Ingevity Corporation

NGVT Basic Materials Specialty Chemicals

Ingevity Corporation’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $1.2 billion, down 2.71% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
−5.25%
EPS
+125.4%
Free cash flow
−136.1%
Total debt
−14.5%

Quarter to June 2026, against a year earlier

64.75 8.98 −12.18%
Market cap
$2.2B
P/E
42.0×
Fwd P/E
18.4×
Dividend yield
—
F-score
6/9
Altman Z
1.84
Beneish M
−4.00
Dividend safety
n/a

Ingevity Corporation (NGVT) Operating margin

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Ingevity Corporation's operating margin over the twelve months to 30 June 2026 was 11.8%, up 15.6 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (−3.77%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from −3.77% (fiscal 2025) to 22.5% (fiscal 2020) — the current reading is the lowest in ten years. That is above the Specialty Chemicals industry median of 5.64% and above the Basic Materials sector median of 2.88%.

Operating margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
FY2025 −3.77% (0.23)
FY2024 −3.54% (20.06)
FY2023 16.5% (2.79)
FY2022 19.3% (1.56)
FY2021 20.9% (1.60)
FY2020 22.5% 1.55
FY2019 20.9% (1.36)
FY2018 22.3% 2.63
FY2017 19.7% 8.45
FY2016 11.2% (5.04)

Quarterly newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
Jun 2026 19.1% (7.42)
Mar 2026 26.6% 55.21
Dec 2025 −28.7% (53.22)
Sep 2025 24.6% 58.89
42 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low −3.77% High 22.5%
Ten-year median 19.3%
Current reading's percentile 21

Operating margin against peers

Company Operating margin
WDFC WD-40 Company compare 15.8%
NGVT Ingevity Corporation 11.8%
HWKN Hawkins, Inc. compare 11.1%
FUL H. B. Fuller Company compare 10.7%
IOSP Innospec Inc. compare 8.79%
KWR Quaker Houghton compare 7.61%
CC The Chemours Company compare 0.39%
MTX Minerals Technologies Inc. compare −1.60%
STDN Standard Nuclear Inc compare —
Specialty Chemicals industry median 5.64%
Basic Materials sector median 2.88%
Market median 0.00%

What Operating margin is

EBIT Margin tells an investor how much operating profit, before interest and taxes, a company keeps from each unit of revenue.

EBIT ÷ Revenue

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