Avient (NYSE:AVNT) Updates Q1 2025 Earnings Guidance

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

Analysts Set New Price Targets

AVNT has been the subject of several recent research reports. Wells Fargo & Company lifted 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. Seaport Res Ptn lowered shares of Avient from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Friday, October 18th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a hold rating and four have assigned a buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $55.50.

Avient Stock Down 1.6 %

Shares of NYSE:AVNT opened at $41.63 on Thursday. The firm has a fifty day moving average price of $42.75 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $46.36. The company has a market cap of $3.80 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 25.70, a PEG ratio of 1.08 and a beta of 1.51. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.87, a current ratio of 1.63 and a quick ratio of 1.21. Avient has a one year low of $35.86 and a one year high of $54.68.

Avient (NYSE:AVNT) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February 13th. The company reported $0.49 earnings per share (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%. Analysts anticipate that Avient will post 2.65 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Avient Announces Dividend

The business also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, April 4th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, March 18th will be issued a dividend of $0.27 per share. 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 is currently 66.67%.

About Avient

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.