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Ascent Industries Co. Common Stock and American Vanguard Corporation

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ACNT71.00%
AVD-93.19%
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How similar are their businesses?

The score compares business activities in annual filings released in 2025. Core activities receive four times the weight of material activities. Industries that fewer companies share carry more weight.

ChemicalsManufacturing
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ACNTAnnual filing · 2025-03-04GPT 6 LunaAVDAnnual filing · 2025-05-29GPT 6 Luna
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Industry overlap

Filing-derived business activity overlapCounts of retained positive business classifications. Circle sizes do not encode the counts or the weighted similarity score.ACNT only0Shared2AVD only0

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Chemicals

ACNT Core

Annual filing released 2025-03-04 · GPT 6 Luna

Item 1. Business Ascent Industries Co. is a diverse industrials company focused on the production of specialty chemicals and stainless steel pipe and tube. Ascent Industries Co. was incorporated in 1958 as the successor to a chemical manufacturing business founded in 1945 known as Blackman Uhler Industries Inc. The Company's executive office is located at 20 N. Martingale Rd, Suite 430, Schaumburg, Illinois 60173. Unless indicated otherwise, the terms "Ascent", "Company," "we" "us," and "our" refer to Ascent Industries Co. and its consolidated subsidiaries. The Company's business is divided into two reportable operating segments, Specialty Chemicals and Tubular Products.
e segment produces specialty formulations and intermediates for use in a wide variety of applications and industries with primary product lines focusing on the production of surfactants, defoamers, lubricating agents, flame retardants and chemical intermediates. End users include companies that use our products as raw materials or process aids in the manufacturing of products such as cleaners, coatings, water treatment chemicals, metal working fluids, textiles, oilfield production chemicals, agrochemical formulations and other applications. The segment offers products that are petroleum derived, as well as bio-based alternatives.
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AVD Core

Annual filing released 2025-05-29 · GPT 6 Luna

It synthesizes and formulates chemicals and ferments and extracts microbial products for crops, turf, ornamental plants, and human and animal health protection. These products, which include insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, soil health, plant nutrition, molluscicides, growth regulators, soil fumigants, and biorationals, are marketed in liquid, powder, and granular forms. AMVAC primarily synthesizes, formulates, and distributes its own proprietary products or custom manufactures, formulates or distributes for others. In addition, the Company has carved out a leadership position in closed delivery systems, through the offering of certain of its products in SmartBox, Lock ‘n Load and EZ Load systems.
(16) Segment Information The Company operates as a single operating segment, which is the business of developing, manufacturing and distributing chemical, biological and biorational products for agricultural, commercial and consumer uses. The Company synthesizes and formulates chemicals and ferments and extracts microbial products for crops, turf, ornamental plants, and human and animal health protection. The Company’s CODM is the Chief Executive Officer, who manages the Company’s operations based on consolidated financial information for purposes of evaluating financial performance and allocating resources.
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Manufacturing

ACNT Core

Annual filing released 2025-03-04 · GPT 6 Luna

Item 1. Business Ascent Industries Co. is a diverse industrials company focused on the production of specialty chemicals and stainless steel pipe and tube. Ascent Industries Co. was incorporated in 1958 as the successor to a chemical manufacturing business founded in 1945 known as Blackman Uhler Industries Inc. The Company's executive office is located at 20 N. Martingale Rd, Suite 430, Schaumburg, Illinois 60173. Unless indicated otherwise, the terms "Ascent", "Company," "we" "us," and "our" refer to Ascent Industries Co. and its consolidated subsidiaries. The Company's business is divided into two reportable operating segments, Specialty Chemicals and Tubular Products.
Segment Location Principal Operations Square Feet Land Acres Leased or Owned Tubular Products Specialty Chemicals Bristol, TN Manufacturing stainless steel pipe 275,000 73.1 Leased ✔ Fountain Inn, SC Chemical manufacturing and warehousing 136,834 16.9 Leased ✔ Danville, VA Chemical manufacturing and warehousing 135,811 55.3 Owned ✔ Cleveland, TN Chemical manufacturing and warehousing 122,800 18.8 Leased ✔ Troutman, NC Manufacturing ornamental stainless steel tube 106,657 26.5 Leased ✔ Statesville, NC Manufacturing ornamental stainless steel tube 83,000 26.8 Leased ✔ The following table sets forth certain information concerning other properties under the Master Lease in which the Company is the responsible party:
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AVD Core

