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Perimeter Solutions, Inc. (PRM)

Basic Materials Specialty Chemicals
30.60 $
-17.8% vs. previous close
Closing price · As of: 31. Jul 2026
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Open questions

The business works in principle, but one material question is open. As long as it stays open, our findings do not carry a quality verdict.

Anyone buying today buys an excellent niche business carrying a mortgage that runs to 2031 and gets expensive precisely when the stock does what you bought it for. Caution here does not mean bad company; it means price the fee into your return expectation before you buy — 18 percent of every increase over the prior-year mark goes to five directors, plus a fixed 2,357,061 shares a year through 2027. If you wait, check three things in every filing: how high is the line "Founders advisory fees payable" ($364.3 million on March 31, 2026)? How many shares are outstanding (163,127,063 on March 31, 2026)? And how much cash comes in from operations after the fee has been paid? Add the question of whether the $682.3 million spent on MMT translates into revenue and margin. The decision is yours.

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Perimeter Solutions: A Superb Fire Safety Business — and Five Founders Who Own 18 Percent of Every Share Price Gain

Perimeter Solutions drops the red slurry that stops wildfires from the air, and it earns handsomely doing so: $652.9 million of revenue in 2025 and a 59.4 percent segment margin in fire safety. The year still ended with a $206.4 million net loss. The reason sits in the notes to the SEC filings: an agreement dating from 2019 hands five founders 18 percent of the annual share price increase on 157,137,410 shares. For 2025 that came to $469.1 million, settled with 13.4 million new shares and $95.7 million in cash. Our in-house stock scanner ranks the stock 12th in the U.S. selection of its Big Earnings Surprise list (as of July 25, 2026). Not investment advice — just the invoice that sits in the notes.

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Trading Day

Previous Close
37.20$
Open
31.20$
Day High
32.40$
Day Low
29.70$
Volume
6,417,944shares

Key levels of the most recently completed trading day — not a live quote.

52-Week Range

52-Week Low 52-Week High
15.60 $ 37.80 $
08/01/2025 06/18/2026

Current price 30.60 $ — 68% of the range above the low.

Lowest and highest closing price over the last 52 weeks. The marker shows where the current price sits within that range: close to the high speaks for strength, close to the low for weakness.

Basics

Market Cap
5.0$B
Shares Outstanding
163Mio.
Float
91.6%
Beta
1.9

Performance

Perf. 1M
-5.60%
Perf. 3M
9.10%
Perf. 6M
16.80%
YTD Performance (%)
22.52%
52-Week-High Distance
-10.7%
Perf. 1Y
89.77%
Perf. 3Y
450.54%
Perf. 5Y
329.92%
Perf. 10Y
329.92%
Perf. Since Inception
-24.12%

Technical Indicators

MA 38 Days
34.60$
MA 50 Days
33.80$
MA 200 Days
28.30$
RSI (14)
39.4
Volatility 30 Days
80.2%
Volatility 250 Days
54.1%

Calculated from the price history · as of 08/03/2026

Valuation

P/E
Forward P/E
16.0
PEG
P/B
4.2
P/S
6.7
EV/EBITDA
41.0
Price/FCF
48.7

Profitability

Gross Margin
54.7%
EBIT Margin
64.7%
Net Margin
-44.9%
Return on Equity
-15.7%
Return on Assets
-8.1%

Balance Sheet & Safety

Equity Ratio
42.7%
Debt/Equity
0.6
Altman Z″
1.95
Piotroski
5 out of 9

Growth

Sales Growth Last Quarter
73.60%
EPS Growth Last Quarter
22.20%
Sales Growth (Year)
16.38%
Forward Sales Growth
-41.05%
Forward EPS Growth
20.30%

Dividend

This stock currently pays no dividend.

Quality & Screener

Stage
2
Top 10%
RS Rating
91
EPS Rating
67
Piotroski
5 out of 9
Fundamental Rating
C (51 out of 100)
Altman Z″
1.95

AI Rating

Neutral

In den sechs ausgewerteten SEC-Berichten von Perimeter Solutions (2 Geschäftsberichte 10-K, 4 Quartalsberichte 10-Q) kommen die Begriffe „artificial intelligence“, „machine learning“, „AI“ und „generative“ kein einziges Mal vor — weder in der Geschäftsbeschreibung noch in den Risikofaktoren; das Geschäft besteht aus Brandschutzmitteln, Phosphorpentasulfid-Chemie und Medizintechnik-Fertigungsanlagen.

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Highlighted are things our editorial team noticed: green = stands out as strong, red = deserves a closer look. No single metric is a verdict on its own — always read it in context.

Analysts & Price Target

Current Price 30.60 $
Price Target (average) 45.00 $

The price target sits 47.1% above the current price.

