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Oil-Dri Corporation of America (ODC)

NYSE / Basic Materials / Chemicals - Specialty

Share price

85.85 USD Market dataClose of Oct 14, 2026

Market capitalisation

1.20B USD Market dataClose of Oct 14, 2026
Market data
Oct 14, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2026, filed Oct 8, 2026
Ratios computed
Oct 14, 2026
Filed years
16, FY2010 to FY2026
Four kinds of sourceSEC filingCompany statementMarket dataComputedWhat each means
SEC filingFiled with the SEC
Read from a statement the company filed with the SEC, with the form, fiscal year, filing date and accession beside it.
Company statementCompany statement
What the company says about itself in a filing: an 8-K item, the auditor, its own segment names.
Market dataMarket data
Prices, market value and what analysts publish, with the date they are as of.
ComputedComputed by ValueScreener
Worked out by us from the other three, with the inputs and the formula one press away. A score is a research output, not a rating or a recommendation.
Reading

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Overview

What the business is, what it costs, and how it reads on four questions.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Four questions, at a glance

Quality

Return on equity

19.1% Computed

From the FY2026 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

20.97x Computed

FY2026 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

3.8% Computed

FY2026 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2017 Revenue: 262.3M USDFY2017 Net income: 10.8M USDFY2018 Revenue: 266.0M USDFY2018 Net income: 8.2M USDFY2019 Revenue: 277.0M USDFY2019 Net income: 12.6M USDFY2020 Revenue: 283.2M USDFY2020 Net income: 18.9M USDFY2021 Revenue: 305.0M USDFY2021 Net income: 11.1M USDFY2022 Revenue: 348.6M USDFY2022 Net income: 5.7M USDFY2023 Revenue: 413.0M USDFY2023 Net income: 29.6M USDFY2024 Revenue: 437.6M USDFY2024 Net income: 39.4M USDFY2025 Revenue: 485.6M USDFY2025 Net income: 54.0M USDFY2026 Revenue: 493.8M USDFY2026 Net income: 57.0M USD
Revenue Net income10 filed fiscal years, from the annual reports; the table in Filings names each document.
Named tests met
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The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it cheap

Price to earnings is 20.97x at the close of 2026-10-14 on FY2026 figures; the lines are 15.00x (Graham's defensive ceiling) and, by market convention, 10.00x, 25.00x and 40.00x, and this sits between 15.00x and 25.00x.

Today, against the Basic Materials sector (124 companies), 20.97x sits at the 51st percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 14.77x to 34.48x.

Is it good

Return on equity was 19.1% in FY2026, in the band labelled "Strong" (15.0% to 25.0%), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data, suggesting high returns on shareholders' money, which leverage can also produce.

Today, against the Chemicals - Specialty industry (52 companies), 19.1% sits at the 86th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from -11.1% to 13.8%.

Is it safe

Interest coverage was 30.91x in FY2026, in the band labelled "Comfortable" (6.00x and above), on lines anchored on Damodaran's interest-coverage table, suggesting an interest bill operating profit covers many times over.

Year by year against peers
Whether Oil-Dri Corporation of America's return on equity stayed above the median of the Chemicals - Specialty industry, year by year. (FY2023 to FY2025, 3 fiscal years of Oil-Dri Corporation of America with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way Oil-Dri Corporation of America's return on equity has moved, and how steadily. (FY2017 to FY2026, 10 filed years of Oil-Dri Corporation of America)
What could explain it
What in Oil-Dri Corporation of America's filed statements could explain the movements. (3 readings drawn from the statement lines Oil-Dri Corporation of America filed)
What to check next
What to check next on Oil-Dri Corporation of America, and where in its filings. (2 questions for Oil-Dri Corporation of America)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on Oil-Dri Corporation of America's returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (11 of sixteen figures read for Oil-Dri Corporation of America)

These are ODC’s filed figures. The research desk says what they mean, against peers and its own years, with what to check next.

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What changed

The newest filing, what it moved, and when the next one is due.

SEC filingCompany statement

The newest accounts on file are the FY2026 annual report: 10-K, filed Oct 8, 2026, accession 0001628280-26-065453.

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Quality

The returns the business earns on its capital, and the margins behind them.

