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) EV/EBITDA

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As of 5 November 2026, Quaker Houghton (KWR) trades at a EV/EBITDA of 13.1×. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 9.0× (April 2025) to 57.6× (July 2020); the current reading is higher than 24% of that period. That is in line with the Specialty Chemicals industry median of 12.9× and above the Basic Materials sector median of 9.2×.

EV/EBITDA, daily

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Annual newest first

Period EV/EBITDA Change
FY2025 20.3× 86.45%
FY2024 10.9× (25.97%)
FY2023 14.7× (46.02%)
FY2022 27.2× 35.96%
FY2021 20.0× (43.26%)
FY2020 35.3× (0.19%)
FY2019 35.3× 65.93%
FY2018 21.3× (10.73%)
FY2017 23.9× 48.65%
FY2016 16.0× 47.38%

Quarterly newest first

Period EV/EBITDA Change
Sep 2026 13.4× (1.29%)
Jun 2026 13.6× (22.06%)
Mar 2026 17.5× (13.76%)
Dec 2025 20.3× (0.89%)
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 9.0× High 57.6×
Ten-year median 19.4×
Current reading's percentile 24

EV/EBITDA against peers

Company EV/EBITDA
FUL H. B. Fuller Company compare 8.4×
IOSP Innospec Inc. compare 9.3×
KWR Quaker Houghton 13.1×
ASH Ashland Inc. compare 13.1×
NGVT Ingevity Corporation compare 13.2×
HWKN Hawkins, Inc. compare 18.5×
CC The Chemours Company compare 23.2×
WDFC WD-40 Company compare 25.7×
MTX Minerals Technologies Inc. compare 34.6×
Specialty Chemicals industry median 12.9×
Basic Materials sector median 9.2×
Market median 10.9×

What EV/EBITDA is

Enterprise Value over EBITDA tells an investor how the market values a whole company, with debt added and cash taken off, against its operating earnings.

((Stock Price × Shares (Basic, Weighted) (latest quarter)) + (Long Term Debt (Total) (latest quarter) + Current Part of Debt (latest quarter)) − Cash & Short Term Investments (latest quarter)) ÷ EBITDA (TTM)

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