Orion S.A. (OEC) Stock Analysis
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Basic Materials · Specialty Chemicals
Hold if already holding. Not a fresh buy at $6.44, but acceptable to hold if already in. Reasons: Target reached (-11.7% upside); Market cap $364M below $400M minimum.
Orion S.A., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of carbon black products. The company operates in two segments, Specialty Carbon Black and Rubber Carbon Black. It offers post-treated specialty carbon black grades for coatings and printing... Read more
Hold if already holding. Not a fresh buy at $6.44, but acceptable to hold if already in. Reasons: Target reached (-11.7% upside); Market cap $364M below $400M minimum. Chart setup: No clear chart pattern; technical signals are mixed. Market cap $364M below $400M minimum. Not in investable universe. Score 5.1/10, moderate confidence.
Passes 6/8 gates (clean insider activity, no SEC red flags, news events none recent, earnings proximity 78d clear, semi cycle peak clear, materials cycle peak clear). Fails on weak momentum and favorable risk/reward ratio. Suitability: speculative.
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4 floor-breakers
Cyclical trough — margins compressed or negative. Profitability typically recovers with the cycle, but floor fires on current data.static
Price action weak — below key moving averages, no momentum carry. Needs a base before trend-continuation setups apply.static
No near-term catalyst priced in. Thesis progression will come from fundamentals grinding, not event reaction.static
Ranks in the bottom of its industry peers on the composite signal. Better names in the same sector exist.static
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Hold if already holding. Not a fresh buy at $6.44, but acceptable to hold if already in. Reasons: Target reached (-11.7% upside); Market cap $364M below $400M minimum. Chart setup: No clear chart pattern; technical signals are mixed. Market cap $364M below $400M minimum. Not in investable universe. Target $8.08 (+25.5%), stop $5.99 (−7.5%), A.R:R -0.8:1. Score 5.1/10, moderate confidence.
Take-profit target: $8.08 (-11.7% upside). Target $8.08 (+25.5%), stop $5.99 (−7.5%), A.R:R -0.8:1. Stop-loss: $5.99.
Target reached (-11.7% upside); Market cap $364M below $400M minimum; Value-trap signals (2/5): Revenue declining (-16.0% YoY), Margin compression (op margin 0.1%).
Orion S.A. trades at a P/E of N/A (forward 19.0). TrendMatrix value score: 7.5/10. Verdict: Hold.
11 analysts cover OEC with a consensus score of 2.5/5. Average price target: $7.
What does Orion S.A. do?Orion S.A., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of carbon black products. The company...
Orion S.A., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of carbon black products. The company operates in two segments, Specialty Carbon Black and Rubber Carbon Black. It offers post-treated specialty carbon black grades for coatings and printing applications, as well as high purity carbon black grades for the fiber industry; and conductive carbon black grades for batteries, polymers, and coatings. The company also provides rubber carbon black products for tires, such as high-reinforcing grades and semi-reinforcing grades under the ECORAX brand, as well as for mechanical rubber goods end users, including automotive production, construction, as well as certain food, consumer, and medical applications. It operates in the United States, Brazil, rest of the Americas, Germany, South Africa, Italy, Spain, Czech republic, Poland, Italy, Turkey, France, Rest of EMEA, China, the Republic of Korea, and rest of Asia. The company was formerly known as Orion Engineered Carbons S.A. and changed its name to Orion S.A. in June 2023. Orion S.A. was founded in 1862 and is headquartered in Senningerberg, Luxembourg.