Avient (NYSE:AVNT) Releases FY 2025 Earnings Guidance

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

Avient Trading Down 1.6 %

Shares of AVNT 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. The company has a market capitalization of $3.80 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 25.70, a PEG ratio of 1.08 and a beta of 1.51. Avient has a 52-week low of $35.86 and a 52-week high of $54.68. The company has a 50-day simple moving average of $42.75 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $46.36.

Avient (NYSE:AVNT) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February 13th. The company reported $0.49 EPS for the quarter, meeting analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.49. Avient had a return on equity of 10.56% and a net margin of 4.66%. Research analysts anticipate that Avient will post 2.65 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Avient Announces Dividend

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

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

AVNT has been the subject of a number of research analyst reports. Wells Fargo & Company raised their price objective on shares of Avient from $55.00 to $59.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Thursday, December 5th. Seaport Res Ptn downgraded Avient from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Friday, October 18th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a hold rating and four have issued a buy rating to the company. According to MarketBeat, Avient presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $55.50.

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.