Ashland Inc

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Ashland Inc (ASH) Covered Calls

As of September 18, 2026, ASH has 12 covered call opportunities in the coming three months. Return ranges from 4.6 to 23.2% until expiration. Annualized return ranges from 14.4 to 208.4%. The nearest expiration is October 16, 2026. Maximum potential profit is $1,599.

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Running ASH covered calls helps you generate consistent income from Ashland Inc's shares you already own, turning a long stock position into a yield-producing asset. A covered call on Ashland Inc involves holding the underlying stock and selling a call option against it, collecting premium in exchange for capping upside at the strike price. Use our scanner to find the best ASH covered calls in real time and filter for the strikes, expiries, and premiums that fit your strategy.

A covered call is one of the most widely used options strategies because it pairs limited risk with a clear income profile: if ASH stays below the strike at expiration, you keep the premium and the shares; if it rises above, you deliver the stock at the strike and still pocket the premium. Selling ASH covered calls works best when implied volatility is elevated, since richer premiums improve the risk-reward. Key inputs to evaluate include strike selection relative to delta, days to expiration, annualized return, and the probability of assignment — all of which determine whether a given Ashland Inc covered call is worth writing.

Ashland Inc. provides additives and specialty ingredients worldwide. It operates through Life Sciences; Personal Care & Household; Specialty Additives; and Intermediates and Solvents segments. The Life Sciences segment offers pharmaceutical solutions, including controlled release polymers, disintegrants, tablet coatings, thickeners, solubilizers, and tablet binders; nutrition solutions, such as thickeners, stabilizers, emulsifiers, and additives; and nutraceutical solutions comprising products for weight management, joint comfort, stomach and intestinal health, sports nutrition, and general wellness, as well as custom formulation, toll processing, and particle engineering solutions.

The Personal Care & Household segment provides a range of nature-based, biodegradable, and performance ingredients; solutions for toothpastes, mouth washes and rinses, denture cleaning, and care for teeth; and household supplies nature-derived rheology ingredients, biodegradable surface wetting agents, performance encapsulates, and specialty polymers. The Specialty Additives segment offers rheology modifiers, foam control agents, surfactants and wetting agents, pH neutralizers, advanced ceramics used in catalytic converters, environmental filters, ingredients for the manufacturing of ceramic capacitors, plasma display panels and solar cells, ingredients for textile printing, thermoplastic metals, and alloys for welding. The Intermediates and Solvents segment produces 1,4 butanediol and related derivatives, including n-methylpyrrolidone. It offers its products to customers in a range of consumer and industrial markets, such as architectural coatings, construction, energy, food and beverage, nutraceuticals, personal care, and pharmaceutical. The company was formerly known as Ashland Global Holdings Inc. Ashland Inc. was founded in 1924 and is based in Wilmington, Delaware.

Income-focused investors, long-term ASH holders, and systematic premium sellers all face the same challenge: finding the covered call strike and expiry that balances yield against the risk of being called away. Our scanner ranks covered calls by annualized return, downside protection, and probability of profit, so selling ASH covered calls becomes a measured decision instead of a guess. Stop eyeballing the chain — let the best Ashland Inc covered calls come to you, already filtered for the metrics that matter.

Stock Statistics

  • IndustrySpecialty Chemicals
  • SectorBasic Materials
  • IV percentile70.83% Elevated
  • Market cap (M$)3,162
  • 52 weeks high-11.74%
  • 52 weeks low49.16%
  • Analyst recommendationBuy
    1.69
  • Target price$80.18
    16.42% above the current stock price
  • Dividend
  • Payout ratio
  • Earnings date2026-11-03
  • P/E61.09
  • Future P/E16.04
  • EPS (ttm)1.13
  • EPS growth next 5 years13.39%

As of September 18, 2026

2026-10-162880.0015.840.101.601104.0015.99208.39-0.14+0.176301.50
2026-10-162875.008.600.051.35599.008.67113.07-0.07+0.211,3401.30
2026-11-206375.008.601.502.70744.0010.7762.42-2.17+0.3301.20
2026-10-162870.001.362.252.90319.004.6260.21-3.26+0.485590.65
2027-01-1511980.0015.840.903.801184.0017.1452.59-1.30+0.29232.90
2027-04-1621085.0023.080.053.801599.0023.1540.24-0.07+0.2453.75
2026-11-206370.001.363.704.50464.006.7238.93-5.36+0.5100.80
2027-01-1511975.008.602.104.90804.0011.6435.71-3.04+0.40162.80
2027-04-1621080.0015.841.554.801249.0018.0931.43-2.24+0.3413.25
2027-04-1621075.008.602.906.40884.0012.8022.25-4.20+0.4403.50

As of September 18, 2026

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