Element Solutions (ESI) Stock Price, News & Analysis

6 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Element Solutions in the last twelve months. There are currently 2 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" ESI shares.
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6 analysts have issued 12 month price objectives for Element Solutions' shares. Their ESI share price targets range from $23.00 to $27.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $25.60 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 4.7% from the stock's current price.
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Element Solutions' stock was trading at $23.14 on January 1st, 2024. Since then, ESI shares have increased by 5.6% and is now trading at $24.44.
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Element Solutions saw a decrease in short interest during the month of March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 3,580,000 shares, a decrease of 5.8% from the March 15th total of 3,800,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,340,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.7 days. Approximately 1.6% of the company's stock are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, April 24th 2024.
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Element Solutions Inc (NYSE:ESI) posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, February, 20th. The company reported $0.32 earnings per share for the quarter, meeting analysts' consensus estimates of $0.32. The company had revenue of $573.40 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $590.43 million. Element Solutions had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 13.51% and a net margin of 5.06%. The company's quarterly revenue was down .1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the company earned $0.29 earnings per share.

Element Solutions declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, February 13th. Shareholders of record on Friday, March 1st will be given a dividend of $0.08 per share on Friday, March 15th. This represents a $0.32 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.31%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, February 29th.
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Element Solutions (NYSE:ESI) pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.30%. The dividend payout ratio is 65.31%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, ESI will have a dividend payout ratio of 21.05% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Element Solutions (NYSE:ESI) stock in their portfolio include Timothy Plan Market Neutral ETF (TPMN), American Century Mid Cap Growth Impact (MID), WisdomTree U.S. Al Enhanced Value Fund (AIVL), First Trust Materials AlphaDEX Fund (FXZ), Invesco Dorsey Wright Basic Materials Momentum ETF (PYZ), Harbor Small Cap Explorer ETF (QWST), iShares U.S. Basic Materials ETF (IYM) and Nuveen ESG Small-Cap ETF (NUSC).

37 employees have rated Element Solutions Chief Executive Officer Kevin M. Modany on Glassdoor.com. Kevin M. Modany has an approval rating of 22% among the company's employees. This puts Kevin M. Modany in the bottom 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Element Solutions investors own include Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), Yamana Gold (AUY), Glu Mobile (GLUU), Sangamo Therapeutics (SGMO), Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF), Devon Energy (DVN), Energy Transfer (ET), Corning (GLW), Harmony Gold Mining (HMY) and NeoPhotonics (NPTN).

Element Solutions' stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Reinhart Partners LLC. (0.48%), Parkside Investments LLC (0.16%), Park Avenue Securities LLC (0.01%) and Perpetual Ltd (0.00%). Insiders that own company stock include Benjamin Gliklich, Carey J Dorman, Martin E Franklin, Michael Goralski, Michael Goralski and Nichelle Maynard-Elliott.
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