Stepan Financial Ratios
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Stepan ratio analysis
Stepan earned a net margin of 2.0% in FY 2025, down from 2.3% a year earlier. Gross margin was 11.6% compared with a median of 17.0% over the prior 9 years. Return on equity reached 3.8%, meaning Stepan generated 0.04 dollars of profit for every dollar of shareholders' equity.
Debt-to-equity stood at 0.50 versus 0.53 the year before, and the current ratio was 1.29. At the end of FY 2025, SCL traded at 23.0 times earnings; across the 10 fiscal years shown, its year-end P/E ranged from 15.9 to 54.0, with a median of 21.9. Valuation ratios use the closing share price on each fiscal year-end date and diluted shares from the income statement; profitability and leverage ratios use reported annual figures. Current valuation multiples are on the statistics page.
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Stepan financial ratios (annual)
| Ratio | FY 2025 | FY 2024 | FY 2023 | FY 2022 | FY 2021 | FY 2020 | FY 2019 | FY 2018 | FY 2017 | FY 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio (at fiscal year end) | 23.00 | 28.85 | 54.03 | 16.69 | 20.99 | 21.89 | 23.12 | 15.86 | 18.32 | 21.84 |
| Price / sales | 0.46 | 0.66 | 0.93 | 0.87 | 1.21 | 1.46 | 1.27 | 0.87 | 0.94 | 1.05 |
| Price / book | 0.87 | 1.24 | 1.77 | 2.08 | 2.65 | 2.78 | 2.64 | 2.15 | 2.45 | 2.93 |
| Gross margin | 11.6% | 12.5% | 11.9% | 15.4% | 16.9% | 20.5% | 18.3% | 17.0% | 18.0% | 19.2% |
| Operating margin | 3.4% | 3.2% | 2.5% | 7.5% | 7.3% | 9.2% | 6.8% | 7.5% | 8.0% | 7.2% |
| Net margin | 2.0% | 2.3% | 1.7% | 5.3% | 5.9% | 6.8% | 5.5% | 5.6% | 5.2% | 4.9% |
| Free cash flow margin | 1.1% | 1.8% | -3.7% | -5.1% | -5.2% | 5.9% | 6.1% | 4.2% | 6.2% | 6.2% |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 3.8% | 4.3% | 3.3% | 12.6% | 12.8% | 12.8% | 11.6% | 13.8% | 13.6% | 13.6% |
| Return on assets (ROA) | 2.0% | 2.2% | 1.7% | 6.0% | 6.7% | 7.2% | 6.5% | 7.3% | 6.7% | 6.4% |
| Debt / equity | 0.50 | 0.53 | 0.54 | 0.50 | 0.34 | 0.20 | 0.25 | 0.34 | 0.39 | 0.50 |
| Current ratio | 1.29 | 1.21 | 1.40 | 1.56 | 1.82 | 2.17 | 2.41 | 2.46 | 2.46 | 2.31 |
| Revenue growth | 7.0% | -6.3% | -16.1% | 18.2% | 25.5% | 0.6% | -6.8% | 3.6% | 9.0% | -0.6% |
| EPS growth | -6.8% | 25.7% | -72.6% | 7.8% | 8.6% | 23.3% | -7.1% | 10.4% | 15.5% | 12.3% |