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Kronos Worldwide Inc. KRO

17 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only

Revenue

$1.9B

▼ 1.5% YoY

Net income

$-110.9M

▼ 228.7% YoY

Free cash flow

$-40.4M

▼ 194.0% YoY

In brief

What this company does

Kronos Worldwide, Inc. is a global producer and marketer of value-added titanium dioxide pigments, or TiO2, a base industrial product used in a wide range of applications. It, along with its distributors and agents, sells and provides technical services for its products to approximately 3,000 customers in 100 countries, with the majority of sales in Europe, North America and the Asia Pacific region. It operates facilities throughout North America and Europe, including four TiO2 plants in Europe, located in Leverkusen, Germany; Nordenham, Germany; Langerbrugge, Belgium; and Fredrikstad, Norway. As of December 31, 2025, it employed 2,263 people: 1,650 in Europe, 302 in Canada and 311 in the United States. Its TiO2 business is complemented by three other businesses, which together comprised approximately 10% of its net sales in 2025. It manufactures and sells iron-based chemicals, co-products of its sulfate and chloride process TiO2 pigment production, marketed through its Ecochem division and used primarily as treatment and conditioning agents for industrial effluents and municipal wastewater as well as in the manufacture of iron pigments, cement and agricultural products. Kronos was incorporated in Delaware in 1989.

Written from the business description in KRONOS WORLDWIDE INC's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 9 March 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 1.9B

Revenue, FY2025 · full 17-year series below

Revenue $B Net income $B

FY2025 · Revenue 1.9 · Net income -0.1

Compound annual growth

Revenue

−1.2%

+2.6%

+3.3%

+1.7%

Dividend / share

−35.9%

Returned to shareholders

−36.6%

−22.9%

−10.5%

+3.1%

3 yrs

5 yrs

10 yrs

15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +2.6% a year over five years.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability

−6 cents

lost on every revenue dollar

Operating margin Net margin

FY2025 · Operating -2.0% · Net -6.0%

ROE

FY2025 · ROE -14.1%

Gross margin11.5%

Operating margin-2.0%

Net margin-6.0%

Return on assets-5.9%

EBITDAUSD 24.0M

Each USD of equity lost 14 cents this year.

Cash & shareholders

USD 23.0M

returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks

Free cash flow $M

FY2025 · FCF -40.4

Net buybacks $M Dividends $M

FY2025 · Dividends 23.0 · Net buybacks —

Dividends paidUSD 23.0M

Net buybacks—

Share of profit-20.7%

Consecutive raises—

USD 23.0M in dividends went back to shareholders in a year without profit.

Total assetsUSD 1.8B

EquityUSD 751.1M

CashUSD 33.2M

Gross debtUSD 557.4M

Net debtUSD 524.2M

Current ratio2.70×

Net debt stands at 70% of equity.

The 17-year record

17 fiscal years

Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD

EPS, diluted, dividend per share and shares outstanding are shown without shading, and a vertical line marks the year the share count changed — the series crosses a large, unexplained change in share count, so the years on either side are not on a comparable scale.

row low → row highnegative

Metric	2025	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010	2009
Revenue $B	1.9	1.9	1.7	1.9	1.9	1.6	1.7	1.7	1.7	1.4	1.3	1.7	1.7	2.0	1.9	1.4	1.1
Operating income $B	−0.0	0.1	−0.1	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.3	0.3	0.1	−0.0	0.1	−0.1	0.4	0.5	0.2	−0.0
EBITDA $B	0.0	0.2	−0.0	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.4	0.4	0.1	0.0	0.2	−0.1	0.4	0.6	0.2	0.0
Income tax $B	0.0	0.1	−0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	−0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	−0.1	0.1	0.2	0.0	−0.0
Net income $B	−0.1	0.1	−0.0	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.4	0.0	−0.2	0.1	−0.1	0.2	0.3	0.1	−0.0
Free cash flow $B	−0.0	0.0	−0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.2	0.1	0.1
EPS, diluted $	−0.96	0.75	−0.43	0.90	0.98	0.55	0.75	1.77	3.06	0.37	−1.50	0.86	−0.88	1.89	2.77	1.29	−0.35
Dividend / sh $	0.20	0.48	0.76	0.76	0.72	0.72	0.72	0.68	0.60	0.60	0.60	0.60	0.60	0.60	1.07	0.12	·
Payout %	−21	64	−178	84	74	130	96	38	20	161	−40	70	−68	32	39	11	·
ROE %	−14.1	10.6	−5.6	11.4	13.5	7.9	10.5	25.7	61.7	10.1	−27.9	11.6	−10.2	22.0	38.1	24.3	−11.1
Shares out B	0.12	0.12	0.12	0.12	0.12	0.12	0.12	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 82 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 17 of 19 fiscal years. 13 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures

ActivityIndustrial Inorganic Chemicals

Listed onNYSE

Incorporated innot stated in the filings

Fiscal year endsDecember 31

Data on record since2009