US stock · Basic Materials sector · Specialty Chemicals
A
Ashland Inc.
ASH
NYSE86.39
USD
-0.45
(-0.52%)
Market Closed
20.93P/E
13Forward P/E
0.86P/E to S&P500
4.523BMarket CAP
1.54%Div Yield
Upcoming Earnings
24 Jul-28 Jul
Shares Short
5/31/23
897.07k
Short % of Float
1.87%
Short % of Shares Outs.
1.71%
% Held by Insiders
0.35%
% Held by Institutions
95.47%
Beta
1.00
PEG Ratio
1.06
52w. high/low
114.36/83.81
Avg. Daily Volume
0.47M
Return %
Stock
S&P 500
1 year
(16.68)
9.18
3 years
21.97
34.24
5 years
8.50
55.11
Scale: |
High
Low
58.58
8.02
45.80
5.35
63.73
38.64
69.46
41.11
80.84
56.83
97.68
72.11
121.35
88.76
132.38
97.58
125.00
88.30
128.19
59.80
86.63
64.81
81.22
69.23
83.28
38.88
110.74
78.81
114.36
83.29
112.71
83.81
Currency: USD
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
TTM
Revenue per share
124.66
132.99
112.58
114.08
83.36
103.87
101.47
87.44
80.40
79.81
52.58
60.37
41.55
38.13
37.04
41.95
44.36
Earnings per share
3.66
2.65
0.99
4.20
5.31
0.33
8.87
3.33
4.61
(0.47)
0.02
1.84
8.42
(8.33)
3.86
16.26
4.42
FCF per share
0.65
4.21
11.82
3.94
0.56
0.71
5.44
5.64
1.03
5.85
2.68
1.81
1.45
1.07
7.98
(5.72)
(5.98)
Dividends per share
11.82
1.09
0.31
0.44
0.65
0.80
1.14
1.47
1.46
1.56
1.24
0.97
1.07
1.08
1.23
1.23
1.33
CAPEX per share
2.45
3.25
2.42
2.61
2.58
3.77
4.08
3.54
3.96
4.84
3.21
2.98
2.57
2.26
1.84
1.98
2.46
Book Value per sh.
50.19
50.81
49.78
48.14
53.01
51.00
59.13
51.19
45.33
53.98
54.94
54.94
59.52
49.77
48.28
56.49
60.32
Comm.Shares outs.
63
63
72
79
78
79
77
70
67
62
62
62
60
61
57
57
54
Avg. annual P/E ratio
16.6
14.6
26.2
11.9
10.7
204.8
9.7
31.0
25.3
(235.4)
5,384.1
41.6
9.1
(8.4)
23.6
6.2
20.9
P/E to S&P500
1.0
0.7
0.4
0.6
0.7
13.8
0.6
1.7
1.3
(10.6)
228.2
1.7
0.4
(0.2)
0.8
0.3
0.9
Avg. annual div. yield
19.4%
2.8%
1.2%
0.9%
1.2%
1.2%
1.3%
1.4%
1.3%
1.4%
1.4%
1.3%
1.4%
1.5%
1.3%
1.2%
1.3%
Revenue (m)
7,834
8,381
8,106
9,012
6,502
8,206
7,813
6,121
5,387
4,948
3,260
3,743
2,493
2,326
2,111
2,391
2,403
Operating margin
2.8%
2.3%
4.3%
6.3%
1.2%
3.0%
15.9%
0.8%
8.5%
6.6%
4.4%
6.1%
6.7%
(16.7)%
8.6%
13.9%
11.3%
Depreciation (m)
133
145
329
304
299
430
425
393
341
337
301
312
289
247
244
241
237
Net profit (m)
230
167
71
332
414
26
683
233
309
(29)
1
114
505
(508)
220
927
239
Income tax rate
22.4%
33.0%
50.6%
23.2%
(1,766.7)%
371.4%
28.8%
162.1%
(13.0)%
97.8%
(7.1)%
7.9%
65.7%
2.4%
(28.1)%
12.1%
4.6%
Net profit margin
2.9%
2.0%
0.9%
3.7%
6.4%
0.3%
8.7%
3.8%
5.7%
(0.6)%
0.0%
3.0%
20.3%
(21.8)%
10.4%
38.8%
9.9%
Working capital (m)
2,124
1,802
907
1,146
1,648
1,296
1,146
1,874
1,800
1,650
935
637
676
734
783
1,215
1,159
Long-term debt (m)
64
45
1,537
1,108
3,648
3,131
2,947
2,942
3,348
3,055
2,584
2,275
1,501
1,573
1,706
1,364
1,436
Equity (m)
3,154
3,202
3,584
3,803
4,135
4,029
4,553
3,583
3,037
3,347
3,406
3,406
3,571
3,036
2,752
3,220
3,267
ROIC
4.9%
3.7%
2.3%
6.2%
81.8%
(5.8)%
8.5%
(1.4)%
5.9%
0.1%
3.4%
3.3%
3.5%
(7.0)%
5.7%
15.7%
4.6%
Return on capital
5.1%
4.4%
3.9%
6.6%
3.8%
1.8%
10.2%
1.9%
4.5%
3.0%
2.8%
3.1%
9.2%
(6.3)%
3.8%
16.3%
4.5%
Return on equity
7.3%
5.2%
2.0%
8.7%
10.0%
0.6%
15.0%
6.5%
10.2%
(0.9)%
0.0%
3.3%
14.1%
(16.7)%
8.0%
28.8%
7.3%
Plowback ratio
(223.0)%
58.7%
69.0%
89.5%
87.7%
(142.3)%
87.1%
55.8%
68.3%
434.5%
(7,600.0)%
47.4%
87.3%
113.0%
68.2%
92.4%
68.1%
Div.&Repurch./FCF
2,468.3%
24.9%
2.6%
11.3%
277.3%
112.5%
56.8%
267.6%
717.4%
- -
46.4%
53.6%
303.4%
- -
114.3%
(82.8)%
(79.9)%
Capital Structure
3 May · 2023 | Q2
All numbers in millions
Total liabilities
$ 2,916
Total assets
$ 6,183
Long-term debt
$ 1,436
Cash and equiv.
