Element Solutions - ESI Stock Forecast, Price & News

5 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Element Solutions in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 2 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" ESI shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in ESI, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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5 Wall Street research analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for Element Solutions' stock. Their ESI share price forecasts range from $15.00 to $24.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $20.08 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 0.6%.
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Element Solutions' stock was trading at $18.19 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, ESI shares have increased by 11.1% and is now trading at $20.20.
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Element Solutions saw a drop in short interest in December. As of December 15th, there was short interest totaling 2,920,000 shares, a drop of 14.6% from the November 30th total of 3,420,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,340,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.2 days. Currently, 1.3% of the company's stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, February 28th 2023.
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Element Solutions Inc (NYSE:ESI) announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, October, 27th. The company reported $0.35 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.34 by $0.01. The firm had revenue of $616 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $578.47 million. Element Solutions had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 14.64% and a net margin of 6.80%. Element Solutions's revenue for the quarter was up 28.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $0.22 earnings per share.

Element Solutions announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, November 17th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, December 1st will be given a dividend of $0.08 per share on Thursday, December 15th. This represents a $0.32 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.58%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, November 30th.
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Element Solutions (NYSE:ESI) pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.58%. The dividend payout ratio is 44.45%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, ESI will have a dividend payout ratio of 22.54% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Element Solutions issued an update on its FY 2022 earnings guidance on Wednesday, November, 2nd. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $1.40-$1.42 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of $1.44. The company issued revenue guidance of -.

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.

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Element Solutions trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "ESI."

Element Solutions' stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Copeland Capital Management LLC (1.05%), Wedge Capital Management L L P NC (0.65%), Reinhart Partners Inc. (0.63%), Peregrine Capital Management LLC (0.38%), Natixis Advisors L.P. (0.33%) and Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (0.27%). Insiders that own company stock include Carey J Dorman, Martin E Franklin, Nichelle Maynard-Elliott, Patricia Mount and Scot Benson.
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One share of ESI stock can currently be purchased for approximately $20.20.

Element Solutions (NYSE:ESI) has a market capitalization of $4.89 billion and generates $2.40 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $203.30 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.72 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 5,300 workers across the globe.

Element Solutions' mailing address is 500 EAST BROWARD BOULEVARD SUITE 1860, FORT LAUDERDALE FL, 33394. The official website for the company is www.elementsolutionsinc.com. The company can be reached via phone at (561) 207-9600, via email at ir@elementsolutionsinc.com, or via fax at 203-575-7970.