Consensus
Sell
Analyst Ratings
2
Distribution of Recommendations
Strong Buy 1
Buy 1
Hold 0
Sell 0
Strong Sell 0

Combined picture of the price targets and recommendations of every analyst covering the stock. Price targets are expectations for the next 12 months, not promises — and they often follow the price rather than predict it.

Estimates by Fiscal Year

Estimates by Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EPS Estimate ($) EPS Range ($) Revenue Estimate ($M) Expected Growth Analysts
12/31/2026 1.61 1.50 – 1.68 887 20.3% 3
12/31/2027 1.89 1.77 – 2.00 994 17.2% 3

Average of the analyst estimates for the coming fiscal years. The range shows how far the most optimistic and the most cautious estimate sit apart — the wider it is, the less certain the expectation.

Next Reporting Date

6. Aug 2026

Expected date of the next quarterly or annual figures. Dates do shift occasionally — only the invitation issued by the company is binding.

Revenue & Profit

Cash Flow

Balance Sheet

Margins

Per Share

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Sales Per Quarter ($M)
2024: Q2 · 127.3 $M Q2 2024: Q3 · 288.4 $M Q3 2024: Q4 · 86.2 $M Q4 2025: Q1 · 72.0 $M Q1 2025: Q2 · 162.6 $M Q2 2025: Q3 · 315.4 $M Q3 2025: Q4 · 102.8 $M Q4 2026: Q1 · 125.1 $M Q1 2026: Q2 · 213.8 $M Q2

Source: fundamental data

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Quarterly Figures

Quarterly Figures
Quarter EPS (Earnings Per Share) EPS YoY (%) Sales ($M) Sales YoY (%) Net Margin (%) OCF ($M) FCF ($M)
2024: Q2 0.16 633.30 127 67.20 17.00 9 5
2024: Q3 -0.61 -441.10 288 102.20 -30.90 183 179
2024: Q4 0.99 1,514.30 86 45.00 167.20 -6 -12
2025: Q1 0.36 614.30 72 22.00 78.70 24 19
2025: Q2 0.39 143.80 163 27.80 -19.80 -3 -31
2025: Q3 0.82 233.60 315 9.40 -28.70 208 203
2025: Q4 0.13 -86.90 103 19.20 -136.50 16 9
2026: Q1 0.06 -83.30 125 73.60 58.30 -89 -95
2026: Q2 -1.11 -384.60 214 31.50 -84.90 -1 -13
What Do These Terms Mean?
EPS (Earnings Per Share):
Quarterly profit divided by the total share count — how much of the profit works out to a single share.
YoY (Year over Year):
Change versus the same quarter a year ago — this is how you compare without seasonal distortion (e.g. the holiday shopping season).
Sales:
All revenue for the quarter, before any costs are deducted — the top line of the income statement.
Net Margin:
What percentage of sales is left over as profit in the end. Negative means the company is posting a loss.
OCF (Operating Cash Flow):
The cash that actually flows into the till from the core business during the quarter — harder to dress up than book profit.
FCF (Free Cash Flow):
Operating cash flow minus capital expenditures — the money that's genuinely free to use, say for paying down debt, buybacks, or dividends.

Annual Figures

Annual Figures
Fiscal Year Revenue ($M) EBIT ($M) Net Income ($M) EPS ($) Operating Cash Flow ($M) Equity ($M) Total Assets ($M)
2019 239 -6 -42 -0.27 0 262 1,145
2020 340 71 24 0.15 71 291 1,138
2021 362 -600 -662 -4.21 72 1,093 2,591
2022 361 130 92 0.52 -40 1,139 2,457
2023 322 94 67 0.41 0 1,152 2,334
2024 561 -4 -6 -0.04 188 1,157 2,416
2025 653 -201 -206 -1.39 238 1,133 2,653

Fiscal years from the audited annual reports, oldest first. EBIT is the operating profit before interest and taxes; total assets are everything the company owns.

Assessment: Opportunities & Risks

Operating earning power

The Fire Safety segment earned Segment Adjusted EBITDA of $290.5 million on $488.9 million of revenue in 2025 — a 59.4 percent margin. Group revenue grew from $322.1 million in 2023 to $652.9 million in 2025 and by a further 73.6 percent to $125.1 million in the first quarter of 2026. Without the founder fee, 2025 operating income would have been $234.2 million.

Founder compensation and dilution

The 2019 agreement pays a fixed 2,357,061 shares a year through the end of 2027 and, through the end of 2031, 18 percent of the share price increase on 157,137,410 shares. For 2025 that was $469.1 million, or 71.9 percent of annual revenue, settled with 13,387,002 shares and $95.7 million in cash. Shares outstanding rose 9.2 percent in one quarter, and the remaining liability stood at $364.3 million on March 31, 2026.

Earnings quality

The earnings line measures the company’s own share price: in 2023 the founder fee lifted operating income by $108.5 million, in 2024 it cost $198.3 million, in 2025 $435.2 million, and in the first quarter of 2026 it added back $76.4 million. Without it, the first quarter of 2026 would have shown an operating loss of $3.9 million rather than $72.5 million of operating income.

