The Bid & Ask

Quotations, Dispatches, and the Daily Tape

Friday, August 14, 2026

Subject of the day

CBT

Concerning the House

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.

United States · www.cabotcorp.com

The Long Run

FY 2010–2025 · 16 years

LineLatestCAGRTrend
Revenue$3.93B+3.8%
Gross profit$839.00M+9.1%
Operating income$614.00M+22.9%
Net income$331.00M+6.1%
Cash from ops$665.00M+6.8%
Quotation

$86.27

-0.03 (-0.0%)

52w hi$93.40
52w lo$57.64
Vol278.25K
As ofAug 13
The Verdict

Hold

Our score +0.08

Short+0.32
Medium+0.02
Long-0.28

computed 2026-08-13

By the Numbers

Cabot Corporation

Basic Materials · Specialty Chemicals

Market cap$4.45B
Enterprise value$5.62B
Trailing P/E24.17x
Forward P/E12.36x
EV / EBITDA7.64x
P / S (ttm)1.23x
Profit margin5.2%
Return on equity13.3%
Revenue growth+6.4%
Earnings growth-93.7%
Debt / equity74.39
Risk Metrics
Beta vs SPX0.80
Corr SPX0.41
Annual vol31.9%
Annual ret-0.9%
Sharpe-0.03
Max DD-49.8%

Window: 504 trading days (504 obs)

Layer Breakdown
LayerRawContribution
Fundamental+0.09
Sector+0.03
Technical+0.22
Earnings+0.00
Sentiment+0.00

macro × 1.00 · 2026-08-13

Recent Sessions
DateOpenHighLowCloseVol
Aug 13$85.39$87.00$85.85$86.27278.25K
Aug 12$86.85$87.40$85.45$86.30324.80K
Aug 11$86.82$89.23$86.82$86.98428.30K
Aug 10$87.15$88.27$86.06$86.45394.00K
Aug 7$87.10$87.80$85.60$87.62645.30K