Element Solutions Inc. (ESI)

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Element Solutions Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 1 warning event: a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, the latest 2017-03-01) (its current reports).

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Element Solutions Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $1.8 billion in fiscal 2016 to $2.6 billion in fiscal 2025, up 4.1% a year; it rose in 7 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 8% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2023; net income was positive in 7 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Element Solutions Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 0.5% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 26% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 7 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-22 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Element Solutions Inc. earned about 7 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 21 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 47 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 0.1% over the year (the filed statements).

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Element Solutions Inc.'s standing among 9 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $2.6 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 19% by size; a net margin of 7.5% ranks in the top 39%; revenue growth of 0% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 44% (its annual reports).

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Element Solutions Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Gliklich, Benjamin (CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2019-02-01, 7.8 years (top 31% of its family); the 13 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 7.7 years (top 7%); 7 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 13 people in charge now (top 50%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Element Solutions Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $627 million against debt of $1.6 billion leaves -19.8% of its assets as net cash, bottom 19% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 8.9% of revenue (top 31%); a gross margin of 42% (top 19%); research spending of 2.6% of revenue (top 31%) (its annual report).

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Element Solutions Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 0% a year over the last three filed years against 4.1% over all 10, slowing (top 44% of its family); the newest year grew 3.8% (top 50%); research spending grew 11.5% a year (top 39%); capital spending grew 9.2% a year (top 28%) (its annual reports). Element Solutions Inc. reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Electronics at $1.8 billion (70%), Specialties at $765 million (30%); 1 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Element Solutions Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $2.6 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 5.8% above the $2.4 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 50% of its family); net income of $191 million against a prior three-year average of $184 million (top 31%); a net margin of 7.5% against 7.5% before (top 44%) (its annual reports).