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Orion S.a. OEC

10 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$1.8B
▼ 3.8% YoY
$-70.1M
▼ 258.6% YoY
$54.8M
In brief

What this company does

Orion S.A. produces Specialty Carbon Black and Rubber Carbon Black. The company operates 14 wholly owned production facilities, excluding the under-construction facility at La Porte, Texas, in Europe, North and South America, South Africa, and Asia, and one jointly-owned production facility at Dortmund, Germany. Orion is made up of approximately 1,639 employees. Its business is organized into two reportable segments, Specialty Carbon Black and Rubber Carbon Black. The Company manufactures Specialty Carbon Black for a broad range of specialized applications such as polymers, batteries, printing and coatings. Its Rubber Carbon Black products are used in tires and mechanical rubber goods. The company's corporate lineage goes back more than 160 years to Germany.

Written from the business description in Orion S.A.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 17 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth
USD 1.8B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 10-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 1.8 · Net income -0.1
0.8B1.6B2016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Compound annual growth
−3.8%
+9.7%
+0.0%
−16.7%
+46.9%
+19.7%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +9.7% 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
−4 cents
lost on every revenue dollar
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 1.5% · Net -3.9%
5%10%-1%-2%-3%2016201720182019202020212022202320242025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE -16.3%
50%-5%-10%-15%2016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Gross margin19.9%
Operating margin1.5%
Net margin-3.9%
Return on assets-3.7%
EBITDAUSD 159.4M

Each USD of equity lost 16 cents this year.

Cash & shareholders
USD 29.5M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 54.8
80M160M-80M2016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends 4.7 · Net buybacks 24.8
25.0M50.0MDividendsNet buybacks2016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Dividends paidUSD 4.7M
Net buybacksUSD 24.8M
Share of profit-42.1%
Consecutive raises—

USD 4.7M in dividends and USD 24.8M in buybacks went back to shareholders in a year without profit.

Total assetsUSD 1.9B
EquityUSD 384.6M
CashUSD 60.7M
Gross debtUSD 979.5M
Net debtUSD 918.8M
Current ratio1.03×

Net debt stands at 239% of equity.

The 10-year record
10 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative
Metric 2025202420232022202120202019201820172016
Revenue $B1.81.91.92.01.51.11.51.61.31.1
Operating income $B0.00.10.20.20.20.10.10.20.10.1
EBITDA $B0.20.20.30.30.30.20.20.30.20.2
Income tax $B0.00.00.10.10.10.00.00.00.00.0
Net income $B−0.10.00.10.10.10.00.10.10.10.0
Free cash flow $B0.1−0.10.2−0.2−0.1−0.00.10.00.00.1
EPS, diluted $−1.240.761.731.732.210.301.421.991.070.82
Dividend / sh $0.080.080.080.080.020.200.800.800.770.74
Payout %−7115506655397089
ROE %−16.39.322.127.353.89.950.495.486.590.5
Shares out B0.060.060.060.060.060.060.060.060.06·

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 48 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 10 of 19 fiscal years. 47 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures
ActivityMiscellaneous Chemical Products
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated innot stated in the filings
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2016

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