SEC filingComputed

Oil-Dri Corporation of America: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Return on invested capital, after tax
Why n/a

The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.

n/a ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Oct 8, 2026, 0001628280-26-065453
Return on equity19.1% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Oct 8, 2026, 0001628280-26-065453
Return on capital employed, pre-tax18.9% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Oct 8, 2026, 0001628280-26-065453
Return on assets13.3% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Oct 8, 2026, 0001628280-26-065453
Gross margin27.8% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Oct 8, 2026, 0001628280-26-065453
Operating margin13.8% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Oct 8, 2026, 0001628280-26-065453
Net margin11.5% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Oct 8, 2026, 0001628280-26-065453
ODC 11.5%
REX 14.6%KOP 3.0%MTX -0.9%SCL 2.0%KRO -6.0%
-6.0%14.6%
Net margin: ODC against the 5 companies named under Valuation context, each as filed for its own latest year. Placement only: no average is drawn.

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Financial strength

What it owes against what it owns, and whether it can meet what falls due.

SEC filingComputedCompany statement

Oil-Dri Corporation of America: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Debt to equity
Why n/a

The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.

n/a ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Oct 8, 2026, 0001628280-26-065453
Current ratio3.07 ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Oct 8, 2026, 0001628280-26-065453
Quick ratio2.28 ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Oct 8, 2026, 0001628280-26-065453
Interest coverage30.91x ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Oct 8, 2026, 0001628280-26-065453
Altman Z-score8.59 ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Oct 8, 2026, 0001628280-26-065453
Net debt
Why n/a

The FY2026 balance sheet carries no net debt we could read.

n/a ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Oct 8, 2026, 0001628280-26-065453
Total assets 428.8MTotal liabilities 131.1MShareholders' equity 297.7MOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What Oil-Dri Corporation of America owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2026, from the balance sheet it filed (10-K, filed Oct 8, 2026, 0001628280-26-065453).

Oil-Dri Corporation of America: balance sheet position
Total assets428.8M FiledFY2026 10-K, filed Oct 8, 2026
Total liabilities131.1M FiledFY2026 10-K, filed Oct 8, 2026
Shareholders' equity297.7M FiledFY2026 10-K, filed Oct 8, 2026
Cash73.7M FiledFY2026 10-K, filed Oct 8, 2026
Total debtn/a FiledFY2026 10-K, filed Oct 8, 2026
Net debtn/a
Current ratio3.07
Debt to equityn/a
  • Debt to equity: FY2026: The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.

Read from the filed balance sheet for each year, with the income statement of the same year supplying operating profit where a ratio needs it. Nothing here is a view on whether this company is sound.

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Valuation context

What the market charges for it, against its own record and companies like it.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Oil-Dri Corporation of America: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings20.97x ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Oct 8, 2026, 0001628280-26-065453
P/E on trailing twelve months68.54x ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book4.01x ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Oct 8, 2026, 0001628280-26-065453
Price to sales2.42x ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Oct 8, 2026, 0001628280-26-065453
Enterprise value to EBIT
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Oct 8, 2026, 0001628280-26-065453
Enterprise value to EBITDA
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Oct 8, 2026, 0001628280-26-065453
Price to earnings over growth
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Oct 8, 2026, 0001628280-26-065453
Diluted earnings per share
Why n/a

The FY2026 filing carries no diluted earnings per share we could read.

n/a FiledFY2026 10-K, filed Oct 8, 2026, 0001628280-26-065453
Graham number
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Oct 8, 2026, 0001628280-26-065453

We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value ODC on your own assumptions in the DCF workbench, starting from the filed figures.

Its own record, and companies like it

Valuation

What the market charges for Oil-Dri Corporation of America today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.

Oil-Dri Corporation of America: valuation
Share price85.85 USD
Market capitalisation1.20B USD
Enterprise value to EBITDAn/a
Graham numbern/a
Diluted earnings per share, FY2019n/a

Diluted earnings per share, FY2019: 1.67 as filed, 0.835 after the 2-for-1 split on 6 Jan 2025.

Price to earnings on trailing twelve months, a different basis from the fiscal-year P/E above, since Aug 13, 2021: low 9.04x, median 26.86x, high 85.49x, latest 68.54x. 1,296 trading days with a meaningful ratio. Each close over the trailing twelve months of earnings as known that day: a quarter counts from the day it was filed.

