# Stepan share price today (Stepan Company, SCL)

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

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## Key numbers

- Business trend: Getting worse, from the last 12 quarters
- Price: $68.66 (+58.4% in a year)
- P/E: 363.7×, over 1 year
- Revenue (Jun 2026): $684 M (+15.0% on a year ago)
- Profit (Jun 2026): $22.9 M (+102.0% on a year ago)
- Operating margin: 6.2% (+3.1 points on a year ago)
- ROE: 4%, FY25
- ROIC: 5.0%, against a 7.7% cost of capital: −2.7 points

The main question: the share price moved +58.4% in a year while yearly earnings per share moved −6.8%. The difference came from the market paying a higher multiple. ## What is the Stepan share price today? Stepan Company's share price was $68.66 at the close on 3 November 2026. That is 20.3% above its average price over the last 200 trading days. In the last 52 weeks it traded between $43 and $70, and at that close it sat 96% of the way up from that low. Over the past 13 weeks it has done better than the S&P 500, and it has stayed ahead for 17 weeks in a row. Over the last 1 year the share price moved +16% while the S&P 500 moved +21%, so it is behind the index over that whole period. 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 Stepan pay? Stepan Company paid $1.57 per share over the last four reported quarters. The most recent declaration was $0.40 for Jun 2026. At today's price of $68.66 that is a yield of 2.29%, based on dividends already paid, not a forecast. ## Which stock lists is Stepan on? Stepan 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 Stepan profitable? Stepan Company earned $22.9 M of net profit in the Jun 2026 quarter, +102.0% on the same quarter a year earlier. Full-year FY25 profit was $46.9 M. Over 4 years profit has grown −23.6% a year on average. That is 3.3% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier earned $11.3 M. 2 of the last 12 reported quarters were loss-making. For the full year, FY25 profit was $46.9 M (−6.9% on the year before). Why profit moved: revenue changed +15.0% on a year earlier and the margin moved +3.1 percentage points. Most of the change came from keeping more of each sale. On average over the last four quarters, profit changed −53.2% and revenue +7.6%. Profit is growing slower than sales: rising costs are taking part of the growth. ## How much revenue does Stepan make, and is it growing? Stepan Company reported $684 M of revenue in the Jun 2026 quarter, +15.0% on the same quarter a year earlier. That is the 6th quarter in a row with growth on the year before. Over 4 years it has grown −0.1% a year on average. The last full year, FY25, came in at $2.3 B. The last four reported quarters add to $2.4 B. FY25 revenue was $2.3 B, +7.0% on the year before. Recent pace: the last four quarters grew +7.6% on average, against −0.1% a year over the longer run, so this year is growing faster than its own long-run rate. Is growth speeding up? Revenue over the last 12 months grew +7.6%, against +5.1% a year over the last 8 quarters (stabilising). ## How much of every $100 of sales does Stepan keep? Stepan Company's operating margin was 6.2% in the Jun 2026 quarter, 3.1 percentage points higher than the same quarter a year ago. Across 5 years it has been between 3.0% and 7.5%. The latest quarter is within that range. Why the margin moved: operating margin changed +3.1 percentage points on the year while gross margin changed +2.5 points. So the gain came mostly from the gross margin, which means input costs and prices charged. ## Is Stepan's profit turning into cash? Over the last 3 years, 353% of Stepan Company's reported profit came in as cash from its operations, so the profit is backed by cash. In FY25 it brought in $148 M of operating cash against $46.9 M of profit. After $123 M of spending on assets, $25.4 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 Stepan's cash go? Stepan Company 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 $506 M on assets over the last 3 years. Averaged over those years that is 7.2% 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: $506 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 Stepan's P/E ratio, and how does it compare with its own history? Stepan Company's P/E is 363.7×, 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 −6.8% while the price moved +58.4%. The price did better than earnings, which pushed the multiple up within its own range. 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 Stepan business getting better or worse? Stepan Company's business is getting worse. Profit and EPS growth are shrinking: profit growth is −104.6% in the latest quarter, against +66.7% at its best in 12 quarters, with ROCE steady at 4.1%. This is based on 12 quarters of 4 measures. Why it matters: falling lines mean any ratio below that looks low should be read with that direction in mind. ## How much does Stepan earn on its capital? Stepan Company earned a ROE of 4% in FY25. Its return on capital used (ROIC) is 2.7 percentage points below its cost of capital, so growth here does not yet pay for the capital it uses. It comes from a 2.0% net margin and 0.99× asset turnover (sales divided by assets). Why the return is what it is (FY25): a 2.0% net margin × 0.99× asset turnover × 1.90× leverage (assets divided by equity) ≈ 3.8% 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: 5.0% − 7.7% = −2.7 percentage points. The 7.7% is an estimate of this company's own cost of capital. Read the sign and size of the gap, not the decimals. Negative: growth at these returns loses value until returns improve. The 5.0% ROIC above is the latest reading, as reported. The yearly chart below shows FY25 at 3.0%, and the quarterly chart works out each 12-month window from the quarterly figures, so the readings differ by date, not by method. ## Does Stepan have too much debt? Stepan Company has total debt of $707 M against shareholder equity of $1.2 B as of Jun 2026, so its debt is 0.58× its equity. Year by year, that ratio went from 0.39 in FY21 to 0.56 in FY25. Keep that borrowing in mind when reading the returns on this page. ## What is the Stepan shareholding pattern? 3.2% of Stepan Company'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 4.3 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 Stepan from balance-sheet trouble? For Stepan Company, the Z-score is 2.51. 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 2.51 is in the grey area, neither clearly safe nor clearly in trouble. ## How does Stepan rank in its industry? There is no score against its industry: Stepan Company 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 Stepan compared with? No sector comparison is shown here, not among the largest members shown in this industry comparison. ## Which companies are close to Stepan in size? Stepan is the 34th largest of 47 Specialty Chemicals companies on Sector Alpha by market value (scores of 3 November 2026). Just above it: Innospec Inc., Minerals Technologies Inc. and The Chemours Company. Just below it: Ecovyst Inc., Oil-Dri Corporation of America and Kronos Worldwide, Inc. ### Specialty Chemicals companies close in size

