Stepan (SCL) Q3 2026 earnings — TrendMatrix coverage
Reported
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Key numbers
- Adjusted EPS
- —
- Estimate
- $0.73
- Surprise
- —
- Score today
- 6.4/10
Revenue for this quarter isn’t shown: the reported figure hasn’t cleared TrendMatrix’s freshness and sanity checks yet, and consensus revenue isn’t tracked. EPS above is the available figure.
Coverage in the report window
- Stepan Raises Quarterly Dividend From $0.395 Per Share To $0.405 Per Share — benzinga, 2026-10-28
- Stepan Q3 Adj. EPS $0.94 Beats $0.72 Estimate, Sales $692.154M Beat $634.300M Estimate — benzinga, 2026-10-28
Where TrendMatrix's rating stands now
TrendMatrix currently rates SCL Sell at 6.4/10; no pre/post engine snapshot brackets this report.
2 of the last 4 quarters beat the estimate.
What argues against it
- Quality below floor (2.5 < 4.0)
- Reward/Risk 1.2:1 at current price — below 1.5:1 minimum
- 8K_SERIOUS:2.05
This section and the ones below it reflect TrendMatrix’s latest engine read — they update after the report date and are not frozen to it.
The levels TrendMatrix's engine tracks
- Current price
- $65.21
- Price target
- $72.25
- Stop
- $62.31
- Upside to target
- +10.8%
- Reward-to-risk
- 1.2:1
Risk check: RSI 81 — a level conventionally read as overbought; gains at these levels often lean on momentum; trading volume is running 1.9× its average — elevated turnover around the report window.
Model outputs from TrendMatrix’s engine as of 2026-10-28 — shown for context, not personalized investment advice.
SCL at TrendMatrix's latest read
Materials producers report against the commodity cycle — realized-price capture and volume, not the EPS line, are the tells in a quarter like this.
- Industry
- Specialty Chemicals
- Market cap
- $1.48B
- P/E (fwd)
- 17.7
- 52-week range
- $41.82–$68.00
- Off 52-week high
- 4.1%
- RSI (14)
- 81
- Volume vs avg
- 1.94×
- Score today
- 6.4/10