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Ashland sets date for fiscal 2024 second-quarter earnings release and conference call webcast
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Ashland Board appoints Scott A. Tozier as new director
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Ashland announces executive organization changes to personal care and specialty additives
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Ashland Inc is a world-wide specialty materials company that serves a wide range of industrial markets. The company has a business-centric operating model and is organized into four distinct segments: life sciences, personal care, specialty additives, and intermediates. Key customers for the firm include pharmaceutical companies and manufacturers of personal care products, food and beverages, and nutraceuticals and supplements. The life sciences segment derives maximum revenue. Ashland includes only U.S. and Canada in its North America designation and includes Europe, the Middle East and Africa in its Europe designation.
Ashland trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol ASH.
As of April 23, 2024, ASH stock price climbed to $97.03 with 98,284 million shares trading.
ASH has a beta of 0.80, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. ASH has a correlation of 0.14 to the broad based SPY ETF.
ASH has a market cap of $4.93 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.
Last quarter Ashland reported $473 million in Revenue and $.45 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-5 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.26.
In the last 3 years, ASH stock traded as high as $114.36 and as low as $70.82.
The top ETF exchange traded funds that ASH belongs to (by Net Assets): IJH, VTI, VB, VBR, VXF.
ASH stock has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of -3.8%, while SPY returned +24.1%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in ASH shares. However, ASH has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +23.5% and +1.5%, while SPY returned +4.8% and -2.7%, respectively. This indicates ASH has been having a stronger performance recently.
ASH support price is $94.30 and resistance is $97.04 (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 stock will trade within this expected range on the day.