Annual filing released 2025-05-29 · GPT 6 Luna

Manufacturing Through its six manufacturing facilities (see Item 2, Properties), AVD synthesizes many of the technical grade active ingredients that are in its end-use products. Further, the Company formulates and packages its end-use products at four of its own facilities or at the facilities of third-party formulators in the U.S. and at various international locations. Furthermore, the Company owns and operates two biological fermentation sites, one site in the U.S. and one in Mexico, and, in addition, has a certain biological product manufactured under a long-term arrangement at a third-party facility in India. Raw Materials AVD utilizes numerous companies to supply the various raw materials and components used in manufacturing its products. Many of these materials are readily available from domestic sources.
The Company employed 755 employees as of December 31, 2024, and 845 employees as of December 31, 2023. From time to time, due to the seasonality of its business, AVD uses temporary contract personnel to perform certain duties primarily related to packaging of its products. None of the Company’s employees are subject to a collective bargaining agreement. The Company believes it maintains positive relations with its employees. Domestic operations AMVAC is a California corporation that was incorporated under the name of Durham Chemical in August 1945. The name of the corporation was subsequently changed to AMVAC in January 1971. As the Company’s main operating subsidiary, AMVAC owns and/or operates the Company’s domestic manufacturing facilities. AMVAC manufactures, formulates, packages and sells its products in the U.S.
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Ascent Industries Co. Common Stock

ACNT · XNAS

Ascent Industries Co. an industrials company, produces and sells stainless steel pipe and tube, and specialty chemicals in the United States and internationally. It operates through two segments, Tubular Products and Specialty Chemicals. The Tubular Products segment manufactures and sells welded pipe and tube from stainless steel, duplex, and nickel alloys; and ornamental stainless-steel tubes for the appliance, architectural, automotive and commercial transportation, brewery, chemical, petrochemical, pulp and paper, mining, power generation, water and waste-water treatment, liquid natural gas, food processing, pharmaceutical, oil and gas, and other industries. Its Specialty Chemicals segment produces surfactants, defoamers, lubricating agents, flame retardants, and chemical intermediates, as well as petroleum-derived products and bio-based alternatives for the oil and gas, household, industrial and institutional, personal care, coatings, adhesives, sealants and elastomers (CASE), pulp and paper, textile, automotive, agricultural, water treatment, construction, and other industries. This segment also provides custom manufacturing services ranging from product development to commercial scale production. The company was formerly known as Synalloy Corporation and changed its name to Ascent Industries Co. in August 2022. Ascent Industries Co. was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in Schaumburg, Illinois.

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American Vanguard Corporation

AVD · XNYS

American Vanguard Corporation, through its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and markets chemical, biological and biorational products for agricultural, commercial, and consumer uses in the United States and internationally. It synthesizes and formulates chemicals, and ferments and extracts microbial products, including insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, soil health, plant nutrition, molluscicides, growth regulators, soil fumigants, and biorationals in liquid, powder, and granular forms for crops, turf, ornamental plants, and human and animal health protection. The company also markets, sells, and distributes end-use chemical and biological products for crop applications; and distributes products for turf and ornamental markets. It distributes its products through national distribution companies, and buying groups or co-operatives; and through sales offices, sales force executives, sales agents, and wholly owned distributors. American Vanguard Corporation was incorporated in 1969 and is headquartered in Newport Beach, California.

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MetricACNTAVD
ExchangeXNASXNYS
SectorBasic MaterialsBasic Materials
IndustryChemicalsAgricultural Inputs
Market observation2026-10-272026-10-27
Closing price (USD)$13.68$1.08
Market cap (USD)$123.25M$31.86M
P/E (TTM)UnavailableUnavailable
Latest annual period2025-12-312025-12-31
Revenue (annual, USD)$74.94M$515.11M
Net income (annual, USD)$867,000.00$-49.88M
Gross margin (annual)22.97%28.65%

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ACNT period ended 2025-12-31 · available 2026-03-03 · SEC filing ↗AVD period ended 2025-12-31 · available 2026-09-30 · SEC filing ↗

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Price return uses split-adjusted daily closes and excludes dividends. Both stocks start on the first shared trading day within the selected window. Unavailable metrics leave gaps.

Financials use SEC canonical statements available by the displayed cutoff, retaining each company's fiscal period end. Annual and quarterly amounts are shown separately. P/E is unavailable when earnings do not support a positive ratio.

Business overlap uses industry tags from annual filings released in 2025. Each core activity receives full weight; each material activity receives one quarter of that weight. Rarer industries carry more weight. We sum the smaller exposure for each shared activity and divide it by the sum of the larger exposure for every activity in either company. This measures business overlap, rather than price correlation or expected returns.

Search eligibility requires distinct issuers, a shared core category and at least 20% weighted overlap, supported by industry or sector evidence and specific business activities. Broad classifications require stronger overlap within the same sector. Comparisons also need at least 252 shared price observations within two years, recent trading and a common sourced revenue or net-income trend. Missing P/E or gross margin alone does not exclude a comparison. The eligibility snapshot refreshes daily. Related comparisons use a separate, stricter peer rule; their ten-peer discovery limit does not limit search eligibility. Other stock pairs remain available in the comparison tool.

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