Element Solutions Inc (NYSE: ESI) started the day on May 18, 2023, with a price increase of 2.77% at $18.58. During the day, the stock rose to $18.595 and sunk to $17.945 before settling in for the price of $18.08 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, ESI posted a 52-week range of $15.31-$22.14.
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The Basic Materials sector firm’s twelve-monthly sales growth has been 6.30% for the last half of the decade. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was 23.80%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is -7.90%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $241.10 million, simultaneously with a float of $224.18 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $4.52 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $18.38, while the 200-day Moving Average is $18.73.
It is quite necessary to find out the efficiency of the corporate organization, which has 5300 number of employees on its payroll. It has generated 101,170 per worker during the last fiscal year. Meanwhile, its income per employee was 2,774. The stock had 14.87 Receivables turnover and 1.20 Total Asset turnover. For the Profitability, stocks gross margin was +54.04, operating margin was +13.00 and Pretax Margin of +4.64.
Element Solutions Inc (ESI) Ownership Facts and Figures
Now let’s turn our focus to how large-scale investors are working with this stock of the Specialty Chemicals Industry. Element Solutions Inc’s current insider ownership accounts for 7.78%, in contrast to 93.50% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Nov 18, this organization’s Director bought 135,000 shares at the rate of 18.90, making the entire transaction reach 2,551,500 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 1,037,000. Preceding that transaction, on Nov 15, Company’s Director bought 350,000 for 19.14, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 6,699,000. This particular insider is now the holder of 902,000 in total.
Element Solutions Inc (ESI) Earnings and Revenue Records
In the latest quarterly report released, which was put into the public domain on 3/30/2023, the organization reported $0.3 earnings per share (EPS) for the three months, surpassing the consensus estimate (set at $0.29) by $0.01. This company achieved a net margin of +2.74 while generating a return on equity of 15.37. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.39 per share during the current fiscal year.
Element Solutions Inc’s EPS decrease for this current 12-month fiscal period is -7.90% and is forecasted to reach 1.56 in the upcoming year. Considering the longer run, market analysts have predicted that Company’s EPS will increase by 8.38% through the next 5 years, which can be compared against the 23.80% growth it accomplished over the previous five years trading on the market.
Element Solutions Inc (NYSE: ESI) Trading Performance Indicators
Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Element Solutions Inc (ESI). It’s Quick Ratio in the last reported quarter now stands at 2.70. The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 0.44. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $26.43, and its Beta score is 1.31. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 1.85. Similarly, its price to free cash flow for trailing twelve months is now 19.53.
In the same vein, ESI’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 0.70, a figure that is expected to reach 0.32 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 1.56 at the market close of one year from today.
Technical Analysis of Element Solutions Inc (ESI)
If we take a close look at the recent performances of Element Solutions Inc (NYSE: ESI), its last 5-days Average volume was 1.25 million that shows progress from its year to date volume of 1.19 million. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 66.20% While, its Average True Range was 0.43.
Raw Stochastic average of Element Solutions Inc (ESI) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 31.12%, which indicates a major fall in contrast to 98.59% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 27.12% that was lower than 29.09% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.
