Element Solutions (ESI)

• Market cap: $6.42B
• 1 day: -2.18%
• 5 days: 1.45%
• 1 month: 0.76%
• 3 months: -7.21%
• 6 months: 2.55%
• Year to date: 5.28%
• 1 year: 15.22%
• 5 years: 119.92%
• 10 years: 6.60%
• Sector: Materials
• Industry: Miscellaneous Chemical Products

About: Element Solutions Inc is a specialty chemicals company whose businesses supply a broad range of solutions that enhance the performance of products people use every day. The company's reportable segments are Electronics and Industrial & Specialty. The Electronics segment, which generates maximum revenue, researches, formulates, and sells specialty chemicals and process technologies for all types of electronics hardware, from complex printed circuit board designs to semiconductor packaging. This segment's wet chemicals for metallization, surface treatments, and solderable finishes form the physical circuitry pathways, and its assembly materials, such as solder, pastes, fluxes, and adhesives, join those pathways together.

Employees: 5,300

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2024 Q4 regulatory filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

2,012% more call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $24.4M | Put options by funds: $1.16M

135% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 73 | Existing positions closed: 31

25% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 143 | Existing positions reduced: 114

10% more funds holding

Funds holding: 332 [Q3] → 365 (+33) [Q4]

1.67% less ownership

Funds ownership: 91.95% [Q3] → 90.27% (-1.67%) [Q4]

8% less capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $6.05B [Q3] → $5.56B (-$486M) [Q4]

40% less funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 5 [Q3] → 3 (-2) [Q4]

Research analyst outlook

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

• Low target: $28 6% upside
• Avg. target: $30 13% upside
• High target: $34 28% upside

4 analyst ratings

• positive: 2 50%
• neutral: 2 50%
• negative: 0 0%

Truist Securities Peter Osterland 17% 1-year accuracy 1 / 6 met price target	6% upside $28	Hold Initiated	28 Jan 2025
Barclays Michael Leithead 55% 1-year accuracy 11 / 20 met price target	13% upside $30	Overweight Maintained	27 Jan 2025
B of A Securities Steve Byrne 59% 1-year accuracy 13 / 22 met price target	6% upside $28	Neutral Downgraded	14 Jan 2025
BMO Capital Bhavesh Lodaya 25% 1-year accuracy 2 / 8 met price target	28% upside $34	Outperform Maintained	16 Dec 2024