Innospec (FRA:OCT) Debt-to-EBITDA : (As of Jun. 2026)

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FRA:OCT Innospec Inc FRA:OCT
79 GF Score
Price €80.00
GF Value €81.97
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What is Innospec Debt-to-EBITDA?

Debt-to-EBITDA measures a company's ability to pay off its debt.

Innospec's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2026 was €13 Mil. Innospec's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2026 was €29 Mil. Innospec's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2026 was €178 Mil. Innospec's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2026 was 0.24.

A high Debt-to-EBITDA ratio generally means that a company may spend more time to paying off its debt. According to Joel Tillinghast's BIG MONEY THINKS SMALL: Biases, Blind Spots, and Smarter Investing, a ratio of Debt-to-EBITDA exceeding four is usually considered scary unless tangible assets cover the debt.

The historical rank and industry rank for Innospec's Debt-to-EBITDA or its related term are showing as below:

FRA:OCT' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.2   Med: 0.36   Max: 1.89
Current: 0.25

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Innospec was 1.89. The lowest was 0.20. And the median was 0.36.

FRA:OCT's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked better than
85.2% of 1270 companies
in the Chemicals industry
Industry Median: 1.98 vs FRA:OCT: 0.25

Innospec  (FRA:OCT) Debt-to-EBITDA Explanation

In the calculation of Debt-to-EBITDA, we use the total of Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation and Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation divided by EBITDA. In some calculations, Total Liabilities is used to for calculation.


Be Aware

A high Debt-to-EBITDA ratio generally means that a company may spend more time to paying off its debt.

According to Joel Tillinghast's BIG MONEY THINKS SMALL: Biases, Blind Spots, and Smarter Investing, a ratio of Debt-to-EBITDA exceeding four is usually considered scary unless tangible assets cover the debt.


Innospec Debt-to-EBITDA Related Terms


Innospec Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

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The historical data trend for Innospec's Debt-to-EBITDA can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

Innospec Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

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FRA:OCT vs CC, NGVT, STDN: Debt-to-EBITDA Comparison

For the Specialty Chemicals subindustry, Innospec's Debt-to-EBITDA, along with its competitors' market caps and Debt-to-EBITDA data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Innospec Debt-to-EBITDA vs Chemicals Industry

For the Chemicals industry and Basic Materials sector, Innospec's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Innospec's Debt-to-EBITDA falls into.


FRA:OCT
79GF Score
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Innospec Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

Debt-to-EBITDA measures a company's ability to pay off its debt.

Innospec's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2025 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(13.53825194772 + 31.333815828686) / 166.04967330957
=0.27

Innospec's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2026 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(12.507653284352 + 29.388611912884) / 177.51636964615
=0.24

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

In the calculation of annual Debt-to-EBITDA, the EBITDA of the last fiscal year is used. In calculating the annualized quarterly data, the EBITDA data used here is four times the quarterly (Jun. 2026) EBITDA data.

Is Innospec (FRA:OCT) Overvalued in 2026?

Based on GuruFocus' analysis, Innospec stock appears to be undervalued. The current stock price of €80.00 is trading 2.4% below its estimated GF Value™ of €81.97.

Key valuation signals for FRA:OCT:

  • Debt-to-EBITDA:
  • GF Value™: €81.97 vs. price of €80.00 (2.4% below fair value)
  • GF Score™: 79/100 with 5 warning signs

No single metric tells the full story. See the FRA:OCT stock analysis page for a complete view including 30-year financials, guru trades, and insider activity.


Innospec Business Description

Other Exchanges IOSP:USA0JAX:UK
Address 8310 South Valley Highway, Suite 350, Englewood, CO, USA, 80112
Innospec Inc manufactures and sells a variety of chemicals and fuel additives. The firm organizes itself into three segments based on product type. The Performance Chemicals segment that derives maximum revenue, provides technology-based solutions for its customers' processes or products in personal care, home care, agrochemical, construction, mining and other industrial markets. The Fuel Specialties segment develops, manufactures, blends, markets and supplies a range of specialty chemical products used as additives in diesel, jet, marine, fuel oil and other fuels. The Oilfield Services segment develops and markets chemical solutions for drilling, completion, production, DRA and oil and gas applications.
79GF Score

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