ESIElement Solutions Inc
Is it safe?
Strong, no red flags: a safe balance sheet.
Financially healthy, low distress risk Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -56% · now 26% below its 52-week high.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. Altman sits structurally low for utilities and pipelines; Beneish runs high for fast growers, since sales growth alone lifts it; banks and REITs are excluded.
Can ESI take a bad year?
Element Solutions Inc carries $1.98B of net debt at 4.16× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 4.16×
Net debt / EBITDA · 2.56× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 3.64
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Debt / equity
- 0.79×
Debt / equity
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $2.16B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $177M
- Net debt
- $1.98B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $476M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $376M
- Debt / equity
- 0.79×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 4.53×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 42%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −56%
- Below its 52-week high
- 26%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.