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Same industry (Chemicals - Specialty) and size band (Small, 300M to 2B), nearest in market value, net margin and current ratio. Each of those counts equally, by how many of the companies considered sit between the two on it. Closest first: the order is likeness and nothing else.

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Cash generation

Whether profit arrives as cash, and what is paid back to shareholders.

SEC filingComputed

Oil-Dri Corporation of America: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield3.8% ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Oct 8, 2026, 0001628280-26-065453
Free cash flow45.9M USD ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Oct 8, 2026, 0001628280-26-065453
Free cash flow margin9.3% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Oct 8, 2026, 0001628280-26-065453
Dividend yield0.9% ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Oct 8, 2026, 0001628280-26-065453
Payout ratio18.2% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Oct 8, 2026, 0001628280-26-065453
FY2017 Free cash flow: 12.2M USDFY2017 Net income: 10.8M USDFY2018 Free cash flow: -4.5M USDFY2018 Net income: 8.2M USDFY2019 Free cash flow: 11.7M USDFY2019 Net income: 12.6M USDFY2020 Free cash flow: 27.7M USDFY2020 Net income: 18.9M USDFY2021 Free cash flow: -5.2M USDFY2021 Net income: 11.1M USDFY2022 Free cash flow: -13.0M USDFY2022 Net income: 5.7M USDFY2023 Free cash flow: 25.4M USDFY2023 Net income: 29.6M USDFY2024 Free cash flow: 28.3M USDFY2024 Net income: 39.4M USDFY2025 Free cash flow: 47.6M USDFY2025 Net income: 54.0M USDFY2026 Free cash flow: 45.9M USDFY2026 Net income: 57.0M USD
Free cash flow Net incomeProfit that arrives as cash stands level with net income; a gap year after year is worth reading about.

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Filings

Every figure, the year it is for and the document it was read from.

SEC filingMarket data

The filed figures

Computed from the accounts this company filed with the SEC and, in a ratio with a price in it, the last close, dated on this page. Every filed figure below carries the fiscal year and the filing date its accounts were read from, and every blank carries the reason it is blank. Nothing here is a view on this company.

Oil-Dri Corporation of America: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
20.97xFY2026Oct 14, 2026
4.01xFY2026Oct 14, 2026
n/aFY2026Oct 14, 2026
n/a Enterprise value is the market value plus total debt less cash, and the filed balance sheet reports no debt total or no cash.
3.8%FY2026Oct 14, 2026
n/aFY2026Oct 8, 2026
n/a The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.
0.9%FY2026Oct 14, 2026
n/aFY2026Oct 8, 2026
n/a The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.
3.07FY2026Oct 8, 2026
2.42xFY2026Oct 14, 2026
n/aFY2026Oct 14, 2026
n/a The filed income statement reports no earnings per share.
8.59FY2026Oct 14, 2026
-2.42FY2026Oct 8, 2026
4/9FY2026Oct 8, 2026

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2026, the newest full year on file. 16 filed fiscal years on record, FY2010 to FY2026, from SEC EDGAR. Prices as of Oct 14, 2026. Ratios recomputed Oct 14, 2026. Two facts, because a recompute is not a fresh quote.

The year and the filing date name the statement each figure’s accounts are read from, and they stand even where the figure itself could not be computed: the line beneath a blank says what that statement did not carry. A figure’s name opens its formula and the filings behind it; a statement that names no SEC filing has no filing date, and reads n/a.

Ten years of filed figures, year by year

Ten years of filed figures

10 filed fiscal years, FY2017 to FY2026, read from the annual reports Oil-Dri Corporation of America filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in USD, as filed.

