← BackQUAKER CHEMICAL CORP · Miscellaneous Products of Petroleum & CoalKWR
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The short versionA company still losing money with growing sales.
Going well
- Sales up 10% in the latest quarter vs a year ago
- Raised its dividend (1.3% yield)
Money moves
- No insider buying or selling in the last 30 days
- Institutions added 0.7% to their holdings in the quarter ending June 2026 (164 bought, 120 sold)
Facts from SEC filings, not a recommendation.
What the price means
Price as of Oct 26
$155.18-0.4% that day
- Company value
- $2.7B
- Share price times all shares
- Price vs profit (P/E)
- 27.7x
- You pay about $28 for each $1 of yearly profit
- Price vs sales
- 1.4x
- Company value is 1.4 times a year of sales
- Dividend yield
- 1.3%
- Yearly dividend as a share of today's price
- Cash vs value
- 6%
- Cash as a share of company value
- Debt vs value
- 33%
- Debt as a share of company value
From KWR's last IEX trade and its SEC filings (profits and sales over the last four quarters). A starting point for research, not a verdict.
The business over time
Last 12 quarters, from SEC filings
Sales, Jun '26$532.5M+10% vs a year earlier
Sep '23Tap a barJun '26
Last 12 months: $2.0B, up 7.8% from the 12 months before. Over 5 years, sales grew about 5.9% a year.
Business quality
The checklist Warren Buffett-style investors use. Annual numbers for 2025.- MissReturn on equity 15%+Earns a lot on the money owners have in the business.-0.2%
- MissDebt under half of equityNot relying on borrowed money.0.63x equity
- MissNet margin 10%+Keeps at least 10 cents of profit from each dollar of sales.-0.1%
- MissProfitable every yearSteady profits, not one good year.8 of 10 years
- PassFree cash flow positiveBrings in more cash than it spends to run and grow.$80.6M
- PassShare count not growingNot diluting owners. Falling means buybacks.-2.1% in 3 years
- MissGross margin 40%+Pricing power: sells for well above what it costs to make.36.0%
- Revenue
- $1.9B
- +2.7% vs prior year
- 5-year growth
- +5.9%/yr
- revenue, per year
- Total debt
- $869.8M
- 0.63x equity
- Current ratio
- 2.42x
- short-term assets / bills due
From annual reports filed with the SEC. A checklist is a starting point for research, not a verdict.
Latest quarter
Quarter ended Jun 30, 2026- Revenue
- $532.5M
- +10.2% YoY
- EPS
- $1.55
- vs -$3.78
- Op. margin
- 7.6%
- +18.5 pts
- Gross margin
- 35.5%
- 0.0 pts
- Free cash flow
- $19.1M
- Share count
- -2.2%
- vs a year ago
Insider rating
Last 90 days
No open-market insider buys or sells in the last 90 days.
Weekly insider trendNo trades to chart yet.
Filing buzz
Last 7 days vs normal
54/ 100
- This week
- 1
- Normal week
- 0.8
- vs normal
- 1.2x
SEC filings of any kind. 50 means a normal week.
Institutional ownership
■Steady+0.7%Institutions added 0.7% to their holdings. 164 bought, 120 sold.
Shares held by institutions15.8M
Sep '24Jun '26
Share count growthYearly rate, last 3 years
-1.5%Cash runwayAt last year's cash burn
Cash flow positiveDebt to equityLatest balance sheet: debt compared with what owners have
0.6x · $857.8M debtShares outstandingLatest reported
17MNext reportIn 1 days (est.)Estimated from the same quarter last year
- Results filedJul 30
- Results filedApr 30
- Results filedFeb 23
- Results filedOct 30, 2025
- Results filedJul 31, 2025
Insider trades
Open-market buys and sells, last 90 days
No open-market buys or sells in 90 days. Grants and option exercises are left out.
"Owns after" is the insider's holding right after the trade. Pre-planned (10b5-1) sales are set up months ahead, a weaker signal.