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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000095953-25-000068"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ACNT"
cik: "0000095953"
company_name: "ASCENT INDUSTRIES CO."
filed_at: "2025-06-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T15:16:27.256071+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ascent Industries joins Russell 2000 and Russell 3000 indexes effective June 30

## Summary
- Inclusion in Russell 2000 and Russell 3000 indexes effective at U.S. market open on June 30, 2025.
- CEO Bryan Kitchen called it a milestone in an 18-month turnaround, citing divestitures and shift to focused, profitable enterprise.
- Russell indexes are widely used; about $10.6 trillion in assets benchmarked against them as of June 2024.
- Membership in Russell 3000 leads to automatic inclusion in Russell 2000 and relevant growth/value style indexes.
- The reconstitution captures 4,000 largest US stocks by market capitalization as of April 30.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000095953-25-000068
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ACNT
- cik: 0000095953
- company_name: ASCENT INDUSTRIES CO.
- filed_at: 2025-06-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/95953/000009595325000068/0000095953-25-000068-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/95953/000009595325000068/acnt-20250630.htm

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