KWRQuaker Chemical Corporation
Is the business good?
A genuinely good business: earnings fully cash-backed (1.2×) and margins widening.
Mixed fundamental signals. Nine pass/fail tests of year-over-year health from the filings.
Operating profit is fully backed by cash. Conversion is worsening vs a year ago.
Positive operating leverage, operating profit is growing faster than sales, so margins widen as the business scales.
A balanced mix of margins, efficiency, and leverage. ROE 2% = margin × turnover × leverage.
Unless marked, from derived.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The F-score rewards improvement, so an already-elite company can score mid-pack.
How good a business is KWR?
Quaker Chemical Corporation earns 5.7% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 3.3 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 7.7%
Operating margin · Specialty Chemicals median 7.4% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.18×
Cash conversion · 3.84× a year ago · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax
- Share count, year on year
- −2.2%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 4.2% |
| FY2021 | 8.5% |
| FY2022 | 2.7% |
| FY2023 | 11% |
| FY2024 | 11% |
| FY2025 | 2.8% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 36%
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 7.7%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 4.9%
- Free cash flow margin
- 3.8%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $1.98B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $75M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $98M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 5.7%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.
Specialty Chemicals
Ranks #18 of 33 by RyuScore