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Quaker Chemical Corporation earns 2.2% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
2.2%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 6.8 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 3.1%
Operating margin · Specialty Chemicals median 9.1% · 12 months to Q1 2026
- Share count, year on year
- −1.5%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
- Gross margin
- 36%
Gross margin
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 4.2% |
| FY2021 | 8.5% |
| FY2022 | 2.7% |
| FY2023 | 11% |
| FY2024 | 11% |
| FY2025 | 2.8% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 36%
- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 3.1%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 0.22%
- Free cash flow margin
- 4.6%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $1.93B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $89M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $4.3M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 2.2%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Specialty Chemicals
Ranks #34 of 36 by Smart Score