Ticker: $OLN | Price: $23.17 (+10.18% as of Aug-22-2025) 💥 

Insider alerts are like financial fireworks — and Olin recently lit a couple of big ones. Two senior gunslingers at the 132-year-old chemicals-and-ammo hybrid are buying stock with real money. That’s conviction, baby.

🚨 Insider Purchases: Who Pulled the Trigger?

• Marc Ehrhardt (VP, Pres Corp Dev): +20,000 shares @ $18.70 → ~$374K (2025-08-06)

• Ken Lane (CEO): +7,250 shares @ $28.06 → ~$203K (2025-02-04)

Call it what you want — but when the guy making the ammo and the guy building the labs open their wallets, you notice.

🏦 Institutions: Locked and Loaded

Olin is practically institution-owned:

Translation? Hedge funds and giants basically own this thing. If you think you’re buying shares… odds are BlackRock already bought them back from you.

🔍 For Olin (OLN)'s Institutional Ownership breakdown, see here. 

🧪 What Even Is Olin?

Olin makes… everything your high school chem teacher warned you not to sniff.

• Chlor Alkali & Vinyls: chlorine, bleach, caustic soda, hydrochloric acid (aka, your pool guy’s starter pack).

• Epoxy: resins, phenols, acetone — the sticky stuff of industry.

• Winchester: 🧨 sporting and military ammunition. Yes, literal bullets.

It’s rare for one company to sell bleach and bullets. Olin does both. (Household cleaning gone wrong? Olin’s got you covered either way. 🫠)

📉 Recent Earnings — The Bangs and the Blanks

Q2 2025

• Sales: $1.76B (up a bit YoY)

• Net loss: ($1.3M) → basically a rounding error… but still red ink.

• EBITDA: $176M (down from $278M last year)

• Cash flow: +$212M (healthy 💪)

• Share repurchase: 0.5M shares, ~$10.1M

Segment Highlights:

• Chlor Alkali: $979M sales, but lower margins due to higher costs.

• Epoxy: Ouch. Loss of ($24M). Asian competitors dumping resin like it’s TikTok trends.

• Winchester: $448M sales, up thanks to defense demand. Civilian ammo demand? Weak. Hunters and hobbyists are tightening belts.

👉 Want the full picture? Dive into Olin (OLN)'s financials here.

📊 Valuation Check — Cheap, but Risky

• Price/Sales: 0.41 → Walmart-level cheap.

• EV/EBITDA: ~8.3 → value range.

• Forward P/E: 15–100+ depending on how you squint (2026 vs 2025).

Problem: Debt. Olin carries ~$2.8B net debt with a 3.9x leverage ratio. It’s like carrying a bazooka into a pillow fight.

🎯 The Risks

1. Chemicals demand: Weak global pricing and rising input costs.

2. Ammo: Defense good, but civilian demand lagging.

3. Debt load: Net debt/EBITDA too high.

4. Environmental rules: Chlorine and epoxy don’t exactly scream ESG-friendly.

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🚀 Why Some Investors Still Bite

• Insiders Buying: Not token amounts exactly. Real $$$.

• Institutions Own 94%: Smart money thinks this isn’t a dud.

• Repurchases & Dividend: If sustained, that’s shareholder candy.

• Cheap Valuation: You’re paying beer prices for rocket fuel (maybe).

💡 The FUNanc1al Angle

So, can Olin cock its stock? (Pardon the pun, but hey, they own Winchester 🎯🔫).

This isn’t a Tesla meme-stock rocket. It’s a gritty chemicals-and-ammo play with a balance sheet that needs tightening but potential for real rebound.

If you buy here, you’re betting:

• The cost cuts stick.

• Demand for defense stays hot.

• Insiders and BlackRock aren’t complete fools.

🤪 Joke Zone (Because Markets Need Laughs Too)

• Olin’s product mix = “From bleach to bullets: cleaning up or blowing up since 1892.”

• Net loss of $1.3M? That’s less than Taylor Swift’s cat earns in royalties. 🐱🎶

• Institutional ownership at 94%? At this point, Olin’s just a public company for show.

⚠️ Disclaimer

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