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Element Solutions Inc

MaterialsChemicals
Ticker ESIMIAMI BEACH, FLFiscal year ends DecemberBook value per share $11.54Diluted shares 243.8M

Element Solutions Inc (NYSE: ESI) is a leading global specialty chemicals technology company headquartered in Miami Beach, Florida, with operations worldwide. The company's website is www.elementsolutionsinc.com. From the company’s description.

Fiscal year 2025 · ends 12-31Changes are against fiscal 2024The amber dot is the latest twelve months, to 2026-06-30
Sales & profitability
$2.55BFY2025
+3.8% year over year
Last 12 mo $3.15B
13.41%FY2025
−0.6 percentage points
Last 12 mo 12.56%
$191.00MFY2025
−21.4% year over year
Last 12 mo $178.80M
7.13%FY2025
−3.1 percentage points
Last 12 mo 6.35%
Cash & financing
$289.80MFY2025
−19.9% year over year
Last 12 mo $224.20M
$227.60MFY2025
−22.5% year over year
Last 12 mo $137.70M
0.61FY2025
Was 0.77× a year earlier
Last 12 mo 0.75
242.4MFY2025
−0.1% year over year
Last 12 mo 243.8M

Margins and return on equity change in ; everything else in percent. Fewer shares and less debt are shown plainly, not as bad news — it depends what you make of buybacks. Dotted labels explain each measure. is shown separately from the annual figures.

What Element Solutions Inc does

In the company’s own words

Element Solutions Inc (NYSE: ESI) is a leading global specialty chemicals technology company headquartered in Miami Beach, Florida, with operations worldwide. The company's website is www.elementsolutionsinc.com.

Element Solutions develops and supplies a broad range of specialty chemical solutions and material process technologies that enhance the performance of products across multiple high-value industries. The company serves customers in consumer electronics, power electronics, semiconductor fabrication, high-performance computing, communications infrastructure, automotive systems, industrial surface finishing, and offshore energy sectors. As of December 31, 2025, the company employed approximately 5,200 full-time employees, with roughly 80 percent based outside the United States and approximately 40 percent working in research and development, technical service, and technical sales roles.

The company operates through two reportable segments: Electronics, which contributed approximately 70 percent of 2025 net sales of $2.55 billion, and Specialties, which contributed approximately 30 percent. The Electronics segment, formerly known as MacDermid Alpha Electronics Solutions, provides specialty chemicals and material process technologies for printed circuit boards, semiconductor packaging, and electronic assembly through three primary businesses: Assembly Solutions (51 percent of segment sales), Circuitry Solutions (29 percent), and Semiconductor Solutions (20 percent). Key brands include Alpha, Innolot, AccuFlux, Kester, and ViaForm. The Specialties segment, formerly Element Specialties, supplies industrial metal and plastic finishing chemistries and specialized fluids for offshore energy through Industrial Solutions (85 percent of segment sales) and Energy Solutions (12 percent).

Element Solutions maintains an extensive intellectual property portfolio comprising approximately 2,600 domestic and foreign patents. The company's business model emphasizes customer-driven innovation, technical service excellence, and operational efficiency. Recent strategic transactions include the sale of its flexographic printing plate business in February 2025 and acquisitions of EFC Gases & Advanced Materials and Micromax in early 2026. The company has no single customer representing more than 10 percent of consolidated net sales and maintains minimal order backlog due to short cycle times in most businesses.

Company details
Sector
Materials
Industry (SIC)
Chemicals
Headquarters
MIAMI BEACH, FL
Fiscal year end
December
CIK
1590714
SIC
2890

Financial performance, year by year

Fiscal 2014–2025 · USD
$-712.43M$511.66M$1.74B$2.96B$4.18B201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025Last 12 moLast 12 monthsLast 12 months

The full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow for each of these years — every figure traceable to its filing — is on the Financials tab with a free account.

Ownership

Who owns Element Solutions Inc — and what changed

Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30

503
funds hold it
0 of 35
superinvestors hold it
$6.29B
held by funds, at market
56.6%
of shares held by funds
1
bond issues held by funds

Largest fund holders · Element Solutions Inc’s weight in each

iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF
IJR · iShares Trust
0.59%of fund net assets
VANGUARD TOTAL STOCK MARKET INDEX FUND
VTI · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.02%of fund net assets
VANGUARD SMALL-CAP INDEX FUND
VB · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.13%of fund net assets
Invesco Small Cap Value Fund
VSCAX · AIM Sector Funds (Invesco Sector Funds)
—of fund net assets
0.20%of fund net assets

Fund ownership is a floor, not a census — pensions, insurers and people holding shares directly are not visible here.

Element Solutions Inc’s bonds, as funds hold them

Funds report holding 1 issues of Element Solutions Inc’s debt, $368.76M at market value — what funds hold, not the company’s total debt. Weighted-average coupon 3.88%, maturing 2028 to 2028.

Fund ownership counts N-PORT filers only, so it is a floor rather than a census — pensions, insurers and direct holders are not visible here, and the remainder is not “held by individuals”.

Every fund and institutional holder, quarter by quarter, is on the Ownership tab with a free account.

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