Stepan Company

SCL Basic Materials Specialty Chemicals

Stepan Company’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $2.3 billion, up 6.96% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue grew 15.0%, EPS grew 100.0%, free cash flow fell 4.42% and total debt fell 1.62%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Dividend growth for ten consecutive years.

62.03 0.16 +0.26%
Market cap
$1.4B
P/E
0.0×
Fwd P/E
2,564×
Dividend yield
2.55%
F-score
5/9
Altman Z
2.54
Beneish M
−2.66
Dividend safety
65/100

Stepan Company (SCL) P/E ratio

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Stepan Company has no meaningful P/E ratio: its trailing twelve-month earnings is negative. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 0.0× (October 2026) to 60.8× (July 2024) — the current reading is the lowest in ten years.

P/E ratio, daily

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Annual newest first

Period P/E ratio Change
FY2025 23.1× (21.09%)
FY2024 29.3× (44.54%)
FY2023 52.8× 227.44%
FY2022 16.1× (22.04%)
FY2021 20.7× (4.15%)
FY2020 21.6× (5.85%)
FY2019 22.9× 51.44%
FY2018 15.1× (16.93%)
FY2017 18.2× (16.26%)
FY2016 21.8× 46.67%

Quarterly newest first

Period P/E ratio Change
Jun 2026 0.0× —
Mar 2026 0.0× —
Dec 2025 23.1× (4.10%)
Sep 2025 24.1× 12.11%
42 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 0.0× High 60.8×
Ten-year median 19.6×
Current reading's percentile 5

P/E ratio against peers

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Specialty Chemicals industry median 25.4×
Basic Materials sector median 19.5×
Market median 18.1×

What P/E ratio is

Price to Earnings Ratio shows how much investors pay for each dollar of a company’s annual profit per share.

Stock Price ÷ EPS (Basic) (TTM)

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