1. [Innospec Inc.](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/iosp) $2.4 billion
2. [Minerals Technologies Inc.](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/mtx) $2 billion
3. [The Chemours Company](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/cc) $2 billion
4. Stepan Company $1.6 billion
5. [Ecovyst Inc.](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/ecvt) $1.1 billion
6. [Oil-Dri Corporation of America](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/odc) $1 billion
7. [Kronos Worldwide, Inc.](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/kro) $864 million

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## What else do people ask about Stepan? ### What were Stepan's latest quarterly results? Stepan Company reported revenue of $684 M and net profit of $22.9 M for the Jun 2026 quarter. Revenue rose 15.0% and profit rose 102.0% compared with a year earlier. Earnings per share were $1.00. The operating margin was 6.2%, 3.1 percentage points higher than a year earlier (as of 3 November 2026). ### What is Stepan's market cap? Stepan Company's market capitalisation is $1.6 B at a stock price of $68.66. 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 Stepan performing? Stepan Company's latest readings are below. In its latest quarter, revenue rose 15.0% and profit rose 102.0% compared with a year earlier. Over the past 13 weeks it has done better than the S&P 500, for 17 weeks running. This describes what the data did, not a rating (as of 3 November 2026). ### Will Stepan's stock price go up? This page does not forecast Stepan Company's stock price. What it shows instead: the stock price is $68.66. Nobody can reliably say which way a price will move, and this site does not try (as of 3 November 2026). ### Does Stepan have too much debt? Stepan Company has a moderate amount of debt: its debt is 0.52× its equity. A year-by-year history of its borrowings is not in our data, so this uses the latest reading. Keep that borrowing in mind when reading the returns on this page (as of 3 November 2026). ### Is Stepan's profit real cash? Yes, over the last 3 years, 353% of Stepan Company's reported profit came in as cash from operations. The latest year was lower at 315%, so the trend is worth watching. In FY25, operating cash was $148 M against reported profit of $46.9 M. Most of that cash then goes into building new capacity. These are yearly figures (as of 3 November 2026). ### Where is Stepan in its business cycle? Stepan Company's FY25 operating margin was 3.0%, against a 5-year range of 3.0% to 7.5%: the low end of its own range, which is often where recoveries start. The latest quarter was 6.2%. 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 Stepan story? The main question: the share price moved +58.4% in a year while yearly earnings per share moved −6.8%. 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 Stepan a stock worth studying right now? What the numbers show: Stepan Company'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.