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Clearwater Paper Corp CLW

Paperboard Mills · CIK 0001441236 · Fiscal year ends 1231

Revenue
$1.56B
Fiscal year ended 2025-12-31
Operating income
-$42.10M
Fiscal year ended 2025-12-31
Free cash flow
-$76.50M
Fiscal year ended 2025-12-31

Valuation, from the filing

Public float$427.70MMarket value of stock held by non-affiliates, as stated on the cover page for 2025-06-30
Float per share$26.67Float divided by shares outstanding in the same filing. A floor under the share price on that date, not the price itself.
Float / revenue0.3×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.
Float / equity0.5×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.

Every figure here is drawn from the 10-K cover page and the statements behind it, so each one traces to a filing. Public float counts only stock held by non-affiliates, which makes these floors rather than estimates: a high multiple is conclusive, a low one may mean cheap or may mean closely held. The float was measured on 2025-06-30, not today, and each multiple below it uses the figures for the fiscal year ending 2025-12-31 — the year that filing covered.

Valuation over time

4.0× earnings today, against a median of 7.8× across 6 years on record. Below its own history.

Float measuredPublic floatFloat / net income
2024-06-30$788.50M4.0×
2023-06-30$514.10M4.8×
2022-06-30$558.30M12.1×
2020-06-30$596.70M7.7×
2017-06-30$755.55M7.8×
2016-06-30$1.09B22.1×

Each float is paired with the fiscal year the filing that stated it covers. Only years where the company reported positive net income appear, because a multiple against a loss is not a multiple.

Clearwater Paper Corp (CLW) reported revenue of $1.56B and net income of -$18.60M for the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31. This page shows 10 annual periods of income statement, balance sheet and cash flow figures normalized from Clearwater Paper Corp’s SEC filings, each linked to the filing it came from.

Income

Clearwater Paper Corp income by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-312022-12-312021-12-312020-12-312019-12-312018-12-312017-12-312016-12-31
Revenue$1.56B$1.38B$1.14B$1.20B$1.77B$1.87B$1.76B$1.72B$1.73B$1.73B
Cost of revenue$1.44B$1.31B$935.30M$982.50M$1.59B$1.57B$1.60B$1.54B$1.52B$1.49B
Gross profit$115.60M$76.10M$200.70M$212.50M$182.60M$294.20M$164.50M$187.50M$209.20M$241.20M
Operating income-$42.10M-$64.50M$78.10M$99.30M$12.00M$158.10M$45.40M-$97.90M$71.20M$114.76M
Net income-$18.60M$196.30M$107.70M$46.00M-$28.10M$77.10M-$5.60M-$143.80M$97.30M$49.55M
Research & developmentUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Weighted-average diluted sharesshares 16.17Mshares 16.78Mshares 17.09Mshares 17.18Mshares 16.77Mshares 16.72Mshares 16.53Mshares 16.49Mshares 16.56Mshares 17.11M
Pretax incomeUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable-$7.90M-$133.50M$40.90M$80.67M
Income tax expense-$7.10M-$27.10M$16.90M$29.20M-$7.70M$21.10M-$2.30M$10.30M-$56.40M$31.11M
Diluted EPS$-1.15$11.70$6.30$2.68$-1.67$4.61$-0.34$-8.72$5.88$2.90
Selling, general & administrative$100.80M$116.70M$119.40M$110.00M$112.90M$122.00M$112.80M$107.80M$121.20M$128.20M
General & administrativeUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Selling & marketingUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable

