ASH Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Ashland | NYSE:ASH)

Ashland Inc. is a specialty materials company serving markets including pharmaceuticals, personal care, food and beverages, coatings, construction, energy, and electronics. It operates through four segments: Life Sciences, Personal Care, Specialty Additives, and Intermediates. Life Sciences contributes the highest revenue, offering functional additives for pharmaceutical and nutrition applications. Personal Care provides ingredients for skin, hair, oral care, and household products, while Specialty Additives supplies performance-enhancing additives for coatings and. Intermediates produce BDO and related derivatives used in polymers, electronics, agriculture, and pharmaceutical applications. The company generates sales across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and regions.

Ashland trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol ASH.

As of February 19, 2026, ASH stock price declined to $63.22 with 883,295 million shares trading.

ASH has a beta of 1.14, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. ASH has a correlation of 0.36 to the broad based SPY ETF.

ASH has a market cap of $2.89 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

Last quarter Ashland reported $386 million in Revenue and $.26 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-19 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.02.

In the last 3 years, ASH traded as high as $105.15 and as low as $45.21.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that ASH belongs to (by Net Assets): IJH, VTI, VB, VBR, VXF.

ASH has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of -1.1% while the SPY ETF gained +12.9%. However, in the short term, ASH had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning +29.8% vs +3.6% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, ASH shares have been beat by the market, returning +0.1% compared to an SPY return of +1.0%.

ASH support price is $61.96 and resistance is $64.82 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that ASH shares will trade within this expected range on the day.