Cheniere Energy (LNG) Earnings: Q3 2026 Results

The quarter ended September 30, 2026 and Cheniere Energy published the results on October 29, 2026. Revenue and diluted EPS are shown against Q3 2025, the same quarter a year earlier, which takes seasonal swings out of the comparison.

• Cheniere reports a single operating segment. The rows above are the revenue lines on its statement of operations.
• Cheniere consolidates Cheniere Partners (CQP), in which it held a 48.6% limited partner interest; net income and EPS are after $316 million of net income attributable to non-controlling interests.
• In June 2026 Cheniere designated most of its long-term IPM agreements as normal purchases and normal sales, so those contracts are no longer marked to market each quarter. Fair-value swings on them drove the Q1 2026 loss and Q2 2026 gain in the history table.

Source: Cheniere Energy Q3 2026 results, October 29, 2026. Also in the Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2026. Figures as reported; checked against the release on November 10, 2026.

How Cheniere Energy splits revenue in its own release, under its own labels, for Q3 2026 against Q3 2025. Indented lines are parts of the line above them.

• Cheniere Energy's LNG revenues revenue was $6.1 billion in Q3 2026, up 42% from $4.3 billion in Q3 2025, 99% of total revenue.
• Cheniere Energy's Regasification revenues revenue was $34.0 million in Q3 2026, flat on $34.0 million in Q3 2025, under 1% of total revenue.
• Cheniere Energy's Other revenues revenue was $40.0 million in Q3 2026, down 62% from $105 million in Q3 2025, under 1% of total revenue.

Segment lines are the figures writers cite most often, because they show where the growth in a quarter came from. Companies redraw their segments from time to time and restate the prior year to match, so a year-ago figure here can differ from the one printed a year ago. When that has happened, the note above says so.

From the earnings release

The "3" after each measure is the release's footnote marker for a non-GAAP measure. Cheniere does not give a revenue or EPS outlook.

In its Q3 2026 release, Cheniere Energy said:

“Raising full year 2026 Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA 3 guidance from $7.90 billion - $8.40 billion to $8.75 billion - $9.25 billion and full year 2026 Distributable Cash Flow 3 guidance from $5.30 billion - $5.80 billion to $6.05 billion - $6.55 billion.”

Source: Cheniere Q3 2026 release, Oct 29, 2026.

This is the company's own guidance as of Oct 29, 2026, quoted as given. Walnut does not make forecasts of its own. Analyst estimates for the coming quarters are on the LNG forecast page.

Revenue and diluted EPS for the last 5 quarters. Each date links to that quarter's release.

Total revenues and diluted net income per share attributable to common stockholders, each as first reported in that quarter's release.

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Each quarter keeps its own page with the figures as reported, so a link to one stays pointed at the same numbers after the next report.

• Q3 2026 (this page), reported Oct 29, 2026

Cheniere Energy reports one segment, and almost all of its revenue is LNG sales: $6,099 million of $6,173 million in Q3 2026, against $4,302 million of $4,441 million a year earlier. Regasification revenues were $34 million in both quarters and other revenues $40 million, down from $105 million. Total revenues rose 39%. (Cheniere Q3 2026 release, Oct 29, 2026)

Cheniere sells most of its output under long-term sale and purchase agreements (SPAs). Customers generally pay a fixed fee per MMBtu plus a variable fee generally equal to 115% of Henry Hub, and they owe the fixed fee on contracted volumes even when they cancel or suspend cargoes. Cheniere also has integrated production marketing (IPM) agreements, under which a gas producer sells it gas at a global LNG or natural gas index price less a fixed liquefaction fee, shipping and other costs. LNG not under long-term contracts is sold by Cheniere Marketing in the spot market or under short-term deals. (Cheniere Form 10-K, 2025, Feb 26, 2026; Cheniere Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Oct 29, 2026)

