Ascent Industries (ACNT)
Makes tailored chemicals and contract manufacturing services for industrial and consumer-product markets.
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Produces surfactants, defoamers, lubricating agents, flame retardants, intermediates, and custom and toll manufacturing services. After selling its tubular-products assets, the business is a U.S.-based specialty-chemicals platform with customer and supplier concentration.
Develops and manufactures specialty-chemical formulations, intermediates, and process aids for oil and gas, household and industrial uses, personal care, coatings, pulp and paper, textiles, water treatment, construction, and related markets. Product lines include surfactants, defoamers, lubricating agents, flame retardants, chemical intermediates, and packaging-coatings formulations.
Provides custom manufacturing, toll processing, product development, process optimization, scale-up, and commercial production. Operations use customer-dedicated assets and multi-purpose systems for blending, complex reaction chemistry, and multi-step processing, with production centered in Tennessee, South Carolina, and Virginia.
Formerly paired specialty chemicals with tubular products, then sold the remaining tubular assets and now reports one Specialty Chemicals segment. The business depends on concentrated customer relationships, raw-material supply, and a partly union-represented workforce.
Company facts
Target rangeAs of Sep 22, 2026
Latest analyst notes
No analyst notes in the last 24 months.
EPSReportedEstimate
RevenueReportedEstimate
Balance sheet, Jun 30, 2026Cash & short-term investments $28.1M · Total debt $13.8M · Total assets $106.3M · Shareholders' equity $79.6M
- Revenue
- $25.7M
- Operating income
- −$262.0K
- Net income
- $670.0K
No dividends on record.
| Institutions | 56.28% | 5.07M shares | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 86 holders · as of Jun 30, 2026 | |||
| Insiders | 19.64% | 1.77M shares | |
| 16 holders · as of Jun 29, 2026 | |||
| Strategic holders | 5.56% | 500.8K shares | |
| 1 holder · as of Apr 6, 2026 | |||
| Other | 18.52% | 1.67M shares | |
| remainder | |||
9.01M company shares as of Sep 22, 2026 · institutions as of Jun 30, 2026 · holders as of their latest filing
Top shareholders13F · 13D/G · Form 4
| Holder | Stake | Shares | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
Bradley L. RadoffInsider | 11.10% | 1.00M | filed Sep 20, 2024 |
Mink Brook Asset Management LLCInstitution | 9.82% | 884,483 | as of Jun 30, 2026 |
Mink Brook Partners LPStrategic | 5.56% | 500,846 | filed Apr 6, 2026 |
Pinnacle Family Office Investments, L.P., a Texas limited partnershipInstitution | 5.55% | 500,000 | filed Nov 17, 2025 |
Christopher Gerald HutterInsiderdirector | 4.38% | 394,805 | filed Jun 10, 2026 |
Insider tradesForm 4
| Date | Insider | Role | Shares | Avg price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 2026 | Aldo John Jr Mazzaferro | director | −1,500 | $14.10 |
| Mar 17, 2026 | John Bryan Kitchen | officer: Chief Executive Officer | +7,595 | $12.98 |
| Mar 6, 2026 | Anthony X. Pan | other: VP, Sales & Bus. Development | +3,400 | $13.30 |
- Stepan
Leading surfactants and CASE-polyols rival
- Innospec
Performance-chemical and oilfield additive rival
- Quaker Houghton
Industrial process-fluid and lubricant competitor
- Ashland
Additives and specialty-ingredients peer
- Hawkins
Water-treatment and custom-blending specialty peer
- H.B. Fuller
Adhesives, sealants, and packaging-chemistry rival
- Avient
Polymer additives and flame-retardant competitor
CompareAfter hours
| Company | Price | Change | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ascent Industries | $14.82 | −0.10% | $131.8M | — | — | 1.6 | +37.6% |
| Stepan | $64.38 | −0.02% | $1.40B | — | 19.7 | 0.6 | +15.0% |
| Innospec | $96.08 | −0.08% | $2.28B | 18.9 | 16.8 | 1.2 | +11.8% |
| Quaker Houghton | $159.47 | +0.01% | $2.69B | 27.7 | 18.8 | 1.4 | +10.2% |
| Ashland | $70.18 | +0.73% | $3.16B | 61.1 | 16.6 | 1.7 | +7.3% |
| Hawkins | $124.55 | +0.05% | $2.62B | 32.5 | 29.7 | 2.4 | +7.6% |
| H.B. Fuller | $51.07 | −0.03% | $2.67B | 14.7 | 9.9 | 0.8 | +5.8% |
| Avient | $41.24 | −0.07% | $3.71B | 21.9 | 12.6 | 1.1 | +5.8% |
| Median | 24.8 | 16.8 | 1.2 | +7.6% |