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Fair value pending

Upside to midpoint

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Data quality and model convergence

Market cap

158.5M

NYSEAMERICAN

Market data

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Current market quote for this ticker.

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Sector context

Where the current metrics sit

Percentiles come from the backend screener cohort cache for the ticker's country and sector.

Forward P/E23.9

P25 11.3P50 15.2P75 20.1

Trailing P/E18

P25 12.9P50 17.8P75 28.8

ROE8.5

P25 -17.2P50 6.8P75 17.2

ROIC7.2

P25 -6.6P50 6.3P75 13.6

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Indicator catalog

All ACU market and fundamental indicators

A searchable catalog of the available market, valuation, profitability, growth, balance-sheet, ownership, and analyst metrics for this ticker.

Available fields

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Currency

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Showing 268 of 268 available metrics for this ticker.

Profile and market data

Ticker identity, listing, currency, market cap, and source dates.

Metric	Value
Cik	0000002098
Company name	Acme United Corporation
Country	United States
Country code	US
Cusip	004816104
Employees	649
Employees Change	16%
Employees Change Percent	2.53
Enterprise value	$203.8M
Exchange	NYSEAMERICAN
Financial currency	USD
First seen	2026-05-09
Industry	Household & Personal Products
Isin	US0048161048
Last refreshed	2026-05-10
Market cap	$158.5M
Market cap category	Micro-Cap
Price	$41.61
Price currency	USD
Rev Per Employee	312,611.43x
Sector	Consumer Staples
Sic	3420
Symbol	ACU
Website	https://www.acmeunited.com

Valuation

Multiples, yields, enterprise-value ratios, and valuation checks.

Metric	Value
Earnings Yield	6%
EV Earnings	21.41x
EV Sales Forward	1.28x
EV/EBIT	14.51x
EV/EBITDA	9.77x
EV/FCF	25.01x
EV/Sales	1x
FCF yield	5.14%
Forward P/E	23.88x
P/B ratio	1.36x
P/E ratio	17.99x
P/S ratio	0.78x
PE Ratio10 Y	14.29x
PE Ratio3 Y	13.79x
PE Ratio5 Y	14.16x
PS Forward	0.99x

Profitability

Margins, returns on capital, cash conversion, and quality metrics.

Metric	Value
EBIT Margin	6.92%
EBITDA Margin	10.28%
FCF margin	4.01%
Gross margin	39.57%
Gross Profit	$80.3M
Gross Profit Growth	4.43%
Gross Profit Growth Q	16.01%
Gross Profit Growth3 Y	7.36%
Gross Profit Growth5 Y	5.42%
Net Income	$9.5M
Net Income Growth	-5.21%
Net Income Growth Q	-40.41%
Net Income Growth Years	1%
Net Income Growth3 Y	43.88%
Net Income Growth5 Y	1.42%
Pretax Margin	6.03%
Profit Margin	4.69%
Profit Per Employee	$14,663
Profitable Years	27
ROA	4.9
Roa5y	4.96
ROCE	8.16
ROE	8.46
Roe5y	12.48
ROIC	7.17
Roic5y	7.93

Growth

Revenue, earnings, cash-flow, and forward growth indicators.

Metric	Value
Cagr10y	11.13%
Cagr15y	12.67%
Cagr1y	10.52%
Cagr20y	7.1%
Cagr3y	18.5%
Cagr5y	0.43%
Div CAGR10	5.35%
Div CAGR3	4.55%
Div CAGR5	5.06%
EPS Growth	-6.65
EPS Growth Q	-41.46
EPS Growth Years	1
EPS Growth3 Y	38.17
EPS Growth5 Y	-1.22
FCF Growth	-31.64%
FCF Growth3 Y	-11.01%
FCF Growth5 Y	48.19%
OCF Growth	2.8%
OCF Growth10 Y	25.43%
OCF Growth3 Y	6.41%
OCF Growth5 Y	33.31%
Revenue Growth	3.78x
Revenue Growth Q	13.8x
Revenue Growth Quarters	3x
Revenue Growth Years	2x
Revenue Growth3 Y	1.08x
Revenue Growth5 Y	3.39x

Financial strength

Debt, cash, solvency, accounting-quality, and balance-sheet signals.

