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$61.38 +1.23 (+2.04%)
Closing price 10/17/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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EMN vs. AVNT, CE, DD, DOW, FUL, HUN, LYB, WLK, PPG, and FMC

Should you be buying Eastman Chemical stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Eastman Chemical include Avient (AVNT), Celanese (CE), DuPont de Nemours (DD), DOW (DOW), H. B. Fuller (FUL), Huntsman (HUN), LyondellBasell Industries (LYB), Westlake (WLK), PPG Industries (PPG), and FMC (FMC).

Eastman Chemical vs. Its Competitors

Eastman Chemical (NYSE:EMN) and Avient (NYSE:AVNT) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings and risk.

Eastman Chemical presently has a consensus price target of $82.62, suggesting a potential upside of 34.59%. Avient has a consensus price target of $43.60, suggesting a potential upside of 39.13%. Given Avient's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Avient is more favorable than Eastman Chemical.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Eastman Chemical
1 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50
Avient
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.63

Eastman Chemical has a net margin of 8.96% compared to Avient's net margin of 3.65%. Eastman Chemical's return on equity of 15.24% beat Avient's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Eastman Chemical8.96% 15.24% 5.91%
Avient 3.65%10.57%4.17%

83.7% of Eastman Chemical shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.5% of Avient shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.4% of Eastman Chemical shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Avient shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Eastman Chemical pays an annual dividend of $3.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. Avient pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Eastman Chemical pays out 46.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Avient pays out 84.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Eastman Chemical has increased its dividend for 15 consecutive years and Avient has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Eastman Chemical is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Eastman Chemical has higher revenue and earnings than Avient. Eastman Chemical is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Avient, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Eastman Chemical$9.38B0.75$905M$7.128.62
Avient$3.24B0.89$169.50M$1.2824.48

In the previous week, Eastman Chemical had 10 more articles in the media than Avient. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Eastman Chemical and 4 mentions for Avient. Eastman Chemical's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Avient's score of -0.11 indicating that Eastman Chemical is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Eastman Chemical
6 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
3 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Avient
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Eastman Chemical has a beta of 1.29, suggesting that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Avient has a beta of 1.41, suggesting that its stock price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Eastman Chemical beats Avient on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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EMN vs. The Competition

MetricEastman ChemicalCHEM IndustryMaterials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$7.05B$11.44B$3.76B$21.77B
Dividend Yield5.42%3.44%5.07%3.63%
P/E Ratio8.6225.6234.8632.43
Price / Sales0.756.5623,428.7381.20
Price / Cash4.907.2524.3418.06
Price / Book1.211.617.164.59
Net Income$905M$508.75M$148.76M$1.01B
7 Day Performance2.16%-2.91%40.71%-0.38%
1 Month Performance-5.75%-7.86%52.41%-0.93%
1 Year Performance-43.60%-9.94%74.62%9.46%

Eastman Chemical Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
EMN
Eastman Chemical
4.7673 of 5 stars
$61.39
+2.0%
$82.62
+34.6%
-43.6%$7.05B$9.38B8.6214,000Options Volume
AVNT
Avient
4.4719 of 5 stars
$31.02
+2.1%
$46.00
+48.3%
-37.8%$2.78B$3.25B24.239,200Analyst Revision
CE
Celanese
4.1171 of 5 stars
$40.17
+2.2%
$56.33
+40.2%
-70.4%$4.40B$10.28B-2.7112,163Dividend Announcement
DD
DuPont de Nemours
4.3758 of 5 stars
$75.87
+2.9%
$88.33
+16.4%
-6.5%$31.77B$12.61B-161.4324,000Analyst Forecast
DOW
DOW
3.9349 of 5 stars
$21.41
+3.7%
$29.79
+39.2%
-58.7%$15.17B$42.96B-15.2936,000Trending News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
FUL
H. B. Fuller
4.7073 of 5 stars
$58.01
+1.6%
$65.75
+13.3%
-25.8%$3.14B$3.50B31.367,500
HUN
Huntsman
4.281 of 5 stars
$8.17
+0.6%
$11.70
+43.3%
-65.4%$1.42B$6.04B-4.196,300Analyst Forecast
LYB
LyondellBasell Industries
4.7459 of 5 stars
$46.24
+3.0%
$60.07
+29.9%
-49.5%$14.87B$38.66B60.0620,000Analyst Forecast
WLK
Westlake
4.3883 of 5 stars
$77.67
+2.7%
$91.79
+18.2%
-46.1%$9.96B$12.14B-146.5515,540
PPG
PPG Industries
4.7916 of 5 stars
$98.83
+0.4%
$126.82
+28.3%
-22.4%$22.31B$15.64B22.4146,000Dividend Announcement
Analyst Revision
FMC
FMC
4.3422 of 5 stars
$29.50
+1.4%
$45.83
+55.4%
-53.1%$3.69B$4.13B36.885,700Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision

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This page (NYSE:EMN) was last updated on 10/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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