Basic Materials
Live Price
Offline$53.94
+0.28% today
1Y Change
-0.57%
Window
Jun 23, 2025 → Jun 12, 2026
Coverage: 245 bars · Jun 23, 2025 → Jun 12, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Stepan Company (SCL) is a Basic Materials stock with a market cap of $1.17B and listed on NYSE. The stock last traded around $53.94 and down 0.6% across the available one-year price window (Jun 23, 2025 → Jun 12, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +7.0%, EPS growth of -7.2%, a dividend yield of 3.0%. What stands out right now is revenue +7.0%, EPS -7.2%, free cash flow -35.4% with operating margin 2.4% and ROIC 2.6%. The dividend matters to the case here, with a current yield around 3.0%. 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 SCL price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Basic Materials peers on this page.
Benchmark Comparison
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SCL
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Normalized return
SPY
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S&P 500
Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
SCL Max Drawdown
-33.30%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
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Trailing 1Y
Uses the longest available daily history for SCL and SPY.
Financial profile
Profitability, balance sheet stamina, and cash efficiency drawn from the latest filings.
FY Revenue
$2.3B
-15.4% YoY
FY Net Income
$137.8M
-6.4% YoY
Free Cash Flow
-$122.3M
+13.1% YoY
Revenue Growth
+7.0%
EPS Growth
-7.2%
Gross Margin
11.1%
Net Margin
-0.6%
Income statement
USD
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 2.3B | 2.2B | 2.3B | 2.8B | 2.3B |
| Gross Profit | 270M | 272M | 278M | 427M | 396M |
| Operating Income | 69M | 70M | 59M | 207M | 171M |
| EBITDA | 208M | 192M | 170M | 294M | 270M |
| Net Income | 47M | 50M | 40M | 147M | 138M |
| EPS (Diluted) | — | — | — | — | — |
Balance sheet
USD
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | 133M | 100M | 130M | 174M | 159M |
| Total Assets | 2.4B | 2.3B | 2.4B | 2.4B | 2.1B |
| Total Liabilities | 1.1B | 1.1B | 1.1B | 1.3B | 991M |
| Shareholder Equity | 1.2B | 1.2B | 1.2B | 1.2B | 1.1B |
| Total Debt | 691M | 683M | 712M | 638M | 420M |
| Net Debt | 558M | 583M | 582M | 464M | 261M |
Cash flow positioning
Latest Full Year
Operating Cash Flow
72M
-55.1% YoY
Capital Expenditures
194M
+35.5% YoY
Free Cash Flow
122M
+13.1% YoY
Key ratios
Gross Margin
11.1%
Operating Margin
2.4%
Net Margin
-0.6%
ROE
-1.2%
Debt / Equity
0.28x
Next Step
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