Innospec Inc. (IOSP)
Materials · NMS · US
Price as at 1 Oct 2026, 15:13 UTC. Quotes are delayed.
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Innospec Inc. trades at $94.67, which is 99% below the $188.65 our fair value estimate puts on the business. On that measure alone it screens as undervalued, though a valuation model is an argument rather than a measurement, and the market is frequently right about why something is cheap.
Our moat model scores it 42 out of 100, which is little in the way of a moat. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 19.7 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
IOSP dividend history
Dividends per share by year
| Year | Total per share | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | $0.920 | 1 |
| 2025 | $1.71 | 2 |
| 2024 | $1.55 | 2 |
| 2023 | $1.41 | 2 |
| 2022 | $1.28 | 2 |
| 2021 | $1.16 | 2 |
| 2020 | $1.04 | 2 |
| 2019 | $1.02 | 2 |
| 2018 | $0.890 | 2 |
| 2017 | $0.770 | 2 |
| 2016 | $0.670 | 2 |
Split-adjusted amounts in the listing currency, grouped by the calendar year of the ex-dividend date, from the filed record. Growth and streak figures compare complete years only.
IOSP earnings and analyst estimates
Recommendation mix, 3 published ratings
Estimates are the published analyst consensus and move often. An earnings date is scheduled, not certain, and a share tends to reprice most violently on the day itself.
About Innospec Inc.
Innospec Inc. develops, manufactures, blends, markets, and supplies specialty chemicals in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific. The company operates through three segments: Performance Chemicals, Fuel Specialties, and Oilfield Services. It offers specialty chemical products used as additives in diesel, jet, marine, fuel oil, and other fuels used in the operation of commercial trucking, marine and aviation engines, power station generators, heating oil, and other industrial machinery applications. It also provides technology-based solutions for customers' processes or products in personal care, home care, agrochemical, construction, mining, and other industrial markets. In addition, the company develops and markets chemical solutions for drilling, completion, production, drag reducing agents, and oil and gas applications. It serves large multinational companies, manufacturers of personal and home care products and global mining, agriculture and building products, and other industrial companies; national and multinational oil companies, fuel marketers and retailers, fuel terminals, marine lines, coating and plastics producers, and other heavy industrial end-users; and multinational public, independent exploration and production, and oilfield services companies. The company was formerly known as Octel Corp. and changed its name to Innospec Inc. in January 2006. Innospec Inc. was founded in 1938 and is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado.
Company profile, industry and headcount are as reported by our data provider and can lag a company's own filings by a reporting period. The annual report is the authority.
IOSP passes 4 of our 30 screens today
Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.
Super investor ownership
9 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:
- Two Sigma, TWO SIGMA INVESTMENTS, LP$46.29M · 0.0% of book
- Cliff Asness, AQR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC$39.27M · 0.0% of book
- Renaissance Technologies, RENAISSANCE TECHNOLOGIES LLC$15.06M · 0.0% of book
- D. E. Shaw, D. E. Shaw & Co., Inc.$13.49M · 0.0% of book
- Ken Griffin, CITADEL ADVISORS LLC$8.02M · 0.0% of book
A word of warning on reading these figures: a 13F reports the market value of a holding, so a fund that traded nothing at all still appears to have sold when the price fell. We found 102 companies where the standard reading gives the opposite answer. Only the share count is honest.
Politician trades in IOSP
Trades in IOSP disclosed by members of Congress and executive-branch officials, latest first:
- Donald J Trump · Executive branchBuy · $15,001 - $50,000 · traded 30 Apr 2026 · disclosed 1 Jul 2026
A disclosure reports a value band, not an amount, and is due up to 45 days after the trade; some arrive later. Every filer we track, each with their own page, is on the Congress trading tracker.
IOSP peers
The largest companies in the same industry (Specialty Chemicals), then in the same sector.
- DD DuPont de Nemours, Inc.
- RPM RPM International Inc.
- AKZOY Akzo Nobel N.V.
- SOLS Solstice Advanced Materials, Inc.
- BNR.DE Brenntag SE
- ESI Element Solutions Inc
- WLK Westlake Corporation
- SOL.JO Sasol Limited
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Common questions
Is Innospec Inc. (IOSP) undervalued?
Against our fair value estimate of $188.65, IOSP at $94.67 is 99% below fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation. It is built from normalized earning power with growth capped deliberately low, which understates companies whose value is mostly future growth.
Which funds own IOSP?
9 of the institutions we track reported a position in IOSP in their most recent SEC 13F filing. A 13F is filed up to 45 days after quarter end, so it tells you what a fund held then, not what it holds now.
What is IOSP's P/E ratio?
IOSP trades at 19.7 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
Does Innospec Inc. (IOSP) pay a dividend?
Yes. Innospec Inc. yields 1.85% at the current share price. It has paid $1.79 per share over the trailing twelve months. It has paid a dividend in each of the last 14 complete calendar years. A dividend is declared by the board and can be cut at any time; a yield is a fact about the current price, not a promise.
When does IOSP report earnings next?
Innospec Inc. is scheduled to report on 3 Nov 2026. Companies move earnings dates, so read it as scheduled rather than certain.
Where does SteadyShares get its IOSP data?
Fundamentals for IOSP come from company filings and exchange data, as listed on NMS; institutional ownership comes from SEC 13F filings. The share price shown was last refreshed on 1 Oct 2026, 15:13 UTC and is delayed. Our data quality score for this company is 100/100, which is the share of the inputs behind our scores that were actually available rather than assumed. Metrics we do not hold are left out of the page rather than estimated.
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Data from company filings, exchange quotes and SEC EDGAR 13F disclosures. Quotes are delayed. Metrics we do not have are left out rather than estimated. Educational information, not financial advice.