Celanese Corporation produces and sells engineered polymers worldwide. It operates through Engineered Materials and Acetyl Chain segments. The company offers ethylene acrylic ...
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Est. EPS $1.58 · Revenue $2.62B · 10 analysts
Est. EPS $1.12 · Revenue $2.32B · 9 analysts
Est. EPS $5.99 · Revenue $10.03B · 9 analysts
Est. EPS $1.32 · Revenue $2.43B · 6 analysts
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| Metric | Latest | YoYYoY means Year-over-Year. It compares the latest annual value with the previous annual value to show long-term trend strength. | QoQQoQ means Quarter-over-Quarter. It compares the latest quarter with the immediately previous quarter to show short-term momentum changes. |
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| RevenueThe total money that came through the front door from selling things, before paying a single bill. Think of it as the grand total of every credit card swipe from customers. (YoY compares this year to last year's performance, while QoQ compares the current three months to the previous three). | $9.5B | -7.2% | +17.8% |
| Net IncomeThe absolute bottom line. If the company paid every single supplier, employee, banker, and tax collector, this is the actual money left in their pocket at the end of the day. | $-1.2B | +23.5% | +184.1% |
| Gross MarginThe basic markup. If they sell a $100 pair of sneakers, this percentage tells you how much of that price tag is profit right after paying for the rubber and shoelaces, but before paying for things like store rent or TV commercials. | +18.8% | -18.1% | +18.5% |
| Operating MarginThe 'day job' efficiency score. Out of every dollar a customer spends, this shows how many cents the company keeps after making the product AND paying for all the everyday corporate overhead (like salaries, marketing, and keeping the lights on). | +8.0% | +218.5% | +24.0% |
| Net MarginThe final take-home percentage. When you strip away every conceivable cost, tax, and interest payment, this is the exact number of cents the company truly gets to keep from every dollar in sales. | -12.2% | +17.6% | +141.3% |
| Free Cash FlowThe holy grail of corporate cash. It's the spendable, physical money left over after the business pays for its daily operations AND buys the big, expensive upgrades (like new factories or servers) it needs to survive. This is the 'free' money they can use to pay dividends or buy back stock. | $803.0M | +51.2% | +1370.0% |
| FCF MarginThe ultimate cash conversion rate. It shows how good the company is at turning regular sales directly into cold, hard, spendable cash. A high percentage means the business is an absolute cash-printing machine. | +8.4% | +62.9% | +1148.3% |
| Debt / EquityThe financial risk gauge. It compares how much of the company's empire was built using borrowed money (loans) versus the owners' own money (shareholders). A high number means they are heavily leveraged and playing a riskier game; a low number means they are playing it safe. | 319.4% | +27.6% | -4.3% |
| Current RatioThe 12-month survival check. It simply compares the cash they have right now (plus things they can quickly turn into cash) against the immediate bills they absolutely must pay this year. A score above 1 means they have enough in the wallet to cover the upcoming bills without panicking. | 1.55x | +15.8% | -11.1% |
| Total AssetsThe absolute size of the company's empire. It bundles together absolutely everything of value they own—from the cash in the register and the inventory in the warehouse, to the software patents in the vault and the factories on the ground. | $21.7B | -5.1% | -1.5% |
| Metric | Annual (A vs E) | Annual Surprise | Quarter (A vs E) | Quarter Surprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EPS Surprise | -10.64 vs 4.25 | -350.2% | 1.13 vs 1.58 | -28.4% |
| Revenue Surprise | $9.5B vs $9.6B | -0.5% | $2.8B vs $2.6B | +5.0% |
| Date | Executive | Title | Security | Side | Shares | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 2026 | Kyrish Chuck | officer: SVP & CFO | Common Stock | A | 800 | $45.51 |
| Aug 14, 2026 | Kyrish Chuck | officer: SVP & CFO | Common Stock | A | 100 | $45.51 |
| Aug 14, 2026 | Kyrish Chuck | officer: SVP & CFO | Common Stock | A | 1,400 | $45.53 |
| Aug 11, 2026 | Duffie Ashley B | officer: SVP & GC | Common Stock | A | 600 | $45.60 |
| Aug 11, 2026 | Murray Mark Christopher | officer: SVP - Acetyls | Common Stock | A | 2,153 | $45.52 |
