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Stepan Co. SCL

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

15 YEARS OF DIVIDEND GROWTH

Revenue

$2.3B

▲ 7.0% YoY

Net income

$46.9M

▼ 6.9% YoY

Free cash flow

$25.4M

▼ 35.4% YoY

In brief

What this company does

Stepan Company and its subsidiaries produce specialty and intermediate chemicals that are sold to other manufacturers and used in a variety of end products. It does not sell directly to the retail market but sells to a wide range of manufacturers in many industries. On December 31, 2025, the Company employed 2,328 persons. The Company has three reportable segments: Surfactants, Polymers and Specialty Products. Surfactants serve as the basic cleaning agent in detergents for washing clothes, dishes, carpets, fine fabrics, floors and walls, and are also used for the same purpose in shampoos, body wash, conditioners, fabric softeners, toothpastes, cosmetics, and other personal care products. Stepan Company was incorporated under the laws of the state of Delaware on February 19, 1959.

Written from the business description in STEPAN COMPANY's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 26 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 2.3B

Revenue, FY2025 · full 17-year series below

Revenue $B Net income $B

FY2025 · Revenue 2.3 · Net income 0.0

Compound annual growth

Revenue

−5.6%

+4.5%

+2.8%

+3.3%

Net income

−31.7%

−18.0%

−4.7%

−2.2%

EPS, diluted

−31.5%

−17.8%

−4.7%

−2.4%

Dividend / share

+4.2%

+6.5%

+7.8%

+8.0%

Returned to shareholders

−13.8%

−1.5%

+7.2%

+7.9%

3 yrs

5 yrs

10 yrs

15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +4.5% 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

2 cents

of every revenue dollar became profit

Operating margin Net margin

FY2025 · Operating 3.4% · Net 2.0%

ROE

FY2025 · ROE 3.9%

Gross margin11.6%

Operating margin3.4%

Net margin2.0%

Return on assets2.0%

EBITDAUSD 204.6M

Each USD of equity produced 4 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

USD 35.0M

returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks

Free cash flow $M

FY2025 · FCF 25.4

Net buybacks $M Dividends $M

FY2025 · Dividends 35.0 · Net buybacks —

Dividends paidUSD 35.0M

Net buybacks—

Share of profit74.7%

Consecutive raises15 years (since the 2010 share-count change)

USD 35.0M in dividends — 75% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 2.4B

EquityUSD 1.2B

CashUSD 132.7M

Gross debtUSD 626.7M

Net debtUSD 494.0M

Current ratio1.29×

Net debt stands at 40% 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	2.3	2.2	2.3	2.8	2.3	1.9	1.9	2.0	1.9	1.8	1.8	1.9	1.9	1.8	1.8	1.4	1.3
Operating income $B	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
EBITDA $B	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1
Income tax $B	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Net income $B	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Free cash flow $B	0.0	0.0	−0.1	−0.1	−0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	−0.0	0.1	0.0	−0.0	−0.0	0.1
EPS, diluted $	2.05	2.20	1.75	6.38	5.92	5.45	4.42	4.76	4.31	3.73	3.32	2.49	3.18	3.49	3.21	2.95	5.84
Dividend / sh $	1.55	1.51	1.47	1.37	1.25	1.13	1.03	0.93	0.86	0.78	0.73	0.69	0.65	0.58	0.53	0.49	0.90
Payout %	75	67	82	21	20	20	22	19	19	20	21	27	20	16	16	16	15
ROE %	3.9	4.2	3.4	13.1	13.4	13.5	12.1	14.4	14.7	14.5	13.9	10.5	14.1	18.0	19.2	18.7	·

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 83 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 17 of 19 fiscal years. 12 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures

ActivitySoap, Detergents, Cleang Preparations, Perfumes, Cosmetics

Listed onNYSE

Incorporated inDelaware

Fiscal year endsDecember 31

Data on record since2009