Negative shareholders' equity. Liabilities exceed assets on the balance sheet.
FMC's liabilities exceed its assets on the balance sheet. Large share buybacks can cause this in healthy companies, but so can accumulated losses; either way, debt-based ratios need care.
Valuation signals disagree. Cheaper than 95% of peers on free cash flow, but only 0% on earnings.
Relative to its free cash flow, FMC looks cheaper than 95% of peers; relative to its earnings, cheaper than only 0%. The valuation score blends the two, so look at which measure fits this business best.
Not profitable yet. Reported a loss over the last 12 months.
FMC reported a net loss over the last twelve months, so earnings-based measures can't show it as cheap.
Revenue is falling. Revenue fell 18% in the fiscal year to Dec 2025 vs the year before.
FMC's revenue fell 18% in the fiscal year to Dec 2025 vs the year before.
StockQuotient Score
21/ 100▼ 7 since Oct 27 closeOct 5 26 → Nov 4 21 (-5)Fundamentals: Yahoo Finance, not primary filings
Why it changed since the Oct 27, 2026 close: Score 53 → 55
Share price +29.3%-6
Peer companies moved+8
Each step re-scores the company against its peers as they were on Oct 28, 2026; the parts add up to the change. Price effects on EBITDA yield are approximate.
Sector-normalized EBITDA, earnings, and free cash flow yields.
Earnings yield-539.1%
Yahoo Finance · trailing 12 monthsNegative (a loss or cash outflow), so it counts as zero whatever the share price30% base weight · Z-score -1.00Sector median: 0.0364 · MAD: 0.0364
EBITDA yield-6.1%
Yahoo Finance · trailing 12 monthsNegative (a loss or cash outflow), so it counts as zero whatever the share price50% base weight · Z-score -1.64Sector median: 0.0854 · MAD: 0.0520
Free cash flow yield31.2%
Yahoo Finance · trailing 12 months · operating cash flow − capital spendingOutlier capped at sector 5th/95th percentile20% base weight · Z-score 6.93Sector median: 0.0261 · MAD: 0.0261
Why it changed since the Oct 27, 2026 close: Score 41 → 13
Company's reported figures updated-28
Each step re-scores the company against its peers as they were on Oct 28, 2026; the parts add up to the change. Price effects on EBITDA yield are approximate.
Why it changed since the Oct 27, 2026 close: Safety percentile 16 → 12
Company's reported figures updated-16
Peer companies moved+12
Each step re-scores the company against its peers as they were on Oct 28, 2026; the parts add up to the change. Price effects on EBITDA yield are approximate.
Shareholders' equity is negative, so debt/equity counts as among the highest in its peer group33% base weight · Z-score -4.82Sector median: 0.3578 · MAD: 0.2929
Valuation, growth and profitability scores: higher is better. Risk: 0 is lower, 2 is higher. Risk is a relative proxy, not a bankruptcy probability. Scores depend on available sector peers.
Questions investors ask about FMC
Is FMC getting weaker?
Filing-by-filing changes are tracked only for companies that file with the US SEC. Its overall score is 21/100, down 7 since Oct 28, 2026.
How is FMC valued vs its peers?
Priced about in line with its peers. Valuation scores 55/100 against 1,371 basic materials peers.Free cash flow yield 31.2% vs a peer median of 2.6% (stronger than 95% of peers).Free cash flow yield 31.2% vs peers 2.6% (stronger than 95% of peers).Earnings yield -539.1% vs a peer median of 3.6% (weaker than 100% of peers).Earnings yield -539.1% vs peers 3.6% (weaker than 100% of peers).
Is FMC growing?
More slowly than most of its peers. Growth scores 4/100 against 1,371 basic materials peers.Revenue growth -18.3% vs a peer median of 3.4% (weaker than 93% of peers).Revenue growth -18.3% vs peers 3.4% (weaker than 93% of peers).
How profitable is FMC?
Less profitable than most of its peers. Profitability scores 13/100 against 1,371 basic materials peers.Return on invested capital -374.5% vs a peer median of 6.7% (weaker than 100% of peers).Return on invested capital -374.5% vs peers 6.7% (weaker than 100% of peers).
How risky is FMC?
Higher risk relative to 1,371 basic materials peers, judged on debt, liquidity and share-price swings.Beta 0.52 vs a peer median of 0.69 (stronger than 67% of peers).Beta 0.52 vs peers 0.69 (stronger than 67% of peers). A relative measure, not a bankruptcy probability.
Industry valuation context
Sector: Basic Materials · 121 companies
Valuations in Basic Materials are near the top of their range since 2016.
84% of months since 2016 were valued lower than now.
43% of companies are in the most expensive fifth of their own price-to-sales history.
Over 24 months, company values +23% and earnings +13% (medians): prices and earnings moved broadly together.
Median price-to-sales is −9% vs the whole market, against a usual −27%.
2016Shaded: most expensive fifth of its range2026
Shown for Basic Materials: too few Agricultural Inputs companies have a long enough history of their own.
This is a cyclical group: after a downturn, trailing earnings and sales fall faster than prices, which can make valuations look high near a cycle's low.
Describes valuations since 2016; it does not predict prices. US companies worth $1B+, from SEC filings and month-end prices, as of Aug 2026. Today's companies and industry labels are used throughout. Measured on earnings, EBITDA, sales and free cash flow yields. How this works
Financials
Detailed annual statements come from structured SEC filing data, which most US companies and some foreign filers provide. They aren’t available for this company yet.
FMC price history
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