Metric	Value
Asset Turnover	$1.13
Assets	$195.2M
Cash	$4.2M
Current Assets	$105.6M
Current Liabilities	$23.1M
Debt	$49.4M
Debt EBITDA	$2.18
Debt Equity	$0.42
Debt FCF	$6.06
Equity	$116.7M
Interest Coverage	7.93
Liabilities	$78.5M
Long Term Assets	$89.6M
Long Term Liabilities	$55.4M
Net Cash	$-45.2M
Net Cash By Market Cap	$-28.51
Net Debt EBITDA	$2.17
Net Debt Equity	$0.39
Net Debt FCF	$5.55
Tangible Book Value	$72.8M
Tangible Book Value Per Share	$19.11
WACC	6.07

Liquidity

Current-asset coverage and working-capital efficiency metrics.

Metric	Value
Current ratio	4.57
Inventory Turnover	2.03
Net Working Capital	$80.1M
Quick ratio	1.63
Working Capital	$82.5M
Working Capital Turnover	$2.55

Dividends and buybacks

Dividend yield, payout, buybacks, and shareholder-yield indicators.

Metric	Value
Buyback Yield	-1.19%
Dividend Growth	6.67%
Dividend Growth Years	5%
Dividend per share	$0.64
Dividend Years	23
Dividend Yield	1.54%
Ex Div Date	2026-03-25
Last Dividend	$0.16
Payout Frequency	Quarterly
Payout Ratio	27.67%

Performance and technicals

Returns, volatility, beta, momentum, RSI, and moving-average context.

Metric	Value
10Y total return	187.12%
1Y total return	10.51%
200-day SMA	41.54
3Y total return	66.4%
50-day SMA	43.85
50-day SMA vs 200-day SMA	50over200
5Y total return	2.15%
All Time High	50.99
All Time High Change	-18.4%
All Time High Date	2024-01-22
All Time Low	0.81
All Time Low Change	5,021.23%
All Time Low Date	1999-12-16
ATR	1.32
Beta	0.52
Beta1y	0.67
Beta2y	0.48
Ch YTD	3.23
High	41.86
High52	47.31
High52 Date	2026-03-16
High52ch	-12.05%
Low	41.19
Low52	35.5
Low52 Date	2025-11-20
Low52ch	17.21%
Ma50ch	-5.1%
Price vs 200-day SMA	0.17%
RSI	41.68
RSI Monthly	52.95
RSI Weekly	47.62
Sharpe ratio	0.35x
Sortino ratio	0.74
Total Return	0.35%
Tr YTD	4.01
Tr15y	498.89%
Tr1m	-5.17%
Tr1w	-0.5%
Tr3m	-6.39%

Analyst estimates

Ratings, targets, revisions, and forward estimate fields.

Metric	Value
Analyst Count	1
Analyst Ratings	Strong Buy
Earnings EPS Estimate	$0.43
Earnings EPS Estimate Growth	4.88
Earnings Revenue Estimate	48,900,000x
Earnings Revenue Estimate Growth	6.4x
Operating Income	$14M
Operating Income Growth	0.26
Operating Income Growth Q	-28.03
Operating Income Growth3 Y	25.59
Operating Income Growth5 Y	2.57
Operating margin	6.92
Price target	$50
Price Target Change	$20.16

Ownership and float

Institutional, insider, float, short-interest, and share-count fields.

Metric	Value
Float	2,999,365%
Float Percent	78.72%
Net Borrowing	12,163,259
Shares Insiders	11.29%
Shares Institutions	62.28%
Shares Out	3,810,359
Shares Qo Q	1.96%
Shares Yo Y	1.19%
Short Float	2.6%
Short Ratio	4.11
Short Shares	2.05

Other indicators

Additional ticker metrics that do not fit the primary research groupings yet.

