Avient (NYSE:AVNT) Updates 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.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

AVNT has been the topic of a number of recent research reports. Wells Fargo & Company boosted their price objective on Avient from $55.00 to $59.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research note on Thursday, December 5th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft boosted their price objective on Avient from $45.00 to $50.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Friday. Finally, Seaport Res Ptn lowered Avient from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Friday, October 18th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a hold rating and four have given a buy rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $55.00.

Avient Trading Up 1.3 %

Shares of Avient stock traded up $0.56 during trading hours on Friday, hitting $43.51. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 264,766 shares, compared to its average volume of 533,369. Avient has a twelve month low of $37.63 and a twelve month high of $54.68. The firm has a fifty day moving average of $42.61 and a 200-day moving average of $46.34. The stock has a market cap of $3.97 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 26.88, a P/E/G ratio of 1.08 and a beta of 1.51. 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 (NYSE:AVNT) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February 13th. The company reported $0.49 EPS for the quarter, meeting the consensus estimate of $0.49. Avient had a return on equity of 10.56% and a net margin of 4.66%. Research analysts forecast that Avient will post 2.65 EPS for the current year.

Avient Announces Dividend

The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, April 4th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, March 18th will be paid a $0.27 dividend. This represents a $1.08 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.48%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, March 18th. Avient’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 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.