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ELKEM Stock Was Up By 12.7% Before The Weekend

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(VIANEWS) - The Market ended the session with ELKEM (ELK.OL) rising 12.7% to kr22.88 on Friday, following the last session's upward trend. Oslo Børs Benchmark Index_GI rose 1.35% to kr1,434.43, after two successive sessions in a row of gains, on what was an all-around up trend trading session today.

ELKEM's last close was kr20.30, 51.04% under its 52-week high of kr41.46.

About ELKEM

Elkem ASA engages in the provision of advanced material solutions worldwide. It operates through three segments: Silicones, Silicon Products, and Carbon Solutions. The company offers silicones polymers, including silicone oils, compounds, emulsions, grease, and resins, as well as chlorosilanes, heat cured rubber silicone, liquid silicone rubber, and RTV-1 and RTV-2 silicones. It also provides silicon-based materials comprising silicon, silicon powder/micronized silicon, silica fume/ micro-silica, ferrosilicon, and grain refiners. In addition, the company offers foundry alloys, such as preconditioners, recarburizers, conditioners, nodularizers, inserts, and inoculants; and carbon-based materials comprising carbon electrodes, furnace tapping materials, electrode paste, ramming paste, prebaked electrodes, and furnace lining materials, as well as polymer additives, and oilfield and refractories specialty products. It offers its products to electronics, aerospace, healthcare, personal care, packaging, airbag coating, chemicals, aluminium, electronics, automotive, specialty steel, solar, construction, refractories, oil and gas, ferroalloys, silicon, and aluminium industries. The company was founded in 1904 and is headquartered in Oslo, Norway. Elkem ASA operates as a subsidiary of Bluestar Elkem International Co., Ltd. S.A.

Earnings Per Share

As for profitability, ELKEM has a trailing twelve months EPS of kr-2.08.

Return on Equity

The company's return on equity, which measures the profitability of a business relative to shareholder's equity, for the twelve trailing months is 19.37%.

Revenue Growth

Year-on-year quarterly revenue growth declined by 26.2%, now sitting on 39.82B for the twelve trailing months.

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