Acme United Corp

Consumer Discretionary
Industrial Machinery/Components
www.acmeunited.com

Earnings Score
Moat Score
Safety Score

Market Cap $147.68M
PE 15
Debt $20.43M
Cash $3.45M
EV $164.66M
FCF $11.92M

Earnings

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Sales & Net Margins

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Earnings	$10.04M
EBIT	$14.01M
ROE	9%
ROA	9%
FCF	$11.92M
Equity	$108.28M
Growth Stability	33%
PE	14.71
PEG	1.6
PB	1.36
P/FCF	12.39
P/S	0.76
Price/Cash	0.02
Debt/Equity	0.19
Debt/FCF	1.71
Net Margins	4%
Gross Margins	39%
Op. Margins	7%
Earnings CAGR	12%
Sales Growth YoY	2%
Sales Growth QoQ	0%
Sales CAGR	7%
FCF CAGR	7%
Equity CAGR	10%
Earnings Stability	0.31
Earnings Growth YoY	1%
Earnings Growth QoQ	-3%
Earnings CAGR 5Y	9%

Sales CAGR 5Y	5%
FCF CAGR 5Y	20%
Equity CAGR 5Y	13%
Earnings CAGR 3Y	-0%
Sales CAGR 3Y	-0%
FCF CAGR 3Y	-38%
Equity CAGR 3Y	15%
Market Cap	$147.68M
Revenue	$195.49M
Dividend Yield	2%
Payout Ratio	22%
Assets	$163.04M
Total Debt	$20.43M
Cash	$3.45M
Shares Outstanding	3.75M
EV	164.66M
Earnings Score	17%
Moat Score	83%
Safety Score	66%
Final Score	55%
Working Capital	76.78M
Current Ratio	4.83
Gross Profit	$76.87M
Shares Growth 3y	2%
Equity Growth QoQ	1%
Equity Growth YoY	9%

Assets & ROA

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Stockholders Equity & ROE

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Acme United Corp is a supplier of innovative first aid and medical products and cutting technology to the school, home, office, hardware, sporting goods and industrial markets. Its principal products sold across all segments are First aid kits, and Medical products, Scissors, Shears, Knives, Rulers, Pencil sharpeners and Sharpening tools. The company sells its products primarily to mass market and e-commerce retailers, industrial distributors, wholesale, contract and retail stationery distributors, office supply superstores, sporting goods stores, and hardware chains. Its operations are in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia.

SEC Filings

Direct access to Acme United Corp (ACU) Annual Reports (10K) and Quarterly Reports (10Q) from the SEC website.

2025
- 10-Q Mar 31
2024
- 10-K Dec 31
- 10-Q Sep 30
- 10-Q Jun 30
- 10-Q Mar 31
2023
- 10-K Dec 31
- 10-Q Sep 30
- 10-Q Jun 30
- 10-Q Mar 31

Sector Comparison

How does Acme United Corp compare to its competitors?

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Peter Lynch's Chart

This chart shows the current pricing of Acme United Corp compared to its past. The addition of the earnings trend line provides further insights into the company's earnings power.

CAGR 12%

Stability 31%

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Acme United Corp Discounted Cash Flow

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Years

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= $193M

	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	TV
fcf	$12M	$13M	$14M	$15M	$16M	$17M	$18M	$19M	$20M	$22M	$23M	$235M
DCF		$12M	$11M	$11M	$11M	$10M	$10M	$9.8M	$9.6M	$9.3M	$9M	$90M
Value	$193M

Competitiveness and MOAT

High margins render the company resilient under dire circumstances, hence able to drive competitors out or acquire them. ROE and ROA measure the average flow generated by each invested dollar. Their marginal value is a forecast of future growth, and it is considered by Buffett and Munger the most important single indicator.

Years	12/2015	12/2016	12/2017	12/2018	12/2019	12/2020	12/2021	12/2022	12/2023	12/2024	TTM
Net Margins	4%	5%	3%	3%	4%	5%	7%	2%	9%	5%	4%
ROA	-	9%	7%	7%	8%	9%	11%	4%	15%	9%	9%
ROE	-	13%	8%	9%	10%	13%	18%	4%	18%	9%	9%

Bad Net Margins (3.6%)

Net Margins are too low to guarantee profitability in case of higher costs or higher interest rates. Furthermore lower margins cause higher earnings’ volatility.

Safety and Stability

Being debt the number one cause of investment losses and company death, the ratio Debt/FCF is of utmost importance to guarantee safety. On the other hand the Graham’s stability measures the drawdown of earnings, hence indicating the reliability of the flow generated by the company.

Years	12/2015	12/2016	12/2017	12/2018	12/2019	12/2020	12/2021	12/2022	12/2023	12/2024	TTM
Debt over FCF	-	4.67	26.1	24.8	2.55	12.3	-26.82	-35.34	0.54	3.65	1.71
Debt over Equity	0.6	0.71	0.87	0.77	0.6	0.62	0.43	0.63	0.13	0.16	0.19
Growth Stability	-	-	-	94%	100%	100%	100%	33%	100%	87%	33%

Good Debt/FCF ratio (1.71)

Net Margins are high enough to offer a good protection on the profits in case of higher costs or higher interests. Furthermore higher margins reduce earnings’ volatility.

Good Debt/Equity ratio (0.19)

The company is not overleveraged and has a good balance between equity and debt.

Bad Graham’s Stability (33%)

The company has a bad stability in its earnings, which is a sign of a bad competitive advantage.

Growth

Growth can be dangerous when forecasting, simply projecting the current growth is in general wrong. A company passes through multiple phases, from being young and unprofitable, to the first periods of profitability and high growth, until it arrives at a period of regime with limited growth. Identifying in which phase the company is in may help forecasting.

Years	12/2015	12/2016	12/2017	12/2018	12/2019	12/2020	12/2021	12/2022	12/2023	12/2024	CAGR 5Y
Revenue YoY growth	-	13%	5%	5%	4%	15%	11%	7%	-1%	2%	5%
Earnings YoY growth	-	22%	-31%	13%	20%	47%	69%	-78%	486%	-44%	9%
Equity YoY growth	-	7%	8%	5%	6%	13%	23%	3%	24%	9%	13%
FCF YoY growth	-	-1K%	-76%	-2%	702%	-76%	-139%	15%	-2K%	-80%	20%