Basic Materials
Live Price
Offline$792.82
-1.03% today
1Y Change
+14.47%
Window
Jun 30, 2025 → Jun 24, 2026
Coverage: 247 bars · Jun 30, 2025 → Jun 24, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
NewMarket Corporation (NEU) is a Basic Materials stock with a market cap of $6.15B and listed on NYSE. The stock last traded around $792.82 and up 14.5% across the available one-year price window (Jun 30, 2025 → Jun 24, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of -2.2%, EPS growth of -7.8%, a dividend yield of 1.7%. What stands out right now is revenue -2.2%, EPS -7.8%, free cash flow +6.3% with operating margin 19.6% and ROIC 12.7%. The dividend is present but secondary, with a yield around 1.7%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at P/E 15.3 and price/sales 2.3. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a turnaround or cyclical reset than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines NEU price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Basic Materials peers on this page.
Benchmark Edge
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
Relative Read
NEU is 4.20 pts behind over the shared 1Y window.
NEU had 23.90 pts deeper max drawdown than SPY.
NEU beat SPY in 1 of 2 calendar years shown and trailed in 1.
NEU
+14.47%
Normalized return
SPY
+18.68%
S&P 500
Excess Return
-4.20 pts
Relative to SPY
NEU Max Drawdown
-33.04%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
-9.13%
Trailing 1Y
Uses the longest available daily history for NEU and SPY.
| Year | NEU | SPY | Excess | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | +14.99% | +6.71% | +8.28 pts | NEU |
| 2025 | +1.03% | +11.19% | -10.17 pts | SPY |
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