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Company Dossier · Materials

Dow Inc.

DOWNYSECommodity ChemicalsWILMINGTON, US-DE, USLarge capWebsite ↗
  • S&P 500
  • Russell 1000

What Dow Inc. 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 March 31, 2026: $39.3 billion, down 7.7% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capital expenditure) over the four quarters to March 31, 2026: −$0.23 billion.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Capital expenditure over the four quarters to March 31, 2026: $2.30 billion, down 21% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Long-term debt issued in the fiscal year to December 31, 2025: $2.78 billion.SEC EDGAR filings (10-K)
  • Latest earnings call or results release (July 23, 2026): sentiment 0.30 on a −1 to +1 scale (mixed), confidence 0.60 of 1.Palanor Discourse
  • Latest annual report (filed February 3, 2026): 0 risk factors added, 0 removed.Risk Factor Changes (10-K Item 1A)
  • Insiders were net buyers in Q1 2025: $0.0 million on the open market.SEC Form 4
  • 1,209 institutional managers reported a position at June 30, 2026 (−108 on the quarter before).SEC Form 13F
  • H-1B filings certified in Q2 2026: 36 (65 a year earlier).U.S. Department of Labor (OFLC)

Risk events (12 months): 1 — latest OSHA inspection, Jan 9, 2026 →

Company Posture

How Company Posture is measured →

What Dow Inc. is doing, on three axes, from its filings and its own words, as of 2026-10-22. A description, not a rating: Company Posture never says whether to buy.

Expanding ↔ Retrenching

Withheld: 50% of the evidence is readable at this date (needs 60%).

Confident ↔ Hedging

Mixed

HedgingConfident
  • Call sentiment55th pct
  • Call confidence22nd pct
  • Guidance changes—
  • Risk factors added65th pct
  • Insider open-market trades—

Pressure

Components only: Not yet shown as a score: in the back-test it did not add to a naive reader's forecast of impairment, debt acceleration or bankruptcy filings (8-K 2.06, 2.04, 1.03) (not enough events (17 in half 1; needs 20)).

Credit

How these are built →

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

Debt on the balance sheet

$18.0B

  • Due within a year $0.8B
  • Longer term $17.3B
  • Default point $9.4B (short + ½ long)

Finance leases included · Mar 31, 2026 filing

Bonds priced, last 12 months

None

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

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

Dow Inc.: free cash flow, trailing twelve months

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

−$0.2BData to Mar 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Dow Inc.: operating cash flow and capital expenditure

Trailing twelve months, $ billions, from SEC filings

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

Dow Inc.: revenue, trailing twelve months

$ billions, from SEC filings

$39.3BData to Mar 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

Capital returned and raised

Business

Dow Inc.: share buybacks by fiscal year

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

$0.0BData to Dec 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Dow Inc.: debt issued and repaid by fiscal year

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

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

Dow Inc.: debt maturity schedule, latest annual report

Scheduled repayments of long-term debt principal by year from the fiscal year end, $ billions, from the 10-K

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

Dow Inc.: debt due within a year and cash

At each balance-sheet date, $ billions, from SEC filings

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

Dow Inc.: interest coverage

Operating income ÷ interest expense, trailing twelve months, from SEC filings

−1.9Data to Mar 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

What the company says

Business

Dow Inc.: earnings call sentiment

Palanor Discourse score per call, −1 to +1

0.30Data to Jul 2026
ImageDataPalanor calculation
Business

Dow Inc.: earnings call confidence

Palanor Discourse score per call, 0 to 1

0.60Data to Jul 2026
ImageDataPalanor calculation
Business

Dow Inc.: risk factors added per annual report

New Item 1A risk factors in each 10-K

0.00Data to Feb 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

Hiring and ownership

Business

Dow Inc.: H-1B filings certified

Labor Condition Applications by quarter received

36.0Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification disclosure data, dol.gov
Business

Dow Inc.: insider net buying

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

$0.0MData to Mar 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Dow Inc.: institutional holders

Managers reporting a position on Form 13F, by quarter

1,209Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

In the news

Headlines that name Dow Inc., with the publisher and a link. The tone is read from each headline’s own words, never from a summary of the article.

30 days
4 headlines
0% positive · 25% negative
90 days
4 headlines
0% positive · 25% negative

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 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (MILLER STRATEGIES, LLC)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  2. Oct 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (THE DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY, DBA DOW)third_quarter 2026 · $1.4 million
  3. Oct 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (FIERCE GOVERNMENT RELATIONS)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  4. Oct 20, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: SILICONE ELASTOMER FROM SILYLATED POLYSACCHARIDESUS 12767765
  5. Oct 20, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: AQUEOUS BLEND OF PIGMENT AND AN ALKOXYLATED AMINEUS 12767849
  6. Oct 20, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: AQUEOUS COATING COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF PREPARING THEREOFUS 12767834
  7. Oct 20, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: ETHYLENE/ALPHA-OLEFIN INTERPOLYMER BASED COMPOSITIONS WITH EXCELLENT ADHESION PROPERTIESUS 12767797
  8. Oct 20, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: CHEMICALLY CONVERTED CATALYSTSUS 12767743
  9. Oct 19, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (ERNST & YOUNG LLP (WASHINGTON COUNCIL ERNST & YOUNG))third_quarter 2026
  10. Oct 16, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (BROWNSTEIN HYATT FARBER SCHRECK, LLP)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  11. Jul 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (MILLER STRATEGIES, LLC)second_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  12. Jul 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (THE DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY, DBA DOW)first_quarter 2026 · $1.7 million
  13. Jul 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (THE DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY, DBA DOW)second_quarter 2026 · $1.1 million
  14. Jul 6, 20268-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  15. Apr 14, 20268-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  16. Apr 14, 20268-K
    Shareholder vote resultsItem 5.07
  17. Feb 3, 202610-K
    Annual report (10-K)0 risk factors added, 0 removed
  18. Jan 29, 20268-K
    Exit or restructuring costsItem 2.05
  19. Jan 9, 2026Risk event
    OSHA unprogrammed related inspection: DOW HYDROCARBONS & RESOURCES LLCOSHA
  20. Jan 5, 20268-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  21. Jul 7, 20258-K
    Exit or restructuring costsItem 2.05
  22. Jul 7, 20258-K
    Material impairmentItem 2.06
  23. Apr 15, 20258-K
    Shareholder vote resultsItem 5.07
  24. Feb 4, 202510-K
    Annual report (10-K)0 risk factors added, 0 removed
  25. Jan 30, 20258-K
    Exit or restructuring costsItem 2.05
  26. Dec 3, 20248-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  27. Jan 31, 202410-K
    Annual report (10-K)0 risk factors added, 0 removed

Peers

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

CompanyRevenueFree cash flowThrough
Valvoline VVV$2.0B$0.1BJun 30, 2026
CRH plc CRH$38.6B—Jun 30, 2026
Nucor Corp. NUE$36.1B$1.6BJul 4, 2026
Linde plc LIN$35.5B$5.0BJun 30, 2026
Smurfit Westrock SW$31.3B$1.0BJun 30, 2026
LyondellBasell LYB$31.2B$1.6BJun 30, 2026
Newmont NEM$25.8B$9.7BJun 30, 2026
Freeport-McMoRan FCX$25.3B$1.8BJun 30, 2026

Identity

SEC CIK
1751788
LEI
5493003S21INSLK2IP73
Wikidata
Q62739842

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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