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Comparative Price Performance Over Time

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
AXTA Axalta Coating Systems	$31.78 +1.8%	$30.14	$27.58 ▼ $41.65	$6.89B	1.28	2.39 million shs	2.55 million shs
ESI Element Solutions	$26.17 +1.8%	$24.53	$16.77 ▼ $29.78	$6.33B	1.31	1.52 million shs	3.08 million shs
NGVT Ingevity	$59.69 +1.4%	$50.19	$28.49 ▼ $59.95	$2.18B	1.44	278,392 shs	213,784 shs
SCL Stepan	$50.03 +1.1%	$53.27	$44.23 ▼ $82.08	$1.13B	0.97	179,322 shs	147,947 shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
AXTA Axalta Coating Systems	+1.77%	+1.72%	+11.71%	+3.37%	-10.18%
ESI Element Solutions	+1.94%	+1.80%	+13.03%	+20.75%	+2.48%
NGVT Ingevity	+1.47%	+2.36%	+22.11%	+42.13%	+59.59%
SCL Stepan	+1.13%	-0.26%	+1.47%	-8.54%	-32.54%

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
AXTA Axalta Coating Systems	$31.78 +1.8%	$30.14	$27.58 ▼ $41.65	$6.89B	1.28	2.39 million shs	2.55 million shs
ESI Element Solutions	$26.17 +1.8%	$24.53	$16.77 ▼ $29.78	$6.33B	1.31	1.52 million shs	3.08 million shs
NGVT Ingevity	$59.69 +1.4%	$50.19	$28.49 ▼ $59.95	$2.18B	1.44	278,392 shs	213,784 shs
SCL Stepan	$50.03 +1.1%	$53.27	$44.23 ▼ $82.08	$1.13B	0.97	179,322 shs	147,947 shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
AXTA Axalta Coating Systems	+1.77%	+1.72%	+11.71%	+3.37%	-10.18%
ESI Element Solutions	+1.94%	+1.80%	+13.03%	+20.75%	+2.48%
NGVT Ingevity	+1.47%	+2.36%	+22.11%	+42.13%	+59.59%
SCL Stepan	+1.13%	-0.26%	+1.47%	-8.54%	-32.54%

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
AXTA Axalta Coating Systems	2.64	Moderate Buy	$37.71	18.68% Upside
ESI Element Solutions	3.00	Buy	$27.38	4.59% Upside
NGVT Ingevity	2.50	Moderate Buy	$58.00	-2.84% Downside
SCL Stepan	1.00	Sell	N/A	N/A

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest NGVT, SCL, AXTA, and ESI Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
9/5/2025	NGVT Ingevity	BMO Capital Markets Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Outperform	$62.00 ➝ $68.00
8/13/2025	SCL Stepan	Zacks Research Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Downgrade	Hold ➝ Strong Sell
8/7/2025	NGVT Ingevity	BMO Capital Markets Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Outperform	$56.00 ➝ $62.00
8/1/2025	AXTA Axalta Coating Systems	Royal Bank Of Canada Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Outperform	$37.00 ➝ $34.00
8/1/2025	ESI Element Solutions	KeyCorp Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Overweight	$29.00 ➝ $30.00
7/31/2025	ESI Element Solutions	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Buy	$29.00 ➝ $30.00
7/18/2025	AXTA Axalta Coating Systems	Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Downgrade	Buy ➝ Hold	$32.00
7/16/2025	AXTA Axalta Coating Systems	BMO Capital Markets Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Downgrade	Outperform ➝ Market Perform	$51.00 ➝ $33.00
7/15/2025	ESI Element Solutions	The Goldman Sachs Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Neutral	$24.00 ➝ $27.00
7/15/2025	AXTA Axalta Coating Systems	Mizuho Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Outperform	$39.00 ➝ $35.00
7/15/2025	ESI Element Solutions	Mizuho Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Outperform	$24.00 ➝ $27.00

(Data available from 9/6/2022 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Compare Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
AXTA Axalta Coating Systems	$5.28B	1.30	$3.69 per share	8.62	$8.97 per share	3.54
ESI Element Solutions	$2.46B	2.57	$2.10 per share	12.47	$9.90 per share	2.64
NGVT Ingevity	$1.41B	1.55	$16.09 per share	3.71	$5.37 per share	11.12
SCL Stepan	$2.18B	0.52	$7.21 per share	6.94	$52.01 per share	0.96