Balance sheet and leverage

After the $682.3 million MMT acquisition, 82.7 percent of total assets consists of goodwill ($1,365.4 million) and intangible assets ($1,250.0 million). Senior notes total $1,225.0 million, interest expense rose from $9.6 million to $24.4 million in the first quarter of 2026, and cash fell from $325.9 million to $91.6 million as of March 31, 2026.

Customer base

Forty-three percent of 2025 revenue came from two U.S. agencies (USDA Forest Service 32 percent, Bureau of Land Management 11 percent). Against that stands unusually long contractual cover: a five-year agreement with both since September 2025 and two further five-year agreements in April 2026, including the Defense Logistics Agency deal worth up to roughly $500 million.

Valuation

Roughly $5.6 billion of market capitalization (data as of July 25, 2026) equals 7.9 times trailing twelve-month revenue of $705.9 million and 4.6 times book value; enterprise value sits at 21 to 22 times the $331.7 million of Segment Adjusted EBITDA reported for 2025. Defensible for the margin, but little slack for a stock carrying this fee structure.

Bottom Line

Perimeter Solutions is the alignment trap in its purest form: five founders earn only when the share price rises — but they earn 18 percent of that rise on 157,137,410 shares, reset every year through 2031. For 2025 that came to $469.1 million against $652.9 million of group revenue; the $435.2 million fair value charge turned a notional $234.2 million operating profit into a $200.9 million operating loss and a $206.4 million net loss. The bill was settled with 13,387,002 new shares and $95.7 million in cash, pushing first-quarter 2026 operating cash flow to −$89.0 million. Underneath sits a genuinely good business with a 59.4 percent fire safety segment margin, long government contracts and a freshly acquired medical device manufacturing arm — funded with $550 million of new debt. Not investment advice.

Worth Noting:
  • Perimeter Solutions reached our research list via our in-house stock scanner: rank 12 in the U.S. selection of the Big Earnings Surprise list (81 hits), RS rating 91, as of July 25, 2026. Scanner lists are recalculated daily, so the ranking is a dated snapshot. The criterion measures the deviation of reported from estimated earnings per share — both figures are adjusted and leave the founder fee out.
  • Identity risk: the company was named "Perimeter Solutions, SA" and registered in Luxembourg until November 20, 2024; since then it has been a Delaware corporation called "Perimeter Solutions, Inc." (SEC CIK 1880319, filing Forms 10-K and 10-Q). The ticker PRM belonged to a different company before the listing on November 9, 2021 — price histories before that date do not belong to this business.
  • Data status and recency: the most recent periodic report is the Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2026, filed May 6, 2026. Every filing submitted afterwards was reviewed (Form 8-K of May 28, 2026 on the annual meeting, Forms 4 and 144 on insider transactions); no newer periodic report existed on July 25, 2026. Valuation figures are orders of magnitude as of July 25, 2026, not daily quotes.

About the Company

Perimeter Solutions, Inc. manufactures and supplies firefighting products, electronic components, lubricant additives, and engineered machinery in the United States, Germany, and internationally. It operates in two segments, Fire Safety and Specialty Products. The Fire Safety segment provides fire retardants and firefighting foams, as well as specialized equipment and services for federal, state, provincial, local/municipal, and commercial customers. The Specialty Products segment develops, produces, and markets products for non-fire safety markets, including phosphorus pentasulfide based lubricant additives used in pesticide and mining chemicals applications, and electric battery technologies. This segment also offers engineered machinery and associated aftermarket consumables parts, and services, as well as original equipment manufacturing, and automation solutions for medical devices such as complex catheters, guidewires and microcoils, as well as aftermarket parts, services, and consumables. The company was founded in 1963 and is headquartered in Clayton, Missouri.

Employees356
HeadquartersClayton, MO
Address8000 Maryland Avenue, 63105 Clayton, United States
Phone314 396 7343
Websiteperimeter-solutions.com
IPO Date9. Nov 2021
ISINUS71385M1071
Stock Split1:6 on 08/02/2007

Management

Management
Name Title Birth Year
Haitham R. Khouri CEO & Director 1981
Kyle Sable CFO & Principal Accounting Officer 1982
Noriko Yokozuka General Counsel, Corporate Secretary, Chief Administrative & Compliance Officer 1977
Jeffrey A. Emery President of Fire Safety 1976
Grant William Bowman President of Specialty Products 1980
Seth Barker Head of Investor Relations and VP of Financial Planning & Analysis
Shannon Horn Business Director of North America Retardant & Services 1975

Executives per the latest required filings; titles kept in their original language. Source: fundamental data.

Chart

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Data as of: July 31, 2026 · Source: fundamental data & SEC filings (annual and quarterly reports, 10-K/10-Q)

Note: pure fact-based analysis, not investment advice and not a solicitation to buy or sell. All figures without guarantee.

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