Metric	Value
Adjusted FCF	$6.2M
Average Volume	19,318.3x
Bv Per Share	30.63
CAPEX	$-11.2M
Ch10y	137.8
Ch15y	341.3
Ch1m	-5.17
Ch1w	-0.5
Ch1y	8.84
Ch20y	166.7
Ch3m	-6.72
Ch3y	58.58
Ch5y	-6.24
Ch6m	12.95
Change	-0.5%
Change From Open	-0.5
Close	41.82
Days Gap	0
Depreciation Amortization	6,816,714
Dollar Volume	349,774
Earnings Date	2026-04-23
Earnings Time	bmo
EBIT	$14M
EBITDA	$20.9M
EPS	$2.31
F Score	5
FCF	$8.1M
FCF EV Yield	4x
FCF Per Share	$2.14
Financing CF	8,532,594
Fiscal Year End	December
Founded	1,867
Goodwill	9,908,000
Graham Number	39.9317
Graham Upside	-4.03
Income Tax	$2.7M
Investing CF	-27,251,662
Is Primary Listing	1
Is Spac	No
Last Earnings Date	2026-04-23
Last Report Date	2026-03-31
Last Split Date	1983-07-26
Last Split Type	Forward
Last10k Filing Date	2026-03-11
Lynch Fair Value	$11.57
Lynch Upside	-72.2
Ma150	41.44
Ma150ch	0.42%
Ma20	43.27
Ma20ch	-3.84%
Net CF	750,286
Next Earnings Date	2026-07-22
Open	41.82
Optionable	No
P FCF Ratio	19.46
P OCF Ratio	8.2
Payment Date	2026-04-15
Position In Range	62.69
Ppne	45,703,000
Price Date	2026-05-08
Price EBITDA	$7.6
Ptbv Ratio	2.18
Relative Volume	0.44x
Revenue	202,884,816x
SBC By Revenue	0.94x
Share Based Comp	1,899,758
Tax By Revenue	1.34x
Tax Rate	22.27%
Tr20y	293.9%
Tr6m	13.81%
Us State	Connecticut
Volume	8,406
Z Score	3.7

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Moat score

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Forward P/E

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Valuation uses the full report model stack, not a single multiple.

Next action

Research pending

Final action steps are kept in the recommendation tab.

Income

ACU dividend yield, growth & safety

Yield, payout sustainability, and the multi-year growth streak.

Dividend yield

+1.5%

$0.64 annual per share

Payout ratio

+27.7%

Share of earnings returned as dividends. Below 60% is generally sustainable.

5Y dividend CAGR

+5.1%

5 consecutive years of growth

Total shareholder yield

+0.3%

Next ex-dividend date: 2026-03-25

Performance

ACU stock returns vs the market

Total return (incl. dividends) compared to S&P 500.

Ownership

Who owns ACU?

Insider, institutional, and short-interest positioning.

Institutional ownership

+62.3%

Float: +78.7% of shares outstanding

Insider ownership

+11.3%

Stake held by company insiders. Higher generally signals alignment.

Negative means the company is buying back shares.

Technical

ACU momentum and risk profile

RSI, moving-average stack, beta, and risk-adjusted return.

RSI (14)

41.7

Neutral momentum band

Price vs 200-day MA

+0.2%

50/200-day relationship not available

Beta (5Y)

0.52

Less volatile than the market

Sharpe ratio

0.35

Risk-adjusted return — higher is better; >1.0 is solid.

Peers

ACU vs. sector cohort

Currency-neutral comparison: P/E, P/S, ROIC, 5Y revenue CAGR, and 1Y total return. Market-cap column appears only when every peer reports in the same currency.

Ticker	Name	Market cap	P/E	P/S	ROIC	5Y rev CAGR	1Y total return	Rating
COST	Costco Wholesale Corporation	447.6B	52.5x	1.6x	37.8%	+9.9%	+0.7%	Vender
KO	The Coca-Cola Company	337.4B	24.7x	6.8x	19.6%	+8.1%	+11.5%	Compra fuerte
MO	Altria Group Inc.	113.8B	14.2x	5.6x	66.4%	-0.3%	+19.7%	Mantener

Questions

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