Celanese (NYSE:CE) Updates Q1 2025 Earnings Guidance

Celanese (NYSE:CE) issued an update on its first quarter 2025 earnings guidance on Tuesday morning. The company provided EPS guidance of 0.250-0.500 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of 1.630. The company issued revenue guidance of -. Celanese also updated its Q2 2025 guidance to 1.250-1.500 EPS.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several research analysts have recently weighed in on the stock. Vertical Research downgraded shares of Celanese from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating and set a $130.00 target price for the company. in a research note on Tuesday, October 29th. Jefferies Financial Group reduced their price target on Celanese from $102.00 to $82.00 in a report on Thursday, December 5th. Bank of America upgraded Celanese from an “underperform” rating to a “buy” rating and dropped their price objective for the stock from $95.00 to $88.00 in a report on Tuesday, January 14th. Morgan Stanley dropped their price target on shares of Celanese from $100.00 to $80.00 and set an “equal weight” rating for the company in a research note on Monday, January 13th. Finally, Robert W. Baird reduced their price objective on shares of Celanese from $150.00 to $110.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a research note on Wednesday, November 6th. Four analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, nine have given a hold rating and four have issued a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, Celanese presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $102.06.

Celanese Price Performance

Shares of Celanese stock traded up $1.80 during trading on Tuesday, hitting $69.86. The stock had a trading volume of 3,146,865 shares, compared to its average volume of 2,181,863. The business has a fifty day moving average of $69.16 and a two-hundred day moving average of $98.72. The firm has a market cap of $7.64 billion, a P/E ratio of 7.03, a PEG ratio of 1.37 and a beta of 1.17. Celanese has a fifty-two week low of $64.05 and a fifty-two week high of $172.16. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.47, a current ratio of 1.37 and a quick ratio of 0.76.

Celanese (NYSE:CE) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, February 18th. The basic materials company reported $1.45 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.25 by $0.20. Celanese had a return on equity of 13.17% and a net margin of 10.40%. On average, sell-side analysts expect that Celanese will post 8.11 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Celanese Cuts Dividend

The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Monday, March 31st. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, February 25th will be issued a $0.03 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, February 25th. This represents a $0.12 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.17%. Celanese’s 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.