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Valhi Inc. (VHI)

As-reported financials and SEC filings for Valhi Inc. The latest annual period is FY2025. The latest reported quarter is Q2 FY2026. Financial statements come straight from the company’s EDGAR filings; valuation figures such as P/E and market cap use market data.

About Valhi Inc.

VALHI Inc operates through subsidiaries involved in chemicals and real estate management and development. The company serves industrial and commercial customers by producing chemical products and managing real estate assets. Its operations include manufacturing titanium dioxide and other chemical products.

Snapshot

Revenue
$2.08B
Revenue growth (YoY)
-1.3%
Net income
$-57.6M
Diluted EPS
$-2.02
Gross margin
14.2%
Operating margin
3.0%
Net margin
-2.8%
FCF margin
-4.0%
ROE
-4.2%
net income / fiscal-year-end equity
P/E
n/m
not meaningful: a reported loss in the fiscal year or the trailing twelve months
Market cap
$405.0M
Long-term debt / equity
0.43×
non-current term debt only

Fundamentals are from SEC filings for FY2025, the latest annual period (ended December 31, 2025). P/E and market cap are derived from stored market prices, last retrieved on a rolling basis and typically within the past week.

What changed at Valhi

  • Revenue fell 1.3% to $2.1B in FY2025, slower than the 9.5% the year before.
  • Operating margin is 3.0% in FY2025, -10.8 pp against 13.9% in FY2021.
  • Most recent quarter Q2 FY2026: revenue $606M, up 12.2% from Q2 FY2025.
  • Free cash flow was negative $82M in FY2025.
  • Net income turned to a $58M loss in FY2025, from a $108M profit in FY2024.

Computed from the as-reported figures in the statements below. A change we cannot state from filed figures is left out rather than estimated.

Peer comparison

Where Valhi’s fundamentals sit among the 225 Materials companies. Each figure is ranked only against peers that report it, from lowest (left) to highest (right).

Gross margin14.2%
20th percentile of 177
Operating margin3.0%
44th percentile of 174
Net margin-2.8%
33rd percentile of 206
FCF margin-4.0%
18th percentile of 191
Revenue growth (YoY)-1.3%
38th percentile of 220
ROE-4.2%
37th percentile of 200
Long-term debt / equity0.43×
37th percentile of 156
Short interest5.03d
69th percentile of 221

No reported insider transactions (codes P/S) in the last 90 days. For context, about 15% of companies in the universe saw any reported insider purchase (code P) in the same window. Browse insider activity →

Percentiles describe where a figure sits among sector peers reporting it (100th = highest). They are position within a peer group, not a rating, and not investment advice. Short interest ranking uses days to cover from FINRA Consolidated Short Interest data; FINRA is the owner and source of that data, included at no additional charge.

Institutional ownership

Held by 3 quant / multi-strat books among the superinvestors we track; no conviction manager currently reports a position.

Conviction investors
0
+3 quant / multi-strat
Initiated / added
3
0 new, 3 added
Reduced / exited
0
0 trimmed, 0 exited
Combined position
$2.4M
reported long value
InvestorAs ofPosition valueSharesChange
Renaissance TechnologiesquantQ2 2026$1.9M129.1KAdded
Millennium ManagementquantQ2 2026$322,66722.0KAdded
Citadel AdvisorsquantQ2 2026$206,18714.1KAdded

From quarterly Form 13F filings, which can be up to 45 days delayed. Long US-listed positions only: excludes short positions, options, cash, bonds, and non-US holdings, so this is not a manager’s complete portfolio. Counts are of the investors we track, not all institutions. Not investment advice.

Short interest

Total shares sold short as of each twice-monthly FINRA settlement. Rising short interest means more investors are positioned against the stock; days to cover estimates how many trading days of average volume that position represents.

