Celanese (NYSE:CE) Updates Q2 2025 Earnings Guidance

Celanese (NYSE:CE) updated its second quarter 2025 earnings guidance on Tuesday. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) 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.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of research analysts have recently commented on the stock. Barclays cut their price objective 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. Robert W. Baird cut their price objective on shares of Celanese from $150.00 to $110.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a research report on Wednesday, November 6th. Royal Bank of Canada lowered shares of Celanese from an “outperform” rating to a “sector perform” rating and dropped their price target for the stock from $84.00 to $56.00 in a research report on Thursday. Jefferies Financial Group dropped their price target on shares of Celanese from $102.00 to $82.00 in a research report on Thursday, December 5th. Finally, BMO Capital Markets lowered shares of Celanese from a “market perform” rating to an “underperform” rating and dropped their price target for the stock from $138.00 to $76.00 in a research report on Monday, November 11th. Four investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, ten have assigned a hold rating and three have issued a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat.com, Celanese currently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $100.35.

Celanese Stock Performance

Shares of Celanese stock opened at $54.86 on Thursday. 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 firm has a market cap of $6.00 billion, a P/E ratio of 5.52, a P/E/G ratio of 1.36 and a beta of 1.17. The firm has a 50 day simple moving average of $68.90 and a 200 day simple moving average of $97.98. Celanese has a fifty-two week low of $52.97 and a fifty-two week high of $172.16.

Celanese (NYSE:CE) last released its earnings results on Tuesday, February 18th. The basic materials company reported $1.45 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.25 by $0.20. Celanese had a net margin of 10.40% and a return on equity of 13.17%. The firm had revenue of $2.37 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.36 billion. Sell-side analysts predict 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. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, February 25th will be issued a dividend of $0.03 per share. This represents a $0.12 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.22%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, February 25th. Celanese’s dividend payout ratio is presently 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.