Basic Materials
FMC Corporation(FMC)
Live Price
Offline$11.86
+5.24% today
1Y Change
-73.82%
Window
Jun 25, 2025 โ Jun 23, 2026
- Market Cap
- $1.85B
- Revenue Growth
- -18.3%
- EPS Growth
- -754.9%
- Dividend Yield
- 8.9%
Coverage: 249 bars ยท Jun 25, 2025 โ Jun 23, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
FMC Corporation (FMC) is a Basic Materials stock with a market cap of $1.85B and listed on NYSE. The stock last traded around $11.86 and down 73.8% across the available one-year price window (Jun 25, 2025 โ Jun 23, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of -18.3%, EPS growth of -754.9%, a dividend yield of 8.9%. What stands out right now is revenue -18.3%, EPS -754.9%, free cash flow -129.3% with operating margin -59.5% and ROIC -27.6%. The dividend matters to the case here, with a current yield around 8.9%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at price/sales 0.5. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a turnaround or cyclical reset than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines FMC price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Basic Materials peers on this page.
Sector Context
How this name stacks up against nearby peers on first-pass metrics.
Revenue Growth
Below sector median
-18.3% vs 0.0% peer median
Operating Margin
Below sector median
-59.5% vs +10.5% peer median
What Changed This Quarter
Latest report context and the signals most likely to have changed the story.
Latest report is on the board
2026 was reported on Apr 29, 2026, but the surprise data is still limited.
The operating picture looks softer than before
Revenue is at -18.3% and EPS is at -754.9%, with operating margin around -59.5%.
Shareholder return is still part of the story
The stock is still offering a dividend yield around 8.9%, which matters if the thesis depends on income as much as growth.
Earnings Reaction Memory
How the stock has tended to move after recent reports.
Across the last 3 reported quarters, the stock averaged -19.5% over the next 5 trading days and finished higher after 1 of those reports.
View quarter-by-quarter reaction table
| Quarter | EPS ฮ | 1D | 5D | 20D |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2026 Apr 29, 2026 | โ | +5.0% | +1.0% | -7.4% |
2026 Feb 4, 2026 | -0.8% | -19.5% | -5.5% | -15.9% |
2025 Oct 29, 2025 | +4.7% | -46.5% | -54.0% | -52.0% |
Benchmark Edge
FMC vs SPY, QQQ, and Sector ETFs
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
FMC
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Normalized return
SPY
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S&P 500
Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
FMC Max Drawdown
-75.70%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
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Trailing 1Y
Calendar-Year Returns
Uses the longest available daily history for FMC and SPY.
Company Overview
FMC Corporation
New York Stock Exchange
FMC Corporation, an agricultural sciences company, provides crop protection, plant health, and professional pest and turf management products. It develops, markets, and sells crop protection chemicals that include insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides; and biologicals, crop nutrition, and seed treatment products, which are used in agriculture to enhance crop yield and quality by controlling a range of insects, weeds, and diseases, as well as in non-agricultural markets for pest control. The company markets its products through its own sales organization and through alliance partners, independent distributors, and sales representatives. It operates in North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. FMC Corporation was founded in 1883 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- Leadership
- Pierre R. Brondeau
- IPO Date
- Mar 17, 1980
- Employees
- 5.7k
- Street Address
- 2929 Walnut Street
- Mailing
- Philadelphia, PA, 19104
- Region
- Philadelphia, PA, US
- Reporting Currency
- USD
- Investor Line
- 215 299 6000
- Last Updated
- Apr 29, 2026
Key Fundamentals
Valuation, growth, profitability, and balance sheet signals.
Valuation
- P/E
- โ
- EV/EBITDA
- โ
- Price/Sales
- 0.5
- Price/Book
- 1.0
Growth
- Revenue
- -18.3%
- EPS
- -754.9%
- Free Cash Flow
- -129.3%
Profitability
- Gross Margin
- 35.3%
- Operating Margin
- -59.5%
- Net Margin
- -72.9%
- ROE
- -83.0%
- ROIC
- -27.6%
Balance Sheet
- Debt/Equity
- 2.56
- Current Ratio
- 1.29
Earnings Reports
Latest News
Official Releases
Company announcements and filings-style updates.
Next Step
Keep the research moving
After the overview, the strongest next step is usually chart context or a tighter compare set.