Celanese (NYSE:CE) Releases Q2 2025 Earnings Guidance

Celanese (NYSE:CE) issued an update on its second quarter 2025 earnings guidance on Tuesday morning. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 1.250-1.500 for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of -. Celanese also updated its Q1 2025 guidance to 0.250-0.500 EPS.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several analysts have recently issued reports on CE shares. Citigroup decreased their price objective on Celanese from $100.00 to $73.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a report on Wednesday, December 18th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft upgraded Celanese from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and dropped their target price for the stock from $135.00 to $110.00 in a report on Wednesday, November 6th. Bank of America upgraded Celanese from an “underperform” rating to a “buy” rating and lowered their price target for the stock from $95.00 to $88.00 in a research report on Tuesday, January 14th. Wells Fargo & Company cut shares of Celanese from an “overweight” rating to an “equal weight” rating and cut their price objective for the company from $165.00 to $115.00 in a research report on Tuesday, November 5th. Finally, Royal Bank of Canada cut their price target on shares of Celanese from $122.00 to $88.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a report on Thursday, December 19th. Four equities research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, nine have issued a hold rating and four have assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $102.06.

Celanese Stock Up 2.6 %

CE traded up $1.80 on Tuesday, hitting $69.86. The company had a trading volume of 3,146,865 shares, compared to its average volume of 2,181,863. The stock has a market capitalization of $7.64 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 7.03, a P/E/G ratio of 1.37 and a beta of 1.17. The stock has a fifty day moving average price of $69.16 and a 200-day moving average price of $98.72. Celanese has a 12-month low of $64.05 and a 12-month high of $172.16. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.47, a quick ratio of 0.76 and a current ratio of 1.37.

Celanese (NYSE:CE) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, February 18th. The basic materials company reported $1.45 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.25 by $0.20. Celanese had a net margin of 10.40% and a return on equity of 13.17%. Analysts predict that Celanese will post 8.11 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Celanese Cuts Dividend

The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Monday, March 31st. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, February 25th will be given a dividend of $0.03 per share. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, February 25th. This represents a $0.12 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.17%. Celanese’s dividend payout ratio is currently 1.21%.

Celanese Company Profile

Celanese Corporation, a chemical and specialty materials company, manufactures and sells high performance engineered polymers in the United States and internationally. It operates through Engineered Materials and Acetyl Chain. The Engineered Materials segment develops, produces, and supplies specialty polymers for automotive and medical applications, as well as for use in industrial products and consumer electronics.