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Company Dossier · Materials

Cabot Corp

CBTNYSEWILMINGTON, US-DE, USMid capWebsite ↗
  • MidCap 400

What Cabot Corp is doing, read from its filings, its own words and the news, with every figure dated and sourced. Not investment advice: no ratings, no price targets.

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The latest read

Computed from the data on Oct 22, 2026. Every figure links back to its source in the sections below.

  • Revenue over the four quarters to June 30, 2026: $3.63 billion, down 5.0% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capital expenditure) over the four quarters to June 30, 2026: $0.28 billion, down 20% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Capital expenditure over the four quarters to June 30, 2026: $0.22 billion, down 27% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Share buybacks in the fiscal year to September 30, 2025: $0.17 billion.SEC EDGAR filings (10-K)
  • Long-term debt issued in the fiscal year to September 30, 2025: $0.02 billion.SEC EDGAR filings (10-K)
  • Latest earnings call or results release (August 4, 2026): sentiment 0.20 on a −1 to +1 scale (mixed), confidence 0.60 of 1.Palanor Discourse
  • Guidance in the last 90 days: 2 outlook figures raised, 0 lowered, 1 held.Guidance Ledger (8-K results releases)
  • Latest annual report (filed November 24, 2025): 1 risk factor added, 1 removed.Risk Factor Changes (10-K Item 1A)
  • Insiders were net sellers in Q3 2026: $19.6 million on the open market.SEC Form 4
  • 392 institutional managers reported a position at June 30, 2026 (+17 on the quarter before).SEC Form 13F
  • H-1B filings certified in Q2 2026: 2.U.S. Department of Labor (OFLC)

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Cabot Corp's borrowing from its SEC filings: the bonds it priced and the debt on its latest balance sheet. A description, not a rating.

Bonds priced, last 12 months

$0.4B

U.S. dollar tranches with a term sheet on EDGAR. Deals sold under Rule 144A file none and are not counted.

PricedAmountCouponMaturesSpreadYield
Aug 12, 2026$350M4.950%2029 (3y)+70bp4.953%

From the pricing term sheets Cabot Corp filed with the SEC. Spread is to the benchmark Treasury (or Bund, Gilt) at pricing.

Charts

Live charts: each one redraws from today’s data and has an image link to paste into a document or slide.

Cash flow

Business

Cabot Corp: free cash flow, trailing twelve months

Operating cash flow minus capital expenditure, $ billions, from SEC filings

$0.28BData to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Cabot Corp: operating cash flow and capital expenditure

Trailing twelve months, $ billions, from SEC filings

Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Cabot Corp: revenue, trailing twelve months

$ billions, from SEC filings

$3.6BData to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

Capital returned and raised

Business

Cabot Corp: share buybacks by fiscal year

Cash paid to repurchase common stock, $ billions, from the 10-K

$0.17BData to Sep 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Cabot Corp: debt issued and repaid by fiscal year

Long-term debt, $ billions, from the 10-K

Data to Sep 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

What the company says

Business

Cabot Corp: guidance raised minus lowered

Guidance Ledger statements by quarter

2.0Data 23 days ago
ImageDataGuidance Ledger by Palanor · source: SEC EDGAR
Business

Cabot Corp: earnings call sentiment

Palanor Discourse score per call, −1 to +1

0.20Data to Aug 2026
ImageDataPalanor calculation
Business

Cabot Corp: earnings call confidence

Palanor Discourse score per call, 0 to 1

0.60Data to Aug 2026
ImageDataPalanor calculation
Business

Cabot Corp: risk factors added per annual report

New Item 1A risk factors in each 10-K

1.0Data to Nov 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

Hiring and ownership

Business

Cabot Corp: H-1B filings certified

Labor Condition Applications by quarter received

2.0Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification disclosure data, dol.gov
Business

Cabot Corp: insider net buying

Open-market purchases minus sales by officers and directors, $ millions, by quarter

−$19.7MData 23 days ago
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Cabot Corp: institutional holders

Managers reporting a position on Form 13F, by quarter

392.0Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

Filings and records

The last two years of notable 8-Ks, offerings, annual reports, federal awards, lobbying reports, patents and other public records, newest first.

