Ecovyst (ECVT)

• Market cap: $918M
• 1 day: 0.25%
• 5 days: 6.92%
• 1 month: 4.79%
• 3 months: 17.96%
• 6 months: -18.34%
• Year to date: 1.94%
• 1 year: -11.66%
• 5 years: -52.79%
• 10 years: -54.32%
• Sector: Materials
• Industry: Chemicals & Allied Products

About: Ecovyst Inc is a integrated and global provider of materials, specialty catalysts and services. Its products contribute to lower emissions and cleaner air, higher fuel efficiency and cleaner fuels, and key enablers to advance transition to clean energy. The company has two reporting segments: (1) Ecoservices and (2) Advanced Materials & Catalysts. Ecoservices provides sulfuric acid recycling to the North American refining industry for the production of alkylate and provides on-purpose virgin sulfuric acid for water treatment, mining, and industrial applications. Maximum revenue is generated from Ecoservices segment.

Employees: 911

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2024 Q3 regulatory filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

600% more call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $21K | Put options by funds: $3K

31% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 34 | Existing positions closed: 26

20% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 5 [Q2] → 6 (+1) [Q3]

5% more funds holding

Funds holding: 151 [Q2] → 158 (+7) [Q3]

0.39% less ownership

Funds ownership: 92.35% [Q2] → 91.96% (-0.39%) [Q3]

9% less repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 53 | Existing positions reduced: 58

24% less capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $969M [Q2] → $733M (-$236M) [Q3]

Research analyst outlook

3 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

• Low target: $9 14% upside
• Avg. target: $10.33 31% upside
• High target: $12 52% upside

3 analyst ratings

• positive: 3 100%
• neutral: 0 0%
• negative: 0 0%

Citigroup Patrick Cunningham 41% 1-year accuracy 13 / 32 met price target	14% upside $9	Buy Maintained	18 Dec 2024
BWS Financial Hamed Khorsand 64% 1-year accuracy 106 / 166 met price target	52% upside $12	Buy Maintained	4 Dec 2024
BMO Capital John McNulty 42% 1-year accuracy 20 / 48 met price target	27% upside $10	Outperform Maintained	3 Dec 2024