ESI

Element Solutions Inc
NYSEUSDEQUITY Basic Materials DELAYED
Last price
37.74
▲ 0.20 (0.53%)
MARKET · —

Price

1D — H — L — Range — Vol —
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Open
37.55
Prev close
37.54
Day high
37.92
Day low
37.24
Volume
1.95M
Market cap
$9.20B
P/E (TTM)
51.00
52W range
22.86 – 49.25

Day trading desk

Current session · delayed
Gap from prior close
+0.03%
Prior close 37.54
VWAP
37.66
+0.20% from price
Relative volume
0.89×
Normal
Session range
1.83%
37.24 – 37.92
Position in range
74%
Near session high
ATR (14D)
1.24
3.29% of price
Prior day high
38.38
PDH
Prior day low
37.19
PDL
Bid / ask spread
—
Quote not published
Session volume
4.52M
Avg 5.08M

VWAP and the session figures are computed from the delayed intraday series on this page, so they lag the live tape and will not match a broker's real-time VWAP exactly. Turn on Prior day H/L/C, Opening range and Volume profile in the chart's Studies menu to see these levels drawn on price.

Trailing performance

Price return · vs SPY
Returnvs SPY
1W
+4.92% +3.0%
1M
+4.80% +3.6%
3M
-4.07% -8.6%
6M
+9.08% -9.1%
YTD
+51.02% +36.8%
1Y
+40.51% +24.1%
3Y
+92.45% +10.2%
5Y
— —

Price return only. Dividends are not reinvested, so total return on a dividend payer will be higher than shown.

Unusual options activity

Account required
Nothing crossed the thresholds in the expiries we scanned.
That is the normal state — most contracts trade well inside their existing open interest.
Free account required

Contracts trading at or above their open interest, ranked by notional and where the print landed.

Free account

5 more panels on ESI open with an account.

Options chains and analytics, valuation ratios, insider filings, analyst targets and ownership. No card, no trial, nothing to cancel.

Insider net activity

6m · Form 4 rollup
Net shares
0
Net selling
Buy transactions
0
0 shares
Sell transactions
0
—
Net transactions
0
Buys less sells
Sell : buy shares
—
Not enough filings
Insider-held shares
15.90M
Total on file

Insider transactions

Account required
DateInsiderAction SharesValueHeld
May 4, 26
ASHKEN IAN G H
Director
— 6.54K — Direct
May 4, 26
O'NEAL E. STANLEY
Director
— 6.54K — Direct
May 4, 26
FRASER CHRISTOPHER T
Director
— 6.54K — Direct
May 4, 26
GOSS MICHAEL F
Director
— 6.54K — Direct
May 4, 26
FILON ELYSE NAPOLI
Director
— 6.54K — Direct
May 4, 26
SOFRONAS SUSAN W.
Director
— 6.54K — Direct
Feb 24, 26
GLIKLICH BENJAMIN
Chief Executive Officer
SELL 170.00K $6.34M Direct
Feb 23, 26
DORMAN CAREY J
Chief Financial Officer
SELL 97.50K $3.40M Direct
Feb 20, 26
O'NEAL E. STANLEY
Director
SELL 200.64K $7.13M
Feb 10, 26
CAPPS JOHN EDWARD
Officer
— 35.22K — Direct
Feb 10, 26
GLIKLICH BENJAMIN
Chief Executive Officer
— 217.82K — Direct
Feb 10, 26
DORMAN CAREY J
Chief Financial Officer
— 62.31K — Direct
Feb 10, 26
FRICKE RICHARD L
Officer
— 21.96K — Direct
Feb 10, 26
LIEBOWITZ MATTHEW
Officer
— 38.62K — Direct
What this is, and what it is not

These are SEC Form 4 filings — officers, directors and 10% owners reporting their own trades in the company's stock. Filing is due within two business days of the transaction, so this lags reality by days, and the provider adds its own lag on top.

A sale is not automatically bearish. Executives sell on scheduled 10b5-1 plans, to cover tax on vesting equity, and to diversify. Purchases with cash are generally the more informative signal, and they are far rarer.

This does not include congressional or senate trading. That comes from STOCK Act disclosures filed with the Senate eFD system and the House Clerk, which this data source does not carry.

