Koppers is a specialty chemicals business based in the US. Koppers shares (KOP) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $30.26 – a decrease of 3.01% over the previous week. Koppers employs 2,082 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $2.1 billion.
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| Latest market close | $30.26 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $22.99 - $44.36 |
| 50-day moving average | $27.15 |
| 200-day moving average | $32.75 |
| Wall St. target price | $59.50 |
| PE ratio | 26.2185 |
| Dividend yield | $0.29 (1.03%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $1.19 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $30.37 from 2025-05-22
| 1 week (2025-05-16) | -2.66% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2025-04-25) | 20.09% |
| 3 months (2025-02-25) | -4.86% |
| 6 months (2024-11-25) | -22.17% |
| 1 year (2024-05-24) | -29.16% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2023-05-24) | -0.25% |
| 3 years (2022-05-24) | 24.02% |
| 5 years (2020-05-22) | 94.51% |
Valuing Koppers stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Koppers's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Koppers's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 26x. In other words, Koppers shares trade at around 26x recent earnings.
That's comparable to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29).
Koppers's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 0.3544. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Koppers's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Koppers's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $257.3 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Koppers's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $2.1 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 10.23% |
| Gross profit TTM | $432.2 million |
| Return on assets TTM | 6.43% |
| Return on equity TTM | 4.31% |
| Profit margin | 1.24% |
| Book value | $24.90 |
| Market Capitalization | $624.3 million |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 7.13% of net profits
Recently Koppers has paid out, on average, around 0% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Koppers shareholders could enjoy a 0% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Koppers's case, that would currently equate to about $0.29 per share.
While Koppers's payout ratio might seem low, this can signify that Koppers is investing more in its future growth.
Koppers's most recent dividend payout was on 16 June 2025. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 29 May 2025 (the "ex-dividend date").
Over the last 12 months, Koppers's shares have ranged in value from as little as $22.99 up to $44.3591. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Koppers's is 1.442. This would suggest that Koppers's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
Koppers Holdings Inc. provides treated wood products, wood preservation chemicals, and carbon compounds in the United States, Australasia, Europe, and internationally. It operates through three segments: Railroad and Utility Products and Services; Performance Chemicals; and Carbon Materials and Chemicals. The company procures and treats crossties, switch ties, and various types of lumber used for railroad bridges and crossings; offers utility products, including pressure treatment of transmission and distribution poles for electric and telephone utilities; untreated wood products and rail joint bars; and provides railroad services, such as engineering, design, repair, and inspection services for railroad bridges. It also provides copper-based wood preservatives comprising micronized copper azole, micronized pigments, alkaline copper quaternary, amine copper azole, dichloro-octyl-isothiazolinone, chromated copper arsenate under the MicroPro and MicroShades brands for decking, fencing, utility poles, construction lumber and timbers, and various agricultural applications; and supplies fire-retardant chemicals under the FlamePro brand for pressure treatment of wood applications. In addition, the company offers creosote for the treatment of wood or as a feedstock in the production of carbon black; carbon pitch, a raw material used in the production of aluminum and steel; naphthalene for use as a feedstock in the production of phthalic anhydride and as a surfactant in the production of concrete; phthalic anhydride for the production of plasticizers, polyester resins, and alkyd paints; and carbon black feedstock. It serves the railroad, specialty chemical, utility, residential lumber, agriculture, aluminum, steel, rubber, and construction sectors.
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