With 3.75 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 1.28 million shares. During the session, the Specialty Chemicals company that operates in wider Basic Materials sector, reached to the highest price of $27.39 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $26.525. The 52-week range on ESI shows that it touched its highest point at $28.68 and its lowest point at $17.57 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $31.20. With its current market cap of 6.53 billion, ESI has annualized dividend of $0.32 while the current yield stands at 1.19%. ESI paid its most recent dividend on 1724976000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1724976000. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.29.
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Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of ESI was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 5.72%, but this was up by 3.81% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 0.19% while six-month performance rose 13.94%. The stock gained 47.03% in the past year, while it has gained 16.59% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for ESI yields 0.80 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.62. For the next quarter, that number is 0.38. This implies an EPS growth rate of 11.47% for this year and 12.38% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 241.53 million ESI shares are outstanding with a float of 221.98 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-09-30, short shares totaled 1.83 million, which was 76.0 higher than short shares on 1724976000. In addition to Sir Martin Ellis Franklin as the firm’s Founder & Executive Chairman, Mr. Benjamin Gliklich serves as its CEO, President & Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.94265 of ESI’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-06-30, ESI reported revenue of $612700000.0 and operating income of $96200000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $123600000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.39.
