Is it safe?
Can SCL take a bad year?
Stepan Company carries $511M of net debt at 3.92× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$511M
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 3.92×
Net debt / EBITDA · 2.87× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 2.64
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Debt / equity
- 0.55×
Debt / equity
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $652M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $141M
- Net debt
- $511M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $130M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $639K
- Debt / equity
- 0.55×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 5.00×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 35%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −67%
- Below its 52-week high
- −5.5%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Specialty Chemicals
Ranks #27 of 36 by Smart Score