The Bid & Ask

Quotations, Dispatches, and the Daily Tape

Thursday, August 13, 2026

Subject of the day

ASH

Concerning the House

Ashland Inc. provides additives and specialty ingredients in the North and Latin America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and internationally. It operates through Life Sciences, Personal Care, Specialty Additives, and Intermediates segments. The Life Sciences segment offers pharmaceutical solutions, including controlled release polymers, disintegrants, tablet coatings, thickeners, solubilizers, and tablet binders; and nutrition solutions, such as thickeners, stabilizers, emulsifiers, and additives; agricultural chemicals; diagnostic films; and fine chemicals. Its Personal Care segment provides a range of natural, nature-derived, 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. Its Intermediates 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, personal care, and pharmaceutical. The company was formerly known as Ashland Global Holdings Inc. and changed its name to Ashland Inc. in August 2022. Ashland Inc. was founded in 1924 and is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware.

United States · www.ashland.com

The Long Run

FY 2016–2025 · 9 years

LineLatestCAGRTrend
Revenue$1.82B-7.0%
Gross profit$549.00M-5.8%
Operating income-$775.00M+9.0%
Net income$505.00M+27.8%
Quotation

$73.35

-1.37 (-1.8%)

52w hi$76.45
52w lo$46.46
Vol413.93K
As ofAug 13
The Verdict

Hold

Our score +0.22

Short+0.43
Medium+0.17
Long-0.10

computed 2026-08-13

By the Numbers

Ashland Inc.

Basic Materials · Specialty Chemicals

Market cap$3.36B
Enterprise value$4.46B
Trailing P/E47.02x
Forward P/E17.02x
EV / EBITDA12.25x
P / S (ttm)1.82x
Profit margin2.8%
Return on equity4.0%
Revenue growth+7.3%
Earnings growth
Debt / equity78.93
Risk Metrics
Beta vs SPX1.07
Corr SPX0.46
Annual vol37.8%
Annual ret+0.9%
Sharpe0.02
Max DD-48.2%

Window: 504 trading days (504 obs)

Layer Breakdown
LayerRawContribution
Fundamental+0.15
Sector+0.03
Technical+0.30
Earnings+0.00
Sentiment+0.00

macro × 1.00 · 2026-08-13

Recent Sessions
DateOpenHighLowCloseVol
Aug 13$75.07$75.54$73.21$73.35413.93K
Aug 12$75.03$75.21$73.80$74.72559.20K
Aug 11$75.50$76.55$74.41$74.58879.00K
Aug 10$74.98$76.38$73.60$75.401.44M
Aug 7$72.33$78.25$71.86$76.451.76M