Ashland Inc.
Ashland Inc. (NYSE: ASH) is a global additives and specialty ingredients company serving consumer and industrial markets, including pharmaceuticals, food and beverage, personal care, architectural coatings, construction, energy and automotive. Its four reportable segments are Life Sciences, which supplies… From the company’s description.
Over the twelve months to Jun 30, 2026, Ashland Inc. reported revenue of $1.84B, down 1.4% from a year earlier, and net income of $52.00M. Its operating margin was 7.4%, and operations generated $335.00M in cash. In fiscal 2025, it reported revenue of $1.82B, down 13.7% from fiscal 2024, and a net loss of $845.00M.
Margins and return on equity change in ; everything else in percent. Fewer shares and less debt are shown plainly, not as bad news — it depends what you make of buybacks. Dotted labels explain each measure. is shown separately from the annual figures.
What Ashland Inc. does
In the company’s own words
Ashland Inc. (NYSE: ASH) is a global additives and specialty ingredients company serving consumer and industrial markets, including pharmaceuticals, food and beverage, personal care, architectural coatings, construction, energy and automotive. Its four reportable segments are Life Sciences, which supplies pharmaceutical excipients, tablet coatings and nutrition ingredients; Personal Care, which provides ingredients for skin, hair, oral care and household products; Specialty Additives, which sells rheology and performance additives for coatings, construction, energy and industrial uses; and Intermediates, which produces 1,4-butanediol and related derivatives for chemical, polymer and process-solvent applications. Customers include pharmaceutical and consumer-product companies, manufacturers, construction businesses and industrial producers. Ashland’s products include cellulosics and polyvinylpyrrolidone polymers, with cellulosics representing 39% of consolidated sales in fiscal 2025. The company has approximately 2,900 employees and serves customers in more than 100 countries. Its website is www.ashland.com.
Company details
- Sector
- Materials
- Industry (SIC)
- Wholesale
- Headquarters
- WILMINGTON, DE
- Fiscal year end
- September
- CIK
- 1674862
- SIC
- 5160
Financial performance, year by year
Fiscal 2012–2025 · USDThe full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow for each of these years — every figure traceable to its filing — is on the Financials tab with a free account.
Who owns Ashland Inc. — and what changed
Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30
Largest fund holders · Ashland Inc.’s weight in each
Fund ownership is a floor, not a census — pensions, insurers and people holding shares directly are not visible here.
Ashland Inc.’s bonds, as funds hold them
Funds report holding 2 issues of Ashland Inc.’s debt, $179.63M at market value — what funds hold, not the company’s total debt. Weighted-average coupon 4.99%, maturing 2031 to 2043.
Fund ownership counts N-PORT filers only, so it is a floor rather than a census — pensions, insurers and direct holders are not visible here, and the remainder is not “held by individuals”.
Every fund and institutional holder, quarter by quarter, is on the Ownership tab with a free account.
Recent filings
All filings →Each filing opens into its own statements and disclosures here.
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