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ACME UNITED CORP ACU

Cutlery, Handtools & General Hardware · CIK 0000002098 · Fiscal year ends 1231

Revenue
$211.60M
Fiscal year ended 2026-06-30
Operating income
$14.48M
Fiscal year ended 2026-06-30
Free cash flow
$15.48M
Fiscal year ended 2026-06-30

Valuation, from the filing

Public float$138.21MMarket value of stock held by non-affiliates, as stated on the cover page for 2025-06-30
Float per share$36.29Float divided by shares outstanding in the same filing. A floor under the share price on that date, not the price itself.
Float / net income13.6×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.
Float / revenue0.7×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.
Float / equity1.2×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.

Every figure here is drawn from the 10-K cover page and the statements behind it, so each one traces to a filing. Public float counts only stock held by non-affiliates, which makes these floors rather than estimates: a high multiple is conclusive, a low one may mean cheap or may mean closely held. The float was measured on 2025-06-30, not today, and each multiple below it uses the figures for the fiscal year ending 2025-12-31 — the year that filing covered.

Valuation over time

13.6× earnings today, against a median of 13.4× across 9 years on record. In line with its own history.

Float measuredPublic floatFloat / net income
2025-06-30$138.21M13.6×
2024-06-30$115.02M11.5×
2023-06-30$77.64M4.4×
2022-06-30$138.01M45.5×
2020-06-30$138.01M17.0×
2019-06-30$66.30M12.0×
2018-06-30$61.42M13.4×
2017-06-30$84.52M20.9×
2016-06-30$53.19M9.1×

Each float is paired with the fiscal year the filing that stated it covers. Only years where the company reported positive net income appear, because a multiple against a loss is not a multiple.

How this compares in its industry

Percentile among the Cutlery, Handtools & General Hardware filers on this site, highest value first. A high percentile means a large figure, which is good for a margin and not for leverage — the ranking says where the company sits, not whether that is where it should be.

MeasureReportedPercentile
Long-term debt / equity0.10x0th
SBC / revenue1.0%100th
CapEx / revenue5.4%80th
Gross margin39.4%80th
Current ratio4.21x71th
FCF margin3.9%40th
Net margin5.2%57th
Revenue YoY growth1.1%57th
Effective tax rate22.4%50th
Operating margin7.5%50th

ACME UNITED CORP (ACU) reported revenue of $211.60M and net income of $9.82M for the fiscal year ended 2026-06-30. This page shows 1 annual period of income statement, balance sheet and cash flow figures normalized from ACME UNITED CORP’s SEC filings, each linked to the filing it came from. It is classified by the SEC under Cutlery, Handtools & General Hardware.

Income

ACME UNITED CORP income by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2026-06-30
Revenue$211.60M
Cost of revenue$126.79M
Gross profit$84.82M
Operating income$14.48M
Net income$9.82M
Research & developmentUnavailable
Weighted-average diluted sharesUnavailable
Pretax income$12.46M
Income tax expense$2.64M
Diluted EPSUnavailable
Selling, general & administrative$70.33M
General & administrativeUnavailable
Selling & marketingUnavailable

Balance

ACME UNITED CORP balance by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2026-06-30
Cash & equivalents$5.04M
Total assets$200.64M
Current assets$112.33M
Total liabilities$79.34M
Current liabilities$34.81M
Total equity incl. NCI$121.30M
Temporary (mezzanine) equityUnavailable
Inventory$64.10M
Accounts receivable$38.73M
Goodwill$9.91M
Long-term debt$22.64M
Accounts payable$14.15M

Cash flow

ACME UNITED CORP cash flow by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2026-06-30
Operating cash flow$26.12M
Capital expenditures$10.64M
Investing cash flow-$26.70M
Financing cash flow$2.03M
Net change in cash$1.40M
Stock-based compensation$1.90M
Common dividends paid$2.39M
Common share repurchasesUnavailable
Depreciation & amortization$7.24M

Derived

ACME UNITED CORP derived by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2026-06-30
Free cash flow$15.48M
Gross margin40.1%
Operating margin6.8%
FCF margin7.3%
SBC / revenue0.9%
Current ratio3.23x
Revenue YoY growth9.0%
Net margin4.6%
R&D / revenueUnavailable
CapEx / revenue5.0%
Long-term debt / equity0.19x
Effective tax rate21.2%

Amounts are abbreviated; the exact reported value is carried in each cell. — means unavailable, not zero. Open ACU in the interactive workspace to inspect any figure back to its filing.

Source filings

10-Q · Filed 2026-08-06View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2026-05-06View SEC filing
10-K · Filed 2026-03-11View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-11-06View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-08-06View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-05-07View SEC filing

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Every accounting identity this site checks — the balance sheet, the gross profit bridge and the cash flow statement — reconciles in every period shown.