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Fair Value Measurements
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2025
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Fair Value Measurements

NOTE E – FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENTS

FASB Accounting Standards Codification 820, Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures, provides the framework for measuring fair value. That framework provides a fair value hierarchy that prioritizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to measure fair value into three broad levels. The fair value hierarchy gives the highest priority to quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (Level 1) and the lowest priority to unobservable inputs (Level 3). An instrument’s categorization within the fair value hierarchy is based upon the lowest level of input that is significant to the instrument’s fair value measurement. The three levels within the fair value hierarchy are described as follows:

Level 1 – Observable inputs such as unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.

Level 2 – Inputs, other than quoted prices included in Level 1, which are observable for the asset or liability, either directly or indirectly. These include quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities in active markets and quoted prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in markets that are not active.

Level 3 – Unobservable inputs for the asset or liability for which there is little, if any, market activity at the measurement date.

As of December 31, 2025 and 2024, the Plan held no investments outside of its interest held in the Master Trust. The following table sets forth by level, within the fair value hierarchy, the Master Trust’s investment assets at fair value as of December 31, 2025:

 

 

Level 1

 

 

Level 2

 

 

Level 3

 

 

Total

 

Ashland Common Stock Fund

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Money Market Fund

$

252

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

252

 

Ashland Inc. Common Stock

 

28,860

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

28,860

 

Shares of Registered Investment Companies

 

171,539

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

171,539

 

Stable Value Fund Money Market Fund

 

3,577

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3,577

 

Total assets in the fair value hierarchy

 

204,228

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

204,228

 

Common/Collective Trusts (a)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1,164,998

 

Investments at fair value

$

204,228

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

1,369,226

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(a)
Common/Collective Trusts are measured at fair value using the net asset value per share or its equivalent as a practical expedient and are therefore not required to be classified in the fair value hierarchy.

The following table sets forth by level, within the fair value hierarchy, the Master Trust’s investment assets at fair value as of December 31, 2024:

 

 

Level 1

 

 

Level 2

 

 

Level 3

 

 

Total

 

Ashland Common Stock Fund

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Money Market Fund

$

397

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

397

 

Ashland Inc. Common Stock

 

38,372

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

38,372

 

Shares of Registered Investment Companies

 

162,677

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

162,677

 

Stable Value Fund Money Market Fund

 

1,793

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1,793

 

Total assets in the fair value hierarchy

 

203,239

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

203,239

 

Common/Collective Trusts (a)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1,099,829

 

Investments at fair value

$

203,239

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

1,303,068

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(a)
Common/Collective Trusts are measured at fair value using the net asset value per share or its equivalent as a practical expedient and are therefore not required to be classified in the fair value hierarchy.

Following is a description of the valuation methodologies used for assets measured at fair value as of December 31, 2025 and 2024.

Money Market Funds, Shares of Registered Investment Companies, Ashland Inc. Common Stock – Valued at the quoted market price of shares held by the Plan at year-end.

Common/Collective Trusts (CCT) Valued using a Net Asset Value (NAV). The NAV of a CCT is based on the market values of the underlying securities. The beneficial interest of each investor is represented in units. Units are issued and redeemed daily at the fund's closing NAV.

Investments Measured Using Net Asset Value per Share Practical ExpedientThe following table sets forth the investments valued at NAV as of December 31, 2025:

 

 

Fair Value

 

 

Unfunded Commitments

 

Redemption Frequency

 

Other Redemption Restrictions

 

Redemption Notice Period

Common/Collective Trusts

$

1,164,998

 

 

None

 

Daily

 

None

 

None

The following table sets forth the investments valued at NAV as of December 31, 2024:

 

 

Fair Value

 

 

Unfunded Commitments

 

Redemption Frequency

 

Other Redemption Restrictions

 

Redemption Notice Period

Common/Collective Trusts

$

1,099,829

 

 

None

 

Daily

 

None

 

None