ASHAshland Inc.

Basic Materials

$70.61+45% 1Y

$70.61

$46.4652 weeks$76.45

Is the price fair?

Fair

Neither cheap nor expensive: modest expectations priced in, but at the top of its own P/E range and rich vs its sector.

1 good, 2 to watch

What the price assumes~−1% a year

Priced for a decline (~−1% a year). Little growth is priced in even as revenue fell 7% a year over three years, potential value, or a value trap.

Vs its own P/E rangedearest in 23 quartersderived

Expensive vs its own history: P/E 67.3 vs a 24.6 median over 23 quarters (+174% vs median).

Vs sector (EV/EBIT)28.4×

Sector median 18.9× across 51 covered peers. EV/EBIT counts debt as part of the price, so a cash-rich and a borrowed company can be compared on the same footing.

Unless marked, from derived, as of Jun 30, 2026.

Against the whole market›

Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.

P/E (valuation)bottom 9% of the market

FCF yieldbetter than 79% of the market

Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.

What ASH's price assumes

Ashland Inc. trades at 67.3× earnings against 29.4× for the median Specialty Chemicals name, more expensive than its own group.

67.3

Trailing P/E · Specialty Chemicals median 29.4 · 2.29× the median: the market pays up for this one

Price / sales: 1.60
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
Free cash flow yield: 8.5%
Free cash flow yield · Specialty Chemicals median 4.7%
Growth the price implies: −1.4%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for −1.4% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +8.6% a year over the last three.