Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Innospec Offers Steady Performance And Occasional Opportunities

Among specialty chemical companies, Innospec (IOSP) is a relatively low-drama player, with a solid management team that generally does a good job of managing its businesses to the realities of their respective end-markets – maximizing margins in slower-growing businesses, but exploiting growth opportunities where they are available. Innospec doesn’t often get all that cheap apart from broader market/sector pullbacks, but those are good times to reconsider these shares.

Innospec has come off a bit from a recent peak and the shares aren’t all that exciting from a DCF-driven value perspective, though an EV/EBITDA approach offers a little more upside. Capital deployment into growth M&A remains a definite possibility, but I’d prefer to try to pick up shares in the $70’s if possible.

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Innospec Offers Steady Performance And Occasional Opportunities

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