Basic Materials
Ingevity Corporation(NGVT)
Live Price
Offline$72.75
-0.90% today
1Y Change
+74.08%
Window
Jun 25, 2025 โ Jun 18, 2026
- Market Cap
- $2.67B
- Revenue Growth
- -17.0%
- EPS Growth
- +61.1%
- Dividend Yield
- 0.0%
Coverage: 247 bars ยท Jun 25, 2025 โ Jun 18, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Ingevity Corporation (NGVT) is a Basic Materials stock with a market cap of $2.67B and listed on NYSE. The stock last traded around $72.75 and up 74.1% across the available one-year price window (Jun 25, 2025 โ Jun 18, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of -17.0%, EPS growth of +61.1%, a dividend yield of 0.0%. What stands out right now is revenue -17.0%, EPS +61.1%, free cash flow +436.3% with operating margin 21.8% and ROIC 27.5%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at price/sales 2.2. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a turnaround or cyclical reset than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines NGVT 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
-17.0% vs 0.0% peer median
Operating Margin
Above sector median
+21.8% vs +10.5% peer median
What Changed This Quarter
Latest report context and the signals most likely to have changed the story.
Latest report landed above expectations
2026 was reported on May 6, 2026 with an EPS surprise of +36.9% and a revenue surprise of +1.3%.
The operating picture looks softer than before
Revenue is at -17.0% and EPS is at +61.1%, with operating margin around 21.8%.
The next real check-in already has a date
The next earnings event is scheduled for Aug 3, 2026, which is the clearest near-term catalyst for confirming whether the current trend is holding up.
Earnings Reaction Memory
How the stock has tended to move after recent reports.
Across the last 3 reported quarters, the stock averaged -5.9% 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 May 6, 2026 | +36.9% | -4.9% | -8.5% | -15.1% |
2026 Feb 25, 2026 | -12.8% | +1.3% | +0.4% | +3.1% |
2025 Nov 5, 2025 | +92.7% | -15.2% | -9.8% | -4.1% |
Benchmark Edge
NGVT vs SPY, QQQ, and Sector ETFs
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
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Relative to SPY
NGVT Max Drawdown
-23.94%
Trailing 1Y
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Calendar-Year Returns
Uses the longest available daily history for NGVT and SPY.
Company Overview
Ingevity Corporation
New York Stock Exchange
Ingevity Corporation manufactures and sells specialty chemicals and activated carbon materials in North America, the Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and South America. The company operates through two segments, Performance Materials and Performance Chemicals. The Performance Materials segment engineers, manufactures, and sells hardwood-based and chemically activated carbon products primarily for use in gasoline vapor emission control systems in cars, motorcycles, trucks, and boats. This segment also produces other activated carbon products for use in various applications, including food, water, beverage, and chemical purification. The Performance Chemicals segment comprises of pavement technologies, industrial specialties, and engineered polymers. It manufactures products derived from crude tall oil and lignin extracted from the kraft pulping process, as well as caprolactone monomers and derivatives derived from cyclohexanone and hydrogen peroxide. This segment's products are used in various applications comprising warm mix paving, pavement preservation, pavement reconstruction and recycling, oil well service additives, oil production, and downstream applications; and adhesives, agrochemical dispersants, lubricants, printing inks, industrial intermediates and oilfield, coatings, resins, elastomers, bioplastics, and medical devices. Ingevity Corporation was founded in 1964 and is headquartered in North Charleston, South Carolina.
- Leadership
- David H. Li
- IPO Date
- May 3, 2016
- Employees
- 1.6k
- Street Address
- 4920 O'Hear Avenue
- Mailing
- North Charleston, SC, 29405
- Region
- North Charleston, SC, US
- Reporting Currency
- USD
- Investor Line
- 843 740 2300
- Last Updated
- May 2, 2026
Key Fundamentals
Valuation, growth, profitability, and balance sheet signals.
Valuation
- P/E
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- EV/EBITDA
- 184.6
- Price/Sales
- 2.2
- Price/Book
- 91.3
Growth
- Revenue
- -17.0%
- EPS
- +61.1%
- Free Cash Flow
- +436.3%
Profitability
- Gross Margin
- 38.2%
- Operating Margin
- 21.8%
- Net Margin
- -13.5%
- ROE
- -127.8%
- ROIC
- 27.5%
Balance Sheet
- Debt/Equity
- 41.84
- Current Ratio
- 1.15
Earnings Reports
Latest News
Official Releases
Company announcements and filings-style updates.
Next Step
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