Element Solutions Inc (NYSE: ESI) is 9.42% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $21.42 and a high of $29.78 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The ESI stock was last observed hovering at around $25.68 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -0.36%.
Currently trading at $25.32, the stock is -8.70% and -7.45% below its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 1.8 million and changing -1.40% at the moment leaves the stock -2.03% off its SMA200. ESI registered 14.05% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of -6.98%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $27.3672 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $25.8354.
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The stock witnessed a -8.63% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a -1.13%, and is -8.99% down over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 3.03% over the week and 2.12% over the month.
Element Solutions Inc (ESI) has around 5300 employees, a market worth around $6.13B and $2.41B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 23.02 and Fwd P/E is 15.83. Profit margin for the company is 11.08%. Distance from 52-week low is 18.21% and -14.98% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (6.12%).
with sales reaching $598.53M over the same period.The EPS is expected to grow by 11.42% this year, but quarterly earnings will post 4.25% year-over-year. Quarterly sales are estimated to grow 4.38% in year-over-year returns.
456.0 institutions hold shares in Element Solutions Inc (ESI), with institutional investors hold 101.39% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 242.13M, and float is at 222.00M with Short Float at 0.71%. Institutions hold 93.49% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is FMR LLC with over 22.8 million shares valued at $618.44 million. The investor’s holdings represent 9.4309 of the ESI Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 21.84 million shares valued at $592.38 million to account for 9.0335 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are T. ROWE PRICE INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, INC. which holds 12.31 million shares representing 5.0924 and valued at over $333.94 million, while DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LP holds 4.742 of the shares totaling 11.47 million with a market value of $310.96 million.
Element Solutions Inc (ESI) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by Fricke Richard L., the company’s SVP, Electronics. SEC filings show that Fricke Richard L. sold 9,500 shares of the company’s common stock on Feb 28 ’24 at a price of $23.40 per share for a total of $0.22 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 36229.0 shares.
Element Solutions Inc disclosed in a document filed with the SEC on Feb 13 ’24 that Goralski Michael (Former EVP, Head of I&S) sold a total of 11,604 shares of the company’s common stock. The trade occurred on Feb 13 ’24 and was made at $23.20 per share for $0.27 million. Following the transaction, the insider now directly holds 0.14 million shares of the ESI stock.
Still, SEC filings show that on Feb 15 ’24, Goralski Michael (Former EVP, Head of I&S) disposed off 1,169 shares at an average price of $23.20 for $27121.0. The insider now directly holds 146,297 shares of Element Solutions Inc (ESI).
