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Clearwater Paper Corp CLW

Paperboard Mills · CIK 0001441236 · Fiscal year ends 1231

AnnualQuarterlyTTM
Revenue
$384.90M
Fiscal year ended 2026-09-30
Operating income
$2.50M
Fiscal year ended 2026-09-30
Free cash flow
$15.90M
Fiscal year ended 2026-09-30

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 $384.90M and net income of -$1.60M for the fiscal year ended 2026-09-30. 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.
Metric2026-09-302026-06-302026-03-312025-12-312025-09-302025-06-302025-03-312024-12-312024-09-302024-06-30
Revenue$384.90M$374.80M$360.30M$386.40M$399.00M$391.80M$378.20M$387.10M$393.30M$344.40M
Cost of revenue$363.70M$385.20M$361.20M$369.20M$380.30M$348.80M$341.50M$372.40M$363.20M$346.40M
Gross profit$21.20M-$10.40M-$900.00K$17.20M$18.70M$43.00M$36.70M$14.70M$30.10M-$2.00M
Operating income$2.50M-$23.90M-$10.40M$7.50M-$55.40M$9.80M-$4.00M-$15.60M-$1.20M-$46.90M
Net income-$1.60M-$21.50M-$12.80M$38.30M-$53.30M$2.70M-$6.30M$199.10M$5.80M-$25.80M
Research & developmentUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Weighted-average diluted sharesshares 16.13Mshares 16.13Mshares 16.08MUnavailableshares 16.14Mshares 16.24Mshares 16.38MUnavailableUnavailableshares 16.66M
Pretax incomeUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Income tax expense-$2.90M-$8.60M-$3.70M-$800.00K-$6.50M$1.90M-$1.80M-$9.70M-$3.30M-$14.60M
Diluted EPS$-0.10$-1.33$-0.80Unavailable$-3.30$0.17$-0.38$11.91$0.35$-1.55
Selling, general & administrative$20.10M$21.10M$20.60M$21.10M$24.70M$26.10M$28.90M$26.70M$31.60M$30.30M
General & administrativeUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Selling & marketingUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable

Balance

Clearwater Paper Corp balance by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2026-09-302026-06-302026-03-312025-12-312025-09-302025-06-302025-03-312024-12-312024-09-302024-06-30
Cash & equivalents$35.70M$95.40M$36.50M$30.70M$34.40M$46.70M$44.00M$79.60M$35.50M$39.60M
Total assets$1.78B$1.57B$1.57B$1.59B$1.56B$1.64B$1.63B$1.68B$2.49B$2.48B
Current assets$746.40M$532.00M$522.10M$526.00M$487.90M$510.10M$499.60M$545.40M$731.90M$733.90M
Total liabilities$982.00M$777.30M$756.00M$763.00M$778.50M$804.00M$797.30M$824.70M$1.82B$1.82B
Current liabilities$506.60M$232.30M$200.40M$216.20M$232.40M$259.10M$300.20M$320.40M$412.10M$423.30M
Total equity incl. NCI$794.20M$794.10M$813.80M$825.30M$783.00M$836.80M$836.60M$854.60M$664.60M$658.60M
Temporary (mezzanine) equityUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Inventory$249.80M$260.80M$269.70M$281.70M$283.20M$283.90M$259.30M$258.00M$264.60M$420.20M
Accounts receivable$162.80M$162.90M$197.90M$195.30M$161.70M$165.90M$177.40M$188.70M$172.70M$255.80M
GoodwillUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable$0$0UnavailableUnavailable$48.60MUnavailableUnavailable
Long-term debt$292.70M$360.50M$360.50M$345.50M$335.50M$328.50M$281.60M$281.60M$1.14B$1.14B
Accounts payableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable

Cash flow

Clearwater Paper Corp cash flow by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2026-09-302026-06-302026-03-312025-12-312025-09-302025-06-302025-03-312024-12-312024-09-302024-06-30
Operating cash flow$30.60M$69.00M$500.00K$5.00M$34.00M-$28.20M$1.50M-$35.10M$16.20M$21.10M
Capital expenditures$14.70M$9.60M$9.10M$14.90M$18.30M$22.90M$32.70M$33.00M$47.00M$18.10M
Investing cash flow-$14.70M-$9.60M-$9.10M-$14.40M-$30.40M-$22.90M-$32.70M$959.50M-$47.00M-$726.30M
Financing cash flow$208.40M-$400.00K$14.30M$5.80M-$15.80M$53.70M-$4.40M-$880.30M$26.80M$689.60M
Net change in cashUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Stock-based compensation$2.60M$1.70M$600.00K-$300.00K$600.00K$2.50M$1.00M-$1.60M-$900.00K$4.70M
Common dividends paidUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Common share repurchases$0$100.00K$0$0$2.10M$4.20M$10.90M$4.00M$2.50M$3.00M
Depreciation & amortization$23.30M$23.20M$23.40M$23.70M$23.70M$23.00M$22.00M$21.50M$24.20M$30.90M

Derived

Clearwater Paper Corp derived by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2026-09-302026-06-302026-03-312025-12-312025-09-302025-06-302025-03-312024-12-312024-09-302024-06-30
Free cash flow$15.90M$59.40M-$8.60M-$9.90M$15.70M-$51.10M-$31.20M-$68.10M-$30.80M$3.00M
Gross margin5.5%-2.8%-0.2%4.5%4.7%11.0%9.7%3.8%UnavailableUnavailable
Operating margin0.6%-6.4%-2.9%1.9%-13.9%2.5%-1.1%Unavailable-0.3%-13.6%
FCF margin4.1%15.8%-2.4%-2.6%3.9%-13.0%-8.2%-17.6%-7.8%0.9%
SBC / revenue0.7%0.5%0.2%-0.1%0.2%0.6%0.3%Unavailable-0.2%1.4%
Current ratio1.47x2.29x2.61x2.43x2.10x1.97x1.66x1.70x1.78x1.73x
Revenue YoY growth-3.5%-4.3%-4.7%-0.2%1.4%13.8%46.1%44.1%41.0%18.2%
Net margin-0.4%UnavailableUnavailable9.9%-13.4%UnavailableUnavailable51.4%1.5%Unavailable
R&D / revenueUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
CapEx / revenue3.8%2.6%2.5%3.9%4.6%5.8%8.6%Unavailable12.0%Unavailable
Long-term debt / equity0.37xUnavailableUnavailable0.42xUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Effective tax rateUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable

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

Reconciliation checks needing review

2 periods on this page do not reconcile under this site’s normalization. Read that as a limitation here before an observation about the company: the figures are the filer’s own, the filings linked above are authoritative, and a difference usually means the concepts this site selected do not match how this filer presents its statements. Nothing is adjusted to make a check pass.

gross profit bridgeinconsistent2023-06-30

Withheld: cost revenue could not be reconciled with the rest of this filer’s statement.

gross profit bridgeinconsistent2023-03-31

Withheld: cost revenue could not be reconciled with the rest of this filer’s statement.