Oil-Dri Corporation of America (ODC)
Materials · NYQ
Price as at 1 Oct 2026, 15:12 UTC. Quotes are delayed.
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Oil-Dri Corporation of America trades at $90.01, which is 63% below the $146.30 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 50 out of 100, which is a moat, but not a deep one. 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 26.8 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.
ODC dividend history
Dividends per share by year
| Year | Total per share | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | $0.635 | 3 |
| 2025 | $0.670 | 4 |
| 2024 | $0.600 | 4 |
| 2023 | $0.570 | 4 |
| 2022 | $0.550 | 4 |
| 2021 | $0.530 | 4 |
| 2020 | $0.510 | 4 |
| 2019 | $0.490 | 4 |
| 2018 | $0.470 | 4 |
| 2017 | $0.450 | 4 |
| 2016 | $0.430 | 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.
About Oil-Dri Corporation of America
Oil-Dri Corporation of America, together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and markets sorbent products in the United States and internationally. It operates in two segments: Retail and Wholesale Products Group, and Business to Business Products Group. The company provides agricultural and horticultural products, including mineral-based absorbent products that serve as carriers for biological and chemical active ingredients, drying agents, and growing media under the Agsorb, Verge, and Flo-Fre brand names. It also offers animal health and nutrition products for the livestock industry; and adsorbent products for bleaching, purification, and filtration applications. In addition, it provides cat litter products under Saular brand name, such as scoopable and non-clumping litter under the Cat's Pride and Jonny Cat brand names; crystal cat litter products under Ultra and Litter Pearls brand names; Pro Mound packing clay is used to construct pitcher's mounds, catcher's stations and batter's boxes; Rapid Dry drying agent is used to wick away excess water from the infield; industrial and automotive sorbent products from clay, polypropylene, and recycled materials that absorb oil, acid, paint, ink, water, and other liquids under the Oil-Dri brand name; and sports products for use on baseball, softball, football, cricket, and soccer fields under the Pro's Choice brand name. Its customers include mass merchandisers, farm & fleet channel, drugstore chains, pet specialty retail outlets, dollar stores, retail grocery stores, distributors of industrial cleanup and automotive products, environmental service companies, and sports field product and sports turf material users; processors and refiners of edible oils, petroleum-based oils, and biodiesel fuel; manufacturers of animal feed and agricultural chemicals; distributors of animal health and nutrition products; and marketers of consumer products. The company was founded in 1941 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.
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.
ODC 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:
- Mario Gabelli, GAMCO INVESTORS, INC. ET AL$79.52M · 0.7% of book
- Renaissance Technologies, RENAISSANCE TECHNOLOGIES LLC$41.67M · 0.1% of book
- Two Sigma, TWO SIGMA INVESTMENTS, LP$11.59M · 0.0% of book
- Diamond Hill, Diamond Hill Capital Management, LLC (Investment Advisor)$11.27M · 0.1% of book
- Ken Griffin, CITADEL ADVISORS LLC$4.21M · 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.
ODC 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 Oil-Dri Corporation of America (ODC) undervalued?
Against our fair value estimate of $146.30, ODC at $90.01 is 63% 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 ODC?
9 of the institutions we track reported a position in ODC 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 ODC's P/E ratio?
ODC trades at 26.8 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 Oil-Dri Corporation of America (ODC) pay a dividend?
Yes. Oil-Dri Corporation of America yields 0.79% at the current share price. It has paid $0.815 per share over the trailing twelve months. It has paid a dividend in each of the last 40 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.
Where does SteadyShares get its ODC data?
Fundamentals for ODC 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, 15:12 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.