CE vs. ASIX, AVNT, CC, DOW, EMN, HUN, LYB, OLN, TKR, and WLK
Should you be buying Celanese stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Celanese include AdvanSix (ASIX), Avient (AVNT), Chemours (CC), DOW (DOW), Eastman Chemical (EMN), Huntsman (HUN), LyondellBasell Industries (LYB), Olin (OLN), Timken (TKR), and Westlake (WLK).
Celanese vs. Its Competitors
AdvanSix (NYSE:ASIX) and Celanese (NYSE:CE) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends and profitability.
AdvanSix presently has a consensus target price of $33.50, suggesting a potential upside of 63.18%. Celanese has a consensus target price of $56.33, suggesting a potential upside of 43.38%. Given AdvanSix's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe AdvanSix is more favorable than Celanese.
AdvanSix has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Celanese. Celanese is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AdvanSix, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
86.4% of AdvanSix shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.9% of Celanese shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.6% of AdvanSix shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Celanese shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
AdvanSix pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Celanese pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. AdvanSix pays out 22.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Celanese pays out -0.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. AdvanSix has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. AdvanSix is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
AdvanSix has a net margin of 5.10% compared to Celanese's net margin of -16.30%. Celanese's return on equity of 10.48% beat AdvanSix's return on equity.
AdvanSix has a beta of 1.64, suggesting that its share price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Celanese has a beta of 1.13, suggesting that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Celanese had 7 more articles in the media than AdvanSix. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Celanese and 3 mentions for AdvanSix. Celanese's average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat AdvanSix's score of 0.20 indicating that Celanese is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
AdvanSix beats Celanese on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (NYSE:CE) was last updated on 10/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
