Company Analysis

Alto Ingredients, Inc. (ALTO)

Nasdaq: ALTO · Industrial Organic Chemicals · Sacramento, CA · filing with the SEC since 1995
Grade5.0
◀ Past 3.9● Present 5.6▶ Future 5.2

The grade of Alto Ingredients, Inc.

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
5.0/10
◀ Past3.930% of the headline
● Present5.640% of the headline
▶ Future5.230% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

3.9/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
3.8/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

4 warning events since 2017; the latest 2025-05-23.

weight 33% of this tense · 38th percentile among 21 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Alto Ingredients, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 4 warning events: a notice about its exchange listing (8-K item 3.01, 4 times, the latest 2025-05-23) (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
3.9/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+0.1% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 3 of 10.

weight 45% of this tense · 39th percentile among 19 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Alto Ingredients, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $912 million in fiscal 2013 to $918 million in fiscal 2025, up 0.1% a year; it rose in 5 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 45% from fiscal 2016 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 3 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span0.1%bottom 34% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosetop 45% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profitbottom 37% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak44.8%bottom 29% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
3.9/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 1.7% a year. 12% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 0 sales, 4 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 39th percentile among 10 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Alto Ingredients, Inc.'s diluted share count grew about 1.7% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 12% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 4 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30, buying about $361 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearsbottom 44% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 35% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

5.6/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
6.1/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 5%: 5¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 37%: owes 37¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 61st percentile among 20 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Alto Ingredients, Inc. earned about 5 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 9 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 37 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 3.0% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 37% of its family
  • return on equitytop 25% of its family
  • gross profit against assetstop 44% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 50% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
5.1/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 49% of 20 in its family; net margin 1.5%.

weight 33% of this tense · 51st percentile among 20 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Alto Ingredients, Inc.'s standing among 20 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $918 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 42% by size; a net margin of 1.5% ranks in the top 32%; revenue growth of -11.7% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 29% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$918Mtop 42% of its family
  • net margin1.5%top 32% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth-11.7%bottom 29% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed
5.3/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 47% of 17 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2023.

weight 22% of this tense · 53rd percentile among 17 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Alto Ingredients, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Mcgregor, Bryon T (President & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2023-09-19, 3.2 years (top 41% of its family); the 9 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 4.6 years (top 43%); 5 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 9 people in charge now (bottom 44%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge5 in three years among 9 peoplebottom 44% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed4.6 yearstop 43% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record3.2 yearstop 41% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

5.2/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
4.8/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 48% of 20 in its family for room to expand.

weight 45% of this tense · 48th percentile among 20 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Alto Ingredients, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $23 million against debt of $63 million leaves -10.2% of its assets as net cash, top 45% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 0.9% of revenue (top 42%); a gross margin of 3.8% (bottom 31%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-10.2%top 45% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue0.9%top 42% of its family
  • gross margin3.8%bottom 31% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
3.8/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 38% of 19 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 38th percentile among 19 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Alto Ingredients, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -11.7% a year over the last three filed years against 0.1% over all 10, slowing (bottom 45% of its family); the newest year grew -4.9% (top 45%); capital spending grew -50.4% a year (bottom 15%) (its annual reports). Alto Ingredients, Inc. tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-11.8 points a yearbottom 45% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth-4.9%top 45% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending-50.4%bottom 15% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
8.2/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

top 18% of 19 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 22% of this tense · 82nd percentile among 19 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Alto Ingredients, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $918 million in fiscal 2025 came in 11.9% above the $821 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 24% of its family); net income of $13 million against a prior three-year average of $43 million (top 3%); a net margin of 1.5% against -3.8% before (top 29%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace11.9%top 24% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average+131%top 3% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average+5.3 pointstop 29% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton ALTO · research, not advice