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Ken GriffinHeld
Citadel Advisors · Q2 2026
$1.11M
20.01K shares · 0.0% of portfolio
Stepan Co
Stepan Co (SCL) is listed on NYSE and classified in Specialty Chemicals, part of the Basic Materials sector. It is headquartered in Northbrook, United States and has 2,328 employees. The company is worth $1.46B. Revenue was $2.33B in fiscal 2025, up 7.0% from the year before. Net income was $46.9M. The share price is 5.4% below its 52-week high of $68.00. It pays a dividend yielding 2.46%, and has raised its annual dividend for 28 years in a row in our records. 5 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Two Sigma (Two Sigma Investments), at $21.58M. In that quarter, 3 of them opened or added to the position. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▼ -45.0% over 5Y.
today you would have $572.10▼ -42.8%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 17 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $47.36 | $64.70 | $94.55 | $106.46 | $124.29 | $119.32 | $102.44 | $74.00 | $78.97 | $81.48 | $49.69 | $40.08 | $65.63 | $55.54 | $40.08 | $38.13 | $32.40 | |
| P/E |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Sector median of 9.8x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
Companies of similar size in Basic Materials, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NEXANexa Resources S.A. | $11.16 | 5.8x | 1.2x | 1.18% | 29.91% | $1.48B |
| HUNHuntsman CORP | $8.72 | — | 0.6x | 4.01% | -3.84% | $1.53B |
| SIDNational Steel Co | $1.04 | — | 0.6x | 0.00% | -12.29% | $1.38B |
| IEIvanhoe Electric Inc. | $8.63 |
| 18.3x |
| 23.1x |
| 29.4x |
| 54.0x |
| 16.7x |
| 21.0x |
| 21.9x |
| 23.2x |
| 15.5x |
| 18.3x |
| 21.8x |
| 15.0x |
| 16.1x |
| 20.6x |
| 15.9x |
| 12.5x |
| 12.9x |
| 11.1x |
| P/S | 0.8x | 0.5x | 0.7x | 0.9x | 0.9x | 1.2x | 1.4x | 1.2x | 0.8x | 0.9x | 1.0x | 0.6x | 0.5x | 0.8x | 0.7x | 0.4x | 0.6x | 0.5x |
| P/B | 2.4x | 0.9x | 1.2x | 1.7x | 2.0x | 2.6x | 2.7x | 2.6x | 2.1x | 2.4x | 2.9x | 2.0x | 1.7x | 2.7x | 2.5x | 2.1x | 2.4x | 2.4x |
| EPS | $2.05 | $2.20 | $1.75 | $6.38 | $5.92 | $5.45 | $4.42 | $4.76 | $4.31 | $3.73 | $3.32 | $2.49 | $3.18 | $3.49 | $3.21 | $2.95 | $2.92 |
| Dividend yield | 1.28% | 3.27% | 2.33% | 1.55% | 1.29% | 1.01% | 0.95% | 1.00% | 1.25% | 1.06% | 0.95% | 1.47% | 1.72% | 0.99% | 1.04% | 1.32% | 1.28% | 1.39% |
| Payout | 20.78% | 75.61% | 68.64% | 84.00% | 21.47% | 21.11% | 20.73% | 23.19% | 19.43% | 19.49% | 20.78% | 21.99% | 27.71% | 20.44% | 16.62% | 16.51% | 16.61% | 15.41% |
| Profit margin | 4.57% | 2.01% | 2.31% | 1.73% | 5.31% | 5.87% | 6.78% | 5.55% | 5.57% | 5.23% | 4.88% | 4.28% | 2.96% | 3.87% | 4.40% | 3.91% | 4.57% | 4.94% |
| ROE | 13.19% | 3.77% | 4.31% | 3.30% | 12.62% | 12.83% | 12.85% | 11.56% | 13.76% | 13.62% | 13.58% | 13.64% | 10.66% | 13.19% | 16.58% | 17.94% | 18.72% | 21.71% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
Dividend growing 6.6% a year against a 8.7% required return, from the stock’s beta.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
2 methods answered, across 2 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
+12.8% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
| — |
| 2.6x |
| 0.00% |
| -1.40% |
| $1.38B |
| HYMCHycroft Mining Holding Corp | $17.17 | — | 6.4x | 0.00% | -73.18% | $1.6B |
| REXREX AMERICAN RESOURCES Corp | $39.82 | 10.9x | 2.0x | 0.00% | 19.59% | $1.32B |