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Astec Industries, Inc.

Rank #260Capital Return

ASTE · Nasdaq · Industrials

Astec Industries, Inc. (ASTE) — Rank #260 by gross profitability (GP/assets 0.26) · ROE 5.6% · Piotroski F-Score 5 / 9.

As-of 2026-09-15 · CIK 0000792987 · all metrics point-in-time as of the filing date.

About

Astec Industries, Inc. designs, engineers, manufactures, markets, and services equipment and components used primarily in road building and related construction activities worldwide.

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The company operates in two segments, Infrastructure Solutions and Materials Solutions. The Infrastructure Solutions segment offers asphalt plants, cold central plant recycles systems, and soil remediation plants; concrete batch plants, liquid asphalt terminals, and thermal fluid heaters; asphalt pavers, material transfer vehicles, and milling machines; and industrial automation controls and telematics platforms, as well as engineering and environmental permitting, various plants components, polymer plants, heat recovery units, industrial and asphalt burners and systems, wood chippers and grinders, and blower trucks and trailers,. The Materials Solutions segment offers jaw, cone, heavy-duty, and mining-application crushers; horizontal and vertical shaft impactors; incline, multi-frequency and high frequency, horizontal, and dewatering screens; washing and classifying plants, fines recovery systems, and water clarification systems; radial and telescoping conveyors, pugmills, truck unloaders, hopper feeders ship loaders and unloaders, and bulk receptions feeders; and Rock breaker systems, hydraulic breakers, compactors, and pulverizers. It provides its products to asphalt or concrete producers; highway and heavy equipment contractors; utility contractors; sand and gravel producers; construction, demolition, recycle and crushing contractors; forestry and environmental recycling contractors; mine and quarry operators; port and inland terminal authorities; power stations; and domestic and foreign government agencies.

The company was incorporated in 1972 and is headquartered in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Industry
Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery
Sector
Industrials
State
TN
Filer Category
Large accelerated filer
Fiscal Year End
December 31

Financials

Stable

Direction over 5 fiscal years

  • Free cash flowimproving
  • Gross marginimproving
  • Gross profitabilitystable
  • Net cashdeteriorating
  • Operating marginimproving
  • Return on equityimproving
  • Share count (dilution)deteriorating

Red flags: fcf_ni_divergence_unfavorable — rating capped at Stable

Monitoring diagnostic of business direction — not a prediction of returns.

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USD in millions, except per-share (EPS) and percentage rows. Values are as originally filed; em-dash = not tagged in that year's filing.
Fiscal year end2025-12-31filed 2026-02-252024-12-31filed 2025-02-262023-12-31filed 2024-02-282022-12-31filed 2023-03-01
Income statement
EPS growth (YoY)784.2%-87.1%
Cash flow

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