Stepan (SCL) Tax Rate (2010 - 2025)

Stepan's Tax Rate history runs 16 years deep, the most recent figure standing at 8.18% for Q4 2025.

• Quarterly Tax Rate rose 42097.0% year-over-year to 8.18% in Q4 2025, while the trailing twelve-month figure through Dec 2025 was 410.09% (down 41079.0% YoY) and the FY2025 annual result came in at 410.09%, down 41079.0% from the prior year.
• Tax Rate was 8.18% for Q4 2025 at Stepan, down from 34.37% in the prior quarter.
• Across five years, Tax Rate topped out at 44.66% in Q2 2024 and bottomed at 429.15% in Q4 2024.
• A 5-year average of 5.12% and a median of 20.36% in 2023 frame the typical range for Tax Rate.
• Annual changes were most pronounced in 2024 — Tax Rate sank 42861 bps — and 2025, when it jumped 42097 bps.
• Stepan's Tax Rate stood at 7.7% in 2021, then slumped by 36 bps to 4.96% in 2022, then sank by 111 bps to 0.54% in 2023, then tumbled by 79360 bps to 429.15% in 2024, then jumped by 98 bps to 8.18% in 2025.
• Business Quant data shows SCL's Tax Rate at 8.18% in Q4 2025, 34.37% in Q3 2025, and 17.74% in Q2 2025.