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Kronos Worldwide Inc. KRO

17 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$1.9B
▼ 1.5% YoY
$-110.9M
▼ 228.7% YoY
$-40.4M
▼ 194.0% YoY

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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
1B2B
2009201220152018202120242025
Compound annual growth
−1.2%
+2.6%
+3.3%
+1.7%
−35.9%
−36.6%
−22.9%
−10.5%
+3.1%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +2.6% a year over the five years to FY2025.

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%
10%20%-5%-10%
200920172025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE -14.1%
20%40%60%-10%-20%
200920172025
Three returns, three denominators.
Gross margin11.5%
Operating margin-2.0%
Net margin-6.0%
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
100M200M-15M-30M
200920172025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends 23.0 · Net buybacks ·
50M100M
201020122014201620182020202220242025
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—not applicable◌not available in our data
KRO, 17-year financial record
Metric 20252024202320222021202020192018201720162015201420132012201120102009
Revenue $B1.91.91.71.91.91.61.71.71.71.41.31.71.72.01.91.41.1
Operating income $B−0.00.1−0.10.20.20.10.10.30.30.1−0.00.1−0.10.40.50.2−0.0
EBITDA $B0.00.2−0.00.20.20.20.20.40.40.10.00.2−0.10.40.60.20.0
Income tax $B0.00.1−0.00.00.00.00.00.1−0.00.00.10.0−0.10.10.20.0−0.0
Net income $B−0.10.1−0.00.10.10.10.10.20.40.0−0.20.1−0.10.20.30.1−0.0
Free cash flow $B−0.00.0−0.00.00.10.00.10.10.20.00.00.00.10.00.20.10.1
EPS, diluted $−0.960.75−0.430.900.980.550.751.773.060.37−1.500.86−0.881.892.771.29−0.35
Dividend / sh $0.200.480.760.760.720.720.720.680.600.600.600.600.600.601.070.12◌
Payout %−2164−1788474130963820161−4070−68323911—
ROE %−14.110.6−5.611.413.57.910.525.761.710.1−27.911.6−10.222.038.124.3−11.1
Shares out B0.120.120.120.120.120.120.12◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 82 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 17 of the 17 fiscal years we could check. Six checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2010. Three checks were skipped: the share count is not tagged before 2010. Two checks were skipped: revenue is not tagged before 2009.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivityIndustrial Inorganic Chemicals
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated innot stated in the filings
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2009

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