The Bid & Ask

Quotations, Dispatches, and the Daily Tape

Friday, August 14, 2026

Subject of the day

ASTE

Concerning the House

Astec Industries, Inc. designs, engineers, manufactures, markets, and services equipment and components used primarily in road building and related construction activities worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Infrastructure Solutions and Materials Solutions. The Infrastructure Solutions segment offers asphalt plants, cold central plant recycles systems, and soil remediation plants; concrete batch plants, liquid asphalt terminals, and thermal fluid heaters; asphalt pavers, material transfer vehicles, and milling machines; and industrial automation controls and telematics platforms, as well as engineering and environmental permitting, various plants components, polymer plants, heat recovery units, industrial and asphalt burners and systems, wood chippers and grinders, and blower trucks and trailers,. The Materials Solutions segment offers jaw, cone, heavy-duty, and mining-application crushers; horizontal and vertical shaft impactors; incline, multi-frequency and high frequency, horizontal, and dewatering screens; washing and classifying plants, fines recovery systems, and water clarification systems; radial and telescoping conveyors, pugmills, truck unloaders, hopper feeders ship loaders and unloaders, and bulk receptions feeders; and Rock breaker systems, hydraulic breakers, compactors, and pulverizers. It provides its products to asphalt or concrete producers; highway and heavy equipment contractors; utility contractors; sand and gravel producers; construction, demolition, recycle and crushing contractors; forestry and environmental recycling contractors; mine and quarry operators; port and inland terminal authorities; power stations; and domestic and foreign government agencies. The company was incorporated in 1972 and is headquartered in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

United States · www.astecindustries.com

The Long Run

FY 2010–2025 · 16 years

LineLatestCAGRTrend
Revenue$1.41B+4.1%
Gross profit$330.80M+4.2%
Operating income$65.90M-2.5%
Net income$38.80M+19.9%
Cash from ops$61.40M-0.1%
Quotation

$42.34

-0.83 (-1.9%)

52w hi$64.66
52w lo$40.33
Vol174.43K
As ofAug 13
The Verdict

Hold

Our score -0.34

Short-0.33
Medium-0.35
Long-0.32

computed 2026-08-13

By the Numbers

Astec Industries, Inc.

Industrials · Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery

Market cap$974.89M
Enterprise value$1.31B
Trailing P/E50.40x
Forward P/E10.86x
EV / EBITDA9.67x
P / S (ttm)0.63x
Profit margin1.3%
Return on equity2.9%
Revenue growth+23.6%
Earnings growth-37.5%
Debt / equity57.09
Risk Metrics
Beta vs SPX1.25
Corr SPX0.49
Annual vol41.7%
Annual ret+23.1%
Sharpe0.55
Max DD-34.9%

Window: 504 trading days (504 obs)

Layer Breakdown
LayerRawContribution
Fundamental+0.11
Sector+0.07
Technical-0.19
Earnings+0.00
Sentiment+0.00

macro × 1.00 · 2026-08-13

Recent Sessions
DateOpenHighLowCloseVol
Aug 13$43.43$43.43$42.15$42.34174.43K
Aug 12$43.05$43.77$42.21$43.17186.20K
Aug 11$43.62$44.52$42.68$42.94184.40K
Aug 10$44.02$44.71$42.95$43.04376.40K
Aug 7$44.20$45.12$43.90$44.25395.40K