Celanese (NYSE:CE) Posts Quarterly Earnings Results, Beats Expectations By $0.20 EPS

Celanese (NYSE:CE) posted its earnings results on Tuesday. The basic materials company reported $1.45 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.25 by $0.20, Zacks reports. Celanese had a net margin of 10.40% and a return on equity of 13.17%. Celanese updated its Q2 2025 guidance to 1.250-1.500 EPS and its Q1 2025 guidance to 0.250-0.500 EPS.

Celanese Price Performance

Shares of NYSE CE opened at $69.86 on Wednesday. The company has a market capitalization of $7.64 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 7.03, a PEG ratio of 1.36 and a beta of 1.17. Celanese has a 1-year low of $64.05 and a 1-year high of $172.16. The business has a 50-day moving average of $69.16 and a 200-day moving average of $98.72. 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 Cuts Dividend

The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Monday, March 31st. Investors of record on Tuesday, February 25th will be issued a dividend of $0.03 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, February 25th. This represents a $0.12 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.17%. Celanese’s payout ratio is 28.17%.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of brokerages have recently weighed in on CE. Royal Bank of Canada dropped their price objective on shares of Celanese from $122.00 to $88.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a research note on Thursday, December 19th. Robert W. Baird dropped their price target on Celanese from $150.00 to $110.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a research report on Wednesday, November 6th. Vertical Research downgraded Celanese from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating and set a $130.00 price objective on the stock. in a research report on Tuesday, October 29th. Wells Fargo & Company lowered Celanese from an “overweight” rating to an “equal weight” rating and decreased their price objective for the company from $165.00 to $115.00 in a research note on Tuesday, November 5th. Finally, Barclays cut 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 note on Wednesday, February 5th. Four investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, nine have given a hold rating and four have assigned a buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock has an average rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $102.06.

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.