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) P/B ratio

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As of 5 November 2026, Quaker Houghton (KWR) trades at a P/B ratio of 1.9×. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 1.2× (April 2025) to 6.7× (April 2019); the current reading is higher than 12% of that period. That is in line with the Specialty Chemicals industry median of 1.9× and above the Basic Materials sector median of 1.7×.

P/B ratio, daily

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Annual newest first

Period P/B ratio Change
FY2025 1.7× (6.06%)
FY2024 1.9× (32.26%)
FY2023 2.7× 19.95%
FY2022 2.3× (22.86%)
FY2021 3.0× (12.90%)
FY2020 3.4× 69.69%
FY2019 2.0× (62.93%)
FY2018 5.4× 10.58%
FY2017 4.9× 18.20%
FY2016 4.1× 54.54%

Quarterly newest first

Period P/B ratio Change
Sep 2026 1.9× (2.76%)
Jun 2026 2.0× 26.14%
Mar 2026 1.6× (10.45%)
Dec 2025 1.7× 4.14%
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 1.2× High 6.7×
Ten-year median 2.8×
Current reading's percentile 13

P/B ratio against peers

Company P/B ratio
FUL H. B. Fuller Company compare 1.3×
IOSP Innospec Inc. compare 1.4×
ASH Ashland Inc. compare 1.8×
KWR Quaker Houghton 1.9×
HWKN Hawkins, Inc. compare 5.6×
WDFC WD-40 Company compare 11.2×
CC The Chemours Company compare 12.4×
NGVT Ingevity Corporation compare 47.9×
MTX Minerals Technologies Inc. compare 59.1×
Specialty Chemicals industry median 1.9×
Basic Materials sector median 1.7×
Market median 1.7×

What P/B ratio is

Price to Book Value tells an investor how much the market pays for a company’s shares relative to the accounting net worth that belongs to common shareholders.

Stock Price ÷ (Common Equity (Total) (latest quarter) ÷ Shares (Basic, Weighted) (latest quarter))

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