings Inc (Symbol: CELH), where a total volume of 92,313 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 9.2 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 62% of CELH's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 14.9 million shares. Especially high volume was seen for the $30 strike call option expiring June 20, 2025, with 15,221 contracts trading so far today, representing approximately 1.5 million underlying shares of CELH. Below is a chart showing CELH's trailing twelve month trading history, with the $30 strike highlighted in orange:
Golar LNG Ltd (Symbol: GLNG) saw options trading volume of 11,834 contracts, representing approximately 1.2 million underlying shares or approximately 58.3% of GLNG's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 2.0 million shares. Particularly high volume was seen for the $38 strike call option expiring March 21, 2025, with 2,776 contracts trading so far today, representing approximately 277,600 underlying shares of GLNG. Below is a chart showing GLNG's trailing twelve month trading history, with the $38 strike highlighted in orange:
And Target Corp (Symbol: TGT) saw options trading volume of 47,171 contracts, representing approximately 4.7 million underlying shares or approximately 58% of TGT's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 8.1 million shares. Particularly high volume was seen for the $108 strike call option expiring March 21, 2025, with 10,640 contracts trading so far today, representing approximately 1.1 million underlying shares of TGT. Below is a chart showing TGT's trailing twelve month trading history, with the $108 strike highlighted in orange:
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Notable Wednesday Option Activity: CELH, GLNG, TGT

Looking at the universe of stocks we cover at Dividend Channel, in trading on Thursday, shares of Golar LNG Ltd (Symbol: GLNG) were yielding above the 3% mark based on its quarterly dividend (annualized to $1), with the stock changing hands as low as $33.20 on the day. Dividends are particularly important for investors to consider, because historically speaking dividends have provided a considerable share of the stock market's total return. To illustrate, suppose for example you purchased shares of the iShares Russell 3000 ETF (IWV) back on 5/31/2000 — you would have paid $78.27 per share. Fast forward to 5/31/2012 and each share was worth $77.79 on that date, a loss of $0.48 or 0.6% decrease over twelve years. But now consider that you collected a whopping $10.77 per share in dividends over the same period, increasing your return to 13.15%. Even with dividends reinvested, that only amounts to an average annual total return of about 1.0%; so by comparison collecting a yield above 3% would appear considerably attractive if that yield is sustainable. Golar LNG Ltd (Symbol: GLNG) is a member of the Russell 3000, giving it special status as one of the largest 3000 companies on the U.S. stock markets.
In general, dividend amounts are not always predictable and tend to follow the ups and downs of profitability at each company. In the case of Golar LNG Ltd, looking at the history chart for GLNG below can help in judging whether the most recent dividend is likely to continue, and in turn whether it is a reasonable expectation to expect a 3% annual yield.
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