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Ascent Industries Co. (ACNT) vs Aemetis, Inc (AMTX)

Ascent Industries Co. and Aemetis, Inc are both Specialty Chemicals companies. Ascent Industries Co. and Aemetis, Inc are of similar size ($124.9M and $122.4M). Aemetis, Inc grew revenue faster over the last twelve months: 23.6% against 23.2%. Ascent Industries Co. has the higher net margin (−5.31% vs −12.5%) and the lower return on invested capital (−5.92% vs 19.4%). Across the 17 metrics below, Aemetis, Inc leads on 9 and Ascent Industries Co. on 8.

Valuation

Metric ACNT AMTX Specialty Chemicals median
P/E n/m n/m 24.46
P/S 1.47 0.51 1.64
P/B 1.54 n/m 1.88
Price to free cash flow n/m n/m 19.15
EV/EBITDA n/m 133.48 12.87
EV/Sales 1.17 2.00 1.88
Earnings yield (3.46%) (27.01%) 2.42%
Free cash flow yield (6.83%) (29.00%) 2.25%

Profitability

Metric ACNT AMTX Specialty Chemicals median
Gross margin 21.11% 21.49% 27.84%
Operating margin (5.91%) 7.16% 5.64%
Net margin (5.31%) (12.54%) 4.19%
Free cash flow margin (10.06%) (14.70%) 3.49%
Return on equity (5.24%) 10.08% 2.34%
Return on assets (3.88%) (11.28%) 0.45%
Return on invested capital (5.92%) 19.40% 3.21%

Growth

Metric ACNT AMTX Specialty Chemicals median
Revenue growth (TTM) 23.16% 23.57% 6.39%
EPS growth (last fiscal year) 106.72% 32.98% (9.77%)
Revenue growth, 5-year CAGR (21.78%) 3.60% 6.33%
Net income growth, 5-year CAGR 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%

Health

Metric ACNT AMTX Specialty Chemicals median
Debt to equity 0.01 (1.19) 0.59
Current ratio 4.33 0.07 2.28
Net debt to EBITDA 21.99 (16.22) 2.03

Dividend

Metric ACNT AMTX Specialty Chemicals median
Dividend yield — — 1.80%
Payout ratio — — 0.40

Size

Metric ACNT AMTX Specialty Chemicals median
Market cap 122.39m 124.85m 2.08b

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