Free account required

Officer and director trades in their own stock, straight from Form 4 filings.

Insider holders

10 reporting
NameRelationShares heldLatest
CAPPS JOHN EDWARD
Officer 685.92K Conversion of Exercise of derivative security
DORMAN CAREY J
Chief Financial Officer 237.08K Sale
FILON ELYSE NAPOLI
Director 30.49K Conversion of Exercise of derivative security
FRANKLIN MARTIN E
Director 334.10K Conversion of Exercise of derivative security
FRASER CHRISTOPHER T
Director 67.31K Conversion of Exercise of derivative security
FRICKE RICHARD L
Officer 52.77K Conversion of Exercise of derivative security
GLIKLICH BENJAMIN
Chief Executive Officer 1.19M Sale
GOSS MICHAEL F
Director 30.49K Conversion of Exercise of derivative security
LIEBOWITZ MATTHEW
Officer 141.16K Conversion of Exercise of derivative security
O'NEAL E. STANLEY
Director 154.37K Conversion of Exercise of derivative security

Fundamentals

TTM · reported
Market cap$9.20B
Enterprise value$11.14B
Revenue (TTM)$3.15B
Gross profit$1.22B
EBITDA$564.00M
Net income$178.60M
EPS (TTM)$0.74
Free cash flow$50.81M
Total cash$193.10M
Total debt$2.12B
Book value / share$11.54
Shares outstanding243.69M
Float229.26M
Short % of float3.88%
Dividend yield0.85%
Beta (5Y)1.26

Valuation & profitability ratios

Account required
Trailing P/E51.00
Forward P/E17.82
PEG ratio—
Price / sales—
Price / book3.27
EV / revenue3.54
EV / EBITDA19.75
Gross margin38.59%
Operating margin11.83%
Profit margin5.67%
Return on equity6.54%
Return on assets4.65%
Debt / equity74.98
Current ratio2.91
Free account required

Fourteen ratios including P/E, PEG, EV/EBITDA, margins and return on equity.

Financial statements

As reported · 5 years · 5 quarters
Blank means not reported, not zero
Line item2025202420232022YoY
Total revenue $2.55B$2.46B$2.33B$2.55B +3.8%
Operating revenue $2.55B$2.46B$2.33B$2.55B +3.8%
Cost of revenue $1.48B$1.42B$1.41B$1.60B +4.2%
Gross profit $1.07B$1.04B$918.50M$952.70M +3.4%
Research & development $67.60M$63.00M$68.10M$48.80M +7.3%
Selling, general & admin $660.70M$628.80M$596.80M$578.60M +5.1%
Total operating expense $728.30M$691.80M$664.90M$627.40M +5.3%
Operating income $342.20M$343.90M$253.60M$325.30M -0.5%
Net interest income -$53.40M-$56.30M-$49.30M-$51.20M +5.2%
Pre-tax income $265.60M$287.70M$129.10M$272.00M -7.7%
Tax provision $74.60M$44.80M$13.00M$85.80M +66.5%
Net income $190.80M$244.20M$118.10M$187.20M -21.9%
Net income to common $190.80M$244.20M$118.10M$187.20M -21.9%
Basic EPS 0.791.010.490.76 -21.8%
Diluted EPS 0.791.010.490.76 -21.8%
EBIT $319.00M$344.00M$178.40M$323.20M -7.3%
EBITDA $470.20M$501.60M$345.10M$484.50M -6.3%
Basic shares 242.00M242.10M241.40M245.10M -0.0%
Diluted shares 242.40M242.60M241.80M245.80M -0.1%

Options analytics

Account required
Put / call volume
3.33
Put-heavy session
Put / call open interest
5.09
Positioning, not flow
Max pain
34.00
-9.9% from spot
ATM implied vol
51.0%
Nearest strike to spot
Skew (10% OTM)
+61.1%
Puts bid over calls
Call volume
58
Contracts, this expiry
Put volume
193
Contracts, this expiry
Heaviest call OI
35.00
892 contracts
Heaviest put OI
29.00
5.00K contracts

Max pain is the strike at which the largest dollar value of open contracts expires worthless. It describes current positioning; it is not a forecast and it moves as open interest changes.

Free account required

Put/call ratios, max pain, implied volatility skew and where open interest is concentrated.

