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Ascent Industries Co.

ACNT Basic Materials Specialty Chemicals

Ascent Industries Co.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $74.9 million, down 7.21% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+37.6%
EPS
−89.2%
Free cash flow
−97.5%
Total debt
−26.3%

Quarter to June 2026, against a year earlier

13.74 0.15 +1.10%
Market cap
$122.4M
P/E
0.0×
Fwd P/E
0.0×
Dividend yield
—
F-score
7/9
Altman Z
5.55
Beneish M
−2.87
Dividend safety
n/a
Overview
Financials
Income Statement Balance Sheet Cash Flow Metrics & Ratios

Insider Decisions last twelve months

Bought, $m 0.14
Sold, $m 0.02
Trades a month
Jan 26 Apr 26 Jul 26 Oct 26
Buy — — — 2 — — — — — — — —
Sell — — — — — — 1 — — — — —
Insider Ownership 14.56%

Capital & Financial Ratios $m

Size
Market Cap 122.39
Revenue ttm 83.54
Net income ttm (4.44)
Free cash flow ttm (8.40)
Net debt Q (27.43)
Valuation
P/E 0.00
Forward P/E 0.00
Price / sales 1.47
Forward P/S Powerpack
Price / FCF 0.00
Price / book 1.54
Financial health
Current ratio Q 4.33 (at or above 1.5: strong)
Debt / equity Q 0.01 (at or below 0.5: strong)
Interest coverage Q 1.69
Growth
Revenue growth Q +37.61% (above 0%: growing)
Operating income growth Q +90.25% (above 0%: growing)
EPS, this year +80.23% (at or above 15%: strong)
EPS, next year A +259.62% (at or above 15%: strong)
Revenue, next year A −100.00% (below 0%: weak)
EPS, past 5 yrs —
EPS, next 5 yrs A +12.40%

Green and red mark values outside typical ranges; (Q) is the latest quarter, (A) analysts’ estimates. How we judge →

Valuation vs history

EV/Sales, ten years
EV/Sales is 1.2×, against a ten-year median of 0.8×; over the ten years it ranged from 0.4× in 2022 to 1.7× in 2025.
P/S against its own 10 years 85.00%
10-year low 10-year high
P/B against its own 10 years 86.32%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/Sales against its own 10 years 89.44%
10-year low 10-year high

Dividends

Yield
—
Annual rate
—
Payout ratio
—
Growth, 2017–22
−100.0%/yr
  1. 0.13 ’17
  2. 0.25 ’18 +92
  3. 0.00 ’19 −100
  4. 0.00 ’20
  5. 0.00 ’21
  6. 0.00 ’22
paid change on the year, %

Assets vs Liabilities $m

2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Cash 2 16 58 28
Receivables 27 12 15 24
Inventory 52 6 9 10
Other 3 — — —
89 83 83 65
2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Payables 16 7 5 9
ST’ Debt — — — —
Other — — — —
25 22 12 15

Compound Annual Growth %

10y 5y 3y
Sales (8.16%) (21.78%) (34.11%)
Cash Flow 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
Earnings 0.00% 0.00% (66.00%)
Book Value (0.89%) 1.62% (13.47%)

Earnings Trends EPS, adjusted, against the consensus

Q1 FY24 Estimate −0.36 Actual −0.41

Earnings per share against the consensus, by quarter
Quarter Estimate Reported Result
Q2 FY23 −0.39 −0.37 Beat by 0.02
Q3 FY23 −0.12 −0.14 Miss by 0.02
Q4 FY23 −0.08 −0.73 Miss by 0.65
Q1 FY24 −0.36 −0.41 Miss by 0.05