  1. Oct 12, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (MERCURY PUBLIC AFFAIRS, LLC)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  2. Sep 15, 20268-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  3. Jul 30, 20268-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  4. Jul 17, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (MERCURY PUBLIC AFFAIRS, LLC)second_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  5. May 14, 20268-K
    Material agreement signedItem 1.01
  6. May 14, 20268-K
    Material agreement terminatedItem 1.02
  7. Apr 14, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (MERCURY PUBLIC AFFAIRS, LLC)first_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  8. Mar 17, 20268-K
    Shareholder vote resultsItem 5.07
  9. Jan 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (VENN STRATEGIES)fourth_quarter 2025 · $0.0 million
  10. Jan 15, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (MERCURY PUBLIC AFFAIRS, LLC)fourth_quarter 2025 · $0.1 million
  11. Jan 14, 20268-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  12. Nov 24, 202510-K
    Annual report (10-K)1 risk factors added, 1 removed
  13. Nov 18, 2025Patent
    Patent granted: Composition for Liquid-Based Additive ManufacturingUS 12473434
  14. Oct 20, 2025Lobbying
    Lobbying report (VENN STRATEGIES)third_quarter 2025 · $0.0 million
  15. Oct 14, 2025Lobbying
    Lobbying report (MERCURY PUBLIC AFFAIRS, LLC)third_quarter 2025 · $0.0 million
  16. Aug 19, 2025Patent
    Patent granted: COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING CONDUCTIVE ADDITIVES, RELATED ELECTRODES AND RELATED BATTERIESUS 12394798
  17. Jul 18, 2025Lobbying
    Lobbying report (VENN STRATEGIES)second_quarter 2025 · $0.1 million
  18. Jul 1, 2025Patent
    Patent granted: METHODS OF PREPARING A COMPOSITE HAVING ELASTOMER AND FILLERUS 12344728
  19. Jun 10, 2025Patent
    Patent granted: CONDUCTIVE PHOTO-CURABLE COMPOSITIONS FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURINGUS 12325182
  20. Jun 3, 20258-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  21. May 15, 2025Risk event
    OSHA referral inspection: CABOT CORPORATIONOSHA
  22. Apr 15, 2025Patent
    Patent granted: METHODS OF PREPARING A COMPOSITE HAVING ELASTOMER AND FILLERUS 12275834
  23. Mar 18, 20258-K
    Shareholder vote resultsItem 5.07
  24. Nov 20, 202410-K
    Annual report (10-K)0 risk factors added, 0 removed
  25. Nov 22, 202310-K
    Annual report (10-K)0 risk factors added, 0 removed

Peers

Companies in the same sector in the S&P 500, Russell 1000 or MidCap 400, closest in revenue first. Trailing twelve months, from SEC filings.

CompanyRevenueFree cash flowThrough
Scotts Miracle-Gro Company SMG$3.5B$0.3BJun 27, 2026
AptarGroup ATR$3.9B$0.3BJun 30, 2026
Avient AVNT$3.3B$0.2BJun 30, 2026
Knife River Corporation KNF$3.3B$0.0BJun 30, 2026
Solstice Advanced Materials SOLS$4.1B$0.2BJun 30, 2026
Coeur Mining CDE$3.2B$1.2BJun 30, 2026
Carpenter Technology Corporation CRS$3.1B$0.4BJun 30, 2026
Element Solutions ESI$2.8B—Mar 31, 2026

Identity

SEC CIK
16040
LEI
K05C0SER542GQ6VLRO68
Wikidata
Q750124

Built from SEC EDGAR filings (public domain), the Guidance and KPI Ledgers, Palanor Discourse, U.S. Department of Labor filings, USPTO, USAspending and Senate lobbying records, and rights-checked news headlines. Updated nightly; this page was built Oct 22, 2026. How the Dossier is built

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