Compare Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
AXTA Axalta Coating Systems	$391M	$2.04	15.58	11.23	1.85	8.58%	25.32%	7.05%	10/29/2025 (Estimated)
ESI Element Solutions	$244.20M	$1.00	26.17	15.86	1.71	9.66%	14.14%	7.17%	10/27/2025 (Estimated)
NGVT Ingevity	-$430.30M	-$5.95	N/A	11.37	N/A	-16.35%	84.92%	7.95%	11/4/2025 (Estimated)
SCL Stepan	$50.37M	$2.54	19.70	10.44	N/A	2.57%	4.78%	2.42%	10/29/2025 (Estimated)

Latest NGVT, SCL, AXTA, and ESI Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
8/4/2025	Q2 2025	NGVT Ingevity	$1.02	$1.39	+$0.37	-$4.01	$378.70 million	$365.10 million
7/30/2025	Q2 2025	AXTA Axalta Coating Systems	$0.61	$0.64	+$0.03	$0.50	$1.33 billion	$1.32 billion
7/30/2025	Q2 2025	ESI Element Solutions	$0.36	$0.37	+$0.01	$0.20	$587.45 million	$625.20 million
7/30/2025	Q2 2025	SCL Stepan	$0.92	$0.52	-$0.40	$0.50	$598.25 million	$594.69 million

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	3-Year Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
AXTA Axalta Coating Systems	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
ESI Element Solutions	$0.32	1.22%	N/A	32.00%	N/A
NGVT Ingevity	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
SCL Stepan	$1.54	3.08%	N/A	60.63%	57 Years

Latest NGVT, SCL, AXTA, and ESI Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
8/21/2025	ESI Element Solutions	quarterly	$0.08	1.26%	9/2/2025	9/2/2025	9/15/2025
7/30/2025	SCL Stepan	quarterly	$0.3850	3.07%	8/29/2025	8/29/2025	9/15/2025

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
AXTA Axalta Coating Systems	1.47	2.12	1.53
ESI Element Solutions	0.62	4.10	3.30
NGVT Ingevity	10.24	1.36	0.80
SCL Stepan	0.31	1.35	0.86

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
AXTA Axalta Coating Systems	98.28%
ESI Element Solutions	92.32%
NGVT Ingevity	91.59%
SCL Stepan	82.70%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
AXTA Axalta Coating Systems	0.30%
ESI Element Solutions	6.90%
NGVT Ingevity	1.10%
SCL Stepan	6.90%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
AXTA Axalta Coating Systems	12,800	216.57 million	215.92 million	Optionable
ESI Element Solutions	5,300	241.62 million	224.95 million	Optionable
NGVT Ingevity	1,600	36.47 million	36.07 million	Optionable
SCL Stepan	2,396	22.62 million	21.06 million	Optionable

NGVT, SCL, AXTA, and ESI Headlines

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NGVT, SCL, AXTA, and ESI Company Descriptions

Axalta Coating Systems NYSE:AXTA

$31.78 +0.55 (+1.76%)

Closing price 09/5/2025 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$31.81 +0.03 (+0.10%)

As of 09/5/2025 04:56 PM Eastern

Axalta Coating Systems Ltd., through its subsidiaries, manufactures, markets, and distributes high-performance coatings systems in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, and Latin America. The company operates through two segments, Performance Coatings and Mobility Coatings. It also offers water and solvent-borne products and systems to repair damaged vehicles for independent body shops, multi-shop operators, and original equipment manufacturer (OEM) dealership body shops. In addition, the company provides functional and decorative liquid, and powder coatings used in various industrial applications, including building materials, cabinet, wood and luxury vinyl flooring and furniture market under the Voltatex, AquaEC, Durapon, Hydropon, UNRIVALED, Ceranamel, Industrial, Corlar Industrial, Tufcote, Imron Industrial, Alesta, Teodur, Nap-Gard, Abcite, and Plascoat brands for powder coatings. Further, it develops and supplies electrocoat, primer, the basecoat, and clearcoat products for OEMs of light and commercial vehicles; and coatings systems for various commercial applications, including HDT, MDT, bus, and rail under the Imron, Imron Elite, Centari, Rival, Corlar epoxy undercoats, and AquaEC brands. The company offers products under the Audurra, Abcite, Alesta, AquaEC, Centari, Ceranamel, Challenger, Chemophan, ColorNet, Cromax, Cromax Mosaic, Durapon 70, Duxone, Harmonized Coating Technologies, Imron ExcelPro, Lutophen, Nason, Spies Hecker, Standox, Stollaquid, Syntopal, Syrox, Raptor, U-POL, and Vermeera brand names. The company was formerly known as Axalta Coating Systems Bermuda Co., Ltd. and changed its name to Axalta Coating Systems Ltd. in August 2014. Axalta Coating Systems Ltd. was founded in 1866 and is headquartered in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania.

