Basic Materials
Wacker Chemie AG(WKCMF)
Live Price
Offline$110.57
+0.00% today
1Y Change
+56.84%
Window
Jun 23, 2025 โ Jun 8, 2026
- Market Cap
- $4.74B
- Revenue Growth
- -4.2%
- EPS Growth
- -520.8%
- Dividend Yield
- 2.6%
Coverage: 241 bars ยท Jun 23, 2025 โ Jun 8, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Wacker Chemie AG (WKCMF) is a Basic Materials stock with a market cap of $4.74B and listed on OTC. The stock last traded around $110.57 and up 56.8% across the available one-year price window (Jun 23, 2025 โ Jun 8, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of -4.2%, EPS growth of -520.8%, a dividend yield of 2.6%. What stands out right now is revenue -4.2%, EPS -520.8%, free cash flow +99.2% with operating margin -0.9% and ROIC -0.6%. The dividend matters to the case here, with a current yield around 2.6%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at price/sales 0.9. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a turnaround or cyclical reset than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines WKCMF 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
-4.2% vs 0.0% peer median
Operating Margin
Below sector median
-0.9% 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 -4.2% and EPS is at -520.8%, with operating margin around -0.9%.
Shareholder return is still part of the story
The stock is still offering a dividend yield around 2.6%, 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 +2.3% over the next 5 trading days and finished higher after 2 of those reports.
View quarter-by-quarter reaction table
| Quarter | EPS ฮ | 1D | 5D | 20D |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2026 Apr 29, 2026 | โ | +0.0% | +0.3% | +0.8% |
2026 Mar 11, 2026 | -31.7% | +9.4% | +8.8% | +24.5% |
2025 Oct 29, 2025 | -214.4% | +0.0% | -2.2% | -3.9% |
Benchmark Comparison
Normalized Performance vs SPY
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Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
WKCMF Max Drawdown
-21.16%
Trailing 1Y
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Calendar-Year Returns
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Company Overview
Wacker Chemie AG
Other OTC
Wacker Chemie AG, together with its subsidiaries, provides chemical products worldwide. It operates through four divisions: Wacker Silicones, Wacker Polymers, Wacker Biosolutions, and Wacker Polysilicon. The Wacker Silicones division offers silanes, siloxanes, silicone fluids, silicone emulsions, silicone elastomers, silicone resins, and pyrogenic silicas for use in construction, electronics, automotive, health, and renewable energy industries. The Wacker Polymers division provides binders and polymeric additives, such as dispersible polymer powder and vinyl acetate-ethylene dispersions, which are used in construction, paper, adhesive, paint, coating, and basic chemical industries. The Wacker Biosolutions division offers customized biotech and catalog products for fine chemicals, such as pharmaceutical proteins, vaccines, cyclodextrins, cysteine, polyvinyl acetate solid resins, and acetylacetone for pharmaceutical actives, food additives, and agrochemicals. The Wacker Polysilicon division produces hyperpure polysilicon for use in semiconductor and solar sectors. The company was founded in 1914 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany. Wacker Chemie AG is a subsidiary of Dr. Alexander Wacker Familiengesellschaft mbH.
- Leadership
- Christian Hartel
- IPO Date
- Apr 18, 2012
- Employees
- 16.7k
- Street Address
- Hanns-Seidel-Platz 4
- Mailing
- Munich, 81737
- Region
- Munich, DE
- Reporting Currency
- USD
- Investor Line
- 49 89 6279 0
- Last Updated
- May 6, 2026
Key Fundamentals
Valuation, growth, profitability, and balance sheet signals.
Valuation
- P/E
- โ
- EV/EBITDA
- 18.2
- Price/Sales
- 0.9
- Price/Book
- 1.9
Growth
- Revenue
- -4.2%
- EPS
- -520.8%
- Free Cash Flow
- +99.2%
Profitability
- Gross Margin
- 8.6%
- Operating Margin
- -0.9%
- Net Margin
- -14.7%
- ROE
- -19.0%
- ROIC
- -0.6%
Balance Sheet
- Debt/Equity
- 0.66
- Current Ratio
- 3.06
Earnings Reports
Latest News
Official Releases
Company announcements and filings-style updates.
Next Step
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