Ashland Global (ASH)
Materials · specialty ingredients and additives · NYSE
Global specialty ingredients and additives company serving coatings, pharmaceuticals, personal care, and industrial markets, navigating portfolio transformation amid tariff and geopolitical headwinds.
What Ashland Global does
Ashland is a global additives and specialty ingredients company serving customers across consumer and industrial markets including architectural coatings, construction, energy, food and beverage, personal care, and pharmaceuticals. With approximately 2,900 employees, the company operates through four reportable segments—Life Sciences, Personal Care, Specialty Additives, and Intermediates—and generates about 73% of sales outside North America across more than 100 countries.
Themes: ["specialty ingredients / additives"]
Fundamentals
- Price$65.00 as of 2026-07-09 close
- Market cap$3.0B as of 2026-07-10
- 1-year return+18.0% as of 2026-07-09 close
- Net margin-39.1% as of 2026-07-10
- Gross margin+32.7% as of 2026-07-10
- ROE-37.5% as of 2026-07-10
- Debt / equity0.74 as of 2026-07-10
- Revenue growth (YoY)-7.2% as of 2026-07-10
- Revenue CAGR (3y)-8.6% SEC XBRL
- Beta0.41 as of 2026-07-10
Dividend: yield +2.6%; 5-year non-decreasing per-share dividend streak (SEC XBRL).
Key risks (from latest filing)
["Exposure to global tariffs and trade policy uncertainty, including supply chain disruptions and increased sourcing/manufacturing costs from U.S.-China, EU, and India tariffs with potential retaliatory measures"]
Competitors & peers
- Lubrizol Corporation
Fundamentals: Finnhub, as of 2026-07-10. Filings: SEC EDGAR. Prices are delayed daily-close data.
Last updated 2026-07-09.
Informational only — NOT financial advice. All figures are delayed daily-close data from SEC EDGAR & Finnhub, shown with their as-of date.