profit from every €100 of sales.
€0€100
Solvay SA
€24.74+0.16% today
-7.8% since Dec 23, 25
1-year low €23.241-year high €28.86
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 €86.16 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 Solvay SA sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from €7.98 billion in 2022 to €4.75 billion in 2025, with €30.0 million of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Solvay SA handed back 56% of the cash it generated last year.
€261M
Free cash flow 2025€462M
Bought back its own shares–
Paid as dividends€261M
Cash vs. debt€536M vs. €2.1B
Solvay SA vs. similar companies
Solvay SA 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Solvay SA | 86.2× · Very expensive | ||
 Shin-Etsu Chemical | 19.4× · Fair price | ||
 BASF | 29.6× · Fair price | ||
 Saudi Basic Industries | No profit yet | ||
 Dow | No profit yet |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Solvay SA'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 EUR | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7,978 | 6,025 | 5,130 | 4,746 | |
| 1,424 | 1,383 | 1,146 | 1,003 | |
| 802 | 819 | 651 | 476 | |
| 2,109 | 1,307 | 805 | 686 | |
| 1,905 | 2,093 | 223 | 30 | |
| 18.30 | 19.85 | 2.10 | 0.28 | |
| 17.8% | 23.0% | 22.3% | 21.1% | |
| 10.1% | 13.6% | 12.7% | 10.0% | |
| 23.9% | 34.7% | 4.3% | 0.6% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of EUR | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 20,660 | 7,022 | 6,694 | 6,153 |
| Cash | 932 | 584 | 539 | 536 |
| Total debt | 2,915 | 394 | 1,881 | 2,131 |
| Total liabilities | 9,996 | 5,716 | 5,290 | 5,071 |
| 10,603 | 1,264 | 1,339 | 1,020 | |
| 104 | 105 | 106 | 105 | |
| 6.9% | 14.9% | 10.9% | 7.1% | |
| 18.0% | 165.6% | 16.7% | 2.9% |
Cash flow
| In millions of EUR | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,006 | 1,911 | 615 | 682 | |
| 909 | 1,064 | 285 | 220 | |
| 1,097 | 847 | 330 | 462 | |
| Dividends paid | 417 | 424 | 260 | 261 |
| – | – | – | – | |
| – | – | – | – |
Valuation
- 86.2×
- –
- –
- 2.7×
- 0.5×
- 5.6×
- 6.1×
- 17.9%
- 1.2%
- 10.1%
Profitability
- 21.1%
- 10.0%
- 0.6%
- –
- 6.7%
- 9.4%
- –
- –
- –
- –
Growth
- −15.9%
- −75.2%
- –
- –
- +0.4%
Financial health
- 2.3×
- 2.09
- –
- 2.3×
- 1.17
- –
- –
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 47%of 992
Top 50%of 961
Bottom 8%of 789
Bottom 5%of 956
Top 4%of 991
10.1%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$101a year at today's yield, before tax
–per share
Raised–not every year
How safe it looks
870.0% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 56.5%
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
31No pass
Benjamin Graham
27No pass
Philip Fisher
15No pass
Peter Lynch
8No pass
Joel Greenblatt
27No pass
Charlie Munger
20No pass
Terry Smith
21No pass
Questions about Solvay SA
Is Solvay SA 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 Solvay SA AI analysis
What does Solvay SA do?
Solvay SA provides basic and performance chemicals worldwide. It is in Chemicals, based in Brussels, Belgium, with 8,400 employees.
Does Solvay SA pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 10.1% a year. In 2025 it paid out €261 million in dividends.
Is Solvay SA stock halal?
No. Solvay SA does not pass our halal screen: its debt is 82% of its market value, at or above the 33% limit. How we check
Who are Solvay SA's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are Shin-Etsu Chemical, BASF, Saudi Basic Industries and Dow. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with Solvay SA's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 13, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.