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The Chemours Company

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Chemicals - Specialty · Basic Materials
Also trades as: 0HWG.L
Price
$14.74
-1.00 (-6.38%)
Market Cap
$2.22B
Winston Score
8
Winston is worried
Weak fundamentals across most pillars.
Data as of Aug 10, 2026 · filings through Jun 30, 2026

Share count falling — buybacks

10.8% over 4y

The company has reduced its share count over this period, returning value to shareholders through buybacks.

Diluted shares outstanding: 168.7M (2021) → 150.6M (2025)

Chemours is a chemical company that makes specialty materials used in many everyday products. Its biggest business is titanium dioxide, a white pigment used in paints, coatings, and plastics. It also makes Teflon-branded fluoropolymers — the slippery coating found on cookware and industrial equipment — and refrigerant gases used in air conditioners and cars. Chemours was spun off from DuPont in 2015 and inherited several of DuPont's core chemical businesses.

Chemours sells its products to manufacturers around the world, with operations across North America, Europe, and Asia. It earns revenue by selling chemicals in bulk, so profits are sensitive to commodity pricing cycles and raw material costs. The company carries significant debt and faces ongoing legal liabilities related to PFAS chemicals — a class of compounds linked to environmental contamination — which represents a major financial and regulatory risk that continues to weigh on its margins and balance sheet.

Winston Score History

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

-1.5% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue declining

EPS Growth

+28.7% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

EPS growth accelerating

R&D Spend

$108M/ year

Flat (-1% vs prior year)

1.9% of revenue

Below sector average (3%)

Steady R&D investment year-over-year

Insider Activity

1.0%ownership

Flat

Insider ownership roughly steady over the past year

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

$841M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↓ Burn rate worsening

Company generates more cash than it spends — no dilution risk from fundraising

Revenue declining

The Chemours Company's revenue is actually shrinking. In a growth stock, that removes the core investment thesis. The low Winston Score here may be warranted — unless there's a turnaround story.

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Quality

Gross Margin
18.0%
Thin — 18.0% gross margin
Operating Margin
-13.4%
Losing money on operations — -13.4%
ROCE
-5.6%
Weak — -5.6% return on capital

Negative ROIC means the business is losing money on every dollar invested in it.

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Growth

Sales YoY
-1.4%
Shrinking sales (-1.4% YoY)
EPS YoY
N/A
Data not available
EPS Consistency
3/8 quarters
Earnings rarely grow — volatile business

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion
N/A
Data not available
FCF Margin
2.2%
Thin free cash flow (2.2%)

FCF margin between 0% and 10%. Some cash from sales, but not a lot.

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Stability

Debt / Equity
N/A
Data not available
Interest Cover
N/A
Data not available

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)
N/M
Negative earnings — P/E not meaningful
P/E vs Forward
N/A
not available
Data not available

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Dividends

Dividend Yield
1.91%
Small dividend — 1.91% yield

Modest yield. The bulk of any return needs to come from price appreciation.

Dividend Growth
-58.2%
Dividend cut (-58.2% YoY) — warning sign

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