Ashland Inc.

ASH stock score: 54/100

$72.14 · +0.63% · Scored Oct 21, 2026

Technical
61
Fundamental
48
News
52

The reading

Ashland (ASH) scores 54 out of 100, which reads neutral, higher than 56% of Basic Materials stocks and 56% of the 4,166 US stocks we score.

The composite is technicals and fundamentals weighted equally: technicals read 61, fundamentals 48.

Among the fundamentals, Price Target at 100 and Fund Ownership at 100 score highest, while Earnings Growth (Annual) at 0 weighs the most against it.

On the daily chart, trend-following indicators average 66 and contrarian oscillators 42.

News sentiment is neutral at 52; it is shown, not counted in the composite.

Since Jul 25, 2026 the composite has ranged from 49 to 72, and it ends the period where it started.

What’s driving the score

The strongest and weakest of the scorers that count toward ASH’s composite. Each returns 0–100, higher is more bullish — including metrics where low is good, like P/E.

Fundamental

48

Pulling it up

  • Price Target100

    Price target score compares the current stock price to analyst consensus targets.

  • Fund Ownership100

    Fund ownership tracks institutional investor holdings and changes.

  • Institutional Ownership100

    Institutional ownership measures the percentage held by professional investors.

Holding it back

  • Earnings Growth (Annual)0

    Annual earnings growth tracks year-over-year profit expansion.

  • Return on Equity (ROE)0

    Return on Equity (ROE) measures how efficiently a company generates profits from shareholder equity.

  • Return on Assets (ROA)1

    Return on Assets (ROA) shows how efficiently a company uses its assets to generate profit.

40 weighted scorers; 1 had no data today and are left out rather than counted as zero.

Technical · daily

64

Pulling it up

  • Parabolic SAR (PSAR)100

    Parabolic SAR (Stop and Reverse) provides trailing stop levels that follow price trends.

  • Stochastic (14)98

    Stochastic Oscillator (14-period) compares the current price to its range over 14 periods.

  • 52-Week Change95

    The price change over the last 52 weeks.

Holding it back

  • TRIX12

    TRIX is a momentum oscillator that filters out short-term noise by triple-smoothing price data.

  • Bollinger Bands (20)16

    Bollinger Bands (20-period) plot standard deviations above and below a moving average.

  • Williams %R (28)19

    Williams %R (28-period) places the close within the last 28 periods' high-low range.

61 weighted scorers; 4 had no data today and are left out rather than counted as zero.

News · shown, not counted

Global News
52

Technical score by timeframe

ChartScoreWeight
Hourly561
Daily643
Weekly622
Monthly602
Quarterly592

Composite score, last 90 days

05010054Jul 25, 2026Oct 21, 2026Jul 25, 2026: 54Jul 26, 2026: 54Jul 27, 2026: 69Jul 28, 2026: 71Jul 29, 2026: 70Jul 30, 2026: 70Jul 31, 2026: 72Aug 2, 2026: 56Aug 3, 2026: 57Aug 5, 2026: 56Aug 6, 2026: 56Aug 7, 2026: 58Aug 8, 2026: 58Aug 9, 2026: 58Aug 10, 2026: 58Aug 11, 2026: 57Aug 12, 2026: 57Aug 13, 2026: 55Aug 14, 2026: 56Aug 15, 2026: 56Aug 16, 2026: 56Aug 17, 2026: 57Aug 18, 2026: 56Aug 19, 2026: 55Aug 20, 2026: 55Aug 22, 2026: 54Aug 23, 2026: 53Aug 24, 2026: 54Aug 25, 2026: 55Aug 26, 2026: 56Aug 27, 2026: 55Aug 28, 2026: 55Aug 29, 2026: 55Aug 30, 2026: 55Aug 31, 2026: 54Sep 1, 2026: 56Sep 2, 2026: 55Sep 3, 2026: 59Sep 4, 2026: 52Sep 5, 2026: 53Sep 6, 2026: 53Sep 7, 2026: 53Sep 8, 2026: 54Sep 9, 2026: 52Sep 10, 2026: 51Sep 11, 2026: 51Sep 12, 2026: 51Sep 13, 2026: 51Sep 14, 2026: 51Sep 15, 2026: 51Sep 16, 2026: 51Sep 17, 2026: 51Sep 18, 2026: 50Sep 19, 2026: 50Sep 20, 2026: 50Sep 21, 2026: 51Sep 22, 2026: 53Sep 23, 2026: 53Sep 24, 2026: 53Sep 25, 2026: 51Sep 26, 2026: 51Sep 27, 2026: 51Sep 28, 2026: 49Sep 29, 2026: 50Sep 30, 2026: 49Oct 1, 2026: 51Oct 2, 2026: 53Oct 3, 2026: 53Oct 4, 2026: 53Oct 5, 2026: 51Oct 6, 2026: 54Oct 7, 2026: 54Oct 8, 2026: 53Oct 9, 2026: 53Oct 10, 2026: 53Oct 11, 2026: 53Oct 12, 2026: 54Oct 13, 2026: 55Oct 14, 2026: 54Oct 15, 2026: 54Oct 16, 2026: 54Oct 17, 2026: 53Oct 18, 2026: 54Oct 19, 2026: 53Oct 20, 2026: 54Oct 21, 2026: 54
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Key facts

Market cap
$3.3B
Sector
Basic Materials
Industry
Specialty Chemicals
Beta
0.40
Risk grade (1–10)
4
Next earnings
Nov 3, 2026

Specialty Chemicals peers

CompanyMarket capScore
CBT Cabot$3.8B53
AVNT Avient$3.7B58
HWKN Hawkins$2.7B57
FUL H.B. Fuller Company$2.7B49
KWR Quaker Chemical$2.7B53
WDFC WD-40 Company$2.7B55

Questions

What is ASH's stock score today?

ASH scores 54/100 (Neutral) as of Oct 21, 2026: technical 61, fundamental 48, and news sentiment 52, which is shown but not counted. Scores are recomputed every night.

Is ASH a buy?

The score is not a buy or sell recommendation. A 54 says the technical and fundamental signals we measure lean neutral today, relative to every other stock scored the same way. Use the breakdown above to see why, and treat it as a starting point for your own research.

How is the ASH score calculated?

101 weighted scorers feed it today: 40 fundamental, scored against Basic Materials ranges, and 61 technical on the daily chart, with 5 timeframes blended into the technical total. Every scorer returns 0–100; missing data is left out, never counted as zero.

Scores are information, not investment advice. Computed from Yahoo Finance, Finnhub and Alpha Vantage data; technical indicators via TA-Lib. Past scores do not predict future returns.