EPS $

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 (0.21) 0.07 — — —
’25 (0.23) 0.65 (0.22) (0.11) 0.09
’24 (0.54) (0.09) (0.61) (0.10) (1.34)
’23 (0.51) (1.44) (1.77) 1.07 (2.63)
’22 0.99 1.06 0.06 0.01 2.12
’21 0.12 0.31 0.87 0.84 2.14
’20 (0.13) (0.77) (1.16) (0.94) (3.00)
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Revenue $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 19 26 — — —
’25 18 19 20 19 75
’24 28 21 21 10 81
’23 55 50 47 41 193
’22 116 85 78 (17) 262
’21 70 83 86 96 335
’20 75 66 59 56 256
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Operating Cash Flow $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 (5) (2) — — —
’25 (1) (1) 1 0 (1)
’24 0 2 3 9 15
’23 13 5 3 2 23
’22 0 2 (2) 5 6
’21 (1) 6 11 3 19
’20 (1) 0 6 12 18
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Free Cash Flow $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 (6) (3) — — —
’25 (1) (2) 1 0 (2)
’24 0 2 3 8 14
’23 13 4 2 1 20
’22 (1) 2 (3) 4 2
’21 (1) 6 12 2 19
’20 (1) (1) 5 11 15
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Target Price Range

Analyst price targets

Recommendation Rating

1
1Buy 2 3Hold 4 5Sell

Ten years at a glance Fiscal years to December

Ten-year view Analyst estimates Powerpack
Group Line 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 TTM Jun ’26 Trend 10 yrs 2026e 2027e 2028e Next 3/yr
Income, $m
Income, $m Revenue 139 201 281 305 256 335 262 193 81 75 84 (6.6%) — — — —
Gross margin, % 12.20 13.96 18.24 10.08 8.85 18.15 16.52 0.79 13.24 22.97 21.11 +10.8 pt
EBT (9) 1 16 (4) (32) 25 12 (41) (11) (6) (3) (5.4%)
EBT margin, % (6.63) 0.73 5.87 (1.23) (12.49) 7.62 4.58 (21.26) (13.34) (7.42) (3.37) (0.8) pt
Net income (7) 1 13 (3) (27) 20 22 (27) (14) 1 (4) n/m
Per share, $
Per share, $ Revenue 16.02 23.11 31.89 33.97 28.01 35.84 25.61 19.05 7.99 7.77 9.23 (7.7%)
Earnings (0.82) 0.15 1.49 (0.34) (3.00) 2.17 2.16 (2.63) (1.34) 0.09 (0.47) n/m
Cash flow 0.17 0.26 (2.41) 3.19 1.97 2.04 0.55 2.28 1.45 (0.05) (0.68) n/m
Capex 2.22 (0.60) (0.84) (0.48) (0.38) (0.01) (0.32) (0.28) (0.11) (0.16) (0.25) n/m
Free cash flow 2.39 (0.34) (3.25) 2.70 1.59 2.03 0.22 1.99 1.34 (0.21) (0.93) n/m
Book value 10.24 10.30 11.64 11.86 8.79 11.95 13.12 10.59 9.26 9.02 8.80 (1.4%)
Shares, m 9 9 9 9 9 9 10 10 10 10 9 +1.2%
Valuation, ×
Valuation, × P/E 0.00 89.67 11.13 0.00 0.00 7.61 4.19 0.00 0.00 179.89 0.00 29.2
P/S 0.69 0.58 0.52 0.38 0.28 0.46 0.35 0.51 1.40 2.08 1.47 0.7
P/B 1.07 1.31 1.43 1.09 0.89 1.38 0.69 0.93 1.21 1.79 1.54 1.2
EV/Sales 0.78 0.73 0.80 0.63 0.52 0.67 0.62 0.52 1.24 1.36 1.17 0.8
EV/FCF 5.24 (49.65) (7.87) 7.87 9.11 11.78 71.66 5.02 7.40 (49.34) (11.66) 1.1
Cash, $m
Cash, $m Operating cash flow 2 2 (21) 29 18 19 6 23 15 (1) (6) n/m
Capex 19 (5) (7) (4) (3) 0 (3) (3) (1) (2) (2) n/m
Free cash flow 21 (3) (29) 24 15 19 2 20 14 (2) (8) n/m
Balance, $m
Balance, $m Working capital 65 74 130 107 96 109 137 65 61 71 50 +1.0%
Net debt 9 26 74 75 61 70 71 (1) (15) (57) (27) n/m
Shareholders’ equity 89 90 102 107 80 112 134 107 94 87 80 (0.2%)
Returns, %
Returns, % ROA (4.93) 0.90 6.75 (1.25) (11.75) 8.56 8.25 (12.32) (8.76) 0.67 (3.88) +5.6 pt
ROIC (5.30) 1.11 7.50 (0.59) (13.73) 9.42 4.42 (21.89) (8.60) (14.55) (5.92) (9.2) pt
ROE (7.72) 1.50 13.63 (2.91) (29.19) 21.10 17.95 (22.04) (13.53) 0.96 (5.24) +8.7 pt
People
People Employees 412 533 607 606 526 707 698 517 452 198 — (7.8%)
Revenue/emp, $m 0.34 0.38 0.46 0.50 0.49 0.47 0.38 0.37 0.18 0.38 — +1.3%
Negative figures in brackets.
estimates

