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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, INC. · Chemicals · CIK 0001306830
$47.22
-0.11% · live
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$5.16B market value
From Celanese Corp's FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 24, 2026 · read the filing
Celanese makes industrial chemicals. It took in $9.54B last year, which makes it a mid-sized company. It spends more than it earns — losing about 12 cents on every dollar of sales.
The financial picture is led by accounting, while profitability, growth and debt remain weak.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
A published bankruptcy-risk model places it in its distress range. This is a statistical reading, not a forecast.
Altman Z-Score 1.24
These are things the company filed or that a published model flagged — not predictions, and not a reason on their own to buy or sell anything.
Financial health
Several areas of financial weakness.
From Celanese Corp's FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2025
Free cash flow
$531.0M → $803.0M
Dividends paid
$307.0M → $13.0M
Gross profit
$2.34B → $1.95B
Profit
-$1.54B → -$1.17B
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K filed Feb 24, 2026
Improved: +51.2%
$531.0M to $803.0MCritical
Why it matters: Cash left after paying for the plant that produced it — the money genuinely available for dividends, buybacks or paying down debt. Harder to flatter than profit.
How the latest move compares (quote live), and what was published around it
CE fell 0.11% on the latest quote. The average Materials company tracked here moved −1.27%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is 1.2 points above its sector and 0.9 points above the market.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
Opinions from 27 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 27 analysts publishing on this company, 8 say strong buy, 10 say buy, 8 say hold and 1 say sell. Analysts are paid to publish a view and are wrong often; the split above says how much they agree with each other, which is the part a single headline rating hides.
Published by Finnhub. Analyst coverage skews towards larger companies and towards optimism — sell ratings are rare across the whole market, so a company with none is ordinary rather than endorsed.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
No. It lost $1.17B last year, losing about 12 cents on every dollar of sales.
No. Sales shrank 7.1% last year.
Yes. Clearing its debt would take roughly 11.0 years of cash flow. For every $1 it owes, it owns $1.23 in assets. Its operating profit does not cover its interest bill — -1.12x against the interest it owes. A bankruptcy-risk model also places it in its distress range.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Whether the dividend is covered by what the business actually earns
It paid a dividend while making a loss, so the payment did not come out of profits — it came from reserves, borrowing or asset sales. It paid out 1% of the cash its operations generated. It has paid in each of the last 12 years.
WeakFigures from the FY2025 annual filing
Last year it lost $1.17B and generated $1.15B of cash from operations.
Reported annual figures
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202510-K · Feb 24, 2026Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Feb 24, 2026Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Feb 24, 2026Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Feb 24, 2023Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K · Feb 10, 2022Filing for FY2021 | ChangeFY2025 vs FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $9.54B | $10.27B | $10.93B | $9.67B | $8.54B | −7.1% |
| Cost of revenue | $7.59B | $7.93B | $8.34B | $7.29B | $5.86B | −4.3% |
| Gross profit | $1.95B | $2.34B | $2.58B | $2.38B | $2.68B | −16.4% |
| Gross marginGross profit ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 20.5% | 22.8% | 23.6% | 24.6% | 31.4% | −2.3 pts |
| Selling, general and administrative | $899.0M | $1.03B | $1.08B | $824.0M | $633.0M | −13.0% |
| Operating income | -$786.0M | -$720.0M | $1.67B | $1.38B | $1.95B | −9.2% |
| Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | -8.2% | -7.0% | 15.2% | 14.2% | 22.8% | −1.2 pts |
| Interest expense | $701.0M | $676.0M | $720.0M | $405.0M | $91.0M | +3.7% |
| Income before tax | -$1.22B | -$1.02B | $1.16B | $1.42B | $2.25B | −19.7% |
| Net income | -$1.17B | -$1.54B | $1.94B | $1.89B | $1.89B | +24.4% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | -12.2% | -15.0% | 17.8% | 19.6% | 22.1% | +2.8 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $-10.66 | $-14.10 | $17.84 | $17.46 | $17.50 | +24.5% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
This company's latest filing beside its peers' stored scores
| Company | Health | F-Score | Revenue growth | Profit margin | P/E | Debt to equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CECelanese Corp · this page | 4.0/10 | 5/9 | -7.1% | -12.2% | — |
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Bought on the open market — 1,400 shares at $45.53 ($63.7K)
Holds 28,214 shares after this filing.
Bought on the open market — 100 shares at $45.51 ($4.6K)
Holds 28,314 shares after this filing.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
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Every figure above traces back to a filing in the timeline, each linked to the document itself.
The 240 subsidiaries named in its 10-K, incorporated across 39 places. A filer lists the significant ones and may leave the rest out, so this is the floor rather than the full count.
Every company's figures are checked for internal consistency: the balance sheet adding up, figures sharing one currency, cash flow and share counts within plausible ranges, and how recent the latest annual report is. Nothing here changes a figure.
Financial figures are from CE's 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (period ending 2025-12-31, filed Feb 24, 2026), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing. Total liabilities were not tagged directly and were calculated as assets minus equity.
4 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. All four had enough reported figures. Cash generation is shown for context and already feeds profitability. Valuation is scored separately, because a share price says nothing about whether the business is sound. 9 of the 9 Piotroski checks could be evaluated. How the score works
Each year scored only from its annual report as it was first filed
| Fiscal year | Health | F-Score | Scored from |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 4.0 | 5/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 24, 2026 |
| FY2024 | 4.0 | 4/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 24, 2026 |
| FY2023 | 7.0 | 6/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2024 |
| FY2022 | 6.0 | 5/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 24, 2023 |
| FY2021 | 9.0 | 6/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 10, 2022 |
| FY2020 | 8.0 | 6/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 11, 2021 |
A later restatement never reaches back into an earlier year, and every year is scored without a share price, so the latest point can differ a little from the headline score, which uses today's price.
