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CBT Cabot Corporation
NYSE USD Basic Materials
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As of 30 Oct 2026
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Market facts
- Market cap
- 4B
- P/E ratio
- 20.73
- Analyst target
- 90.3333
- Dividend yield
- 2.5%
- Beta
- 0.82
Profile
Instrument facts
- Exchange
- NYSE
- Currency
- USD
- Sector
- Basic Materials
- Industry
- Specialty Chemicals
- ISIN
- Not available
- Market cap
- 4B
- P/E ratio
- 20.73
- Analyst target
- 90.3333
- Dividend yield
- 2.5%
- Beta
- 0.82
About
About Cabot Corporation
Cabot Corporation operates as a specialty chemicals and performance materials company. It operates through two segments, Reinforcement Materials and Performance Chemicals. The company offers reinforcing carbons that are used in tires as a rubber reinforcing agent and performance additive, as well as in industrial products, such as hoses, belts, extruded profiles, and molded goods; and engineered elastomer composites solutions. It also provides specialty carbons for use in inks, coatings, plastics, adhesives, toners, batteries, and displays; conductive additives and fumed alumina used in lead acid and lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles; fumed silica used in adhesives, sealants, cosmetics, batteries, inks, toners, silicone elastomers, coatings, polishing slurries, and pharmaceuticals; and fumed alumina for use in various products, including inkjet media, lighting, coatings, cosmetics, and polishing slurries. In addition, it offers aerogel, a hydrophobic, silica-based particle to use in various thermal insulation and specialty chemical applications; masterbatch and conductive compound products that are used in automotive, industrial, packaging, infrastructure, agriculture, consumer products, and electronics industries; and inkjet colorants for inkjet printing applications, as well as carbon nanotubes and fumed metal oxides. The company sells its products through distributors and sales representatives in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. Cabot Corporation was founded in 1882 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
Research context
Cabot Corporation appears in PyInvesting’s US Stock catalogue. The price history above describes this recorded instrument; it does not by itself identify a company’s business or establish a continuous investment return.
- Currency
- USD
- Sector
- Basic Materials
- Industry
- Specialty Chemicals
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5 years, 6 months ago
Cabot Corporation is currently in a long term uptrend where the price is trading 13.2% above its 200 day moving average.
From a valuation standpoint, the stock is 87.8% cheaper than other stocks from the Basic Materials sector with a price to sales ratio of 1.2.
Cabot Corporation's total revenue rose by 2.6% to $746M since the same quarter in the previous year.
Its net income has increased by 46.3% to $60M since the same quarter in the previous year.
Finally, its free cash flow fell by 121.6% to $-8M since the same quarter in the previous year.
Based on the above factors, Cabot Corporation gets an overall score of 4/5.