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Fiscal years to Dec 2025 · latest quarter Jun 2026 · fundamentals updated 26 Oct 2026

Ascent Industries Co. vs peers in Specialty Chemicals (Q) = latest quarter vs a year earlier

Company Market cap P/E Fwd P/E Revenue growth (Q) EPS growth (Q) FCF growth (Q) Gross margin (Q) EBIT margin (Q) Compare
ALTO Alto Ingredients, Inc. $284.7M 5.4× 9.7× +12.48% (above 0%: growing) n/m +1,443.92% (above 0%: growing) 6.77% 3.51% Compare
FF FutureFuel Corp. $236.9M — (loss-making) — (loss-making) +120.69% (above 0%: growing) n/m +4,245.38% (above 0%: growing) 19.08% 14.29% Compare
CMT Core Molding Technologies Inc $186.3M 25.6× 44.8× +54.42% (above 0%: growing) −18.18% (below 0%: shrinking) −3,170.52% (below 0%: shrinking) 14.83% 1.76% Compare
HDSN Hudson Technologies, Inc. $172.1M — (loss-making) 33.2× −19.71% (below 0%: shrinking) −82.14% (below 0%: shrinking) +43.42% (above 0%: growing) 24.91% 5.47% Compare
AMTX Aemetis, Inc $124.9M — (loss-making) — (loss-making) +48.93% (above 0%: growing) n/m +269.01% (above 0%: growing) 33.43% 23.65% Compare
ACNT Ascent Industries Co. $122.4M — (loss-making) — (loss-making) +37.61% (above 0%: growing) −89.23% (below 0%: shrinking) −97.54% (below 0%: shrinking) 21.62% (1.02%)
FEAM 5E Advanced Materials, Inc. $93.8M — (loss-making) — — n/m +17.79% (above 0%: growing) 0.00% 0.00% Compare
NTIC Northern Technologies International Corporation $72.0M — (loss-making) 188× +12.59% (above 0%: growing) n/m +327.52% (above 0%: growing) 33.63% 2.13% Compare
CITR CitroTech Inc. $58.7M — (loss-making) — (loss-making) −59.18% (below 0%: shrinking) n/m −30.95% (below 0%: shrinking) 3.21% (1,244.78%) Compare
Median of peers $148.5M — 39.0× +12.59% — +156.22% 16.95% 2.82%

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Pay and ownership Proxy statement filed 30 April 2026

Ownership

Directors and executive officers, together 7.50%
Mink Brook Capital GP LLC 9.40%
Pinnacle Family Office Investments LP 5.30%
BlackRock, Inc. 5.20%
Ownership is the proxy’s own table: the directors and officers as a group, and every holder of 5% or more. Read the proxy statement

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