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Element Solutions Inc. ESI

14 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$2.6B
▲ 3.8% YoY
$190.8M
▼ 21.9% YoY
$227.6M
▼ 22.5% YoY
In brief

What this company does

Element Solutions formulates specialty chemical process technologies by blending raw materials and incorporating them into multi-step technological processes. At December 31, 2025, it employed approximately 5,200 full-time employees. During 2025, its research and development expenses totaled $67.6 million. The company's operations are organized into two reportable segments, Electronics (MacDermid Alpha Electronics Solutions) and Specialties (Element Specialties), which contributed approximately 70% and 30%, respectively, of its $2.55 billion in sales in 2025. Element Solutions was incorporated in Delaware in January 2014.

Written from the business description in Element Solutions Inc's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 18 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth
USD 2.6B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 14-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 2.6 · Net income 0.2
1.0B2.0B-0.2B20122014201620182020202220242025
Compound annual growth
+0.0%
+6.6%
+0.0%
+0.6%
+1.3%
+21.4%
+0.0%
+45.0%
−23.5%
+8.6%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +6.6% a year over five years.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability
7 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 13.4% · Net 7.5%
10%20%-5%-10%-15%20122014201620182020202220242025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 7.5%
5%10%-5%-10%20122014201620182020202220242025

Each USD of equity produced 8 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders
USD 102.8M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 227.6
100.0M200.0M-25.0M-50.0M20122014201620182020202220242025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends 77.8 · Net buybacks 25.0
200M400MDividendsNet buybacks201720182019202020212022202320242025

USD 77.8M in dividends and USD 25.0M in buybacks — 54% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 5.1B
EquityUSD 2.7B
CashUSD 626.5M
Gross debtUSD 1.6B
Net debtUSD 1.0B
Current ratio3.68×

Net debt stands at 38% of equity.

The 14-year record
14 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD

EPS, diluted, dividend per share and shares outstanding are shown without shading, and a vertical line marks the year the share count changed — the series crosses a large, unexplained change in share count, so the years on either side are not on a comparable scale.

row low → row highnegative
Metric 20252024202320222021202020192018201720162015201420132012
Revenue $B2.62.52.32.52.41.91.82.01.91.82.50.8·0.7
Operating income $B0.30.30.20.30.30.20.20.20.20.10.10.0·0.2
EBITDA $B0.50.50.30.50.50.40.40.40.40.20.30.1·0.2
Income tax $B0.10.00.00.10.00.00.10.0−0.1−0.00.1−0.0·0.0
Net income $B0.20.20.10.20.20.10.1−0.3−0.3−0.1−0.3−0.0−0.20.0
Free cash flow $B0.20.30.30.20.30.20.1−0.0−0.1−0.10.30.1··
EPS, diluted $0.791.010.490.760.820.300.35−1.13−1.04−0.65−1.52−1.94−2.10·
Dividend / sh $0.320.320.320.320.250.05·22.850.000.000.0022.85··
Payout %41326642···−0······
ROE %7.510.45.17.8···−13.4−10.8−3.0−13.5−1.7··
Shares out B·········0.280.230.180.10·

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

Provenance
Company facts, as filed
How we verify · 0 failures in 65 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 14 of 19 fiscal years. 30 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures
ActivityMiscellaneous Chemical Products
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated innot stated in the filings
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2012

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