Stepan Company (SCL): Price and Financial Metrics

SCL POWR Grades

• SCL scores best on the Stability dimension, with a Stability rank ahead of 64.21% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for SCL is in Stability, which has been heading down over the past 177 days.
• SCL's current lowest rank is in the Quality metric (where it is better than 12.41% of US stocks).

SCL Stock Summary

• SCL's went public 31.74 years ago, making it older than 81.34% of listed US stocks we're tracking.
• SCL's current price/earnings ratio is 35.62, which is higher than 79.46% of US stocks with positive earnings.
• As for revenue growth, note that SCL's revenue has grown -12.17% over the past 12 months; that beats the revenue growth of merely 20% of US companies in our set.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to SCL, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are FMC, DGII, TACT, NTGR, and CTSO.
• SCL's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit STEPAN CO's official web site, go to www.stepan.com.

SCL Valuation Summary

• SCL's price/sales ratio is 0.8; this is 38.46% lower than that of the median Basic Materials stock.
• SCL's EV/EBIT ratio has moved up 18.9 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for SCL.

SCL Growth Metrics

Its 4 year revenue growth rate is now at 1.73%.
• The 3 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at -12.4%.
• Its year over year price growth rate is now at -25.23%.

SCL's revenue has moved up $663,656,000 over the prior 15 months.

The table below shows SCL's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-09-30	2,756.121	125.66	153.314
2022-06-30	2,639.624	85.592	150.85
2022-03-31	2,483.502	62.903	142.002
2021-12-31	2,345.966	72.135	137.804
2021-09-30	2,230.673	114.94	151.159
2021-06-30	2,092.465	201.411	147.407

SCL's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• SCL has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 50.73% of graded US stocks.
• SCL's asset turnover comes in at 1.181 -- ranking 15th of 50 Consumer Goods stocks.
• CL, LZB, and LEG are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with SCL.

The table below shows SCL's key quality metrics over time.