Oil-Dri Corporation of America: revenue, earnings, free cash flow and returns, by fiscal year, with the filing each year was read from
YearRevenueOperating incomeNet incomeEPS, dilutedFree cash flowOperating marginReturn on equityFiling
FY2026493.8M68.0M57.0Mn/a45.9M13.8%19.1%10-K, Oct 8, 20260001628280-26-065453
FY2025485.6M68.2M54.0Mn/a47.6M14.1%20.8%10-K, Oct 9, 20250001628280-25-044686
FY2024437.6M51.6M39.4Mn/a28.3M11.8%18.7%10-K, Oct 10, 20240000074046-24-000061
FY2023413.0M41.0M29.6Mn/a25.4M9.9%16.7%10-K, Oct 12, 20230000074046-23-000058
FY2022348.6M4.8M5.7Mn/a-13.0M1.4%3.8%10-K, Oct 13, 20220000074046-22-000072
FY2021305.0M13.0M11.1Mn/a-5.2M4.3%7.0%10-K, Oct 13, 20210000074046-21-000082
FY2020283.2M24.8M18.9Mn/a27.7M8.8%12.8%10-K, Oct 13, 20200000074046-20-000052
FY2019277.0M10.4M12.6M0.8311.7M3.8%9.3%10-K, Oct 10, 20190000074046-19-000049
FY2018266.0M15.9M8.2M0.56-4.5M6.0%6.3%10-K, Oct 12, 20180000074046-18-000046
FY2017262.3M15.2M10.8M0.7312.2M5.8%8.6%10-K, Oct 10, 20170000074046-17-000041
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2017 to FY2026: 7.3%
  • Earnings, compound annual growth FY2017 to FY2026: 20.3%
  • Earnings per share, compound annual growth FY2017 to FY2019: 6.6%
  • Free cash flow, compound annual growth FY2017 to FY2026: 15.9%

Every figure in this section is a line of a filed annual statement or a ratio of two of them. Nothing here is estimated or smoothed. Earnings per share filed before a share split are put on today's share count, and say so. Nothing here is a verdict on the company.

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Risks and guardrails

The accounting screens, the published tests, and the lines you can set to be told.

ComputedCompany statement

Oil-Dri Corporation of America: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-2.42 ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Oct 8, 2026, 0001628280-26-065453
Piotroski F-score4/9 ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Oct 8, 2026, 0001628280-26-065453
Named tests met1 of 30 Computed
Beta0.33 ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 1 met, 19 not met, 10 we could not complete. Counts, never a score: a single figure would have to decide that meeting one investor’s criteria and meeting another’s are worth the same.

Which tests, by name(all 30)
Meets
Cash-covered dividend
Does not
Defensive investor (Benjamin Graham); Deep value; Large cap, low P/E; High F-score, low P/B (Joseph Piotroski); Three forensic scores; Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx); High yield, low payout; Dividends and buybacks; Near the 52-week low; Owner earnings yield; High return on tangibles; Low P/S, rising earnings (James O'Shaughnessy); Book or below, low debt (Walter Schloss); Tangible book or below; Cash-flow yield and ROIC; Clean books, high ROIC; Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman); Cheapest quarter on P/B (David Dreman); Low P/E, growth, yield (John Neff)
Not measured
Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); High returns and growth; EV/EBITDA and coverage; Low beta, profitable; ROIC at or above WACC; Z-score and coverage (Edward Altman); Two thirds of NCAV (Benjamin Graham); P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); High returns, low debt. A test with a figure we could not read is incomplete, never met and never failed.
Figures we could not read(11)
  • Debt to Equity: The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.
  • Positive Earnings Streak: The latest filed year has no per-share earnings we can read; the test needs 10.
  • EV/EBIT: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Return on Invested Capital: The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.
  • PEG Ratio: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Eps Growth 5Y: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • EV/EBITDA: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Share Count Change Yoy: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • ROIC-WACC Spread: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Price To Ncav: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Price To Graham: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

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Declared positions

Whether anybody here owns this company.

Positions declared by Javier Sanz Alvarez: no holding in any company shown here, as of October 3, 2026.

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Next step

What to do with what you have read.

A thesis is your reason for owning it, in your words, with the figures that must stay true. Checking those figures every night against the newest filed accounts, and telling you once when one breaks, is what the subscription adds.

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What this cannot tell you

  • 11 figures could not be read on this company, among them Debt to Equity, Positive Earnings Streak, EV/EBIT. Each blank in the table above names the rest, with its reason. 10 named tests come back incomplete because of them, which is neither met nor missed.

And the one that is true of all of it: This is what the numbers say today. It cannot tell you the day one of them stops being true. Nothing here can, because the reasons are not written down.

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