Celanese (NYSE:CE) Releases Q2 2025 Earnings Guidance

Celanese (NYSE:CE) issued an update on its second quarter 2025 earnings guidance on Tuesday morning. The company provided 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.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

CE has been the topic of a number of recent analyst reports. Bank of America upgraded shares of Celanese from an “underperform” rating to a “buy” rating and dropped their price target for the stock from $95.00 to $88.00 in a research report on Tuesday, January 14th. Royal Bank of Canada decreased their target price on shares of Celanese from $122.00 to $88.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a research report on Thursday, December 19th. Wells Fargo & Company lowered shares of Celanese from an “overweight” rating to an “equal weight” rating and dropped their price target for the company from $165.00 to $115.00 in a research report on Tuesday, November 5th. Piper Sandler decreased their price objective on shares of Celanese from $98.00 to $77.00 and set an “underweight” rating for the company in a report on Tuesday, January 7th. Finally, BMO Capital Markets cut Celanese from a “market perform” rating to an “underperform” rating and dropped their price target for the company from $138.00 to $76.00 in a research report on Monday, November 11th. Four research 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. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $102.06.

Celanese Stock Performance

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

Celanese (NYSE:CE) last released its earnings results on Tuesday, February 18th. The basic materials company reported $1.45 earnings per share 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, equities research analysts expect that Celanese will post 8.11 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Celanese Cuts Dividend

The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Monday, March 31st. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, February 25th will be paid a $0.03 dividend. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, February 25th. This represents a $0.12 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.17%. Celanese’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 28.17%.

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.