Balance

Clearwater Paper Corp balance by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-312022-12-312021-12-312020-12-312019-12-312018-12-312017-12-312016-12-31
Cash & equivalents$30.70M$79.60M$42.00M$53.70M$25.20M$35.90M$20.00M$22.50M$15.70M$23.00M
Total assets$1.59B$1.68B$1.67B$1.70B$1.69B$1.80B$1.88B$1.79B$1.80B$1.68B
Current assets$526.00M$545.40M$564.10M$586.30M$487.20M$474.90M$465.80M$443.90M$452.79M$446.50M
Total liabilities$763.00M$824.70M$1.00B$1.13B$1.18B$1.28B$1.45B$1.36B$1.23B$1.21B
Current liabilities$216.20M$320.40M$286.00M$312.00M$254.10M$244.80M$280.40M$449.20M$419.25M$366.52M
Total equity incl. NCI$825.30M$854.60M$668.80M$572.10M$511.70M$521.10M$432.00M$426.40M$575.40M$469.90M
Temporary (mezzanine) equityUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Inventory$281.70M$258.00M$161.20M$324.00M$277.70M$263.30M$281.40M$266.20M$266.04M$258.03M
Accounts receivable$195.30M$188.70M$96.10M$188.80M$167.40M$160.60M$159.40M$145.50M$142.06M$147.07M
Goodwill$0$48.60M$35.10MUnavailableUnavailable$35.10M$35.10M$35.07M$244.16M$244.28M
Long-term debt$345.50M$281.60M$439.90M$564.90M$637.60M$716.40M$884.50M$692.90M$570.52M$569.76M
Accounts payableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable

Cash flow

Clearwater Paper Corp cash flow by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-312022-12-312021-12-312020-12-312019-12-312018-12-312017-12-312016-12-31
Operating cash flow$12.30M$61.40M$190.70M$150.20M$96.40M$247.00M$55.60M$168.90M$178.70M$172.75M
Capital expenditures$88.80M$116.60M$73.70M$33.50M$38.40M$39.60M$140.10M$295.70M$199.70M$155.35M
Investing cash flow-$100.40M$167.70M-$73.70M-$33.50M-$25.10M-$39.60M-$140.10M-$224.00M-$198.80M-$222.51M
Financing cash flow$39.30M-$191.40M-$129.40M-$88.60M-$82.00M-$192.90M$82.00M$63.30M$13.80M$67.15M
Net change in cashUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable-$6.30M$17.39M
Stock-based compensation$3.80M$5.60M$9.90M$12.70M$9.10M$10.50M$4.10M$3.30M$3.60M$12.38M
Common dividends paidUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Common share repurchases$17.20M$10.00M$17.90M$5.00M$0$0$0$0$4.90M$65.33M
Depreciation & amortization$92.40M$99.80M$98.60M$103.30M$105.00M$111.00M$115.60M$101.90M$105.00M$91.09M

Derived

Clearwater Paper Corp derived by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-312022-12-312021-12-312020-12-312019-12-312018-12-312017-12-312016-12-31
Free cash flow-$76.50M-$55.20M$117.00M$116.70M$58.00M$207.40M-$84.50M-$126.80M-$21.00M$17.40M
Gross margin7.4%5.5%17.7%17.8%10.3%15.7%9.3%10.9%12.1%13.9%
Operating margin-2.7%-4.7%6.9%8.3%0.7%8.5%2.6%-5.7%4.1%6.6%
FCF margin-4.9%-4.0%10.3%9.8%3.3%11.1%-4.8%-7.4%-1.2%1.0%
SBC / revenue0.2%0.4%0.9%1.1%0.5%0.6%0.2%0.2%0.2%0.7%
Current ratio2.43x1.70x1.97x1.88x1.92x1.94x1.66x0.99x1.08x1.22x
Revenue YoY growth12.4%21.8%-4.9%-32.6%-5.1%6.1%2.2%-0.4%-0.3%Unavailable
Net margin-1.2%14.2%9.5%3.8%-1.6%4.1%-0.3%-8.3%5.6%2.9%
R&D / revenueUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
CapEx / revenue5.7%8.4%6.5%2.8%2.2%2.1%8.0%17.1%11.5%9.0%
Long-term debt / equity0.42xUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Effective tax rateUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable-137.9%38.6%

Amounts are abbreviated; the exact reported value is carried in each cell. — means unavailable, not zero. Open CLW in the interactive workspace to inspect any figure back to its filing.

Source filings

10-Q · Filed 2026-10-26View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2026-07-28View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2026-04-28View SEC filing
10-K · Filed 2026-02-18View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-10-28View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-07-29View SEC filing

Every accounting identity this site checks — the balance sheet, the gross profit bridge and the cash flow statement — reconciles in every period shown.