Ashland Inc. Fundamental Company Report Including Financial, SWOT, Competitors and Industry Analysis

November 2024 | 50 pages | ID: AAF8FCEF606BEN
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Abstracts

Ashland Inc. Fundamental Company Report provides a complete overview of the company’s affairs. All available data is presented in a comprehensive and easily accessed format. The report includes financial and SWOT information, industry analysis, opinions, estimates, plus annual and quarterly forecasts made by stock market experts. The report also enables direct comparison to be made between Ashland Inc. and its competitors. This provides our Clients with a clear understanding of Ashland Inc. position in the Chemical Industry.

• The report contains detailed information about Ashland Inc. that gives an unrivalled in-depth knowledge about internal business-environment of the company: data about the owners, senior executives, locations, subsidiaries, markets, products, and company history.
• Another part of the report is a SWOT-analysis carried out for Ashland Inc.. It involves specifying the objective of the company's business and identifies the different factors that are favorable and unfavorable to achieving that objective. SWOT-analysis helps to understand company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and possible threats against it.
• The Ashland Inc. financial analysis covers the income statement and ratio trend-charts with balance sheets and cash flows presented on an annual and quarterly basis. The report outlines the main financial ratios pertaining to profitability, margin analysis, asset turnover, credit ratios, and company’s long-term solvency. This sort of company's information will assist and strengthen your company’s decision-making processes.
• In the part that describes Ashland Inc. competitors and the industry in whole, the information about company's financial ratios is compared to those of its competitors and to the industry. The unique analysis of the market and company’s competitors along with detailed information about the internal and external factors affecting the relevant industry will help to manage your business environment. Your company’s business and sales activities will be boosted by gaining an insight into your competitors’ businesses.
• Also the report provides relevant news, an analysis of PR-activity, and stock price movements. The latter are correlated with pertinent news and press releases, and annual and quarterly forecasts are given by a variety of experts and market research firms. Such information creates your awareness about principal trends of Ashland Inc. business.

About Ashland Inc.

Ashland Inc. operates as a diversified chemical company in the United States and internationally.

Segments

The company operates through five segments: Ashland Aqualon Functional Ingredients; Ashland Hercules Water Technologies; Ashland Performance Materials; Ashland Consumer Markets (Valvoline); and Ashland Distribution.

ASHLAND AQUALON FUNCTIONAL INGREDIENTS

The Ashland Aqualon Functional Ingredients segment produces cellulose ethers. It provides specialty additives and functional ingredients that primarily manage the physical properties of water-based systems. The Functional Ingredients’ products are sold as key ingredients to other manufacturers, where they are used as small-quantity additives to provide functionality, such as thickening and rheology control; water retention; adhesive strength; binding power; film formation; protective colloid, suspending and emulsifying action; foam control; and pH stability.

Functional Ingredients comprises following businesses:

Regulated Industries — Regulated Industries’ food applications include bakery, beverage, confectionary, dairy, meat, meat analogues and pet food, prepared foods and sauces, dressings, and fillings. Personal care applications include cosmetics, hair care, oral care, skin care, wound care, and household products. In the pharmaceutical industry, Regulated Industries’ products are used for tablet binding, coatings, modified release, and liquid and semi-liquid rheology control.

Coatings Additives — Coatings Additives offers a portfolio of rheology solutions. For manufacturers of paints and other waterborne coatings products, these additives are crucial in controlling key product characteristics, such as gloss, spatter, leveling and build, of which are critical to delivering paints and coatings that fill specific market demand.

Construction — Construction’s product applications include tile and adhesive cements, gypsum plasters, renders, joint compounds, concrete, external insulation systems, masonry and mortar cements, and self-leveling compounds. These product applications provide an array of functional properties, including thickening, water retention, sag resistance, workability and consistency, adhesion, stabilization, pumping, rheological properties, and strength.

Energy and Specialties Solutions — Energy and Specialties Solutions offers water-soluble solutions for various applications in the oil and gas industries, including completion and workover fluids, drill-in fluids, oil-well cementing slurries, solvent thickeners, and stimulation and hydraulic fracturing. This business also provides products to the industrial specialties market, including applications in ceramics, fire-fighting fluids, foundry, industrial cleaners, inks and printing, mining, paint removers, paper and paper coatings, suspension polymerization, and welding rods.

ASHLAND HERCULES WATER TECHNOLOGIES

The Ashland Hercules Water Technologies segment produces papermaking chemicals and a specialty chemicals supplier to the pulp, paper, commercial and institutional, food and beverage, chemical, mining, and municipal markets. Water Technologies produces papermaking chemicals for pulp and paper processing, tissues and towels, packaging, printing and writing papers, and virgin and deinked pulps. To meet the requirements of its customers, Water Technologies offers a range of services, including analytical and applications laboratories, customized program offerings and, through its StreamLink Specialty Chemicals service model, a focused-service approach. Water Technologies operates throughout the Americas, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. Water Technologies markets and distributes its products and services directly and through third-party distributors.

