# Koppers Holdings share price today (Koppers Holdings Inc., KOP)

> Koppers Holdings Inc.'s share price, valuation and earnings point in different directions. The next one or two quarters should make it clearer. KOP · Materials · Specialty Chemicals · data as of 3 November 2026. Page: https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/kop

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## Key numbers

- Business trend: Mixed, from the last 12 quarters
- Price: $41.80 (+48.1% in a year)
- P/E: 13.5×, over 4.6 years
- Revenue (Jun 2026): $520 M (+3.0% on a year ago)
- Profit (Jun 2026): −$148 M (−999.4% on a year ago)
- Operating margin: 9.7% (−1.5 points on a year ago)
- ROE: 10%, FY25
- ROIC: 13.2%, against a 7.6% cost of capital: +5.6 points

The main question: the share price moved +48.1% in a year while yearly earnings per share moved +11.4%. The difference came from the market paying a higher multiple. ## What is the Koppers Holdings share price today? Koppers Holdings Inc.'s share price was $41.80 at the close on 3 November 2026. It has been rising for 1 week. That is 0.3% above its average price over the last 200 trading days. In the last 52 weeks it traded between $27 and $51, and at that close it sat 62% of the way up from that low. Over the past 13 weeks it has done worse than the S&P 500, and it has been behind for 7 weeks running. Over the last 10 years the share price moved +35% while the S&P 500 moved +255%, so it is behind the index over that whole period. It was last ahead over 13 weeks in the week of 18 September 2026. The chart above shows the 13-week comparison for every week. This page treats a rise as over when the price closes below its 200-day average on two Fridays in a row. ## What dividend does Koppers Holdings pay? Koppers Holdings Inc. paid $0.34 per share over the last four reported quarters. The most recent declaration was $0.09 for Jun 2026. At today's price of $41.80 that is a yield of 0.81%, based on dividends already paid, not a forecast. ## Which stock lists is Koppers Holdings on? Koppers Holdings is not in the Nasdaq 100, the S&P 500 or the Dow Jones 30, and is not on the US tech stocks list. ## Is Koppers Holdings profitable? Koppers Holdings Inc. posted a net loss of $148 M in the Jun 2026 quarter. Full-year FY25 profit was $56.0 M. Over 4 years profit has grown −9.9% a year on average. That loss is 28.4% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier earned $16.4 M. 3 of the last 12 reported quarters were loss-making. Jun 2026 profit was −$148 M, −999.4% on a year earlier. For the full year, FY25 profit was $56.0 M (+15.2% on the year before). ## How much revenue does Koppers Holdings make, and is it growing? Koppers Holdings Inc. reported $520 M of revenue in the Jun 2026 quarter, +3.0% on the same quarter a year earlier. Over 4 years it has grown 2.9% a year on average. The last full year, FY25, came in at $1.9 B. The last four reported quarters add to $1.9 B. FY25 revenue was $1.9 B, −10.2% on the year before. Recent pace: the last four quarters grew −4.8% on average, against 2.9% a year over the longer run, so this year is growing slower than its own long-run rate. Is growth speeding up? Revenue over the last 12 months grew −5.0%, against −5.6% a year over the last 8 quarters (stabilising). ## How much of every $100 of sales does Koppers Holdings keep? Koppers Holdings Inc.'s operating margin was 9.7% in the Jun 2026 quarter, 1.5 percentage points lower than the same quarter a year ago. Its latest full-year margin is the highest it has ever reported. Across 5 years it has been between 6.8% and 11.6%. The latest quarter is within that range. Across 5 years it has been between 6.8% and 11.6%, and FY25's 11.6% is the highest of them. Why the margin moved: operating margin changed −1.5 percentage points on the year while gross margin changed −1.6 points. So the drop came mostly from the gross margin, which means input costs and prices charged. When margins are at a record, every ratio built on profit looks better than usual, so watch whether they hold. ## Is Koppers Holdings' profit turning into cash? Over the last 3 years, 200% of Koppers Holdings Inc.'s reported profit came in as cash from its operations, so the profit is backed by cash. In FY25 it brought in $123 M of operating cash against $56.0 M of profit. After $55.0 M of spending on assets, $67.5 M was left over as free cash. Cash-flow figures here are yearly, because quarterly cash statements are not published, so this section changes once a year. Why: the cash figure is clear, but the day counts behind it are not in our data, so we show it without guessing the reason. What to look at next: the main use of cash is spending on assets. The next section checks what that spending is building. ## Where does Koppers Holdings' cash go? Koppers Holdings Inc. does not report the customer, stock and supplier day counts a cash cycle needs, so this section looks at its spending on assets instead. It spent $253 M on assets over the last 3 years. Averaged over those years that is 4.5% of FY25 revenue a