Operator: Greetings, and welcome to the Celanese Q2 2026 Earnings Call and webcast. [Operator Instructions] Please note that this conference is being recorded. I will now turn the conference over to Bill Cunningham. Thank you, Bill. You may begin. William Cunningham: Thanks, Darryl. Welcome to the Celanese Corporation Second Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call. My name is Bill Cunningham, Vice President of Investor Relations. With me on the call today are Scott Richardson, President and Chief Executive Officer; and Chuck Kyrish, Chief Financial Officer. Celanese distributed its second quarter earnings release via Business Wire and posted prepared comments as well as a presentation on our Investor Relations website yesterday afternoon. As a reminder, we'll discuss non-GAAP financial measures today. You can find definitions of these measures as well as reconciliations to the comparable GAAP measures on our website. Today's presentation will also include forward-looking statements. Please review the cautionary language regarding forward-looking statements, which can be found at the end of both the press release and the prepared comments. Form 8-K reports containing all these materials have also been submitted to the SEC. With that, Darryl, let's please go ahead and open it up for questions. Operator: [Operator Instructions] Our first questions come from the line of Patrick Cunningham with Citi. Patrick Cunningham: I was hoping you could talk through the normalization of some of the supply-related opportunities in the Acetyl Chain, perhaps it's a bit more pronounced than we expected. How would you characterize the operating environment, Western Hemisphere versus Eastern Hemisphere? And we've also started to see some upward movement in Asia spreads in recent weeks. So what is driving that? And is any of that contemplated in expectations for the balance of the year? Scott Richardson: Yes. Thanks for the question, Patrick. I think our team showed a really strong resiliency and flexibility in the quarter. And I think it was evidenced by the opportunities we had that the global production and supply chain network that we have here at Celanese really in both businesses gave us some benefits in the quarter. And in Acetyl Chain specifically, the team took actions as we got the end of Q1, the early part of Q2 to ensure that we're going to be able to provide our customers with a reliability of supply. And I think we certainly did that kind of up and down the value chain, particularly in parts of the world that were more acutely impacted by the supply chain crisis like Europe. Team did a good job of that. We called out an expectation of moderation in the second half of the year, and that was contemplated in kind of our $6 guide back when we did our call in May. I think as we look at things today, I wouldn't say that moderation has been any more acute than what we expected. I think what we have seen happen is just some changes a little bit in the environment. …
| Name | Title | Compensation | Gender | Year Born | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Scott A. Richardson | President, Chief Executive Officer & Director | USD 2,631,124 | Male | 1977 | Active |
Chuck Kyrish | Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer | USD 1,471,796 | Male | 1973 | Active |
Ashley Duffie | Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary | USD 1,395,042 | Female | 1975 | Active |
Todd L. Elliott | Senior Vice President of Engineered Materials | USD 1,389,617 | Male | 1966 | Active |
Mike Barnes | Senior Vice President Global Manufacturing | — | Male | — | Active |
Sandeep Ladha | Senior Vice President & Chief Procurement Officer | — | Male | — | Active |
Sameer Purao | Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer | — | Male | — | Active |
William Cunningham | Vice President of Investor Relations | — | Male | — | Active |
Aaron McGilvray | Vice President of Finance, Controller & Chief Accounting Officer | — | Male | 1976 | Active |
Belinda Gaye Hyde | Senior Vice President & Chief Human Resources Officer | — | — | 1971 | Active |
Bank of America Corp DE trimmed its holdings in shares of Celanese Corporation (NYSE: CE) by 10.1% during the undefined quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund owned 1,418,609 shares of the basic materials company's stock after selling 159,027 shares during the quarter. Bank
Celanese NYSE: CE executives said the company expects supply-chain conditions in its Acetyl Chain business to moderate during the second half of 2026, while cost actions, targeted growth initiatives and free-cash-flow generation remain central to its strategy.
Celanese Corporation (CE) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript
CE beats Q2 earnings and sales estimates as strong pricing, commercial execution and medical and electronics momentum lift results.
While the top- and bottom-line numbers for Celanese (CE) give a sense of how the business performed in the quarter ended June 2026, it could be worth looking at how some of its key metrics compare to Wall Street estimates and year-ago values.