Water Technologies comprises following businesses:

Process Chemistries — The Process Chemistries business manufactures and sells an array of deposit control agents, defoamers, biocides, and other process additives for markets, including pulp and paper manufacturing, food processing, oil refining and chemical processing, general manufacturing, and extraction/mining.

Utility Water Treatment Chemistries — The Utilit

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Contents

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

DISCLAIMER

1. ASHLAND INC. COMPANY PROFILE

1.1. Key facts
1.2. Financial Performance
1.3. Key Executives
1.4. Ownership and Major Holders
1.5. Company History

2. ASHLAND INC. BUSINESS OVERVIEW

2.1. Business Description
2.2. Major Products and Services
2.3. Markets and Sales Activities
2.4. Locations, Subsidiaries, Operating Units

3. ASHLAND INC. SWOT ANALYSIS

3.1. Overview
3.2. Strengths
3.3. Weaknesses
3.4. Opportunities
3.5. Threats

4. ASHLAND INC. FINANCIAL ANALYSIS

4.1. Financial Statements
4.1.1. Income Statement
4.1.2. Balance Sheet
4.1.3. Cash Flow
4.2. Financial Ratios
4.2.1. Profitability
4.2.2. Margin Analysis
4.2.3. Asset Turnover
4.2.4. Credit Ratios
4.2.5. Long-Term Solvency
4.2.6. Growth Over Prior Year
4.2.7. Financial Ratios Charts
4.3. Stock Market Snapshot

5. ASHLAND INC. COMPETITORS AND INDUSTRY ANALYSIS

5.1. Ashland Inc. Direct Competitors
5.2. Comparison of Ashland Inc. and Direct Competitors Financial Ratios
5.3. Comparison of Ashland Inc. and Direct Competitors Stock Charts
5.4. Ashland Inc. Industry Analysis
5.4.1. Chemical Industry Snapshot
  5.4.2. Ashland Inc. Industry Position Analysis

6. ASHLAND INC. NEWS & EVENTS

6.1. News & PR Activity Analysis
6.2. IR Corporate News
6.3. Marketing News
6.4. Corporate Events

7. ASHLAND INC. EXPERTS REVIEW¹

7.1. Experts Consensus
7.2. Experts Revisions

8. ASHLAND INC. ENHANCED SWOT ANALYSIS²

9. UNITED STATES PESTEL ANALYSIS²

9.1. Political Factors
9.2. Economic Factors
9.3. Social Factors
9.4. Technological Factors
9.5. Environmental Factors
9.6. Legal Factors

10. ASHLAND INC. IFE, EFE, IE MATRICES²

10.1. Internal Factor Evaluation Matrix
10.2. External Factor Evaluation Matrix
10.3. Internal External Matrix

11. ASHLAND INC. PORTER FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS²

12. ASHLAND INC. VRIO ANALYSIS²

APPENDIX: RATIO DEFINITIONS

LIST OF FIGURES

Ashland Inc. Annual Revenues in Comparison with Cost of Goods Sold and Gross Profit
Profit Margin Chart
Operating Margin Chart
Return on Equity (ROE) Chart
Return on Assets (ROA) Chart
Debt to Equity Chart
Current Ratio Chart
Ashland Inc. 1-year Stock Charts
Ashland Inc. 5-year Stock Charts
Ashland Inc. vs. Main Indexes 1-year Stock Chart
Ashland Inc. vs. Direct Competitors 1-year Stock Charts
Ashland Inc. Article Density Chart

1 – Data availability depends on company’s security policy.
2 – These sections are available only when you purchase a report with appropriate additional types of analyses.
The complete financial data is available for publicly traded companies.