year. Nothing is estimated in place of the missing day counts, so no cash-cycle chart is drawn. Spending on assets: $253 M over the last 3 years. In short: the cash is going into new capacity, not getting stuck in the daily cycle. The question is whether the new capacity earns. ## What is Koppers Holdings' P/E ratio, and how does it compare with its own history? Koppers Holdings Inc.'s P/E is 13.5×, with too little history to compare. This compares the share price with the company’s own past. It does not say what the business is worth. Why the multiple is where it is: over the past year earnings per share moved +11.4% while the price moved +48.1%. The price did better than earnings, which pushed the multiple up within its own range. Where the price move came from: over 3 years the price moved +3.3% a year; about −3.4% a year came from earnings growth and about +6.7 percentage points from the multiple (the market paying more). The split is approximate (price return minus earnings growth). It shows how much of the move came from the market paying a different multiple. In short: there is too little history to say whether the multiple is high or low for this company, so the earnings trend underneath matters more than the multiple. ## Is the Koppers Holdings business getting better or worse? Koppers Holdings Inc.'s business is giving mixed signals. Revenue growth is rising from its low at −5.0% while eps growth is falling at −764.2%, so the lines disagree and each one tells part of the story. This is based on 12 quarters of 4 measures. Why it matters: when the lines disagree, each line above matters more than any single label. The latest quarter’s profit includes a one-off item bigger than the normal business, so the profit line is shown but does not count in this reading. ## How much does Koppers Holdings earn on its capital? Koppers Holdings Inc. earned a ROE of 10% in FY25. Its return on capital used (ROIC) is 5.6 percentage points above its cost of capital, so growth here adds value, not just size. It comes from a 3.0% net margin and 1.00× asset turnover (sales divided by assets). Why the return is what it is (FY25): a 3.0% net margin × 1.00× asset turnover × 3.29× leverage (assets divided by equity) ≈ 9.9% on equity. The margin does its share; borrowing is a big part of it. The key test, return on capital used minus the cost of capital: 13.2% − 7.6% = +5.6 percentage points. The 7.6% is an estimate of this company's own cost of capital. Read the sign and size of the gap, not the decimals. A gap this wide means each dollar put back into the business creates more than a dollar of value. The 13.2% ROIC above is the latest reading, as reported. The yearly chart below shows FY25 at 9.9%, and the quarterly chart works out each 12-month window from the quarterly figures, so the readings differ by date, not by method. ## Does Koppers Holdings have too much debt? Koppers Holdings Inc. has total debt of $1.0 B against shareholder equity of $387 M as of Jun 2026, so its debt is 2.59× its equity. Year by year, that ratio went from 2.13 in FY21 to 1.79 in FY25. Keep that borrowing in mind when reading the returns on this page. ## What is the Koppers Holdings shareholding pattern? 4.4% of Koppers Holdings Inc.'s tradable shares are in short positions, which are bets that the price will fall, so some traders are betting against it. At normal trading volumes, closing those positions would take about 4.4 days. US companies do not publish a quarter-by-quarter list of owners, so this page uses short interest instead. It is a single reading at one point in time; we do not have its history. Why it is at this level: the figure does not say who holds the short positions or why, so we show the level without guessing the story. ## How far is Koppers Holdings from balance-sheet trouble? For Koppers Holdings Inc., the Z-score is 2.35. A Z-score above about 3 is safe and below about 1.8 signals danger, so this is in the grey area between the two. It estimates how far the balance sheet is from trouble; it is not a forecast of failure. Why it matters: a Z-score of 2.35 is in the grey area, neither clearly safe nor clearly in trouble. ## How does Koppers Holdings rank in its industry? There is no score against its industry: Koppers Holdings Inc. is not among the largest members shown in this industry comparison for Specialty Chemicals. The score ranks a company within its industry: each measure is scored against the other members. Without that group there is no score, so none is shown. ## Which companies is Koppers Holdings compared with? No sector comparison is shown here, not among the largest members shown in this industry comparison. ## Which companies are close to Koppers Holdings in size? Koppers Holdings is the 38th largest of 47 Specialty Chemicals companies on Sector Alpha by market value (scores of 3 November 2026). Just above it: Ecovyst Inc., Oil-Dri Corporation of America and Kronos Worldwide, Inc. Just below it: Lightwave Logic, Inc., Mativ Holdings, Inc. and Montauk Renewables, Inc. ### Specialty Chemicals companies close in size

