With 2.88 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 1.67 million shares. During the session, the Specialty Chemicals company that operates in wider Basic Materials sector, reached to the highest price of $25.62 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $24.82. The 52-week range on ESI shows that it touched its highest point at $29.78 and its lowest point at $23.10 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $31.09. With its current market cap of 6.11 billion, ESI has annualized dividend of $0.32 while the current yield stands at 1.27%. ESI paid its most recent dividend on 1740960000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1740960000. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.24.
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 2.19%, but this was down by -2.29% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -9.18% while six-month performance rose 1.29%. The stock gained 5.17% in the past year, while it has lost -0.83% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for ESI yields 1.01 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.66. For the next quarter, that number is 0.33. This implies an EPS growth rate of -0.00% for this year and 15.59% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 10.09% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 23.87%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 242.20 million ESI shares are outstanding with a float of 222.18 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-02-28, short shares totaled 1.58 million, which was 64.999997 higher than short shares on 1738281600. 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 0.92785 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 2024-12-31, ESI reported revenue of $624200000.0 and operating income of $74900000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $144700000.0 and diluted EPS was $nan.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for ESI since 5 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 4 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 1 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With ESI analysts setting a high price target of 34.0 and a low target of 28.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 31.12. Based on these targets, ESI could surge 34.81% to reach the target high and rise by 11.02% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 23.39% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $1.44671 being high and $1.42675 being low. For ESI, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1.43673.
