차입 증가 → 이자부담 → 수익성 악화
Critical부채가 +7.5% 늘며 이자보상배율이 8.3x에서 6.8x로 하락했다. ROE도 26.3%에서 13.2%로 낮아져 차입 부담이 수익성을 누르고 있다.
Evidence
부채 YoY +7.5%이자보상배율 8.3x→6.8xROE 26.3%→13.2%
Acme United
ACU · NYSE Amex$63.14-0.02%
2026-09-04 closeAcme United last closed at $63.14 (-0.02%) on 2026-09-04. Signals today: Near 52-week high, MA aligned. Listed on NYSE Amex; price, financials and dividends update daily after market close.
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Market Leader RS 93 · top 7%
New high + volume — the real recordrecord · not a prediction
Last 30 sessions
277 picks
Next-day win rate
44.2%
Avg next-day
-0.28%
vs market
-0.51%p
Every new-high-plus-volume pick we actually published (US market) — not this stock alone.
Signal history
| Date | Signal | +20 trading days |
|---|---|---|
A record, not a prediction.
How this is calculated
"·" means fewer than 20 trading days have passed since the event. Cup-and-handle entries are days our board actually showed the badge (archive grows daily since 2026-05-12); others are recomputed from price data.
Trade plan
Fill entry, stop, account size and risk percent to get a share count. The stop must sit below the entry.
A calculator · not advice or a guarantee
Financials & valuation at a glance
A+
Overall: 상사,자본재 8/197 · top 4%
Factor composite · relative position in sector
PER 24.24 · PBR 2.27 — own-history percentile 10/100 · 17/100
Open self-history band
PER10/100
PBR17/100
Factual information · not investment advice
Past reported results · not investment advice
More — deeper indicators
Annual dividend
Split-adjusted annual DPS history and available grade axes
Paid 22 consecutive years · Raised 5 consecutive years · Yield 0.98% (based on 2025 payment of $0.62) · 3-year growth +4.7%
Per-share amount adjusted for splits and capital reductions · Factual information, not investment advice.
Financial safety
Reference indicatorAs of 2024Safe zoneFinancial-metric reference signal
Altman Z'' zoneZ'' 7.46
Distress
Grey
Safe
- Altman Z''
- 7.46
- Beneish M-Score
- -2.47
- Sloan accrual
- -1.20%
No statistical flag
부실·조작 위험을 나타내는 사실 지표입니다. 투자 조언이 아니며, 검증 전이라 참고용입니다.
Factual information, not investment advice.
Why has this company moved this way?
Auditable observations with the original numeric evidence.
Factual information, not investment advice.
Earnings quality · Piotroski F-Score
7/9Strong
Piotroski measures year-over-year financial improvement, not absolute quality.
Financial improvement score7/9
Profitability
- Positive ROAPass
- Positive OCFPass
- Improving ΔROANot passed
- Accruals (OCF > net income)Pass
Leverage & liquidity
- Lower debtPass
- Higher current ratioPass
- No new sharesPass
Efficiency
- Higher gross marginPass
- Higher asset turnoverNot passed
Calculation note: F7(신주)은 equity/asset 유지로 근사
Already-stable companies may score lower when year-over-year improvement is limited.
Factual information, not investment advice.
Forensic signals
Anomaly and structural signals observed in the financial statements.
Margin trendWarning
영업이익률 악화 (13.4% → 7.3%, -6.2%p). 통계적 정황 신호이며 회계부정 단정이 아닙니다.
Factual information, not investment advice.
Industry structure
USAs of 2026-09-05상사,자본재
This stock is in 상사,자본재: revenue rank 139 of 186, share 0%.
139 / 1860%revenue share
Who dominates this industry?
- 1Raytheon Technologies9.2%
- 2Lockheed Martin8.1%
- 3Boeing7.6%
- 4General Dynamics5.4%
- 5Northrop Grumman4.7%
- 6Acme United0%
Concentration
DistributedCR3 24.9%HHI and CR3 are separate industrial-organization facts; they are not the polarization verdict.
Polarization
MixedConsistentPolarization measures industry gaps and structure, not valuation, forecast, or investment advice.
Margin lens
- IQR%p
- 11.85
- Direction
- 확대
- Level
- 보통
- Years
- 10
Value lens
- P90/P10
- 22.7
- Median P/B
- 3.43
- Level
- 넓음
- n
- 172
Survivorship note: 현재 산업 멤버십을 과거 연도에 소급 적용 — 과거 진입·퇴출 기업 미반영(복원 불가)
Factual information, not investment advice.
Risk sensitivity — adverse assumptions
Metric changes under stated assumptions; not a forecast or investment advice.
Base metrics
- Operating margin
- 7.3%
- Interest coverage
- 6.8x
- Return on equity (ROE)
- 9.4%
Operating margin −5pp
Severe margin pressureInterest coverageBase 6.8x adverse case 2.1x
Return on equity (ROE)Base 9.4% adverse case 2.2%
Revenue −15%
TolerableInterest coverageBase 6.8x adverse case 5.8x
Return on equity (ROE)Base 9.4% adverse case 9.3%
Interest rate +2pp
TolerableInterest coverageBase 6.8x adverse case 4.4x
Return on equity (ROE)Base 9.4% adverse case 10.2%
Interest coverage limit
Current margin 6.2ppInterest coverage limit at an operating margin of 1.1%
Interest expense coverage threshold
Connections
AI-extracted related companies · for reference
Customers
Competitors
3MPrice comovement r=0.31 (1 year)Johnson & JohnsonPrice comovement r=0.07 (1 year)Medline IndustriesEpiladyNewell BrandsPrice comovement r=0.22 (1 year)WestcottFiskars
Recent filings
Filings for overseas stocks are on the way. For now we cover Korean stocks only.
About Acme United
- What technical signals does Acme United (ACU) have?
- Acme United current technical signals: MA alignment (score 0.85).
- Is Acme United a cup-and-handle pattern?
- No. Acme United has no valid cup-and-handle signal right now.
- What are Acme United's financials and valuation?
- Acme United's income statement, balance sheet and cash flow are free for the most recent 8 years; the full history is on Pro. PER/PBR, dividend yield and sector valuation bands are free.
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