Element Solutions is a specialty chemicals business based in the US. Element Solutions shares (ESI) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $21.07 – an increase of 4.31% over the previous week. Element Solutions employs 5,300 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $2.5 billion.
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| Latest market close | $21.07 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $16.77 - $29.61 |
| 50-day moving average | $22.67 |
| 200-day moving average | $25.44 |
| Wall St. target price | $27.17 |
| PE ratio | 18.0085 |
| Dividend yield | $0.32 (1.52%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $1.17 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $21.07 from 2025-05-02
| 1 week (2025-04-25) | 4.31% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2025-04-04) | 15.14% |
| 3 months (2025-02-05) | -16.79% |
| 6 months (2024-11-05) | -24.34% |
| 1 year (2024-05-03) | -11.54% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2023-05-04) | 22.87% |
| 3 years (2022-05-04) | 1.03% |
| 5 years (2020-05-04) | 127.41% |
Valuing Element Solutions stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Element Solutions's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Element Solutions's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 18x. In other words, Element Solutions shares trade at around 18x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
Element Solutions's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $505.8 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Element Solutions's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $2.5 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 13.04% |
| Gross profit TTM | $1 billion |
| Return on assets TTM | 4.52% |
| Return on equity TTM | 11.69% |
| Profit margin | 11.56% |
| Book value | $10.39 |
| Market Capitalization | $5.1 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 22.22% of net profits
Recently Element Solutions has paid out, on average, around 0% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Element Solutions shareholders could enjoy a 0% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Element Solutions's case, that would currently equate to about $0.32 per share.
While Element Solutions's payout ratio might seem low, this can signify that Element Solutions is investing more in its future growth.
Element Solutions's most recent dividend payout was on 16 March 2025. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 2 March 2025 (the "ex-dividend date").
Over the last 12 months, Element Solutions's shares have ranged in value from as little as $16.77 up to $29.606. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Element Solutions's is 1.286. This would suggest that Element Solutions's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
Element Solutions Inc operates as a specialty chemicals company in the United States, China, and internationally. It operates in two segments: Electronics and Industrial & Specialty. The Electronics segment provides assembly solutions, including surface mount technologies, fluxes, thermal management materials, coatings, and other attachment materials; circuitry solutions, such as circuit board metallization, circuit formation products, electronic materials, surface finishes, and film and smart surface solutions; and semiconductor solutions, which includes semiconductor assembly and wafer level packaging materials. This segment serves the mobile communications, computers, automobiles, and aerospace equipment industries. The Industrial & Specialty segment offers industrial solutions, including electroless nickel, plating products, pre-treatment and cleaning solutions, functional conversion coatings, wastewater solutions, and water treatment; graphics solutions, such as solid sheet printing elements and liquid imaging products; and energy solutions, which includes offshore fluids. This segment serves the aerospace, automotive, construction, consumer electronics, consumer packaged goods, and oil and gas production end markets. The company was formerly known as Platform Specialty Products Corporation and changed its name to Element Solutions Inc in January 2019.
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