QUAKER CHEMICAL CORPORATION
In the published model solve dated 2026-Q2, anchored at $156.30, QUAKER CHEMICAL CORPORATION (KWR) is priced for +23.9% growth. boothcheck publishes no house fair value, target price, or buy/sell rating; individual model outputs and user-controlled scenarios are analytical inputs, not Boothcheck targets. The narrative was composed June 27, 2026 from SEC EDGAR filings.
• Quaker Houghton sells the process fluids that keep heavy industry running, the coolants, lubricants, and treatments used to make steel, aluminum, autos, and aerospace parts, an embedded, low-dollar-but-mission-critical input its customers rarely switch. • The price reads rich on cyclically depressed earnings but reasonable on normalized ones: at roughly 21 times mid-cycle operating income it implies a recovery toward the company's through-the-cycle margins, not perpetual trough conditions. • W
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275 institutional managers reported holding KWR in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 88% of the company; the top 10 hold 48%. 28 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Vanguard Group, Royce & Associates, among others. On the short side, 1.7M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 10% of shares outstanding (12.1 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
KWR has cut its share count 2.7% over the past five years, spending $90.77M on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (16 and counting), raised 14 years straight; the current rate is $1.99 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $92.39M in dividends and $90.77M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at KWR over the trailing three years: 2025: 1 buy totaling $50k. 25 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
KWR's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-05-05 | +11.3% | -6.2% |
| 2023-08-02 | -5.3% | -17.2% |
| 2023-11-03 | +13.0% | +23.2% |
| 2024-03-01 | +0.5% | -6.3% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
KWR's latest 8-K filings: 2026-09-08 (items 5.02, 9.01); 2026-07-30 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-07-07 (items 5.02); 2026-05-15 (items 5.02, 5.07, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-04-30 (items 2.02, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Dates link to the filing on EDGAR. Nothing here is investment advice.
Model solve date: 2026-Q2
Narrative composed: June 27, 2026
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