ESI's Quality Score fell 2 points on Tue, Nov 10, to 2. It closed away from its high of the day (2 chart checks stopped).
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Down 9% on Oct 22, a down day for the market: the S&P 500 fell 1% and specialty chemicals stocks a median 2%.
| Holding it back | Margin down 5.5 points |
| Latest filing | 10-Q, Oct 22 |
After its last 4 reports it closed +0.4% on average, higher 2 of 4 times.
Below Averagefor quality, not price, 1 of 14 chart checks firingWhat the Quality Score means
Well below its recent run. ESI scores 2 today, against a median of 7 over its last 20 recorded sessions.
ESI is #4 of 7 by Quality Score.
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Share count against a year before: ESI +0.8%, CBT -3.6%.
Expected to report Tue Feb 16, after the close (in 98 days).
What an earnings report is: every 3 months, a company tells everyone how much it sold and earned. We read the figures, the outlook, and how the stock moved after.
Sales of $1.0B, 52% more than a year ago; a profit of $0.27 a share, from $0.16.
“This should translate to adjusted EPS growth in excess of 20% for the full year, driven by sustained momentum in Electronics and meaningful contributions from our recent acquisitions.”
| Line | Q3 2026 | Q3 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Electronics | $780M | $465M |
Each quarter's sales and their share of its total. Figures as filed (SEC filing, Oct 22)
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Adjusted EBITDA | about $720M |
Sales grew 6.6% a year over 5 years, fiscal 2020 to 2025.
Pays $0.32 a share a year.
| Reported | Gap | Reaction | 5 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 21, 2026 | -2.3% | -8.9% | -1.5% |
| Jul 27, 2026 | +1.5% | -3.5% | -0.4% |
| Apr 28, 2026 | +4.9% | +9.8% | +13.4% |
Sales grew in five of the last seven years, to $2.6B in 2025. It made a profit in four of the five years.
RSI 43.4, MACD below signal, below both averages. Not scored.
3 trades disclosed in the last six months. The newest:
Officers and directors with a Form 4 in the last 12 months.
In ETFs: ESI is under 0.1% of VTI, the most of the 24 funds Breakaway covers, by their holdings as filed for Jun 30, 2026.
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.
“Our markets are competitive and subject to rapid changes in technology.”
ESI scores 2 today, which Breakaway calls Below Average. It is #4 of 7 in Miscellaneous Chemical Products by Quality Score, with 1 of 14 chart checks firing. Down 9% on Oct 22, a down day for the market: the S&P 500 fell 1% and specialty chemicals stocks a median 2%. Breakaway does not say whether to buy any stock: the score does not know your situation, and it is not a recommendation to buy or sell anything. Please do your own research.
ESI scores 2 today, which Breakaway calls Below Average (0 to 5). That is #4 of 7 in Miscellaneous Chemical Products by Quality Score. The score adds up the chart checks, the trend, the company's filed sales, its profits, the news, insider trades, and Congress trades. The section above lists the lines behind ESI's 2.
Expected to report Tue Feb 16, after the close, a date Breakaway expects from the company's usual timing; the company has not confirmed it. ESI closed higher after 2 of its last 4 reports. Past behavior, not a forecast.
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