Ecovyst Inc. (ECVT)

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Ecovyst Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 4 warning events of 2 kinds: a debt default or acceleration notice (8-K item 2.04, 2 times, the latest 2026-01-07); a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, 2 times, the latest 2021-05-11) (its current reports).

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Ecovyst Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $1.1 billion in fiscal 2016 to $724 million in fiscal 2025, down 4.2% a year; it rose in 5 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 66% from fiscal 2017 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 5 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Ecovyst Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 5.0% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 31% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 2 sales and 1 purchase of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30, buying about $250 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Ecovyst Inc. lost about 12 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 13 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 52 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 1.3% over the year (the filed statements).

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Ecovyst Inc.'s standing among 15 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $724 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 39% by size; a net margin of -9.8% ranks in the top 50%; revenue growth of -4.1% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 37% (its annual reports).

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Ecovyst Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Bitting, Kurt (Director and Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2022-05-16, 4.5 years (top 46% of its family); the 12 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 4.5 years (bottom 41%); 10 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 12 people in charge now (bottom 11%; 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.

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Ecovyst Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $197 million against debt of $393 million leaves -15.5% of its assets as net cash, bottom 41% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 9.7% of revenue (top 23%); a gross margin of 21.8% (bottom 27%) (its annual report).

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Ecovyst Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -4.1% a year over the last three filed years against -4.2% over all 10, speeding up (top 12% of its family); the newest year grew 20.9% (top 19%); research spending grew -3.1% a year (bottom 28%); capital spending grew 6.1% a year (top 35%) (its annual reports). Ecovyst Inc. reported 3 product lines in fiscal 2025: Regeneration and Treatment Services at $361 million (50%), Industrial Mining Automotive at $328 million (45%), Other Services at $34 million (5%); 3 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Ecovyst Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $724 million in fiscal 2025 came in 41.6% above the $511 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 21% of its family); net income of $71 million against a prior three-year average of $46 million (bottom 46%); a net margin of -9.8% against 6.7% before (bottom 21%) (its annual reports).