---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000095953-25-000004"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ACNT"
cik: "0000095953"
company_name: "ASCENT INDUSTRIES CO."
filed_at: "2025-03-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-25T16:38:40.265318+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ascent Industries Q4 net income $0.1M vs loss $7.5M; full-year adj EBITDA $4.0M, debt-free

## Summary
- Q4 net sales $40.7M (down 1.3% YoY); gross profit $7.3M vs $(2.1)M; EPS $0.01 vs $(0.73).
- Full year net sales $177.9M (down 7.9%); net loss $11.2M vs $34.2M; adj EBITDA $4.0M vs $(15.9)M.
- Cash $16.1M, zero debt, $47.4M revolver availability; generated ~$15M free cash flow in 2024.
- Tubular segment adj EBITDA swung to $2.3M (Q4) from $(3.1)M; Chemicals adj EBITDA $3.4M from $(0.4)M.
- Repurchased 101,263 shares at avg $10.21 in 2024 for ~$1.0M.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000095953-25-000004
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ACNT
- cik: 0000095953
- company_name: ASCENT INDUSTRIES CO.
- filed_at: 2025-03-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/95953/000009595325000004/0000095953-25-000004-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/95953/000009595325000004/acnt-20250304.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000095953-25-000004.txt

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