Celanese (NYSE:CE) Releases Q1 2025 Earnings Guidance

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

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of research firms have weighed in on CE. Mizuho cut their price target on shares of Celanese from $120.00 to $86.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday, December 5th. Jefferies Financial Group cut their target price on Celanese from $102.00 to $82.00 in a research report on Thursday, December 5th. Vertical Research downgraded Celanese from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating and set a $130.00 price target for the company. in a research report on Tuesday, October 29th. BMO Capital Markets lowered Celanese from a “market perform” rating to an “underperform” rating and reduced their price objective for the company from $138.00 to $76.00 in a research note on Monday, November 11th. Finally, Barclays dropped their target price on shares of Celanese from $88.00 to $75.00 and set an “equal weight” rating for the company in a research report on Wednesday, February 5th. Four equities research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, nine have issued a hold rating and four have given a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, Celanese has an average rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $102.06.

Celanese Stock Performance

Celanese stock opened at $69.86 on Wednesday. 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 current ratio of 1.37 and a quick ratio of 0.76. The company has a market capitalization of $7.64 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 7.03, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.36 and a beta of 1.17. The firm’s fifty day moving average price is $69.16 and its 200 day moving average price is $98.72.

Celanese (NYSE:CE) last announced its earnings results on Tuesday, February 18th. The basic materials company reported $1.45 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping 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, research analysts forecast that Celanese will post 8.11 EPS 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 paid a dividend of $0.03 per share. This represents a $0.12 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.17%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, February 25th. Celanese’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 28.17%.

About Celanese

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.