ASH · Ashland Inc.
$72.99
-0.79% last session
End-of-day data · close of 2026-10-23
Market cap
$3B
Enterprise value
$4B
Trailing P/E
46.8
Forward P/E
16.9
Dividend yield
2.0%
Beta
0.40
Avg volume
1M
Employees
3K
Daily Change %
-0.79%
5 Days Change
3.40%
10 Days Change
1.27%
30 Days Change
6.61%
60 Days Change
0.39%
Month to Day Change
7.23%
Year to Day Change
27.89%
Analyst Outlook
Analyst estimates change daily — follow the shifts on the Estimate Trends page.
Technical Analysis
Analyst sentiment over time — ASH
Rec Mean (blue, left — higher = more bullish) vs. price targets (right).
Investment Bank Ratings as of 2026-10-05
Latest call per bank · past 12 months
UBS
Buy$80.00
+9.6% vs priceMorgan Stanley
Equal-Weight$78.00
+6.9% vs priceWells Fargo
Equal-Weight$70.00
-4.1% vs priceJP Morgan
Overweight$75.00
+2.8% vs priceRecent rating actions
| Date | Firm | Action | Rating | Price target |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-05 | UBS | Maintains | Buy | $83.00 → $80.00 |
| 2026-08-06 | Morgan Stanley | Maintains | Equal-Weight | $58.00 → $78.00 |
| 2026-07-31 | Wells Fargo | Maintains | Equal-Weight | $50.00 → $70.00 |
| 2026-07-30 | UBS | Maintains | Buy | $75.00 → $83.00 |
| 2026-07-30 | Evercore ISI Group | Maintains | In-Line | $60.00 → $73.00 |
| 2026-07-29 | Mizuho | Maintains | Outperform | $75.00 → $77.00 |
| 2026-07-29 | BMO Capital | Maintains | Outperform | $68.00 → $75.00 |
| 2026-07-10 | JP Morgan | Maintains | Overweight | $65.00 → $75.00 |
Ratings and price targets are the published opinions of the issuing banks, compiled from Yahoo Finance rating actions — not investment advice.
Signal Summary as of 2026-10-23
- neutral: RSI (14): RSI is 61 — neutral momentum, neither overbought nor oversold.
- bullish: Price vs 50-day MA: Trading 2.3% above the 50-day MA ($71.37).
- bullish: Price vs 200-day MA: Trading 16.0% above the 200-day MA ($62.92).
- bullish: MA cross: The 50-day MA sits above the 200-day MA (golden-cross regime) — the longer-term trend points up.
- bullish: MACD (12,26,9): MACD histogram is positive (+0.33) — short-term momentum is improving.
- bullish: 52-week range: Price is within 5% of the 52-week high ($76.01).
ASH Price Chart
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Fundamentals
About Ashland Inc.
Ashland Inc. provides additives and specialty ingredients in the North and Latin America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and internationally. It operates through Life Sciences, Personal Care, Specialty Additives, and Intermediates segments. The Life Sciences segment offers pharmaceutical solutions, including controlled release polymers, disintegrants, tablet coatings, thickeners, solubilizers, and tablet binders; and nutrition solutions, such as thickeners, stabilizers, emulsifiers, and additives; agricultural chemicals; diagnostic films; and fine chemicals. Its Personal Care segment provides a range of natural, nature-derived, biodegradable, and performance ingredients; solutions for toothpastes, mouth washes and rinses, denture cleaning, and care for teeth; and household supplies nature-derived rheology ingredients, biodegradable surface wetting agents, performance encapsulates, and specialty polymers. The Specialty Additives segment offers rheology modifiers, foam control agents, surfactants and wetting agents, pH neutralizers, advanced ceramics used in catalytic converters, environmental filters, ingredients for the manufacturing of ceramic capacitors, plasma display panels and solar cells, ingredients for textile printing, thermoplastic metals, and alloys for welding. Its Intermediates segment produces 1,4 butanediol and related derivatives, including n-methylpyrrolidone. It offers its products to customers in a range of consumer and industrial markets, such as architectural coatings, construction, energy, food and beverage, personal care, and pharmaceutical. The company was formerly known as Ashland Global Holdings Inc. and changed its name to Ashland Inc. in August 2022. Ashland Inc. was founded in 1924 and is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware.
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