Celanese Corp (NYSE:CE)’s traded shares stood at 0.37 million during the latest session, with the company’s beta value hitting 1.08. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $56.83, to imply an increase of 0.03% or $0.01 in intraday trading. The CE share’s 52-week high remains $172.16, putting it -202.94% down since that peak but still an impressive 19.16% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $45.94. The company has a valuation of $6.21B, with an average of 2.32 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 2.93 million shares over the past 3 months.
Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Buy for Celanese Corp (CE), translating to a mean rating of 2.73. Of 13 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 0 analyst(s) give CE a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 4 advise Hold as 9 recommend it as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) have given it an Underweight rating. Estimates put the company’s current-quarter earnings per share at 0.39.
Celanese Corp (NYSE:CE) trade information
After registering a 0.03% upside in the latest session, Celanese Corp (CE) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is -0.38%, and 8.03% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is -17.88%. Short interest in Celanese Corp (NYSE:CE) saw shorts transact 8.7 million shares and set a 2.25 days time to cover.
The extremes give us $66 and $110 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, CE has been trading -93.56% off suggested target high and -16.14% from its likely low.
Celanese Corp (CE) estimates and forecasts
The rating firms project that company’s revenue will shrink -4.95% compared to the previous financial year.
Revenue forecast for the current quarter as set by 13 analysts is 2.27B. Meanwhile, for the current quarter, a total of 13 analyst(s) estimate revenue growth to 2.47B.Earnings reports from the last fiscal year show that sales brought in 2.61B and 2.65B respectively in the corresponding quarters. In this case, analysts estimate current quarter sales to fall -13.05% before dropping -6.85% in the following quarter.
CE Dividends
Celanese Corp has its next earnings report out on 2025-Feb-17. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too. Celanese Corp has a forward dividend ratio of 2.13, with the share yield ticking at 3.75% to continue the rising pattern observed over the past year. The company’s average dividend yield trailing the past 5-year period is 2.28%.
Celanese Corp (NYSE:CE)’s Major holders
Celanese Corp insiders hold 0.41% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 102.65% of the shares at 103.07% float percentage. In total, 102.65% institutions holds shares in the company, led by CAPITAL RESEARCH GLOBAL INVESTORS. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 15.29 million shares (or 13.991% of shares), all amounting to roughly $2.06 billion.
The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 13.01 million shares, or about 11.9057% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $1.76 billion.
We also have Dodge & Cox Stock Fund and WASHINGTON MUTUAL INVESTORS FUND as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the Celanese Corp (CE) shares. Going by data provided on Dec 31, 2024, Dodge & Cox Stock Fund holds roughly 8.8 shares. This is just over 7.87% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $495.51 million. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 3.51, or 3.14% of the shares, all valued at about 197.5 million.
