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WD 40 CO

MaterialsChemicals
Ticker WDFCSAN DIEGO, CAFiscal year ends AugustBook value per share $20.63Diluted shares 13.5M

WD-40 Company (NASDAQ: WDFC) is a global marketing organization dedicated to developing and selling maintenance and homecare products that solve problems in workshops, factories, and homes worldwide. Founded in 1953 and headquartered in San Diego, California, the company maintains its website at www.wd40company.com. From the company’s description.

Fiscal year 2025 · ends 08-31Changes are against fiscal 2024The amber dot is the latest twelve months, to 2026-05-31
Sales & profitability
$619.99M
+5.0% year over year
Last 12 mo $674.68M
16.74%
+0.4 percentage points
Last 12 mo 17.48%
$90.99M
+30.7% year over year
Last 12 mo $89.23M
33.93%
+3.7 percentage points
Last 12 mo 32.01%
Cash & financing
$87.92M
−4.5% year over year
Last 12 mo $84.77M
$83.40M
−5.0% year over year
Last 12 mo $79.50M
0.32
Was 0.41× a year earlier
Last 12 mo 0.36
13.6M
−0.1% year over year
Last 12 mo 13.5M

Margins and return on equity change in ; everything else in percent. Fewer shares and less debt are shown plainly, not as bad news — it depends what you make of buybacks. Dotted labels explain each measure. is shown separately from the annual figures.

What WD 40 CO does

In the company’s own words

WD-40 Company (NASDAQ: WDFC) is a global marketing organization dedicated to developing and selling maintenance and homecare products that solve problems in workshops, factories, and homes worldwide. Founded in 1953 and headquartered in San Diego, California, the company maintains its website at www.wd40company.com.

The company operates through two primary product groups: maintenance products and homecare and cleaning products. Maintenance products, which represent the core strategic focus, include the flagship WD-40 Multi-Use Product—a multi-purpose lubricant, rust preventative, penetrant, and moisture displacer sold in aerosol spray, trigger spray, precision pen, and liquid-bulk formats. The WD-40 Specialist product line comprises professional-grade specialty maintenance products including penetrants, degreasers, corrosion inhibitors, greases, lubricants, and rust removers. Additional maintenance brands include 3-IN-ONE, a market-leading drip oil brand with industrial applications, and GT85, a bike-specific maintenance product line. The homecare and cleaning segment includes brands such as 2000 Flushes, Spot Shot, Carpet Fresh, Lava, X-14, no vac, and Solvol. The company is actively divesting certain homecare and cleaning assets in the Americas segment while retaining select brands in Asia-Pacific markets.

WD-40 Company operates in more than 176 countries and territories, with approximately 66 percent of consolidated net sales generated outside the United States in fiscal year 2025. The company employs 714 people distributed globally across 18 countries, with approximately 35 percent in the Americas, 40 percent in Europe, India, Middle East and Africa, 15 percent in Asia-Pacific, and 10 percent in corporate functions. Women comprise approximately 46 percent of the global workforce, with average employee tenure of eight years and retention rates exceeding 90 percent.

Products are distributed through hardware stores, automotive parts outlets, industrial distributors, mass retail and home center stores, value retailers, grocery stores, online retailers, warehouse club stores, farm supply stores, sport retailers, and independent bike dealers. The company outsources finished goods manufacturing to third-party contract manufacturers located in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland, Australia, China, the Middle East, South Korea, and India, while formulating and manufacturing concentrate at certain owned facilities and through contract manufacturers.

Company details
Sector
Materials
Industry
Chemicals
Headquarters
SAN DIEGO, CA
Fiscal year end
August
CIK
105132
SIC
2890

Financial performance, year by year

Fiscal 2013–2025 · USD
$-67.47M$134.94M$337.34M$539.75M$742.15M2013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025Last 12 moLast 12 monthsLast 12 months

The full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow for each of these years — every figure traceable to its filing — is on the Financials tab with a free account.

Ownership

Who owns WD 40 CO — and what changed

Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30

298
funds hold it
0 of 35
superinvestors hold it
$1.46B
held by funds, at market
46.8%
of shares held by funds

Largest fund holders · WD 40 CO’s weight in each

iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF
IJR · iShares Trust
0.18%of fund net assets
VANGUARD TOTAL STOCK MARKET INDEX FUND
VTI · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.00%of fund net assets
iShares Russell 2000 ETF
IWM · iShares Trust
0.10%of fund net assets
First Trust SMID Cap Rising Dividend Achievers ETF
SDVY · First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VI
0.68%of fund net assets
VANGUARD SMALL-CAP INDEX FUND
VB · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.04%of fund net assets

Fund ownership is a floor, not a census — pensions, insurers and people holding shares directly are not visible here.

Fund ownership counts N-PORT filers only, so it is a floor rather than a census — pensions, insurers and direct holders are not visible here, and the remainder is not “held by individuals”.

Every fund and institutional holder, quarter by quarter, is on the Ownership tab with a free account.

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