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SCL Short Interest

Stepan Co
1W: +4.1% 1M: +0.7% 3M: +12.0% YTD: +38.8% 1Y: +42.5% 3Y: -6.7% 5Y: -40.6%
$65.21
+0.44 (+0.68%)
After Hours: $65.47 (+0.26, +0.39%)
Weekly Expected Move ±2.7%
$61 $62 $64 $66 $67
NYSE · Basic Materials · Chemicals - Specialty · Tech Score Strong Buy · Power 65 · $1.5B mcap · 22M float · 0.682% daily turnover · Short 76% of daily vol
Credit Risk of going bust: higher than 54% of companies Debt: 32.5% of company value Bonds: none of note held by US funds details ▾
Of US companies ranked in the middle of the pack, about 1 in 580 filed for bankruptcy within a year (2020-2025).
If the stock fell to about $3.03 (down 95%), Stepan Co would be worth roughly what it owes.
Total debt $707.3M against a stock market value of $1.47B.
Distance to default 4.78 (Merton model): prices to 2026-10-26, balance sheet 2026-06-30, debt counted $525.3M (short-term plus half of long-term), stock volatility 37.3%; Altman Z 2.60. A ranking and a back-test, not a forecast.
US fund filings (SEC N-PORT) show under $25M of this company's bonds, so there is no bond page. Its debt may be bank loans or privately placed. How these are computed.

Short Volume Summary

2026-10-26
76.5%
Short Ratio
of total volume
64.9%
20-Day Avg
68.2%
50-Day Avg
▲ Rising
5-Day Trend
0.0M
Short Volume
0.0M
Total Volume

Daily Short Volume Ratio

Short Volume vs Total Volume

Exchange Breakdown

2026-10-26
ExchangeShort VolumeTotal VolumeShort %
NASDAQ 21,299 28,263 75.4%
NYSE 1,667 1,750 95.3%
BATS 10 25 40.0%

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