Forensic Analysis · Materials / Mining & Chemicals · as of Aug 11, 2026

Element Solutions Inc (ESI)

A forensic read on Element Solutions Inc built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.

D · Weak — demands caution

Forensic grade

Safe

Financial health

5.4

Distress distance

Clean

Earnings quality

Forensic signals

52.4

P / E (ttm)

7.1%

ROE

$9.2B

Market cap

0.83%

Dividend yield

3.8%

Revenue growth

This free snapshot doesn't read filing or proxy text, so the auditor-quality and governance checks that can lower a grade were not evaluated (red flags, auditor quality, say on pay, board independence). Those checks only ever lower a grade, so the full analysis can land below the grade above but never above it — treat it as the most favourable reading, not the settled one.

Element Solutions Inc earns a D (Weak — demands caution) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 5.4, placing it in the Safe zone. 3 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by goodwill impairments.

What the filings flag

$80M

FY2023–FY2023

Goodwill impairments. Took $80M of goodwill writedowns across 1 year (FY2023 ($80M)) — about 68% of net income over the span. A large writedown means an acquisition turned out worth far less than was paid — a real mark against M&A discipline.

6.1%

FY2025

Return on invested capital. Return on invested capital is 6.1% in the latest fiscal year and steady — slightly below its ~8% cost of capital — reinvestment is roughly a wash.

-0.5%/yr

FY2022–FY2025

Share count. Diluted share count changed -1% over the last 3 years to FY2025 (-0.5%/yr). Roughly flat — buybacks ($25M) are about offsetting stock comp ($59M), not shrinking the count. Per-share value isn't being meaningfully helped or hurt by the count.

Key fundamentals

Latest Revenue$2.55B

Revenue Growth YoY+3.8%

Revenue CAGR (3yr)+0.0%

Net Margin7.5%

Free Cash Flow$227.6M

Return on Equity7.1%

Debt / Equity0.61x

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Data from SEC EDGAR public filings · metrics as of Aug 11, 2026. Forensic signals flag probability, not certainty.