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
5 of 9 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's.
1.24
In the distress zone
For this model, above 2.99 is safe and below 1.81 is distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
-3.12
Below the threshold — nothing unusual flagged
Scores above -1.78 are the ones the model associates with earnings manipulation.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2025 filing as filed with the SEC.
Changed: -95.8%
$307.0M to $13.0MCritical
Why it matters: Cash handed to shareholders. A rise can be a higher dividend or simply more shares, and a cut is a decision the company explains in its own filing — neither is rated here.
Deteriorated: -16.4%
$2.34B to $1.95BSignificant
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Improved: $377.0M narrower
-$1.54B to -$1.17BSignificant
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: $3.45 narrower
-$14.10 to -$10.66Significant
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: +31.3%
$962.0M to $1.26BSignificant
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Changed: -21.1%
$435.0M to $343.0MSignificant
Why it matters: Neither good nor bad on its own. Heavy spending is a company building capacity or a company struggling to stand still, and the two look identical in this figure.
Deteriorated: -7.1%
$10.27B to $9.54BNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Deteriorated: $66.0M wider
-$720.0M to -$786.0MNotable
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Deteriorated: −2.3 pts
22.8% to 20.5%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale before overheads. Falling gross margin usually means the company is discounting or its input costs rose — it is the earliest place pricing pressure shows.
Deteriorated: −1.2 pts
-7.0% to -8.2%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Improved: +2.8 pts
-15.0% to -12.2%Notable
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Q2 FY2026 against Q2 FY2025, from the 10-Q filed Aug 5, 2026 — read it.
Improved: +15.7%
$534.0M to $618.0MSignificant
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Improved: +19.5%
$231.0M to $276.0MSignificant
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Deteriorated: -36.5%
$197.0M to $125.0MSignificant
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Deteriorated: −3.2 pts
7.8% to 4.5%Significant
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Deteriorated: -36.7%
$1.80 to $1.14Significant
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: +16.3%
$1.17B to $1.36BSignificant
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: +8.7%
$2.53B to $2.75BNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Improved: +1.4 pts
21.1% to 22.5%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale before overheads. Falling gross margin usually means the company is discounting or its input costs rose — it is the earliest place pricing pressure shows.
Improved: -6.7%
$12.88B to $12.01BNotable
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Q2 FY2026 against Q1 FY2026, from the 10-Q filed Aug 5, 2026 — read it. Quarter-to-quarter moves include seasonal swings — a retailer's holiday quarter — which the year-earlier comparison removes.
Improved: +184.1%
$44.0M to $125.0MCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: +183.8%
$0.40 to $1.14Critical
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: +17.8%
$2.34B to $2.75BSignificant
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Improved: +32.1%
$468.0M to $618.0MSignificant
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Improved: +29.0%
$214.0M to $276.0MSignificant
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Deteriorated: -22.4%
$1.76B to $1.36BSignificant
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: +2.4 pts
20.0% to 22.5%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale before overheads. Falling gross margin usually means the company is discounting or its input costs rose — it is the earliest place pricing pressure shows.
Improved: +2.7 pts
1.9% to 4.5%Notable
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
2 other measures barely moved. Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Moves are graded on fixed lines — 5%, 15% and 40% for amounts, and 1, 3 and 8 points for margins — as notable, significant or critical. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
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About 5.8% of this company's shares have been borrowed and sold by people expecting to buy them back cheaper. That is a bet the price falls. Those people can be wrong, and when a heavily shorted share rises they have to buy it back, which pushes it up further.
Collected by FINRA from broker-dealers twice a month. It counts positions, not intentions, and some of it is hedging rather than a directional bet against the company.
Nothing in this section is a figure this company reported about itself. These are expectations and positions — what the price implies, what analysts have published, what short sellers are betting, and what large funds held at the last count. WylthIQ reports them; it does not endorse them, does not forecast prices, and takes no view on whether any of them will turn out to be right.
Trailing P/E is not meaningful because the latest trailing earnings are zero or negative. The price-to-book and price-to-sales figures below still provide reference points.
Nothing unusual. Its accounting patterns look like those of companies that report earnings straightforwardly.
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| EMNEASTMAN CHEMICAL CO | 6.0/10 | 5/9 | -6.7% | 5.4% | 30.86x | 1.48x |
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| Median of peers | 6.0/10 | — | -6.7% | 5.4% | 30.86x | 1.48x |
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Peers come from the company's industry classification. A difference describes the companies; it does not rank them.
Bought on the open market — 800 shares at $45.51 ($36.4K)
Holds 29,114 shares after this filing.
Bought on the open market — 600 shares at $45.60 ($27.4K)
Holds 31,925 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 1,930 shares
Holds 27,983 shares after this filing.
Bought on the open market — 2,153 shares at $45.52 ($98.0K)
Holds 30,432 shares after this filing.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
Quarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Revenue +8.7% · Profit margin −3.2 pts · Gross profit +15.7% — against Q2 FY2025
Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation
Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2026
Operating margin +2.3 pts · Profit turned positive · Free cash flow turned positive — against Q1 FY2025
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingHeld a shareholder vote
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2025
Revenue -7.1% · Operating margin −1.2 pts · Free cash flow +51.2% — against FY2024
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation
Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingThe first 40 of 240. The rest are in the exhibit.
Source: Exhibit 21 of the 10-K filed 2026-02-24. These are legal entities, not brands or acquisitions — a company that bought a business may hold it inside an entity named here, or inside one small enough that the rule does not require naming it at all.
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