SLB (SLB) Is Up 5.3% After ChampionX Deal And Tela AI Launch - What's Changed

• SLB recently closed its US$7.80 billion acquisition of ChampionX and launched Tela, an AI assistant integrated across its energy technology platforms, while also declaring its next quarterly dividend and scheduling its fourth-quarter 2025 earnings call.
• Together, the ChampionX deal and Tela launch highlight SLB’s push to combine production optimization with digital tools and AI, potentially reshaping how the company serves energy operators globally.
• We’ll now examine how the launch of Tela as a new AI layer across SLB’s platforms might influence its investment narrative.

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SLB Investment Narrative Recap

To own SLB, you need to believe hydrocarbons will remain central to global energy while operators keep paying for efficiency, digitalization and production optimization. The ChampionX acquisition and Tela AI launch both support that story, but the key near term catalyst is still how quickly SLB can translate this combined offering into higher margin digital and production services, while the biggest current risk is execution missteps or delays in integrating ChampionX’s operations and realizing the targeted cost and revenue synergies.

Against that backdrop, the closure of the US$7.80 billion ChampionX deal is the most relevant recent milestone, because it materially expands SLB’s production optimization and chemicals footprint at the same time Tela is being rolled out as an AI layer across its platforms. Together, they potentially increase SLB’s exposure to more OPEX driven, less cyclical production activity, which could partially offset softer short cycle spending and volatility in North American drilling activity.

Yet while the story sounds compelling, investors should still be aware that integration risks around ChampionX could...

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SLB's narrative projects $38.7 billion revenue and $4.9 billion earnings by 2028. This requires 2.9% yearly revenue growth and about an $0.8 billion earnings increase from $4.1 billion today.

Uncover how SLB's forecasts yield a $45.31 fair value, a 21% upside to its current price.

Exploring Other Perspectives

Fourteen members of the Simply Wall St Community currently place SLB’s fair value between US$36 and about US$91.94, showing a very wide spread of views. Set against this, the company’s growing push into digital tools like Tela and production oriented services with ChampionX could matter a lot for how resilient SLB’s results prove over time, so it is worth weighing several different perspectives before deciding where you stand.

Explore 14 other fair value estimates on SLB - why the stock might be worth just $36.00!

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