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What KWR's price assumes
Quaker Chemical Corporation trades at 588× earnings against 28.3× for the median Specialty Chemicals name, more expensive than its own group.
588
Trailing P/E · Specialty Chemicals median 28.3 · 20.8× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 1.12
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q1
- Free cash flow yield
- 3.4%
Free cash flow yield · Specialty Chemicals median 3.9%
- Growth the price implies
- +11%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +11% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +14% a year over the last three.
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- Price / book2026-Q1
- 1.57
- EV / EBIT2026-Q1
- 47.9
- EV / sales2026-Q1
- 1.47
- Basic Materials median P/E153 names
- 22.8
- Specialty Chemicals median P/E37 names
- 28.3
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $89M
- Market capitalisation
- $2.61B
- 3-year revenue growth
- −0.74%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +14%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $8.01 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $12.75 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $15.69 |
| 52-week range | $114.29 – $179.86 |
| Today | $164.70 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Specialty Chemicals
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