$ 399
Goodwill
$ 1,385
Retained earnings
$ - -
Common stock
54
Enterprise Value
$ 5,560
Working Capital
Currency: USD, in millions
2020
2021
2022
Cash & Investments
454
210
646
Receivables
471
369
402
Inventory
529
473
629
Other
93
421
283
Current assets
1,547
1,717
1,768
Acc. Payable
233
236
265
Debt due
303
397
19
Other
277
301
269
Current liabilities
813
934
553
Annual growth rates
(avg. rate of change)
1 year
5 years
10 years
Revenue
13.26%
(9.02)%
(10.80)%
Cash flow
(171.65)%
95.19%
70.20%
Earnings
321.36%
80.11%
1,263.82%
Dividends
- -
3.96%
(1.74)%
Book value
17.01%
(0.62)%
(3.01)%
Insider Trading
Type
Shares
Date
Teal Janice
Other
280
03/31/23
Bishop Steven D
Other
243
03/31/23
Wang Xiaolan
Exempt
2,022
02/03/23
Wang Xiaolan
Return
2,757
02/03/23
Wang Xiaolan
Exempt
273
02/03/23
Quarterly Revenue
Currency: USD, in millions
Year
1Q
2Q
3Q
4Q
Total
2021
552
598
637
325
2,112
2022
512
604
644
631
2,391
2023
525
603
- -
- -
- -
Earnings per share
Currency: USD
Year
1Q
2Q
3Q
4Q
Total
2021
0.98
0.72
1.40
0.77
3.88
2022
0.56
0.67
0.89
1.00
3.12
2023
0.74
1.68
- -
- -
- -
Quarterly dividends paid
Currency: USD
Year
1Q
2Q
3Q
4Q
Total
2021
0.30
0.28
0.33
0.32
1.23
2022
0.30
0.30
0.32
0.32
1.23
2023
0.33
0.33
- -
- -
- -
Company Description
Sector:
Basic Materials
Industry:
Specialty Chemicals
CEO:
Mr. Guillermo Novo
Full-time employees:
3,900
City:
Wilmington
Address:
8145 Blazer Drive
Ashland Inc. provides additives and specialty ingredients worldwide. It operates through Life Sciences; Personal Care & Household; Specialty Additives; and Intermediates and Solvents segments. The Life Sciences segment offers pharmaceutical solutions, including controlled release polymers, disintegrants, tablet coatings, thickeners, solubilizers, and tablet binders; nutrition solutions, such as thickeners, stabilizers, emulsifiers, and additives; and nutraceutical solutions comprising products for weight management, joint comfort, stomach and intestinal health, sports nutrition, and general wellness, as well as custom formulation, toll processing, and particle engineering solutions. The Personal Care & Household segment provides a range of nature-based, biodegradable, and performance ingredients; solutions for toothpastes, mouth washes and rinses, denture cleaning, and care for teeth; and household supplies nature-derived rheology ingredients, biodegradable surface wetting agents, performance encapsulates, and specialty polymers. The Specialty Additives segment offers rheology modifiers, foam control agents, surfactants and wetting agents, pH neutralizers, advanced ceramics used in catalytic converters, environmental filters, ingredients for the manufacturing of ceramic capacitors, plasma display panels and solar cells, ingredients for textile printing, thermoplastic metals, and alloys for welding. The Intermediates and Solvents segment produces 1,4 butanediol and related derivatives, including n-methylpyrrolidone. It offers its products to customers in a range of consumer and industrial markets, such as architectural coatings, construction, energy, food and beverage, nutraceuticals, personal care, and pharmaceutical. The company was formerly known as Ashland Global Holdings Inc. Ashland Inc. was founded in 1924 and is based in Wilmington, Delaware.