Ingevity Corporation (NGVT) Stock Analysis
Range Bound setup
Basic Materials · Specialty Chemicals
Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $75.10: Quality below floor (3.9 < 4.0) triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 4.9/10. Specifically: Below-average business quality; Negative price momentum.
Ingevity makes specialty chemicals in three segments: Performance Materials (activated carbon for automotive evaporative emissions control), Performance Chemicals (pavement technologies, road markings), and Advanced Polymer Technologies (caprolactone-based products). Following a... Read more
Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $75.10: Quality below floor (3.9 < 4.0) triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 4.9/10. Specifically: Below-average business quality; Negative price momentum. Chart setup: RSI 49 mid-range, Bollinger mid-band. Score 4.9/10, moderate confidence.
Passes 4/7 gates (clean insider activity, no SEC red flags, news events none recent, semi cycle peak clear). Fails on weak momentum and favorable risk/reward ratio and earnings proximity 6d<=7d. Suitability: aggressive.
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Concentration Risks(10-K Item 1A)
- LOWCustomertop-10 customers (41% of sales)41%10-K Item 1A: 'Sales to the Company's ten largest customers (across all three segments) accounted for 41 percent of total sales for 2025. No customer accounted for more than 10 percent of total sales for 2025.'
Material Events(8-K, last 90d)
- 2026-02-23Item 5.02LOWJean S. Blackwell and Daniel F. Sansone will not stand for election at Ingevity 2026 Annual Meeting. Blackwell: no disagreement cited. Sansone: retirement age policy. Both serve until the meeting.SEC filing →
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Rating Breakdown
3 floor-breakers
Ranks in the bottom of its industry peers on the composite signal. Better names in the same sector exist.static
Momentum below the gate floor. Component breakdown shows what dragged the score down.static
Cyclical trough — margins compressed or negative. Profitability typically recovers with the cycle, but floor fires on current data.static
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Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $75.10: Quality below floor (3.9 < 4.0) triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 4.9/10. Specifically: Below-average business quality; Negative price momentum. Chart setup: RSI 49 mid-range, Bollinger mid-band. Prior stop was $70.94. Score 4.9/10, moderate confidence.
Take-profit target: $76.07 (+1.3% upside). Prior stop was $70.94. Stop-loss: $70.94.
Target reached (-8.9% upside); Quality below floor (3.9 < 4.0).
Ingevity Corporation trades at a P/E of N/A (forward 12.3). TrendMatrix value score: 7.5/10. Verdict: Sell.
10 analysts cover NGVT with a consensus score of 4.1/5. Average price target: $81.
What does Ingevity Corporation do?Ingevity makes specialty chemicals in three segments: Performance Materials (activated carbon for automotive...
Ingevity makes specialty chemicals in three segments: Performance Materials (activated carbon for automotive evaporative emissions control), Performance Chemicals (pavement technologies, road markings), and Advanced Polymer Technologies (caprolactone-based products). Following a 2025 strategic review, the company is divesting APT and road markings to focus on Performance Materials and Pavement Technologies.