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Ascent Industries Co. (ACNT) vs FutureFuel Corp. (FF)

Ascent Industries Co. and FutureFuel Corp. are both Specialty Chemicals companies. FutureFuel Corp. is the larger, with a market value of $236.9M against $122.4M — 1.9× the size. Ascent Industries Co. grew revenue faster over the last twelve months: 23.2% against −7.63%. Ascent Industries Co. has the higher net margin (−5.31% vs −19.9%) and the higher return on invested capital (−5.92% vs −14.5%). Across the 18 metrics below, Ascent Industries Co. leads on 15 and FutureFuel Corp. on 3.

Valuation

Metric ACNT FF Specialty Chemicals median
P/E n/m n/m 24.46
P/S 1.47 1.55 1.64
P/B 1.54 1.56 1.88
Price to free cash flow n/m n/m 19.15
EV/EBITDA n/m n/m 12.87
EV/Sales 1.17 1.34 1.88
Earnings yield (3.46%) (12.99%) 2.42%
Free cash flow yield (6.83%) (21.38%) 2.25%

Profitability

Metric ACNT FF Specialty Chemicals median
Gross margin 21.11% (8.28%) 27.84%
Operating margin (5.91%) (17.99%) 5.64%
Net margin (5.31%) (19.94%) 4.19%
Free cash flow margin (10.06%) (33.26%) 3.49%
Return on equity (5.24%) (18.44%) 2.34%
Return on assets (3.88%) (14.10%) 0.45%
Return on invested capital (5.92%) (14.51%) 3.21%

Growth

Metric ACNT FF Specialty Chemicals median
Revenue growth (TTM) 23.16% (7.63%) 6.39%
EPS growth (last fiscal year) 106.72% (422.86%) (9.77%)
Revenue growth, 5-year CAGR (21.78%) (14.08%) 6.33%
Net income growth, 5-year CAGR 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%

Health

Metric ACNT FF Specialty Chemicals median
Debt to equity 0.01 0.00 0.59
Current ratio 4.33 4.06 2.28
Net debt to EBITDA 21.99 1.19 2.03

Dividend

Metric ACNT FF Specialty Chemicals median
Dividend yield — 2.59% 1.80%
Payout ratio — — 0.40

Size

Metric ACNT FF Specialty Chemicals median
Market cap 122.39m 236.86m 2.08b

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