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CBT vs SEE

Side-by-side comparison of Cabot Corporation (CBT) and Sealed Air Corporation (SEE): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both CBT and SEE operate in Major Chemicals (Industrials), so they compete in similar markets.
  • SEE is the larger of the two at $10.06B, about 2.2x CBT ($4.67B).
  • Over the past year, CBT is up 19.5% and SEE is up 37.0% - SEE leads by 17.5 points.
  • CBT has hit the wire 4 times in the past 4 weeks while SEE has been quiet.
  • SEE has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 13 for CBT).
PerformanceCBT+26.25%SEE+37.00%
2025-10-28+0.00%2026-07-20
MetricCBTSEE
Company
Cabot Corporation
Sealed Air Corporation
Price
$89.61-0.87%
$42.14-0.02%
Market cap
$4.67B
$10.06B
1M return
+1.32%
+0.29%
1Y return
+19.50%
+37.00%
Industry
Major Chemicals
Major Chemicals
Exchange
NYSE
NYSE
IPO
News (4w)
4
0
Recent ratings
13
25
CBT

Cabot Corporation

Cabot Corporation operates as a specialty chemicals and performance materials company. It operates through three segments: Reinforcement Materials, Performance Chemicals, and Purification Solutions. The company offers rubber grade carbon blacks used in tires as a rubber reinforcing agent and performance additive, as well as in industrial products, such as hoses, belts, extruded profiles, and molded goods; and engineered elastomer composites. It also provides specialty grades of carbon black used in inks, coatings, plastics, adhesives, toners, batteries, and displays applications; masterbatch and conductive compound products for use in automotive, industrial, packaging, infrastructure, agriculture, consumer products, and electronics industries; inkjet colorants used in the inkjet printing applications; fumed silica used in adhesives, sealants, cosmetics, batteries, inks, toners, silicone elastomers, coatings, polishing slurries, and pharmaceuticals; fumed alumina used in various products, including inkjet media, lighting, coatings, cosmetics, and polishing slurries; and aerogel, a hydrophobic, silica-based particle for use in various thermal insulation and specialty chemical applications. In addition, the company offers activated carbon products used for the purification of water, air, food and beverages, pharmaceuticals, and other liquids and gases; and activated carbon solutions for activated carbon injection in coal-fired utilities, mobile water filter units, and carbon reactivation services. The company sells its products through distributors and sales representatives in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. Cabot Corporation was founded in 1882 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

SEE

Sealed Air Corporation

Sealed Air Corporation provides food safety and security, and product protection solutions and equipment in North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. It operates in two segments, Food and Protective. The Food segment offers integrated packaging materials and automation equipment solutions to provide food safety and shelf life extension, automate processes, and optimize total cost for perishable food processors in the fresh red meat, smoked and processed meats, poultry, seafood, plant-based, and dairy markets under the Cryovac, Cryovac Grip & Tear, Cryovac Darfresh, Cryovac Mirabella, Simple Steps, and Optidure brands. This segment sells its solutions directly to customers through its sales, marketing, and customer service personnel. The Protective segment provides foam, corrugated, molded pulp, and wood packaging solutions to protect goods in shipping for the e-commerce, consumer goods, pharmaceutical and medical devices, and industrial manufacturing markets under the Bubble Wrap, Autobag, Sealed Air, Instapak, Korrvu, Kevothermal, and TempGuard brands. This segment sells its solutions through supply distributors, as well as directly to fabricators, original equipment manufacturers, contract manufacturers, third-party logistics partners, e-commerce/fulfillment operations, and retail centers. Sealed Air Corporation was founded in 1960 and is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.