Quaker Houghton
KWR Basic Materials Specialty Chemicals
Quaker Houghton’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $1.9 billion, up 2.66% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue grew 10.2%, EPS grew 141.3%, free cash flow fell 43.2% and total debt fell 6.67%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Dividend growth for twenty-five consecutive years.
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Quaker Houghton (KWR) Altman Z-score
Quaker Houghton's Altman Z-score for fiscal 2025 is 2.28, in the grey zone (1.81–2.99).
Altman Z-score, annual
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Annual newest first
| Period | Altman Z-score | Change (points) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 2.28 | (0.44) |
| FY2024 | 2.72 | (0.52) |
| FY2023 | 3.24 | 0.82 |
| FY2022 | 2.41 | (0.37) |
| FY2021 | 2.78 | 0.13 |
| FY2020 | 2.65 | 0.92 |
| FY2019 | 1.73 | (6.33) |
| FY2018 | 8.06 | 1.68 |
| FY2017 | 6.37 | 0.11 |
| FY2016 | 6.26 | 1.69 |
How fiscal 2025’s score is made up
| Component | This year | Year before | Result | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Working capital / total assets | 0.19 | — | 0.23 | |
| Retained earnings / total assets | 0.21 | — | 0.30 | |
| EBIT / total assets | 0.02 | — | 0.06 | |
| Market value of equity / total liabilities | 1.69 | — | 1.01 | |
| Sales / total assets | 0.68 | — | 0.68 | |
| Altman Z-score | Grey zone | 2.28 | ||
| Z″ Variant for non-manufacturing and asset-light companies (drops the sales/assets term, uses book equity) | Safe zone | 3.11 | ||
Z and Z″ put Quaker Houghton in different zones: grey zone by Z, safe zone by Z″.
How the Altman Z-score works
Z = 1.2 × working capital ÷ total assets + 1.4 × retained earnings ÷ total assets + 3.3 × EBIT ÷ total assets + 0.6 × market value of equity ÷ total liabilities + 1.0 × revenue ÷ total assets (Altman, 1968). The market value of equity is the close on the last trading day of the fiscal year times weighted basic shares.
Z″ = 6.56 × working capital ÷ total assets + 3.26 × retained earnings ÷ total assets + 6.72 × EBIT ÷ total assets + 1.05 × book equity ÷ total liabilities (Altman, Hartzell and Peck, 1995), the variant for non-manufacturing and asset-light companies.
| Zone | Z | Z″ |
|---|---|---|
| Safe zone | above 2.99 | above 2.60 |
| Grey zone | 1.81–2.99 | 1.10–2.60 |
| Distress zone | below 1.81 | below 1.10 |
Not worked out for banks, insurers and REITs, whose balance sheets the model does not describe, nor when a figure is missing or there is no share price in the week to the fiscal year end.
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| KWR Quaker Houghton | 2.3× |
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What Altman Z-score is
The Altman Z-Score weighs working capital, retained earnings, operating profit, market value and sales against assets and debts to gauge the risk of distress.
1.2 × working capital ÷ total assets + 1.4 × retained earnings ÷ total assets + 3.3 × EBIT ÷ total assets + 0.6 × market value of equity ÷ total liabilities + 1.0 × revenue ÷ total assets