Shares short
66.1K
settled 2026-09-30
Change vs prior
-9.3%
vs previous settlement
Days to cover
5.03
at avg daily volume
Avg daily volume
13.1K
FINRA reported
SettlementShares shortChangeDays to cover
2026-09-3066.1K-9.3%5.03
2026-09-1572.9K-1.9%4.95
2026-08-3174.3K+12.6%3.08
2026-08-1466.0K+3.4%3.49
2026-07-3163.9K-4.5%11.26
2026-07-1566.9K+1.1%5.34
2026-06-3066.1K+11.3%4.27
2026-06-1559.4K+5.0%5.74

Source: FINRA Consolidated Short Interest. FINRA is the owner and source of the FINRA-supplied data, which is included at no additional charge for your own personal or professional use; republishing or redistributing it is not permitted. Settlement dates are shown; FINRA publishes each settlement about nine business days later, so the latest figure can be two to four weeks old. Not presented as a percentage of float. No FINRA endorsement of this product is implied. Not investment advice.

Income statement (as reported)

 FY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022FY2021
Revenue$2.08B$2.10B$1.92B$2.22B$2.30B
Gross profit
Operating income$63.3M$210.7M$34.2M$239.4M$318.6M
Net income$-57.6M$108.0M$-9.9M$87.2M$127.2M
Diluted EPS$-2.02$3.79$-0.35$3.06$4.46

Figures as reported to the SEC. Underlined values link to the filing they came from; dotted values are calculated by us from reported figures; “adj” means restated for a stock split (tap or hover a figure to see how it was calculated or what was filed). Full details: where the numbers come from.

Balance sheet (as reported)

 FY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022FY2021
Cash and equivalents$214.0M$348.3M$407.0M$478.5M$698.4M
Current assets$1.26B$1.45B$1.48B$1.59B$1.67B
Total assets$2.63B$2.80B$2.74B$2.84B$3.01B
Current liabilities$449.3M$643.8M$507.1M$492.8M$463.5M
Long-term debt$590.9M$484.4M$545.8M$557.7M$649.9M
Total liabilities
Total equity$1.36B$1.38B$1.28B$1.32B$1.17B

Figures as reported to the SEC. Underlined values link to the filing they came from; dotted values are calculated by us from reported figures; “adj” means restated for a stock split (tap or hover a figure to see how it was calculated or what was filed). Full details: where the numbers come from.

Cash flow (as reported)

 FY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022FY2021
Operating cash flow$-35.5M$44.0M$3.9M$34.9M$459.7M
Capital expenditure$46.6M$30.9M$48.5M$67.6M$64.1M
Free cash flow

Figures as reported to the SEC. Underlined values link to the filing they came from; dotted values are calculated by us from reported figures; “adj” means restated for a stock split (tap or hover a figure to see how it was calculated or what was filed). Full details: where the numbers come from.

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueRevenue YoYNet incomeDiluted EPS
Q2 FY2026$606.1M12.2%$22.3M$0.78
Q1 FY2026$560.1M4.0%$2.0M$0.07
Q4 FY20252.8%
Q3 FY2025$503.5M-5.6%$-22.2M$-0.78
Q2 FY2025$540.4M-3.4%$900,000$0.03
Q1 FY2025$538.6M1.5%$16.9M$0.59
Q4 FY20246.2%
Q3 FY2024$533.6M13.8%$57.5M$2.01

Latest 8 quarters, from company XBRL filings on SEC EDGAR. A dotted underline marks a fourth-quarter figure we calculated from the full year and the first nine months. Revenue YoY is our calculation too: each quarter against the same quarter a year earlier.

Company facts

ExchangeNYSE
SectorMaterials
SIC industryIndustrial Inorganic Chemicals
Latest annual periodFY2025 (ended December 31, 2025)
Latest reported quarterQ2 FY2026 (ended June 30, 2026)
Oldest indexed filing2009
SEC CIK59255

Selected SEC filings

10-K2026-03-10
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10-Q2026-08-06
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10-Q2026-05-07
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10-Q2025-11-06
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10-Q2025-08-07
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8-K2026-08-06
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8-K2026-06-22
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8-K2026-05-21
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Data sourced from SEC EDGAR. Figures are as-reported and may be unaudited or restated; verify against the source filing before relying on them. Informational only. Not investment advice.