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.

Revenue
+10.3%
EPS
−0.42%
Free cash flow
−92.4%
Total debt
+2.00%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

152.46 4.84 −3.08%
Market cap
$2.6B
P/E
27.2×
Fwd P/E
21.6×
Dividend yield
1.35%
F-score
5/9
Altman Z
2.28
Beneish M
−2.68
Dividend safety
45/100

Quaker Houghton (KWR) Debt to equity

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Quaker Houghton's debt to equity at the end of the quarter to 30 September 2026 was 0.6×, down 0.0× from fiscal 2025 (0.6×). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 0.1× (fiscal 2018) to 0.7× (fiscal 2022); the current reading is higher than 64% of that period. That is above the Specialty Chemicals industry median of 0.6× and above the Basic Materials sector median of 0.2×.

Debt to equity, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Debt to equity Change
FY2025 0.6× 21.10%
FY2024 0.5× (4.10%)
FY2023 0.5× (26.93%)
FY2022 0.7× 15.77%
FY2021 0.6× (4.25%)
FY2020 0.7× (9.28%)
FY2019 0.7× 783.31%
FY2018 0.1× (48.56%)
FY2017 0.2× 1.24%
FY2016 0.2× (25.21%)

Quarterly newest first

Period Debt to equity Change
Sep 2026 0.6× (0.51%)
Jun 2026 0.6× (0.21%)
Mar 2026 0.6× 0.25%
Dec 2025 0.6× (1.16%)
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 0.1× High 0.7×
Ten-year median 0.5×
Current reading's percentile 64

Debt to equity against peers

Company Debt to equity
IOSP Innospec Inc. compare 0.0×
WDFC WD-40 Company compare 0.3×
HWKN Hawkins, Inc. compare 0.4×
MTX Minerals Technologies Inc. compare 0.6×
KWR Quaker Houghton 0.6×
ASH Ashland Inc. compare 0.7×
FUL H. B. Fuller Company compare 0.9×
NGVT Ingevity Corporation compare 22.5×
CC The Chemours Company compare 24.6×
Specialty Chemicals industry median 0.6×
Basic Materials sector median 0.2×
Market median 0.1×

What Debt to equity is

Debt to Equity Ratio shows how much a company relies on borrowed money compared with the money its shareholders have in the business.

(Long Term Debt (Total) + Current Part of Debt) ÷ Shareholders Equity (Total)

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