SCL — Stepan Company

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About Stepan Company

Stepan Company, together with its subsidiaries, produces and sells specialty and intermediate chemicals to other manufacturers for use in various end products in the United States, France, Poland, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Mexico, and internationally. It operates through three segments: Surfactants, Polymers, and Specialty Products. The Surfactants segment offers surfactants that are used in consumer and industrial cleaning and disinfection pro… Read full Trend Edge analysis →

Trend Edge Proprietary Indicators

Key Metrics

Current Price$53.64
Market Cap$1.17B
Float21.3M
Shares Outstanding22.7M
P/E (Forward)19.84
Price/Sales (TTM)0.50
vs. Analyst Target+39.8% to analyst PT
Profit Margin-0.61%
Operating Margin (TTM)2.62%
Revenue (TTM)$2.34B
Earnings Growth (YoY)49.10%
Dividend Rate1.6%
Analyst Target Price$75.00 (2 analysts)

Financial History

Annual Revenue & Earnings History

YearRevenueNet IncomeGross ProfitEBITDA
2020 $1.87B $127M $384M $261M
2021 $2.35B $138M $396M $270M
2022 $2.77B $147M $427M $294M
2023 $2.33B $40.2M $278M $170M
2024 $2.18B $50.4M $272M $192M
2025 $2.33B $46.9M $270M $212M

Recent Quarterly Revenue & Net Income

QuarterRevenueNet Income
Jun 2025 $595M $11.3M
Sep 2025 $590M $10.8M
Dec 2025 $554M $5.0M
Mar 2026 $605M -$41.4M

Ownership & Float

Insider Ownership5.8%
Institutional Ownership87.7%
Short Float1.9%
% of All Funds Holding2.48%
Number of Funds Holding204

Current Moving Averages

Trend Edge tracks near-term, medium-term, cyclical, and secular moving averages across weekly and monthly timeframes to identify trend structure at every horizon.

TimeframeSMAValueTrend Context
Weekly10-Week SMA$51.48Near-term / short-term trend
Weekly40-Week SMA$50.14Medium-term trend
Weekly80-Week SMA$54.34Cyclical trend (business cycle)
Weekly200-Week SMA$76.37Secular trend (multi-year)
Monthly10-Month SMA$49.59Near-term monthly trend
Monthly20-Month SMA$55.01Medium-term monthly trend
Monthly40-Month SMA$71.48Secular monthly trend

Volume Shelves — Support & Resistance

Trend Edge identifies volume shelves: price zones where historically elevated trading volume creates structural support or resistance. A volume shelf forms when a disproportionate share of cumulative volume was transacted at a specific price level, making it a high-conviction anchor for future price reactions.

Price LevelTypeVolume RatioAge
$57.00 resistance 1.13x 2 months ago
$48.00 support 1.30x 3 months ago
$61.00 resistance 1.19x 13 months ago
$76.00 resistance 1.10x 16 months ago
$77.00 resistance 1.08x 18 months ago

Historical Earnings Reactions (116 events)

TimeframeAvg ReturnMedianWin RateBestWorst
Gap 0.05% 0.05% 51.72% 2.65% -5.51%
1 Day -0.04% -0.14% 43.10% 7.08% -10.64%
1 Week 0.40% 0.42% 53.45% 13.06% -14.04%
2 Weeks 0.16% 0.94% 56.90% 15.80% -17.93%
1 Month 0.70% 0.91% 53.04% 32.83% -18.54%

Next earnings: July 17, 2026 (49 days away)

Seasonality & Day-of-Week Patterns

Monthly Seasonality

MonthAvg ReturnWin RateSamples
Jan1.3%47.1%51
Feb0.6%51.0%51
Mar1.8%54.9%51
Apr3.3%62.7%51
May-0.2%46.0%50
Jun2.0%58.0%50
Jul1.5%50.0%50
Aug-0.4%36.0%50
Sep-1.1%46.0%50
Oct0.3%46.0%50
Nov2.1%56.0%50
Dec1.6%60.8%51

Day-of-Week Tendencies

DayAvg ReturnWin RateSamples
Monday -0.00% 41.7% 2384
Tuesday 0.07% 41.6% 2587
Wednesday 0.07% 42.9% 2587
Thursday 0.07% 42.9% 2537
Friday 0.03% 41.0% 2524

Top Institutional Holders

Institutional holder breakdown coming soon.

Total institutional ownership: 87.7%

Insider Transactions — Smart Summary

Total insider ownership: 5.8%

12-Month Insider Activity Summary

Total Filings1
Net Value+N/A
Net Shares Change-12,998
% of Float-0.1%
C-Suite Filings0
Clusters Detected0

Key Insiders

NameTitleNet ValueFilingsActivity
STEPAN F QUINN JR -$501,600.645 1 1 sell

Significant Filings

DateInsiderTitleNet ValuePrice After
2025-08-06 STEPAN F QUINN JR -$501,600.645 Transaction at $49.99, now +7.3%

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