List Of Tables

LIST OF TABLES

Ashland Inc. Key Facts
Profitability
Management Effectiveness
Income Statement Key Figures
Balance Sheet Key Figures
Cash Flow Statement Key Figures
Financial Performance Abbreviation Guide
Ashland Inc. Key Executives
Ashland Inc. Major Shareholders
Ashland Inc. History
Ashland Inc. Products
Revenues by Segment
Revenues by Region
Ashland Inc. Offices and Representations
Ashland Inc. SWOT Analysis
Yearly Income Statement Including Trends
Income Statement Latest 4 Quarters Including Trends
Yearly Balance Sheet Including Trends
Balance Sheet Latest 4 Quarters Including Trends
Yearly Cash Flow Including Trends
Cash Flow Latest 4 Quarters Including Trends
Ashland Inc. Profitability Ratios
Margin Analysis Ratios
Asset Turnover Ratios
Credit Ratios
Long-Term Solvency Ratios
Financial Ratios Growth Over Prior Year
Ashland Inc. Capital Market Snapshot
Ashland Inc. Direct Competitors Key Facts
Direct Competitors Profitability Ratios
Direct Competitors Margin Analysis Ratios
Direct Competitors Asset Turnover Ratios
Direct Competitors Credit Ratios
Direct Competitors Long-Term Solvency Ratios
Chemical Industry Statistics
Ashland Inc. Industry Position
Company vs. Industry Income Statement Analysis
Company vs. Industry Balance Sheet Analysis
Company vs. Industry Cash Flow Analysis
Company vs. Industry Ratios Comparison
Ashland Inc. Consensus Recommendations¹
Analyst Recommendation Summary¹
Price Target Summary¹
Experts Recommendation Trends¹
Revenue Estimates Analysis¹
Earnings Estimates Analysis¹
Historical Surprises¹
Revenue Estimates Trend¹
Earnings Estimates Trend¹
Revenue Revisions¹

ANALYSIS FEATURES

SWOT Analysis

SWOT, which stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats, is an analytical framework that identifies the internal and external factors that are favorable and unfavorable for a company.

Enhanced SWOT Analysis

Enhanced SWOT is a 3×3 grid that arranges strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats into one scheme:

• How to use the strengths to take advantage of the opportunities?
• How to use the strengths to reduce likelihood and impact of the threats?
• How to overcome the weaknesses that obstruct taking advantage of the opportunities?
• How to overcome the weaknesses that can make the threats a reality?

Upon answering these questions a company can develop a project plan to improve its business performance.

PESTEL Analysis

PESTEL (also termed as PESTLE) is an ideal tool to strategically analyze what influence different outside factors – political, economic, sociocultural, technological, environmental and legal – exert on a business to later chart its long term targets.

Being part of the external analysis when carrying out a strategic assessment or performing a market study, PESTEL gives an overview of diverse macro-environmental factors that any company should thoughtfully consider. By perceiving these outside environments, businesses can maximally benefit from the opportunities while minimizing the threats to the organization.

Key Factors Examined by PESTEL Analysis:

• Political – What opportunities and pressures are brought by political bodies and what is the degree of public regulations’ impact on the business?
• Economic – What economic policies, trends and structures are expected to affect the organization, what is this influence’s degree?
• Sociological – What cultural and societal aspects will work upon the demand for the business’s products and operations?
• Technological – What impact do the technological aspects, innovations, incentives and barriers have on the organization?
• Environmental – What environmental and ecological facets, both locally and farther afield, are likely to predetermine the business?
• Legal – What laws and legislation will exert influence on the style the business is carried out?

IFE, EFE, IE Matrices

The Internal Factor Evaluation matrix (IFE matrix) is a strategic management tool helping audit or evaluate major weaknesses and strengths in a business’s functional areas. In addition, IFE matrix serves as a basis for identifying and assessing relationships amongst those areas. The IFE matrix is utilised in strategy formulation.

The External Factor Evaluation matrix (EFE matrix) is a tool of strategic management that is typically utilised to assess current market conditions. It is an ideal instrument for visualising and prioritising the threats and opportunities a firm is facing.

The essential difference between the above mentioned matrices lies in the type of factors incorporated in the model; whilst the latter is engaged in internal factors, the former deals exceptionally with external factors – those exposed to social, political, economic, legal, etc. external forces.

Being a continuation of the EFE matrix and IFE matrix models, the Internal External matrix (IE matrix) rests upon an investigation of external and internal business factors integrated into one suggestive model.

Porter Five Forces Analysis

The Porter’s five forces analysis studies the industry of operation and helps the company find new sources of competitive advantage. The analysis surveys an industry through five major questions:

1. What composes a threat of substitute products and services?
2. Is there a threat of new competitors entering the market?
3. What is the intensity of competitive rivalry?
4. How big is the bargaining power of buyers?
5. How significant is the bargaining power of suppliers?

VRIO Analysis

VRIO stands for Value, Rarity, Imitability, Organization. This analysis helps to evaluate all company’s resources and capabilities and bring them together into one aggregate table that includes:

• Tangible resources
  • Financial
  • Physical
  • Technological
  • Organizational
• Intangible resources
  • Human
  • Innovation and Creativity
  • Reputation
• Organizational capabilities

The result of the analysis gives a clear picture of company’s competitive and economic implications, answering the questions if the resources mentioned above are:

• Valuable?
• Rare?
• Costly to imitate?
• Organized properly?