![]() Stepan Stepan Company is a global manufacturer of specialty and intermediate chemicals used in a broad range of industries. | ![]() Kraton Kraton is a company that develops, manufactures, and markets biobased chemicals and specialty polymers primarily derived from pine wood pulping co-products. | ||
Founding Date | Founding Date 1932 | Founding Date 2009 | Founding Date 1865 |
Type | Type Public | Type Public | Type Public |
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Locations | Locations Ludwigshafen, DE HQ Algier, DZ Buenos Aires, AR Burzaco, AR Lagos, AR Santo Tomé, AR Tortuguitas, AR see more | ||
Employees | Employees 2,3893% decrease | Employees 1,7513% decrease | Employees 110,7092% increase |
Valuation ($) | Valuation ($) 1.6 b | Valuation ($) 1.5 b | Valuation ($) N/A |
Financial | |||
Revenue (est.) | Revenue (est.) $2.3b (FY, 2025) | Revenue (est.) $2b (FY, 2021) | Revenue (est.) €59.7b (FY, 2025) |
Cost of goods | Cost of goods $2.1b (FY, 2025) | Cost of goods $1.4b (FY, 2021) | Cost of goods €41.1b (FY, 2025) |
Gross profit | Gross profit $269.9m (FY, 2025) | Gross profit $588.8m (FY, 2021) | Gross profit €20b (FY, 2025) |
Net income | Net income N/A | Net income $175.6m (FY, 2021) | Net income €1.5b (FY, 2025) |
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Countries | Countries N/A | Countries 70 (FY, 2019) | Countries 91 (FY, 2022) |
Customers | Customers N/A | Customers 700 (FY, 2019) | Customers 82 k (FY, 2022) |
Facilities Owned | Facilities Owned 8 (FY, 2019) | Facilities Owned 13 (FY, 2020) | Facilities Owned N/A |

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