Forensic Analysis · Materials / Mining & Chemicals · as of Aug 11, 2026

Huntsman Corp (HUN)

A forensic read on Huntsman Corp built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.

D · Weak — demands caution

Forensic grade

Grey Zone

Financial health

1.6

Distress distance

Clean

Earnings quality

Forensic signals

-10.2

P / E (ttm)

-10.3%

ROE

$1.8B

Market cap

3.45%

Dividend yield

-5.8%

Revenue growth

This free snapshot doesn't read filing or proxy text, so the auditor-quality and governance checks that can lower a grade were not evaluated (red flags, auditor quality, say on pay, board independence). Those checks only ever lower a grade, so the full analysis can land below the grade above but never above it — treat it as the most favourable reading, not the settled one.

Huntsman Corp earns a D (Weak — demands caution) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 1.6, placing it in the Grey zone. 4 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by return on invested capital.

What the filings flag

-1.9%

FY2025

Return on invested capital. Return on invested capital is -1.9% in the latest fiscal year and slipping from 8% — well below its ~8% cost of capital, so reinvested dollars may be destroying value, not building it.

126% of FCF

FY2025

Shareholder returns. Returned $146M to shareholders (buybacks + dividends) in FY2025 — 126% of free cash flow, but 51% of operating cash flow. Returns run ahead of free cash flow, with the gap funded by debt or cash reserves rather than the cash the business itself throws off; the payout itself is still covered by operating cash. Counting the $31M of stock-based comp paid out in shares on top of that, the combined claim on free cash flow is 153%.

$14M

FY2025–FY2025

Goodwill impairments. Took $14M of goodwill writedowns across 1 year (FY2025 ($14M)). Writedowns mean past acquisitions underperformed what was paid for them.

-16%

FY2024→FY2025

Dividend — cut. The payout was CUT ~16% in FY2025 (from FY2024). It still returns some cash, but it is NOT the dependable, rising dividend an unbroken streak implies.

Key fundamentals

Latest Revenue$5.68B

Revenue Growth YoY-5.8%

Net Margin-5.0%

Free Cash Flow$116.0M

Return on Equity-10.3%

Debt / Equity0.73x

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Data from SEC EDGAR public filings · metrics as of Aug 11, 2026. Forensic signals flag probability, not certainty.