Celanese - CE Stock Forecast, Price & News

16 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Celanese in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 6 hold ratings and 8 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" CE shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in CE, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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16 analysts have issued 1 year price objectives for Celanese's stock. Their CE share price forecasts range from $105.00 to $200.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $158.80 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 74.5% from the stock's current price.
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Celanese's stock was trading at $168.06 at the beginning of the year. Since then, CE stock has decreased by 45.9% and is now trading at $91.00.
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Celanese saw a increase in short interest in August. As of August 15th, there was short interest totaling 2,100,000 shares, an increase of 14.8% from the July 31st total of 1,830,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,070,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.0 days. Approximately 2.0% of the company's stock are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, October 20th 2022.
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Celanese Co. (NYSE:CE) announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, July, 28th. The basic materials company reported $4.99 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $4.56 by $0.43. The basic materials company earned $2.49 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.39 billion. Celanese had a net margin of 20.55% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 46.75%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 13.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $5.02 earnings per share.
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Celanese announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, July 13th. Stockholders of record on Monday, July 25th will be given a dividend of $0.68 per share on Monday, August 8th. This represents a $2.72 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.99%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, July 22nd.
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Celanese (NYSE:CE) pays an annual dividend of $2.72 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.99%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 13 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 15.16%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, CE will have a dividend payout ratio of 17.69% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Celanese issued an update on its third quarter 2022 earnings guidance on Thursday, August, 4th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $4.00-$4.50 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of $3.95. The company issued revenue guidance of -.

103 employees have rated Celanese Chief Executive Officer Mark C. Rohr on Glassdoor.com. Mark C. Rohr has an approval rating of 66% among the company's employees.

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

Celanese's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Dodge & Cox (6.60%), State Street Corp (4.65%), Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (2.21%), Wells Fargo & Company MN (1.97%), FMR LLC (1.60%) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (1.25%). Insiders that own company stock include John K Wulff, Kevin S Cavanah, Scott A Richardson, Thomas Francis Kelly and Vanessa Dupuis.
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One share of CE stock can currently be purchased for approximately $91.00.

Celanese (NYSE:CE) has a market capitalization of $9.86 billion and generates $8.54 billion in revenue each year. The basic materials company earns $1.89 billion in net income (profit) each year or $17.94 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 8,529 workers across the globe.

Celanese's mailing address is 222 West Las Colinas Blvd. Suite 900 North, Irving TX, 75039. The official website for the company is www.celanese.com. The basic materials company can be reached via phone at (972) 443-4000, via email at chuck.kyrish@celanese.com, or via fax at 908-901-4805.