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Ashland Inc
Ashland Inc (ASH) is listed on NYSE and classified in Specialty Chemicals, part of the Basic Materials sector. It is headquartered in Wilmington, United States and has 2,900 employees. The company is worth $3.37B and trades at 47.2x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 19.1x. Revenue was $1.82B in fiscal 2025, down 13.7% from the year before. It reported a net loss of $845M. The share price is 6.0% below its 52-week high of $78.25. It pays a dividend yielding 2.28%, and has raised its annual dividend for 16 years in a row in our records. 4 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Cliff Asness (AQR Capital Management), at $116.77M. In that quarter, 1 of them opened or added to the position and 3 reduced it. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▼ -29.6% over 5Y.
today you would have $819.17▼ -18.1%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 12 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $58.67 | $71.46 | $84.31 | $107.53 | $107.66 | $79.20 | $76.53 | $70.96 | $71.20 | $53.47 | $50.24 | $58.59 | |
| P/E | 23.4x | — | 21.3x | 25.5x | 6.6x | 30.0x | — | 9.4x | 39.6x | 7120.0x |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. 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 19.1 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 23.4 across this company’s own years on record.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Companies of similar size in Basic Materials, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SMGScotts Miracle-gro Co | $59.15 | 21.1x | — | 4.46% | — | $3.44B |
| CSTMConstellium SE | $23.99 | 6.2x | 2.6x | 0.00% | 53.09% | $3.25B |
| CENXCentury Aluminum Co | $32.65 | 6.0x | 2.3x | 0.00% | 51.75% | $3.23B |
| USLMUnited States Lime & Minerals Inc | $111.50 |
| — |
| 11.1x |
| 39.9x |
| P/S | 1.9x | 1.5x | 1.6x | 2.0x | 2.4x | 2.9x | 2.4x | 2.1x | 1.7x | 1.9x | 1.1x | 2.0x | 1.5x |
| P/B | 1.4x | 1.4x | 1.2x | 1.4x | 1.8x | 2.2x | 1.6x | 1.3x | 1.3x | 1.3x | 1.0x | 2.3x | 2.6x |
| EPS | -$18.23 | $3.36 | $3.31 | $16.41 | $3.59 | -$8.39 | $8.15 | $1.79 | $0.01 | -$0.47 | $4.54 | $1.47 |
| Dividend yield | 1.40% | 2.81% | 2.24% | 1.77% | 1.21% | 1.09% | 1.39% | 1.40% | 1.37% | 1.22% | 1.43% | 1.47% | 1.14% |
| Payout | 45.02% | — | 47.62% | 45.02% | 7.95% | 32.73% | — | 13.19% | 54.47% | 8658.02% | — | 16.27% | 45.33% |
| Profit margin | 6.20% | -46.33% | 8.00% | 8.12% | 38.77% | 10.42% | -25.20% | 23.51% | 4.40% | 0.04% | -0.96% | 9.04% | 3.81% |
| ROE | 5.82% | -44.38% | 5.89% | 5.75% | 28.79% | 7.99% | -16.73% | 14.14% | 3.35% | 0.03% | -0.87% | 10.17% | 6.50% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
Dividend growing 5.0% a year against a 7.0% required return, from the stock’s beta.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
4 methods answered, across 2 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
-16.8% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
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| 4.6x |
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| 21.35% |
| $3.2B |
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