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Element Solutions

ESINYSEWILMINGTON, US-DE, USMid capWebsite ↗
  • Russell 1000

What Element Solutions is doing, read from its filings, its own words and the news, with every figure dated and sourced. Not investment advice: no ratings, no price targets.

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The latest read

Computed from the data on Oct 22, 2026. Every figure links back to its source in the sections below.

  • Revenue over the four quarters to March 31, 2026: $2.80 billion, up 13% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capital expenditure) over the four quarters to September 30, 2016: $0.12 billion, up 9.1% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Capital expenditure over the four quarters to March 31, 2026: $0.08 billion, up 33% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Share buybacks in the fiscal year to December 31, 2025: $0.03 billion.SEC EDGAR filings (10-K)
  • Latest earnings call or results release (July 28, 2026): sentiment 0.60 on a −1 to +1 scale (mixed), confidence 0.70 of 1.Palanor Discourse
  • Guidance in the last 90 days: 2 outlook figures raised, 0 lowered, 0 held.Guidance Ledger (8-K results releases)
  • Latest annual report (filed February 18, 2026): 0 risk factors added, 0 removed.Risk Factor Changes (10-K Item 1A)
  • Insiders were net sellers in Q1 2026: $16.9 million on the open market.SEC Form 4
  • 501 institutional managers reported a position at June 30, 2026 (+56 on the quarter before).SEC Form 13F
  • H-1B filings certified in Q2 2025: 2 (2 a year earlier).U.S. Department of Labor (OFLC)

Company Posture covers S&P 500 companies.

No bond term sheets or tagged debt on file for Element Solutions yet.

Charts

Live charts: each one redraws from today’s data and has an image link to paste into a document or slide.

Cash flow

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Element Solutions: free cash flow, trailing twelve months

Operating cash flow minus capital expenditure, $ billions, from SEC filings

$0.12BData to Sep 2016
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
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Element Solutions: operating cash flow and capital expenditure

Trailing twelve months, $ billions, from SEC filings

Data to Mar 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
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Element Solutions: revenue, trailing twelve months

$ billions, from SEC filings

$2.8BData to Mar 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

Capital returned and raised

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Element Solutions: share buybacks by fiscal year

Cash paid to repurchase common stock, $ billions, from the 10-K

$0.03BData to Dec 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
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Element Solutions: debt issued and repaid by fiscal year

Long-term debt, $ billions, from the 10-K

Data to Dec 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
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Element Solutions: debt maturity schedule, latest annual report

Scheduled repayments of long-term debt principal by year from the fiscal year end, $ billions, from the 10-K

Data to Dec 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
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Element Solutions: debt due within a year and cash

At each balance-sheet date, $ billions, from SEC filings

Data to Mar 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

What the company says

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Element Solutions: guidance raised minus lowered

Guidance Ledger statements by quarter

1.0Data today
ImageDataGuidance Ledger by Palanor · source: SEC EDGAR
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Element Solutions: earnings call sentiment

Palanor Discourse score per call, −1 to +1

0.60Data to Jul 2026
ImageDataPalanor calculation
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Element Solutions: earnings call confidence

Palanor Discourse score per call, 0 to 1

0.70Data to Jul 2026
ImageDataPalanor calculation
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Element Solutions: risk factors added per annual report

New Item 1A risk factors in each 10-K

0.0Data to Feb 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

Hiring and ownership

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Element Solutions: H-1B filings certified

Labor Condition Applications by quarter received

2.0Data to Jun 2025
ImageDataU.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification disclosure data, dol.gov
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Element Solutions: insider net buying

Open-market purchases minus sales by officers and directors, $ millions, by quarter

−$16.9MData to Mar 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
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Element Solutions: institutional holders

Managers reporting a position on Form 13F, by quarter

501.0Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

In the news

Headlines that name Element Solutions, with the publisher and a link. The tone is read from each headline’s own words, never from a summary of the article.

30 days
1 headlines
0% positive · 0% negative
90 days
1 headlines
0% positive · 0% negative

Filings and records

The last two years of notable 8-Ks, offerings, annual reports, federal awards, lobbying reports, patents and other public records, newest first.

  1. Aug 28, 20268-K
  2. Aug 28, 20268-K
  3. Aug 25, 2026Patent
  4. Aug 18, 2026Patent
  5. Jul 21, 2026Patent
  6. Jul 21, 2026Patent
  7. Jul 6, 20268-K
  8. Jul 6, 20268-K
  9. Jun 30, 2026Patent
  10. May 5, 20268-K
  11. Mar 23, 20268-K
  12. Feb 18, 202610-K
    Annual report (10-K)0 risk factors added, 0 removed
  13. Feb 2, 20268-K
  14. Dec 31, 2025Private credit
    Loans held by business development companies (Element Solutions Inc)$1.0 million at cost
  15. Jun 5, 20258-K
  16. Feb 19, 202510-K
    Annual report (10-K)0 risk factors added, 2 removed
  17. Feb 21, 202410-K
    Annual report (10-K)1 risk factors added, 1 removed

Peers

Companies in the same sector in the S&P 500, Russell 1000 or MidCap 400, closest in revenue first. Trailing twelve months, from SEC filings.

CompanyRevenueFree cash flowThrough
NewMarket NEU$2.7B$0.5BJun 30, 2026
Carpenter Technology Corporation CRS$3.1B$0.4BJun 30, 2026
Coeur Mining CDE$3.2B$1.2BJun 30, 2026
Louisiana-Pacific LPX$2.5B−$0.0BJun 30, 2026
Knife River Corporation KNF$3.3B$0.0BJun 30, 2026
Avient AVNT$3.3B$0.2BJun 30, 2026
Eagle Materials EXP$2.3B$0.2BJun 30, 2026
Scotts Miracle-Gro Company SMG$3.5B$0.3BJun 27, 2026

Identity

SEC CIK
1590714
Wikidata
Q18228597

Built from SEC EDGAR filings (public domain), the Guidance and KPI Ledgers, Palanor Discourse, U.S. Department of Labor filings, USPTO, USAspending and Senate lobbying records, and rights-checked news headlines. Updated nightly; this page was built Oct 22, 2026. How the Dossier is built

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