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Acme United Corp
How the company evolved, year by year. Revenue and debt come from the annual reports — for most companies, the 10-K filings with the SEC since 2009; dividends from the payments themselves.
The bars are a balance on the closing date; the lines are what happened during the year. Revenue above equity is ordinary, not an anomaly — it means the company turns its capital over more than once a year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
None of the investors we track reported a position in ACU.
▲ +69.6% over 5Y.
today you would have $2,080.69▲ +108.1%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 16 closed years. Each multiple uses that year’s closing price and that year’s reported numbers — not today’s. The range is set by the annual reports on record.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 |
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| Year-end price | $40.31 | $37.33 | $42.86 | $21.90 | $33.70 | $30.13 | $23.79 | $14.25 | $23.40 | $25.57 | $17.40 | $19.99 | $14.90 | $11.04 | $9.50 | $9.52 | |
| P/E | 13.2x |
Seven formulas applied to what the company reported. None of them predicts a price — each answers what the stock would be worth if its assumption held. The assumption is printed next to every number, because it is the assumption that produces the result.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value — the two ceilings Graham proposed. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Median P/E of 17.7 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 13.2 across the years on record for this company itself. Answers whether it is cheap against its own past, which a whole sector trading low cannot flatter.
Cash flow growing 1.5% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Sector median of 10.4x operating profit, less net debt. Sees the business before its financing, so debt does not distort the comparison. Banks have no EBITDA — interest is their revenue, not a cost.
Companies of similar size in Consumer Defensive, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BGSB&G Foods, Inc. | $2.98 | — | 0.6x | 22.32% | -15.80% | $242.2M |
| LMNRLimoneira CO | $13.78 | — | 1.9x | 1.09% | -23.27% | $249.86M |
| NATRNatures Sunshine Products Inc | $13.22 | 13.2x | 1.4x | — | 11.23% | $232.61M |
| YSGYatsen Holding Ltd | $2.76 |
Acme United Corporation supplies cutting, measuring, first aid, and sharpening products to the school, home, office, hardware, sporting goods, and industrial markets in the United States, Canada, Europe, and internationally. The company offers scissors, shears, knives, rulers, pencil sharpeners, paper trimmers, safety cutters, lettering products, glue guns, and other craft products under the Westcott brand name; and cutting tools under the Clauss brand. It also provides sharpening knives, scissors, chisels, skis, skates, and other edges under the DMT brand. In addition, the company offers first aid kits and safety solutions under the First Aid Only brand; portable eyewash solution and over-the-counter medication, including active ingredients aspirin, acetaminophen, and ibuprofen under the PhysiciansCare brand; bodily fluid and spill clean-up solution under the Spill Magic brand; various first aid kit, refill, and safety supplies, including CPR kits, burn kits, and automotive and emergency first aid kits under the First Aid Central; first aid kits for the promotional products industry under Safety Made brand; alcohol prep pads, alcohol wipes, benzalkonium chloride wipes, various antiseptic wipes under the Med-Nap brand, and Pac-Kit, as well as My Medic brands. It sells its products directly and through its independent manufacturer representatives to wholesale, contract, and retail stationery distributors; office supply superstores, mass market retailers, industrial and medical distributors, school supply distributors, drug store retailers, sporting goods stores, hardware chains, and wholesale florists, as well as through its websites. The company was formerly known as Acme Shear Company and changed its name to Acme United Corporation in 1971. Acme United Corporation was founded in 1867 and is based in Shelton, Connecticut.
Company description provided by Yahoo Finance.
| 16.2x |
| 15.2x |
| 8.8x |
| 26.7x |
| 9.8x |
| 13.0x |
| 14.9x |
| 11.0x |
| 21.5x |
| 15.6x |
| 13.4x |
| 14.7x |
| 12.2x |
| 9.8x |
| 10.4x |
| 11.8x |
| P/S | 0.6x | 0.8x | 0.7x | 0.8x | 0.4x | 0.7x | 0.6x | 0.6x | 0.3x | 0.6x | 0.7x | 0.5x | 0.6x | 0.5x | 0.4x | 0.4x | — |
| P/B | 1.4x | 1.3x | 1.3x | 1.6x | 1.0x | 1.5x | 1.6x | 1.4x | 0.9x | 1.6x | 1.8x | 1.3x | 1.7x | 1.4x | 1.1x | 1.1x | — |
| EPS | $2.49 | $2.45 | $4.86 | $0.82 | $3.45 | $2.31 | $1.60 | $1.30 | $1.09 | $1.64 | $1.30 | $1.36 | $1.22 | $1.13 | $0.91 | $0.81 |
| Dividend yield | 1.72% | 1.54% | 1.61% | 1.31% | 2.47% | 1.54% | 1.59% | 2.02% | 3.09% | 1.79% | 1.56% | 2.07% | 1.65% | 1.54% | 3.17% | 2.63% | 2.21% |
| Payout | 25.41% | 24.90% | 24.49% | 11.52% | 65.85% | 15.07% | 20.78% | 30.00% | 33.85% | 38.53% | 24.39% | 27.69% | 24.26% | 18.85% | 30.97% | 27.47% | 25.93% |
| Profit margin | 4.42% | 5.18% | 5.15% | 9.29% | 1.56% | 7.50% | 4.94% | 3.87% | 3.35% | 3.10% | 4.70% | 4.37% | 4.47% | 4.47% | 4.21% | 3.84% | 4.07% |
| ROE | 10.62% | 8.66% | 9.37% | 18.18% | 3.84% | 17.72% | 12.91% | 9.90% | 8.79% | 8.12% | 12.69% | 11.10% | 12.15% | 11.44% | 11.50% | 10.12% | 10.15% |
Median, not average: a single year of near-zero profit produces a P/E of 400 and would drag an average on its own. P/E years above 200x are left out, the same cut the fair price uses — so this median matches the “its own history” method below. Price and EPS have no median: they are series that grow.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Not the average of the seven numbers above. Four of the seven start from the same earnings per share — Graham, Lynch, sector multiples and its own history — so averaging all seven would let one input count four times and drown out the others. Instead each family produces one number, and the fair price is the average of the families that answered. A family with two working formulas contributes their average, not two votes.
5 methods answered, across 3 families.
Every formula reads the same reported statements and they can be wrong together. The margin is room for that.
-38.2% from the average.
These are models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. Change one assumption and the number changes with it — that is a property of valuation, not a defect of this page.
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| 0.6x |
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| -7.58% |
| $258.89M |
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