NewMarket Corporation

NEU Basic Materials Specialty Chemicals

NewMarket Corporation’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $2.7 billion, down 2.20% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+3.79%
EPS
+26.5%
Free cash flow
−73.9%
Total debt
+6.00%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

690.68 34.43 −4.75%
Market cap
$6.4B
P/E
14.0×
Fwd P/E
0.0×
Dividend yield
1.74%
F-score
5/9
Altman Z
4.44
Beneish M
−2.55
Dividend safety
89/100

NewMarket Corporation (NEU) Free cash flow margin

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NewMarket Corporation's free cash flow margin over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 13.9%, down 4.2 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (18.0%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 1.90% (fiscal 2022) to 19.6% (fiscal 2023); the current reading is higher than 91% of that period. That is above the Specialty Chemicals industry median of 3.49% and above the Basic Materials sector median of 0.00%.

Free cash flow margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Free cash flow margin Change (points)
FY2025 18.0% 1.44
FY2024 16.6% (3.00)
FY2023 19.6% 17.69
FY2022 1.90% (1.77)
FY2021 3.67% (6.81)
FY2020 10.5% (2.20)
FY2019 12.7% 7.30
FY2018 5.38% 1.10
FY2017 4.28% (5.99)
FY2016 10.3% 3.66

Against its own ten years

Low 1.90% High 19.6%
Ten-year median 10.3%
Current reading's percentile 91

Free cash flow margin against peers

Company Free cash flow margin
SOLS Solstice Advanced Materials Inc. compare 20.1%
BCPC Balchem Corporation compare 16.1%
NEU NewMarket Corporation 13.9%
AXTA Axalta Coating Systems Ltd. compare 9.61%
ESI Element Solutions Inc. compare 5.26%
EMN Eastman Chemical Company compare 5.18%
WLK Westlake Corporation compare 0.10%
SQM Sociedad Quimica y Minera S.A. compare 0.00%
SXT Sensient Technologies Corporation compare −1.00%
Specialty Chemicals industry median 3.49%
Basic Materials sector median 0.00%
Market median 0.00%

What Free cash flow margin is

Free Cash Flow Margin tells an investor how much of each sale turns into cash the company keeps after paying for investment in its assets.

(Operating Cash Flow + Property, Plant, Equipment Change (Net) + Intangible Assets Change (Net)) ÷ Revenue

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