Avient (NYSE:AVNT) Releases FY 2025 Earnings Guidance

Avient (NYSE:AVNT) issued an update on its FY 2025 earnings guidance on Thursday morning. The company provided EPS guidance of 2.700-2.940 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of 2.860. The company issued revenue guidance of -. Avient also updated its Q1 2025 guidance to 0.760-0.760 EPS.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

AVNT has been the subject of several research reports. Seaport Res Ptn lowered shares of Avient from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Friday, October 18th. Wells Fargo & Company upped their price objective on Avient from $55.00 to $59.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Thursday, December 5th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a hold rating and four have assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the company currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $55.50.

Avient Price Performance

Shares of Avient stock opened at $41.63 on Thursday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.87, a quick ratio of 1.21 and a current ratio of 1.63. Avient has a 52-week low of $35.86 and a 52-week high of $54.68. The company has a fifty day moving average of $42.75 and a 200-day moving average of $46.36. The stock has a market capitalization of $3.80 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 25.70, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.08 and a beta of 1.51.

Avient (NYSE:AVNT) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February 13th. The company reported $0.49 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, meeting the consensus estimate of $0.49. Avient had a net margin of 4.66% and a return on equity of 10.56%. Equities research analysts expect that Avient will post 2.65 EPS for the current year.

Avient Announces Dividend

The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, April 4th. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, March 18th will be paid a $0.27 dividend. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, March 18th. This represents a $1.08 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.59%. Avient’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 66.67%.

Avient Company Profile

Avient Corporation operates as a formulator of material solutions in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, South America, and Asia. It operates in two segments, Color, Additives and Inks; and Specialty Engineered Materials. The Color, Additives and Inks segment offers custom color and additive concentrates in solid and liquid form for thermoplastics, dispersions for thermosets, and specialty inks; custom-formulated liquid system, such as polyester, vinyl, natural rubber and latex, polyurethane, and silicone; and proprietary inks.