Quaker Houghton (KWR)
Materials · NYQ
Price as at 1 Oct 2026, 13:39 UTC. Quotes are delayed.
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Quaker Houghton trades at $155.95, close to the $133.04 our fair value estimate puts on the business. On this measure the market and the model broadly agree, so the interesting question is which of them is wrong.
Our moat model scores it 36 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 28.7 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.
KWR dividend history
Dividends per share by year
| Year | Total per share | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | $1.52 | 3 |
| 2025 | $1.96 | 4 |
| 2024 | $1.85 | 4 |
| 2023 | $1.76 | 4 |
| 2022 | $1.68 | 4 |
| 2021 | $1.60 | 4 |
| 2020 | $1.55 | 4 |
| 2019 | $1.51 | 4 |
| 2018 | $1.45 | 4 |
| 2017 | $1.40 | 4 |
| 2016 | $1.33 | 4 |
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.
KWR earnings and analyst estimates
Recommendation mix, 7 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 Quaker Houghton
Quaker Chemical Corporation, doing business as Quaker Houghton, provides industrial process fluids worldwide. The company develops, produces, and markets various formulated specialty chemical products; and offers chemical management services for various heavy industrial and manufacturing applications. It offers metal removal fluids, cleaning fluids, corrosion inhibitors, metal drawing and forming fluids, die cast mold releases, heat treatment and quenchants, metal forging and hydraulic fluids, specialty greases, offshore sub-sea energy control fluids, rolling lubricants, and rod and wire drawing fluids. The company serves steel, aluminum, automotive, aerospace, offshore, container, mining, and metalworking companies. Quaker Chemical Corporation was founded in 1918 and is headquartered in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania.
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.
KWR passes 2 of our 30 screens today
Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.
Super investor ownership
7 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:
- First Eagle, First Eagle Investment Management, LLC$25.89M · 0.0% of book
- Hosking Partners, Hosking Partners LLP$17.89M · 0.6% of book
- Cliff Asness, AQR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC$8.42M · 0.0% of book
- Israel Englander, MILLENNIUM MANAGEMENT LLC$3.20M · 0.0% of book
- Ken Fisher, Fisher Asset Management, LLC$2.75M · 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.
KWR 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 Quaker Houghton (KWR) undervalued?
Against our fair value estimate of $133.04, KWR at $155.95 is 15% above 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 KWR?
7 of the institutions we track reported a position in KWR 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 KWR's P/E ratio?
KWR trades at 28.7 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 Quaker Houghton (KWR) pay a dividend?
Yes. Quaker Houghton yields 1.32% at the current share price. It has paid $2.03 per share over the trailing twelve months. It has paid a dividend in each of the last 39 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 KWR report earnings next?
Quaker Houghton is scheduled to report on 29 Oct 2026. Companies move earnings dates, so read it as scheduled rather than certain.
Where does SteadyShares get its KWR data?
Fundamentals for KWR come from company filings and exchange data, as listed on NYQ; institutional ownership comes from SEC 13F filings. The share price shown was last refreshed on 1 Oct 2026, 13:39 UTC and is delayed. Our data quality score for this company is 92/100, 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.