Alto Ingredients
ALTOMarket price data through November 12, 2026.
Performance
Nov 2021 – Nov 2026
Track record
How this pick has done since Benson first called it.
- Benson Return
- -23%
- How much this stock is up since Benson first picked it — measured from the price at the time of that first pick, not from today.
- First pick price
- ~$5
- Roughly what one share cost when Benson first picked this stock. This is the starting line for the Benson Return.
- Tracking since
- April 2026
- The month this stock first became a Benson pick.
- Tracking duration
- 7 months
- How long Benson has been tracking this pick.
About Alto Ingredients
Alto Ingredients makes specialty alcohols, renewable fuel, and essential ingredients at plants across the Midwest and western US. Think of the alcohol in your mouthwash, hand sanitizer, and cosmetics, plus the ethanol blended into gasoline. The company can shift production toward whichever market is paying the most. It now earns extra cash by making its fuel cleaner.
The case for and against
Both sides of the story, in plain English.
- Turnaround Traction
Sales rose to 257.9 million dollars this quarter, up from 241.0 million a year ago. The company earned 12.7 million dollars, or 16 cents a share. Over the first nine months of 2026, Alto earned 28.0 million dollars, compared with a 9.4 million dollar loss over the same months last year.
- Carbon Cash
Alto lowered the carbon footprint at two of its plants and now expects at least 20 million dollars in clean fuel tax credits this year. It also signed its first multi-year deal with a local farmer cooperative to buy low carbon corn, and it will share the credits with those farmers. Meanwhile it paid down 6.5 million dollars of debt this quarter and 26.5 million so far this year, which nearly cut its interest costs in half to 1.5 million dollars.
- Credit Crutch
Behind the headline, the core business earned less. Gross profit fell to 14.8 million dollars from 23.5 million a year ago, and profit from operations dropped to 7.0 million from 17.0 million. About 7.6 million dollars of this quarter's profit came from government tax credits, so a change in the rules could take a real bite.
- Commodity Whiplash
This business still depends on corn, natural gas, and fuel prices, and those swing hard. Production costs jumped to 243.1 million dollars from 217.5 million, growing faster than sales and squeezing what was left over. The whole company is valued at only about 270 million dollars, so the stock can move sharply on one rough quarter.
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This automated research summary uses Financial Modeling Prep market data through 2026-11-12. Model signals, scores, and risk labels can change and may be incomplete or wrong.
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