profit from every £100 of sales.
£0£100
Croda International
£37.62+0.11% today
+25.0% in 1 year
1-year low £25.181-year high £37.62
Trading close to its highest price of 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 £84.56 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 Croda International sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from £2.09 billion in 2022 to £1.70 billion in 2025, with £62.0 million of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Croda International handed back 93% of the cash it generated last year.
£155M
Free cash flow 2025£167M
Bought back its own shares–
Paid as dividends£155M
Cash vs. debt£173M vs. £697M
Croda International vs. similar companies
Croda International grows the slowest of these 5 and is the most expensive for its profits.
| Company | Profit from £100 of sales | Sales growth a year | Price per £1 of profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Croda International | 84.6× · Very expensive | ||
 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 Croda International'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 GBP | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,089 | 1,695 | 1,628 | 1,699 | |
| 986 | 730 | 734 | 746 | |
| 445 | 248 | 243 | 260 | |
| 926 | 388 | 375 | 256 | |
| 649 | 171 | 159 | 62 | |
| 4.65 | 1.22 | 1.14 | 0.44 | |
| 47.2% | 43.1% | 45.1% | 43.9% | |
| 21.3% | 14.6% | 14.9% | 15.3% | |
| 31.1% | 10.1% | 9.7% | 3.6% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of GBP | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 3,612 | 3,579 | 3,509 | 3,411 |
| Cash | 321 | 173 | 167 | 173 |
| Total debt | 616 | 710 | 699 | 697 |
| Total liabilities | 1,181 | 1,211 | 1,212 | 1,209 |
| 2,416 | 2,353 | 2,283 | 2,187 | |
| 140 | 140 | 140 | 140 | |
| 19.9% | 6.4% | 6.0% | 3.1% | |
| 26.9% | 7.3% | 6.9% | 2.8% |
Cash flow
| In millions of GBP | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 308 | 338 | 319 | 287 | |
| 152 | 189 | 182 | 120 | |
| 156 | 149 | 138 | 167 | |
| Dividends paid | 144 | 151 | 152 | 155 |
| – | – | – | – | |
| -11 | -4 | 5 | 5 |
Valuation
- 84.6×
- –
- –
- 2.4×
- 3.1×
- 31.5×
- 22.5×
- 3.2%
- 1.2%
- 3.0%
Profitability
- 43.9%
- 15.3%
- 3.6%
- –
- 3.1%
- 8.9%
- –
- –
- –
- –
Growth
- −6.7%
- −54.3%
- –
- –
- −0.0%
Financial health
- 2.0×
- 0.32
- –
- 4.2×
- 1.99
- –
- –
How it ranks in Materials
Each dot is where the company stands among every company over $300M in the sector. Further right is better.
Bottom 28%of 990
Top 35%of 950
Bottom 8%of 765
Bottom 18%of 929
Top 42%of 987
3.0%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$30a year at today's yield, before tax
–per share
Raised–not every year
How safe it looks
249.8% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 93.0%
News
No recent news on file.
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
0/7Passes 0 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
42No pass
Benjamin Graham
48No pass
Philip Fisher
27No pass
Peter Lynch
19No pass
Joel Greenblatt
2No pass
Charlie Munger
33No pass
Terry Smith
33No pass
Questions about Croda International
Is Croda International a good stock to buy?
A business with weak numbers, priced as if everything goes right. 0 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 Croda International AI analysis
What does Croda International do?
Croda International Plc engages in the consumer care, life science, and industrial specialty businesses in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, North America, Asia, and Latin America. It is in Specialty Chemicals, based in Goole, United Kingdom, with 5,954 employees.
Does Croda International pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 3.0% a year, about 250% of its yearly profit. In 2025 it paid out £155 million in dividends.
Is Croda International stock halal?
Yes. Croda International passes our halal screen: its business is permitted and its debt is 13% of its market value, under the 30% limit. How we check
How has Croda International stock done over the past year?
Up 25.0% over the past twelve months, to £37.62. It traded between £25.18 and £37.62, close to its high.
Who are Croda International'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 Croda International's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 13, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.