profit from every $100 of sales.
$0$100
Cabot
$71.92-0.35% today
+15.6% in 1 year
1-year low $58.711-year high $93.40
Trading in the middle of its range for the past year.
The essentials
Four questions every investor asks, answered in one line each.
more sales each year, on average, 2022 to 2025.
0%20% a year
You pay $11.15 for every $1 of profit it makes in a year.
CheapExpensive
of earnings would pay off all its debt.
No debt5 years
Money in, money out
What Cabot sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from $4.32 billion in 2022 to $3.71 billion in 2025, with $331 million of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Cabot handed back 68% of the cash it generated last year.
Buybacks $168M$96M
Free cash flow 2025$391M
Bought back its own shares$168M
Paid as dividends$96M
Cash vs. debt$258M vs. $1.2B
Cabot vs. similar companies
Cabot grows the slowest of these 5 and is the cheapest for its profits.
| Company | Profit from $100 of sales | Sales growth a year | Price per $1 of profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cabot | 11.2× · Cheap | ||
 Linde | 35.0× · Expensive | ||
 L'Air Liquide | 35.1× · Expensive | ||
 Ecolab | 41.8× · Expensive | ||
 The Sherwin-Williams | 32.9× · Expensive |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Cabot's last five years, its segments, earnings, insiders and peers, and writes the bull case, the bear case and what the price expects.
Run the AI analysisFull statementsIncome, balance sheet and cash flow, year by year
Income statement
| In millions of USD | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,321 | 3,931 | 3,994 | 3,713 | |
| 885 | 839 | 960 | 940 | |
| 572 | 529 | 614 | 621 | |
| 537 | 685 | 761 | 795 | |
| 209 | 445 | 380 | 331 | |
| 3.62 | 7.73 | 6.72 | 6.02 | |
| 20.5% | 21.3% | 24.0% | 25.3% | |
| 13.2% | 13.5% | 15.4% | 16.7% | |
| 4.8% | 11.3% | 9.5% | 8.9% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of USD | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 3,525 | 3,604 | 3,736 | 3,815 |
| Cash | 206 | 238 | 223 | 258 |
| Total debt | 1,526 | 1,360 | 1,228 | 1,215 |
| Total liabilities | 2,493 | 2,197 | 2,146 | 2,110 |
| 898 | 1,264 | 1,425 | 1,550 | |
| 57 | 57 | 56 | 54 | |
| 12.7% | 16.3% | 18.2% | 18.3% | |
| 23.3% | 35.2% | 26.7% | 21.4% |
Cash flow
| In millions of USD | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 | 595 | 692 | 665 | |
| 211 | 244 | 241 | 274 | |
| -111 | 351 | 451 | 391 | |
| Dividends paid | 84 | 88 | 93 | 96 |
| 53 | 98 | 172 | 168 | |
| 23 | 20 | 25 | 24 |
Valuation
- 11.2×
- 11.5×
- 0.60
- 2.4×
- 1.0×
- 9.4×
- 5.8×
- 10.6%
- 9.0%
- 2.3%
Profitability
- 25.3%
- 16.7%
- 8.9%
- 21.0%
- 18.8%
- 16.8%
- 18.3%
- 7.3%
- 20.1%
- 1.6%
Growth
- −4.9%
- +18.5%
- −13.3%
- +4.9%
- −2.6%
Financial health
- 1.2×
- 0.78
- 33.3%
- 8.4×
- 1.61
- 0.96
- 0.92
How it ranks in Materials
Each dot is where the company stands among every company over $300M in the sector. Further right is better.
Top 10%of 990
Top 31%of 950
Top 16%of 765
Bottom 22%of 929
Top 12%of 987
What analysts expect
- Average price target
- $78.00
- Range
- $74.00 – $85.00
These targets were collected on May 20, 2026 and our analyst feed has not updated since, so we no longer compare them with today's price.
Recent earnings
Our results feed has not updated since May 21, 2026. Results reported after that are not in this table yet.
| Date | EPS | Expected | Surprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 2026 | 1.61 | 1.47 | +9.5% |
| Feb 3, 2026 | 1.53 | 1.40 | +9.3% |
| Nov 3, 2025 | 1.70 | 1.68 | +1.2% |
| Aug 4, 2025 | 1.90 | 1.82 | +4.4% |
| May 5, 2025 | 1.90 | 1.85 | +2.7% |
| Feb 3, 2025 | 1.76 | 1.74 | +1.1% |
| Nov 4, 2024 | 1.80 | 1.82 | −1.1% |
| Aug 5, 2024 | 1.92 | 1.72 | +11.6% |
2.3%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$23a year at today's yield, before tax
+4.9%2020 to 2025
Raised10 yearsin a row, in our data
Paid per share, each year
$0.88 in 2015 → $1.78 in 2025
How safe it looks
29.0% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 24.6%
News
Cabot to expand U.S. battery materials production with help from $50M DoE grantSeeking Alpha · Sep 17, 2026The newest story we have is from Sep 17, 2026.
Insider trades
Our insider feed has not updated since May 26, 2026. Trades filed after that are not listed yet.
No insider trades on file.
The seven classic investing rulebooks
7/7Passes 7 of 7. Each bar is how well the company fits that investor's published rules, from 0 to 100; 60 or more counts as a pass.
Warren Buffett
71Pass
Benjamin Graham
69Pass
Philip Fisher
66Pass
Peter Lynch
69Pass
Joel Greenblatt
65Pass
Charlie Munger
67Pass
Terry Smith
63Pass
Questions about Cabot
Is Cabot a good stock to buy?
A solid business, and the price looks low. 7 of the 7 famous investors' published rulebooks we apply pass it. Whether it suits you depends on your goals and the price you pay; invest-like never tells anyone to buy or sell. The AI analysis lays out the case for and against. Read the Cabot AI analysis
What does Cabot do?
Cabot Corporation operates as a specialty chemicals and performance materials company. It operates through two segments, Reinforcement Materials and Performance Chemicals. It is in Specialty Chemicals, based in Boston, MA, United States, with 4,064 employees.
Does Cabot pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 2.3% a year, about 29% of its yearly profit. In 2025 it paid out $96.0 million in dividends.
Is Cabot stock halal?
Questionable. Cabot sits in a grey zone: its debt is 33% of its market value, between 30% and 33%. How we check
How has Cabot stock done over the past year?
Up 15.6% over the past twelve months, to $71.92. It traded between $58.71 and $93.40 and is 23.0% below its high.
Who are Cabot's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are Linde, L'Air Liquide, Ecolab and The Sherwin-Williams. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with Cabot's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 13, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.