Element Solutions NYSE:ESI

$26.17 +0.47 (+1.84%)

Closing price 09/5/2025 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$26.22 +0.04 (+0.16%)

As of 09/5/2025 05:36 PM Eastern

Element Solutions Inc operates as a specialty chemicals company in the United States, China, and internationally. The company operates in two segments, Electronics, and Industrial & Specialty. The Electronics segment researches, formulates, and sells specialty chemicals and materials for various types of electronics hardware products. This segment also supplies surface mount technologies, fluxes, thermal management material, coatings, and other attachment materials; chemical formulations to the electronics industry; and advanced copper interconnects, die attachment, sintered silver material, adhesives, wafer bump processes, and photomask technologies for semiconductor industry. It primarily serves mobile communications, computers, automobiles, and aerospace equipment industries. The Industrial & Specialty segment provides industrial solutions, which include chemical systems that protect and decorate metal and plastic surfaces; consumable chemicals that enable printing image transfer on flexible packaging materials; and chemistries used in water-based hydraulic control fluids for offshore energy production applications. It serves aerospace, automotive, construction, consumer electronics, consumer packaged goods, and oil and gas production end markets. The company was formerly known as Platform Specialty Products Corporation and changed its name to Element Solutions Inc in January 2019. Element Solutions Inc was founded in 1785 and is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Ingevity NYSE:NGVT

$59.69 +0.81 (+1.38%)

Closing price 09/5/2025 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$59.76 +0.07 (+0.12%)

As of 09/5/2025 04:42 PM Eastern

Ingevity Corporation manufactures and sells activated carbon products, derivative specialty chemicals, and engineered polymers in North America, the Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and South America. It operates through three segments: Performance Materials, Performance Chemicals, and Advanced Polymer Technologies. The Performance Materials segment engineers, manufactures, and sells hardwood-based and chemically activated carbon products for use in gasoline vapor emission control systems in cars, motorcycles, trucks, and boats. This segment also produces other activated carbon products for food, water, beverage, and chemical purification applications. The Performance Chemicals segment consists of road technologies and industrial specialties. This segment's products are used in pavement construction, pavement preservation, pavement reconstruction and recycling, road markings, agrochemical dispersants, paper chemicals, and other industrial uses. The Advanced Polymer Technologies segment produces caprolactone and caprolactone-based specialty polymers for use in coatings, resins, elastomers, adhesives, bioplastics, and medical devices. It serves automotive parts and components manufacturers through sales representatives and distributors. The company was formerly known as WestRock Company, Specialty Chemicals Business and changed its name to Ingevity Corporation in September 2015. Ingevity Corporation was founded in 1964 and is headquartered in North Charleston, South Carolina.

Stepan NYSE:SCL

$50.03 +0.53 (+1.07%)

Closing price 09/5/2025 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$49.86 -0.17 (-0.34%)

As of 09/5/2025 06:10 PM Eastern

Stepan Company, together with its subsidiaries, produces and sells specialty and intermediate chemicals to other manufacturers for use in various end products worldwide. It operates through three segments: Surfactants, Polymers, and Specialty Products. The Surfactants segment offers surfactants that are used in consumer and industrial cleaning and disinfection products, including detergents for washing clothes, dishes, carpets, and floors and walls, as well as shampoos and body washes; and other applications, such as fabric softeners, germicidal quaternary compounds, disinfectants, and lubricating ingredients. Its surfactants are also used in various applications, including emulsifiers for spreading agricultural products; and industrial applications comprising latex systems, plastics, and composites. The Polymers segment provides polyurethane polyols that are used in the manufacture of rigid foam for thermal insulation in the construction industry, as well as a base raw material for coatings, adhesives, sealants, and elastomers (CASE); polyester resins, including liquid and powdered products, which are used in CASE applications; and phthalic anhydride that is used in unsaturated polyester resins, alkyd resins, and plasticizers for applications in construction materials, as well as components of automotive, boating, and other consumer products. The Specialty Products segment offers flavors, emulsifiers, and solubilizers for use in food, flavoring, nutritional supplement, and pharmaceutical applications. Stepan Company was founded in 1932 and is headquartered in Northbrook, Illinois.

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