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Kronos Worldwide Inc

KRO Basic Materials Specialty Chemicals

Kronos Worldwide Inc’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $1.9 billion, down 1.47% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+18.4%
EPS
+193.8%
Free cash flow
+326.4%
Total debt
−13.8%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

7.51 0.39 +5.48%
Market cap
$819.5M
P/E
0.0×
Fwd P/E
0.0×
Dividend yield
2.81%
F-score
4/9
Altman Z
1.39
Beneish M
−2.51
Dividend safety
0/100
Overview
Financials
Income Statement Balance Sheet Cash Flow Metrics & Ratios

Insider Decisions last twelve months

Bought, $m 0.10
Trades a month
Jan 26 Apr 26 Jul 26 Oct 26
Buy — — — — — 1 — — — — — —
Sell — — — — — — — — — — — —
Insider Ownership 81.36%

Capital & Financial Ratios $m

Size
Market Cap 819.49
Revenue ttm 2,027.30
Net income ttm (37.60)
Free cash flow ttm 97.00
Net debt Q 505.30
Valuation
P/E 0.00
Forward P/E 0.00
Price / sales 0.40
Forward P/S Powerpack
Price / FCF 8.45
Price / book 1.05
Financial health
Current ratio Q 3.30 (at or above 1.5: strong)
Debt / equity Q 0.69
Interest coverage Q 4.32
Growth
Revenue growth Q +18.43% (above 0%: growing)
Operating income growth Q +401.56% (above 0%: growing)
EPS, this year +141.67% (at or above 15%: strong)
EPS, next year A +53.75% (at or above 15%: strong)
Revenue, next year A +11.06% (at or above 10%: strong)
EPS, past 5 yrs —
EPS, next 5 yrs A −13.52% (below 0%: weak)

Green and red mark values outside typical ranges; (Q) is the latest quarter, (A) analysts’ estimates. How we judge →

Valuation vs history

EV/Sales, ten years
EV/Sales is 0.7×, against a ten-year median of 0.9×; over the ten years it ranged from 0.6× in 2022 to 2.1× in 2017.
P/S against its own 10 years 10.12%
10-year low 10-year high
P/B against its own 10 years 12.91%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/Sales against its own 10 years 16.61%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/FCF against its own 10 years 23.44%
10-year low 10-year high

Dividends

Yield
2.81%
Annual rate
0.20
Payout ratio
—
Growth, 2017–25
−12.8%/yr
  1. 0.60 ’17
  2. 0.68 ’18 +13
  3. 0.72 ’19 +6
  4. 0.72 ’20 +0
  5. 0.72 ’21 +0
  6. 0.76 ’22 +6
  7. 0.76 ’23 +0
  8. 0.48 ’24 −37
  9. 0.20 ’25 −58
  10. 0.20 ’26e +0
paid forecast change on the year, % Powerpack

Assets vs Liabilities $m

2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Cash 197 110 37 35
Receivables 313 292 288 —
Inventory 565 657 629 481
Other — — — —
1,117 1,105 995 949
2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Payables 324 358 353 279
ST’ Debt — 78 — —
Other — — — —
371 477 369 288

Compound Annual Growth %

10y 5y 3y
Sales 3.26% 2.56% (1.24%)
Cash Flow (26.19%) (52.42%) (68.72%)
Earnings 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
Book Value 4.98% (1.17%) (7.76%)

Earnings Trends EPS, adjusted, against the consensus

Q2 FY26 Estimate −0.04 Actual 0.13

Earnings per share against the consensus, by quarter
Quarter Estimate Reported Result
Q3 FY25 −0.06 −0.18 Miss by 0.12
Q4 FY25 −0.26 −0.72 Miss by 0.46
Q1 FY26 −0.33 −0.04 Beat by 0.29
Q2 FY26 −0.04 0.13 Beat by 0.17
Q3 FY26 0.19 — Reports 5 November 2026

