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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-25-063734"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CBT"
cik: "0000016040"
company_name: "CABOT CORP"
filed_at: "2025-05-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-22T12:01:36.175559+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cabot Q2 Adj EPS $1.90 beats prior-year; cuts FY2025 guidance to $7.15-$7.50

## Summary
- Adj EPS $1.90, up 7% YoY; GAAP EPS $1.69 on net sales of $936M, down 8.1% YoY.
- Reinforcement Materials EBIT $131M (-12% YoY) on 7% lower volumes; Performance Chemicals EBIT $50M (+61% YoY) on 4% higher volumes.
- Dividend raised 5% to $0.45/share; returned $70M to shareholders via dividends and buybacks.
- FY2025 Adj EPS guidance revised to $7.15-$7.50 citing tariff uncertainty and cautious customer inventory behavior.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-063734
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CBT
- cik: 0000016040
- company_name: CABOT CORP
- filed_at: 2025-05-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/16040/000095017025063734/0000950170-25-063734-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/16040/000095017025063734/cbt-20250505.htm

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