Cheniere says its SPAs and long-term IPM agreements, with approximately 15 years of weighted average remaining life, cover approximately 95% of anticipated production from Sabine Pass and Corpus Christi through the mid-2030s. In October 2026 it signed SPAs with QatarEnergy for up to 4 mtpa beginning in the early 2030s, and in September 2026 a 22-year SPA with Petrobras for 0.8 mtpa. (Cheniere Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Oct 29, 2026; Cheniere Q3 2026 release, Oct 29, 2026)

Cheniere attributed the $1.4 billion increase in LNG revenues to higher volumes and higher pricing per MMBtu, mainly from higher global LNG prices. It exported 188 cargoes (684 TBtu) in Q3 2026, against 163 cargoes (586 TBtu) a year earlier, as more Corpus Christi Stage 3 trains came online. The seventh and last midscale train reached substantial completion in August 2026, completing a project Cheniere said expanded its production capacity by over 20%. (Cheniere Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Oct 29, 2026; Cheniere Q3 2026 release, Oct 29, 2026)

Revenue is concentrated in a few buyers. Two customers accounted for 14% and 11% of Q3 2026 revenues. Total revenues also include a $65 million net derivative gain and $5 million of sublease income, which are not revenue from contracts with customers. (Cheniere Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Oct 29, 2026)

Cheniere Energy's diluted EPS was $5.65 in Q3 2026, against $4.75 a year earlier, on net income attributable to Cheniere of $1,170 million. Cheniere does not report an adjusted EPS figure. Its non-GAAP Adjusted Net Income was $750 million, which strips out a $432 million gain from changes in the fair value of commodity and FX derivatives and amortization of deferred NPNS assets and liabilities, net of tax and non-controlling interests. (Cheniere Q3 2026 release, Oct 29, 2026)

Derivative accounting moves Cheniere's GAAP earnings sharply. In June 2026 it designated IPM agreements covering approximately 73% of fixed minimum contractual IPM volumes as normal purchases and normal sales, ending their quarterly fair-value measurement. Cost of sales included about $40 million of fair-value gains in Q3 2026, against $0.6 billion of gains a year earlier. The effective tax rate fell to 10.2% from 18.9%, which Cheniere attributed to a larger share of pre-tax income from CQP, partly not taxable to it, and a higher FDDEI deduction. (Cheniere Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Oct 29, 2026; Cheniere Q3 2026 release, Oct 29, 2026)

Diluted weighted average shares fell to 206.9 million from 219.9 million a year earlier. Cheniere repurchased 2.81 million shares in the quarter for $731 million, an average of $260.52 per share, and had approximately $8.4 billion left under its buyback authorization. It also raised the quarterly dividend to $0.625 per share from $0.555. (Cheniere Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Oct 29, 2026; Cheniere Q3 2026 release, Oct 29, 2026)

Diluted EPS divides net income by the weighted average number of shares outstanding in the quarter, plus the shares that options and other equity awards could add. Buybacks shrink that count and lift EPS for the same profit; share issuance and stock awards enlarge it.

Cheniere Energy guides two non-GAAP measures for the full year, and raised both with Q3 2026 results: Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA to $8.75 billion to $9.25 billion, from $7.90 billion to $8.40 billion, and Distributable Cash Flow to $6.05 billion to $6.55 billion, from $5.30 billion to $5.80 billion. Its reconciliation implies full-year net income attributable to Cheniere of $2.1 billion to $2.5 billion. It gives no revenue or EPS outlook. (Cheniere Q3 2026 release, Oct 29, 2026)

On capacity, Cheniere has approximately 56 mtpa of liquefaction in operation and approximately 5 mtpa under construction in the Corpus Christi Midscale Trains 8 & 9 Project, which was 58.6% complete at September 30, 2026 with substantial completion expected in the second half of 2028. (Cheniere Q3 2026 release, Oct 29, 2026)

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The consensus figures on this page are Yahoo Finance's, as pulled on the date shown. Each comes with the number of analysts behind it; the smaller that number, the more one revised estimate can move the average.

The figures below are the ones Cheniere Energy's own release and filings put weight on for Q3 2026, with the latest reported value for each.

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