ACME UNITED CORP

ACU — scored out of ten from its own filings

Figures as at 2026-06-30, reported in USD. The newest fact in the filings is dated 2026-06-30, 55 days ago. Nothing on this page is advice.

The five scores

Dimension	What it asks	Score
Quality	How much of the revenue is really kept — and what did it take to earn it?	3.75
Valuation	What does the price ask for what the company earns, owns and pays out?	0.5
Durability	How predictable is the revenue, and how much of it is already committed?	6.12
Resilience	Can the balance sheet absorb a bad year?	6.98
Growth	Is the business getting bigger, and is it getting more profitable?	3.29

A dimension reading not measured means the filing does not carry the figures it needs. It is left out of the total rather than scored as though it were bad.

What each measure said

A dimension's score is the weighted average of these. Each links to the page explaining how it is worked out and which XBRL tags it reads.

Quality — 3.75

Measure	What it is	Score
SBC / sales	Stock compensation over revenue, inverted	10.0
Adj. EBITDA margin	Cash operating margin, before stock compensation	3.01
OE margin	(Free cash flow − stock comp) over revenue	2.65
Oper. margin	GAAP operating margin	2.23
ROIC	Return on invested capital	1.53

Durability — 6.12

Measure	What it is	Score
Revenue growth in the worst year on record	Revenue growth in the worst year on record	6.62
Gross margin stability across years, in percentage points	Gross margin stability across years, in percentage points	5.88
Cash-flow margin stability, operating cash flow over revenue	Cash-flow margin stability, operating cash flow over revenue	5.82

Resilience — 6.98

Measure	What it is	Score
Current ratio	Current ratio, excluding deferred revenue from the liabilities	10.0
ND/EBITDA	Net cash, or net debt over EBITDA	7.0
Interest cover, EBIT over interest	Interest cover, EBIT over interest	3.93

Growth — 3.29

Measure	What it is	Score
Operating margin trend, in percentage points per year	Operating margin trend, in percentage points per year	6.07
Most recent margin move, in percentage points	Most recent margin move, in percentage points	4.44
Sales/sh Y/Y	Revenue growth per diluted share, trailing twelve months against the prior twelve	2.37
Sales CAGR 4Y	The same growth compounded over four fiscal years	1.29

A measure missing from a list here could not be computed from this company's filings. It is left out rather than scored as though it were bad.

Revenue by fiscal year

As the company reported it, one row per year, straight from the filings.

Fiscal year	Ends	Revenue
2018	2018-12-31	137,321,395
2019	2019-12-31	142,457,342
2020	2020-12-31	164,003,040
2021	2021-12-31	182,087,559
2022	2022-12-31	193,962,357
2023	2023-12-31	191,500,947
2024	2024-12-31	194,489,991
2025	2025-12-31	196,541,816

The ratios

The figures themselves rather than their scores — what somebody looking up ACU on one particular measure came for.

Ratio	Value
cash operating margin	11.16
current ratio	3.23
current ratio reported	3.23
dilution pct	-0.28
ebit cagr	27.04
ebit yoy	3.28
fcf margin	7.32
growth cv	1.17
interest cover	7.86
net debt ebitda	0.81
operating margin	6.84
owner earnings margin	6.42
revenue growth	9.04
revenue growth per share	9.35
roic	8.24
rule of 40	15.88
sbc pct revenue	0.9

The figures, and where each came from

This is the part no other screener shows. Each figure below names the XBRL element it was read from, so it can be checked against the filing itself.

Figure	Value	XBRL tag	As at
capex	10,635,913	`PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment`	2026-06-30
cash	5,041,000	`CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue`	2026-06-30
current assets	112,331,000	`AssetsCurrent`	2026-06-30
current liabilities	34,814,000	`LiabilitiesCurrent`	2026-06-30
equity	121,302,000	`StockholdersEquity`	2026-06-30
interest expense	1,842,000	`InterestExpenseDebt`	2026-06-30
ocf	26,118,449	`NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities`	2026-06-30
revenue	211,603,816	`Revenues`	2026-06-30
sbc	1,895,758	`ShareBasedCompensation`	2026-06-30

What to be careful about

no market cap; set `market_cap` in overrides.yaml
no forward EPS estimate; growth rests on filings only. Analyst consensus is not published in XBRL, so it has to be fetched from a data provider or set by hand in overrides.yaml as `eps_growth_2y`
valuation DROPPED from the total: only 0 of 2 inputs could be computed (ev sales, ev owner earnings not tagged), so the score is not meaningful. Its weight is spread over the other dimensions
durability rests on 3 of 4 inputs; not tagged: contracted coverage

See it scored yourself

The dashboard puts ACU beside other companies and lets you change what counts: the weight of each dimension, the value that earns a ten, and which of the 61 measures are included at all.