EPS $

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 (0.04) 0.13 0.30 — —
’25 0.16 (0.08) (0.32) (0.72) (0.96)
’24 0.07 0.17 0.62 (0.12) 0.75
’23 (0.13) (0.07) (0.18) (0.05) (0.43)
’22 0.50 0.40 0.18 (0.18) 0.90
’21 0.17 0.22 0.31 0.28 0.98
’20 0.23 0.16 0.07 0.09 0.55
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Revenue $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 510 558 541 — —
’25 490 494 457 418 1,859
’24 479 501 485 423 1,887
’23 426 443 397 400 1,667
’22 563 565 460 342 1,930
’21 465 479 500 496 1,939
’20 421 386 417 415 1,639
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Operating Cash Flow $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 (51) 53 53 — —
’25 (102) 21 (8) 92 3
’24 (43) 38 28 49 73
’23 (110) 33 18 64 6
’22 (19) 68 10 23 82
’21 57 21 48 81 207
’20 (10) 28 38 46 103
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Free Cash Flow $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 (61) 37 39 — —
’25 (114) 10 (17) 82 (40)
’24 (48) 35 19 37 43
’23 (126) 16 (24) 59 (42)
’22 (33) 52 (4) 4 19
’21 46 11 33 58 148
’20 (25) 18 25 22 40
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Target Price Range

Analyst price targets

Recommendation Rating

4
1Buy 2 3Hold 4 5Sell

Ten years at a glance Fiscal years to December

Ten-year view Analyst estimates Powerpack
Group Line 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 TTM Sep ’26 Trend 10 yrs 2026e 2027e 2028e Next 3/yr
Income, $m
Income, $m Revenue 1,364 1,729 1,662 1,731 1,639 1,939 1,930 1,667 1,887 1,859 2,027 +3.5% 2,065 2,101 2,195 +5.7%
Gross margin, % 19.40 32.95 33.83 22.31 21.43 23.01 20.26 9.89 19.04 11.46 15.29 (7.9) pt
EBT 61 306 294 121 80 153 134 (73) 150 (97) (23) n/m
EBT margin, % 4.49 17.68 17.68 7.00 4.88 7.91 6.94 (4.37) 7.93 (5.24) (1.15) (9.7) pt
Net income 43 355 205 87 64 113 105 (49) 86 (111) (38) n/m
Per share, $
Per share, $ Revenue 11.77 14.92 14.34 14.95 14.18 16.79 16.71 14.48 16.41 16.17 17.61 +3.6%
Earnings 0.37 3.06 1.77 0.75 0.55 0.98 0.90 (0.43) 0.75 (0.96) (0.33) n/m
Cash flow 0.77 2.38 1.63 1.38 0.89 1.79 0.71 0.05 0.63 0.02 1.28 (32.8%)
Capex (0.46) (0.55) (0.49) (0.48) (0.54) (0.51) (0.55) (0.41) (0.26) (0.37) (0.43) (2.2%)
Free cash flow 0.32 1.83 1.14 0.91 0.34 1.28 0.16 (0.36) 0.37 (0.35) 0.84 n/m
Book value 3.41 6.51 7.25 7.05 6.89 7.53 8.29 7.02 7.10 6.53 6.81 +7.5%
Shares, m 116 116 116 116 116 116 116 115 115 115 115 (0.1%)
Valuation, ×
Valuation, × P/E 32.27 8.60 6.51 17.87 27.11 15.32 10.76 0.00 13.18 0.00 0.00 13.2
P/S 1.03 1.77 0.80 0.90 1.05 0.89 0.58 0.68 0.59 0.27 0.40 0.9
P/B 3.55 4.05 1.59 1.90 2.16 1.99 1.17 1.39 1.37 0.68 1.05 2.0
EV/Sales 1.24 1.90 0.89 0.96 1.16 0.94 0.65 0.83 0.80 0.60 0.70 1.0
EV/FCF 46.12 15.48 11.15 15.79 47.97 12.32 67.40 (18.34) 35.32 (27.64) 14.56 20.6
Cash, $m
Cash, $m Operating cash flow 90 276 189 160 103 207 82 6 73 3 147 (32.8%)
Capex (53) (64) (56) (55) (63) (59) (63) (47) (29) (43) (50) (2.3%)
Free cash flow 37 212 132 105 40 148 19 (42) 43 (40) 97 n/m
Balance, $m
Balance, $m Working capital 468 831 968 949 958 969 916 747 629 626 661 +3.3%
Net debt 287 221 139 110 181 88 129 263 397 520 505 +6.8%
Shareholders’ equity 395 754 840 816 797 870 957 808 817 751 784 +7.4%
Returns, %
Returns, % ROA 3.58 23.60 11.01 4.51 3.19 5.58 5.29 (2.60) 4.60 (5.95) (2.06) (9.5) pt
ROIC 8.52 22.29 21.09 9.84 7.43 12.21 9.18 (3.27) 6.33 (1.79) 2.18 (10.3) pt
ROE 10.11 61.69 25.72 10.52 7.93 13.55 11.44 (5.56) 10.61 (14.14) (4.73) (24.2) pt
People
People Employees 2,260 2,245 2,195 2,200 2,242 2,248 2,266 2,196 2,524 2,263 — 0.0%
Revenue/emp, $m 0.60 0.77 0.76 0.79 0.73 0.86 0.85 0.76 0.75 0.82 — +3.5%
Negative figures in brackets.
estimates

