NYSE:CE - Celanese Stock Price, Forecast & News

Celanese trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "CE."

Celanese announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, October 16th. Investors of record on Monday, October 28th will be given a dividend of $0.62 per share on Thursday, November 7th. This represents a $2.48 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.16%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, October 25th. View Celanese's Dividend History.

Celanese Co. (NYSE:CE) issued its quarterly earnings results on Monday, October, 21st. The basic materials company reported $2.53 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $2.50 by $0.03. The basic materials company earned $1.59 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.64 billion. Celanese had a net margin of 13.85% and a return on equity of 38.21%. The company's revenue was down 10.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the business posted $2.96 earnings per share. View Celanese's Earnings History.

Celanese is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, January 30th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Celanese.

Celanese will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, January 30th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

17 analysts have issued twelve-month price objectives for Celanese's stock. Their forecasts range from $105.00 to $140.00. On average, they expect Celanese's stock price to reach $124.19 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 8.1% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Celanese.

17 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Celanese in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 10 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Celanese.

Media headlines about CE stock have been trending somewhat positive on Thursday, InfoTrie reports. The research firm scores the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Celanese earned a daily sentiment score of 1.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave headlines about the basic materials company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Celanese.

Celanese saw a drop in short interest in the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 1,550,000 shares, a drop of 11.4% from the December 15th total of 1,750,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 751,600 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.1 days. Approximately 1.3% of the company's shares are short sold. View Celanese's Current Options Chain.

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Celanese's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Hexavest Inc. (0.25%), PGGM Investments (0.21%), Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.10%), Janney Montgomery Scott LLC (0.06%), Wedge Capital Management L L P NC (0.05%) and CHURCHILL MANAGEMENT Corp (0.05%). Company insiders that own Celanese stock include John K Wulff and Peter G Edwards. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Celanese.

CE stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including PGGM Investments, Nisa Investment Advisors LLC, Hexavest Inc., Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH, Janney Montgomery Scott LLC, IFP Advisors Inc, United Services Automobile Association and Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank . View Insider Buying and Selling for Celanese.

CE stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Gateway Investment Advisers LLC, KAMES CAPITAL plc, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, DNB Asset Management AS, Tuttle Tactical Management, Convergence Investment Partners LLC, MorganRosel Wealth Management LLC and Exchange Traded Concepts LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Celanese.

Shares of CE can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of CE stock can currently be purchased for approximately $114.84.

Celanese has a market capitalization of $13.88 billion and generates $7.16 billion in revenue each year. The basic materials company earns $1.21 billion in net income (profit) each year or $11.00 on an earnings per share basis. Celanese employs 7,684 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Celanese.

The official website for Celanese is http://www.celanese.com/.

Celanese's mailing address is 222 West Las Colinas Blvd. Suite 900 North, Irving TX, 75039. The basic materials company can be reached via phone at 972-443-4000 or via email at [email protected]