Ingevity (NGVT) Stock Price, News & Analysis

Company Overview

Ingevity is a specialty chemicals and materials company headquartered in North Charleston, South Carolina. It develops and manufactures high-performance activated carbon and specialty chemical products for industrial and consumer applications.

Its activated carbon products are used in vehicle fuel-vapor emission control and other applications. The company also makes specialty chemicals and polymer materials used in areas such as pavement technologies, coatings, adhesives and elastomers.

Ingevity serves customers in markets around the world. The company became an independent, publicly traded business in 2016 after being spun off from WestRock.

Key Stats

• Today's Range: $62.29 to $62.29
• 50-Day Range: $60.06 to $75.58
• 52-Week Range: $46.38 to $79.29
• Volume: 1,463 shs
• Average Volume: 293,801 shs
• Market Capitalization: $2.09 billion
• P/E Ratio: 36.43
• Dividend Yield: N/A
• Price Target: $80.00
• Consensus Rating: Hold

Ingevity Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

Ingevity scored higher than 82% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat, and ranked 86th out of 227 stocks in the materials sector. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

Analyst's Opinion

• Score: 3.4 / 5
• Analyst Rating: Hold

Consensus Rating

Ingevity has received a consensus rating of Hold. The company's average rating score is 2.40, and is based on no strong buy ratings, 2 buy ratings, 3 hold ratings, and no sell ratings.

Upside Potential

Ingevity has a consensus price target of $80.00, representing about 29.0% upside from its current price of $62.00.

Amount of Analyst Coverage

Ingevity has only been the subject of 1 research reports in the past 90 days.

Earnings and Valuation

• Score: 2.5 / 5
• Proj. Earnings Growth: 9.26%

Earnings Growth

Earnings for Ingevity are expected to grow by 9.26% in the coming year, from $5.40 to $5.90 per share.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

The P/E ratio of Ingevity is 12.40, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 25.72.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

The P/E ratio of Ingevity is 12.40, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the Materials sector average P/E ratio of about 27.21.

Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

Ingevity has a P/B Ratio of 33.16. P/B Ratios above 3 indicate that a company could be overvalued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

Short Interest

• Score: 4.0 / 5
• Short Interest Level: Healthy

Percentage of Shares Shorted

3.74% of the float of Ingevity has been sold short.

Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover

Ingevity has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 4.38.

Change versus previous month

Short interest in Ingevity has recently decreased by 8.17%, indicating that investor sentiment is improving significantly.

Dividend

• Score: 0.0 / 5
• Dividend Strength: N/A

Dividend Yield

Ingevity does not currently pay a dividend.

Dividend Growth

Ingevity does not have a long track record of dividend growth.

News and Social Media

• Score: 2.9 / 5
• News Sentiment: 0.66

News Sentiment

Ingevity has a news sentiment score of 0.66. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This is a higher news sentiment than the 0.38 average news sentiment score of Materials companies.

News Coverage This Week

MarketBeat has tracked 6 news articles for Ingevity this week, compared to 2 articles on an average week.

Company Ownership

• Score: 1.5 / 5
• Insider Trading: Selling Shares

Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

In the past three months, Ingevity insiders have sold more of their company's stock than they have bought. Specifically, they have bought $0.00 in company stock and sold $764,673.00 in company stock.

Percentage Held by Insiders

0.88% of the stock of Ingevity is held by insiders.

Percentage Held by Institutions

91.59% of the stock of Ingevity is held by institutions. High institutional ownership can be a signal of strong market trust in this company.

Company Calendar

• Last Earnings: 11/04/2026
• Today: 11/13/2026
• Fiscal Year End: 12/31/2026

Industry, Sector and Symbol

• Stock Exchange: NYSE
• Sector: Materials
• Industry: Chemicals
• Sub-Industry: Specialty Chemicals
• Current Symbol: NYSE:NGVT
• Previous Symbol: NASDAQ:NGVT
• CIK: 1653477
• Web: www.ingevity.com
• Phone: (843) 740-2300
• Fax: 843-740-8165
• Employees: 1,500
• Year Founded: 2015

Price Target and Rating

• Average Price Target for Ingevity: $80.00
• High Price Target: $83.00
• Low Price Target: $75.00
• Potential Upside/Downside: +27.8%
• Consensus Rating: Hold
• Rating Score (0-4): 2.40
• Research Coverage: 5 Analysts

Profitability

• EPS (Trailing Twelve Months): $1.70
• Trailing P/E Ratio: 36.82
• Forward P/E Ratio: 10.61
• P/E Growth: N/A
• Net Income: -$167.10 million
• Net Margins: 5.28%
• Pretax Margin: 3.93%
• Return on Equity: 405.38%
• Return on Assets: 11.41%

Debt

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio: 15.70
• Current Ratio: 1.48
• Quick Ratio: 1.05

Sales & Book Value

• Annual Sales: $1.17 billion
• Price / Sales: 1.81
• Cash Flow: $12.15 per share
• Price / Cash Flow: 5.15
• Book Value: $1.87 per share
• Price / Book: 33.47

Miscellaneous

• Outstanding Shares: 33,780,000
• Free Float: 33,484,000
• Market Cap: $2.11 billion
• Optionable: Optionable
• Beta: 1.12