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Wd 40 Co
Wd 40 Co (WDFC) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in Specialty Chemicals, part of the Basic Materials sector. It is headquartered in San Diego, United States and has 714 employees. The company is worth $2.82B and trades at 34.6x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 19.1x. Revenue was $619.99M in fiscal 2025, up 5.0% from the year before. Net income was $90.99M. The share price is 29.7% below its 52-week high of $298.90. It pays a dividend yielding 1.94%, and has raised its annual dividend for 16 years in a row in our records. 6 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 $50.02M. In that quarter, 2 of them opened or added to the position and 2 reduced it. 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.
▼ -10.8% over 5Y.
today you would have $954.11▼ -4.6%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $196.90 | $242.68 | $239.07 | $161.21 | $244.64 | $265.68 | $194.14 | $183.26 | $118.00 | $116.90 | $98.65 | $85.08 | $74.68 | $47.11 | $40.41 | $40.28 | |
| P/E | 32.3x |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 8.7% a year plus a 1.9% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 19.1 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 32.3 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 8.7% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Sector median of 9.8x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
Dividend growing 4.0% a year against a 7.0% required return, from the stock’s beta.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FSMFortuna Mining Corp | $9.52 | 8.1x | 1.6x | 0.00% | 24.15% | $2.82B |
| ALMAlmonty Industries Inc. | $9.83 | 54.6x | 7.3x | 0.00% | 38.22% | $2.84B |
| HWKNHawkins Inc | $133.17 | 34.5x | 5.0x | 0.60% | 15.61% | $2.78B |
| AAUCAllied Gold Corp | $19.83 |
| 29.4x |
| 47.5x |
| 49.5x |
| 32.9x |
| 48.1x |
| 60.4x |
| 48.3x |
| 39.5x |
| 31.7x |
| 32.1x |
| 32.5x |
| 29.6x |
| 29.4x |
| 21.4x |
| 18.9x |
| 18.7x |
| P/S | 4.3x | 4.3x | 5.6x | 6.0x | 4.2x | 6.9x | 8.9x | 6.3x | 6.2x | 4.3x | 4.4x | 3.7x | 3.3x | 3.1x | 2.2x | 2.0x | 2.1x |
| P/B | 11.7x | 9.9x | 14.3x | 15.4x | 11.6x | 16.7x | 22.6x | 18.3x | 16.3x | 11.8x | 11.8x | 9.0x | 7.3x | 6.3x | 4.0x | 3.3x | 3.4x |
| EPS | $6.69 | $5.11 | $4.83 | $4.90 | $5.09 | $4.40 | $4.02 | $4.64 | $3.72 | $3.64 | $3.04 | $2.87 | $2.54 | $2.20 | $2.14 | $2.15 |
| Dividend yield | 1.56% | 1.91% | 1.45% | 1.39% | 1.94% | 1.16% | 1.01% | 1.26% | 1.18% | 1.66% | 1.44% | 1.16% | 2.05% | 1.66% | 2.46% | 2.67% | 2.53% |
| Payout | 54.16% | 56.20% | 68.88% | 68.74% | 63.67% | 55.60% | 60.91% | 60.70% | 46.55% | 52.69% | 46.15% | 37.50% | 60.63% | 48.82% | 52.73% | 50.47% | 47.44% |
| Profit margin | 12.63% | 14.68% | 11.79% | 12.28% | 12.98% | 14.39% | 14.86% | 13.21% | 15.96% | 13.91% | 13.83% | 11.85% | 11.42% | 10.80% | 10.35% | 10.83% | 11.23% |
| ROE | 32.67% | 33.93% | 30.21% | 31.40% | 35.69% | 35.05% | 37.87% | 38.43% | 41.94% | 37.97% | 37.49% | 28.38% | 25.82% | 22.18% | 19.13% | 18.11% | 18.37% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
7 methods answered, across 4 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
-46.9% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
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| 5.0x |
| 0.00% |
| -2.89% |
| $2.76B |
| FULFuller H B Co | $50.89 | 14.2x | 1.3x | 1.93% | 9.58% | $2.74B |
| NGNovagold Resources Inc | $6.24 | — | 7.1x | 0.00% | -32.81% | $2.74B |