1. [Ecovyst Inc.](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/ecvt) $1.1 billion
2. [Oil-Dri Corporation of America](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/odc) $1 billion
3. [Kronos Worldwide, Inc.](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/kro) $864 million
4. Koppers Holdings Inc. $791 million
5. [Lightwave Logic, Inc.](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/lwlg) $722 million
6. [Mativ Holdings, Inc.](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/matv) $616 million
7. [Montauk Renewables, Inc.](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/mntk) $355 million

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## What else do people ask about Koppers Holdings? ### What were Koppers Holdings's latest quarterly results? Koppers Holdings Inc. reported revenue of $520 M and a net loss of $148 M for the Jun 2026 quarter. Revenue rose 3.0% and profit fell 999.4% compared with a year earlier. Earnings per share were −$7.71. The operating margin was 9.7%, 1.5 percentage points lower than a year earlier (as of 3 November 2026). ### What is Koppers Holdings's market cap? Koppers Holdings Inc.'s market capitalisation is $791 M at a stock price of $41.80. Market cap is the share price times the number of shares, so it changes whenever the price moves (as of 3 November 2026). ### How is Koppers Holdings performing? Koppers Holdings Inc.'s share price has been rising for 1 weeks. In its latest quarter, revenue rose 3.0% and profit fell 999.4% compared with a year earlier. Over the past 13 weeks it has done worse than the S&P 500, for 7 weeks running (as of 3 November 2026). ### Will Koppers Holdings's stock price go up? This page does not forecast Koppers Holdings Inc.'s stock price. What it shows instead: the stock price is $41.80, and it has been rising for 1 weeks. Nobody can reliably say which way a price will move, and this site does not try (as of 3 November 2026). ### Where is Koppers Holdings in its business cycle? Koppers Holdings Inc.'s FY25 operating margin was 11.6%, against a 5-year range of 6.8% to 11.6%: the top of its range, a record year. When profit is at a record, every ratio looks better than usual, and the story depends on margins staying high. The latest quarter was 9.7%. Comparing margins with a company's own long history is a good way to see where it is in its cycle (as of 3 November 2026). ### What could break the Koppers Holdings story? The main question: the share price moved +48.1% in a year while yearly earnings per share moved +11.4%. The difference came from the market paying a higher multiple. On price, this page treats a rise as over when the share price closes below its 200-day average on two Fridays in a row (as of 3 November 2026). ### Is Koppers Holdings a stock worth studying right now? What the numbers show: Koppers Holdings Inc.'s share price, valuation and earnings point in different directions. The next one or two quarters should make it clearer. The main open question: whether earnings grow into a price that has already moved. Every number on this page is worked out by code from the published figures, with no forecasts and no price opinions (as of 3 November 2026). This is research, not advice. We’re not SEBI-registered.