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Fiscal years to Dec 2025 · latest quarter Sep 2026 · fundamentals updated 5 Nov 2026

Kronos Worldwide Inc vs peers in Specialty Chemicals (Q) = latest quarter vs a year earlier

Company Market cap P/E Fwd P/E Revenue growth (Q) EPS growth (Q) FCF growth (Q) Gross margin (Q) EBIT margin (Q) Compare
IOSP Innospec Inc. $2.0B 13.9× 19.5× +7.17% (above 0%: growing) +146.71% (above 0%: growing) −88.68% (below 0%: shrinking) 27.26% 8.80% Compare
STDN Standard Nuclear Inc $1.8B — — — n/m — 67.21% (90.70%) Compare
SCL Stepan Company $1.5B 361× — (loss-making) +17.26% (above 0%: growing) +65.47% (above 0%: growing) −4.42% (below 0%: shrinking) 12.65% 3.75% Compare
ECVT Ecovyst Inc. $1.1B — (loss-making) 14.5× +41.97% (above 0%: growing) +40.00% (above 0%: growing) −66.55% (below 0%: shrinking) 19.94% 7.75% Compare
ODC Oil-Dri Corporation Of America $920.5M 16.5× 37.5× +3.26% (above 0%: growing) +11.46% (above 0%: growing) −20.76% (below 0%: shrinking) 27.83% 14.11% Compare
KRO Kronos Worldwide Inc $819.5M — (loss-making) — (loss-making) +18.43% (above 0%: growing) n/m +326.44% (above 0%: growing) 23.54% 10.70%
KOP Koppers Holdings Inc. $749.7M — (loss-making) — (loss-making) +3.03% (above 0%: growing) −1,028.92% (below 0%: shrinking) −2.84% (below 0%: shrinking) 20.96% (31.92%) Compare
MATV Mativ Holdings, Inc. $682.2M 7.5× — (loss-making) −2.76% (below 0%: shrinking) n/m −28.57% (below 0%: shrinking) 19.56% 3.98% Compare
LWLG Lightwave Logic Inc. $588.2M — (loss-making) — (loss-making) +28.13% (above 0%: growing) n/m −79.80% (below 0%: shrinking) 100.00% (22,161.89%) Compare
Median of peers $1.0B 15.2× 19.5× +7.17% +40.00% −28.57% 24.11% 3.87%

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