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Quaker Chemical Corp. KWR

17 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
16 YEARS OF DIVIDEND GROWTH
$1.9B
▲ 2.7% YoY
$-2.5M
▼ 102.1% YoY
$80.6M
▼ 50.5% YoY

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In brief

What this company does

Quaker Houghton develops, produces and markets a broad range of formulated specialty chemical products and offers chemical management services, which it refers to as Fluidcare, for heavy industrial and manufacturing applications. Quaker Houghton uses approximately 3,000 raw materials, including animal fats, vegetable oils, mineral oils, oleochemicals, surfactant agents and various chemical compounds that act as additives to its base formulations. The company has three reportable segments: Americas, EMEA, and Asia/Pacific. The company was organized in 1918 and incorporated as a Pennsylvania business corporation in 1930.

Written from the business description in QUAKER CHEMICAL CORP's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 23 February 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 -0.0
1B2B
2009201220152018202120242025
Compound annual growth
−1.0%
+5.9%
+9.9%
+8.7%
+5.4%
+5.0%
+4.7%
+5.2%
+36.1%
+22.5%
+12.3%
+14.1%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +5.9% 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

−0 cents
lost on every revenue dollar
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 2.8% · Net -0.1%
5%10%
200920172025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE -0.2%
10%20%
200920172025
Three returns, three denominators.

Each USD of equity lost 0 cents this year.

Cash & shareholders

USD 75.9M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 80.6
100M200M
200920172025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends 34.4 · Net buybacks 41.5
30M60MDividendsNet buybacks
200920112013201520172019202120232025

USD 34.4M in dividends and USD 41.5M in buybacks went back to shareholders in a year without profit.

Total assetsUSD 2.8B
EquityUSD 1.4B
CashUSD 179.8M
Gross debtUSD 870.6M
Net debtUSD 690.7M
Current ratio2.42×

Net debt stands at 50% of equity.

The 17-year record

17 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative—not applicable◌not available in our data
KWR, 17-year financial record
Metric 20252024202320222021202020192018201720162015201420132012201120102009
Revenue $B1.91.82.01.91.81.41.10.90.80.70.70.80.70.70.70.50.5
Operating income $B0.10.20.20.10.20.10.00.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.00.0
EBITDA $B0.10.30.30.10.20.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.00.0
Income tax $B0.00.00.10.00.0−0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
Net income $B−0.00.10.1−0.00.10.00.00.10.00.10.10.10.10.10.00.00.0
Free cash flow $B0.10.20.20.00.00.20.10.10.10.10.10.00.10.10.00.00.0
EPS, diluted $−0.146.516.26−0.896.772.222.084.451.524.633.844.264.273.633.662.801.47
Dividend / sh $1.991.881.781.701.621.561.521.471.411.351.261.150.990.970.950.940.92
Payout %−13822828−18924706932922932262325243058
ROE %−0.28.58.5−1.29.03.13.814.15.015.814.016.318.318.822.220.311.0
Shares out B0.020.020.020.020.02◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 74 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
ActivityMiscellaneous Products of Petroleum & Coal
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inPennsylvania
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2009

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