Earnings

History & consensus estimates
Reported vs expected · EPS
QuarterEst.ActualSurprise
Jun 2026 0.430.47 +9.0%
Mar 2026 0.380.41 +7.1%
Dec 2025 0.360.37 +2.5%
Sep 2025 0.400.41 +3.2%
Forward consensus
PeriodEPSAnalystsRevenueGrowth
Current quarter 0.47 10 $958.52M +46.1%
Next quarter 0.46 10 $951.38M +40.7%
Current year 1.81 11 $3.73B +46.1%
Next year 2.12 11 $4.05B +8.6%

Analyst targets & ownership

Account required
Mean target$46.55
High target$55.00
Low target$42.00
Implied upside23.33%
Analyst count11
ConsensusSTRONG BUY
Strong buy / Buy1 / 9
Hold1
Sell / Strong sell0 / 0
Held by insiders6.53%
Held by institutions105.83%
Institutions holding643
Free account required

Price targets, consensus spread, insider and institutional ownership.

Moving averages & technicals

Computed from 2Y daily closes
SMA 10
36.26
+4.08% from price
SMA 20
34.87
+8.23% from price
SMA 50
35.93
+5.04% from price
SMA 100
38.90
-2.99% from price
SMA 200
36.10
+4.53% from price
EMA 12
36.19
+4.27% from price
EMA 26
35.73
+5.62% from price
EMA 50
36.31
+3.94% from price
RSI (14)
60.7
Neutral
MACD (12,26,9)
0.46
Hist 0.52
ATR (14)
1.24
3.29% of price
Realised vol 30D
42.2%
Annualised
Bollinger upper
38.54
20, 2σ
Bollinger lower
31.20
20, 2σ
50 / 200 cross
Death
35.93 vs 36.10
Trend bias
Above 200
+4.53%

Options chain

Account required
Expiry
Spot 37.74
Calls
StrikeLastBidAskVolOIIV
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Puts
StrikeLastBidAskVolOIIV
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Free account required

Every listed expiry, both sides of the book, with volume, open interest and implied volatility.

Risk profile

Daily returns · 1Y window
Beta vs SPY
2.16
More volatile than market
Correlation to SPY
0.60
Loosely linked
Realised vol 30D
42.2%
Annualised
Market vol 1Y
13.0%
SPY, annualised
Max drawdown 1Y
-35.2%
Peak to trough
Max drawdown 5Y
-40.3%
Peak to trough
ATR 14
1.24
3.29% of price
Beta (reported)
1.26
5Y monthly, from filing

Short interest

Semi-monthly exchange report · lags by ~2 weeks
Shares short
6.86M
Prior 6.49M
Change vs prior
+5.7%
Shorts adding
% of float
3.88%
Normal
% of shares out
2.82%
Against total outstanding
Days to cover
1.4
Liquid
Float
229.26M
Freely tradeable shares

Exchanges publish short interest twice a month with a settlement lag, so this is roughly two weeks behind. Days to cover divides shares short by average daily volume — it estimates how long covering would take, not whether it will happen.

Rating changes

135 on file
DateFirm ActionFromTo
Oct 5, 26 UBS MAINTAINED Buy Buy
Oct 1, 26 Mizuho MAINTAINED Neutral Neutral
Sep 18, 26 UBS MAINTAINED Buy Buy
Sep 2, 26 Jefferies INITIATED — Buy
Jul 15, 26 Mizuho DOWNGRADE Outperform Neutral
Jul 9, 26 Truist Securities MAINTAINED Buy Buy
Jul 6, 26 BMO Capital MAINTAINED Outperform Outperform
Jul 1, 26 Mizuho MAINTAINED Outperform Outperform
Apr 30, 26 UBS MAINTAINED Buy Buy
Apr 30, 26 Truist Securities MAINTAINED Buy Buy
Mar 27, 26 Freedom Capital Markets INITIATED — Buy
Feb 19, 26 UBS MAINTAINED Buy Buy

Dividends & splits

Declared · from the issuer
Forward rate$0.32 / yr
Forward yield0.85%
5-year avg yield1.26%
Payout ratio43.24%
Ex-dividend dateSep 1, 2026
Next pay dateSep 15, 2026
Last split—
Split date—

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