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/Sales

Alert me on EV/Sales

As of 5 November 2026, Quaker Houghton (KWR) trades at a EV/Sales of 1.7×. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 1.2× (January 2016) to 4.2× (February 2021); the current reading is higher than 22% of that period. That is below the Specialty Chemicals industry median of 1.9× and below the Basic Materials sector median of 1.8×.

EV/Sales, daily

Embed this chart

Annual newest first

Period EV/Sales Change
FY2025 1.6× (0.69%)
FY2024 1.6× (26.07%)
FY2023 2.2× 17.33%
FY2022 1.9× (30.85%)
FY2021 2.7× (25.06%)
FY2020 3.7× 26.44%
FY2019 2.9× 9.80%
FY2018 2.6× 9.43%
FY2017 2.4× 7.01%
FY2016 2.3× 62.89%

Quarterly newest first

Period EV/Sales Change
Sep 2026 1.7× (2.46%)
Jun 2026 1.7× 17.28%
Mar 2026 1.5× (9.33%)
Dec 2025 1.6× 2.01%
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 1.2× High 4.2×
Ten-year median 2.1×
Current reading's percentile 15

EV/Sales against peers

Company EV/Sales
CC The Chemours Company compare 0.9×
IOSP Innospec Inc. compare 0.9×
MTX Minerals Technologies Inc. compare 1.2×
FUL H. B. Fuller Company compare 1.3×
KWR Quaker Houghton 1.7×
ASH Ashland Inc. compare 2.4×
NGVT Ingevity Corporation compare 2.7×
HWKN Hawkins, Inc. compare 3.0×
WDFC WD-40 Company compare 4.5×
Specialty Chemicals industry median 1.9×
Basic Materials sector median 1.8×
Market median 2.1×

What EV/Sales is

EV/Sales tells an investor how the value of a whole company, counting its debt and cash, compares with the sales it brings in.

((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)) ÷ Revenue (TTM)

The full definition of EV/Sales →

More on KWR