NewMarket Corporation (NEU)

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NewMarket Corporation's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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NewMarket Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $2.0 billion in fiscal 2016 to $2.7 billion in fiscal 2025, up 3.2% a year; it rose in 5 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 12% from fiscal 2018 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, NewMarket Corporation's diluted share count shrank about 2.2% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 26% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 1 purchase of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-06, buying about $248 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, NewMarket Corporation earned about 24 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 25 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 49 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 1.8% over the year (the filed statements).

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NewMarket Corporation's standing among 20 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $2.7 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 22% by size; a net margin of 15.4% ranks in the top 12%; revenue growth of -0.5% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 24% (its annual reports).

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NewMarket Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Gottwald, Thomas E (Chairman, President & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2006-02-07, 20.8 years (top 3% of its family); the 12 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 11.6 years (top 17%); 6 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 12 people in charge now (top 29%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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NewMarket Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $78 million against debt of $883 million leaves -23.1% of its assets as net cash, bottom 26% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 16.1% of revenue (top 12%); a gross margin of 31.5% (top 31%); research spending of 4.8% of revenue (top 46%) (its annual report).

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NewMarket Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -0.5% a year over the last three filed years against 3.2% over all 10, slowing (top 24% of its family); the newest year grew -2.2% (top 34%); research spending grew -2% a year (bottom 42%); capital spending grew 24.2% a year (top 21%) (its annual reports). NewMarket Corporation reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Petroleum Additives at $2.5 billion, Specialty Materials at $182 million, All Other at $9 million. 2 of 3 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 93% of revenue (its annual report).

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NewMarket Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $2.7 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 2.6% below the $2.8 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 29% of its family); net income of $419 million against a prior three-year average of $377 million (top 39%); a net margin of 15.4% against 13.7% before (top 34%) (its annual reports).