Avient Corporation (AVNT): Price and Financial Metrics

AVNT POWR Grades

• Value is the dimension where AVNT ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 72.79% of US stocks.
• AVNT's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving down over the last 179 days.
• AVNT's current lowest rank is in the Growth metric (where it is better than 19.13% of US stocks).

AVNT Stock Summary

• Of note is the ratio of AVIENT CORP's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; 86.96% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of 63.31%, AVIENT CORP's debt growth rate surpasses 83.79% of about US stocks.
• AVIENT CORP's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is -31.75%, greater than the shareholder yield of just 13.79% of stocks in our set.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to AVIENT CORP, a group of peers worth examining would be REYN, MTW, BLD, NPO, and SIRE.
• Visit AVNT's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.polyone.com.

AVNT Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Basic Materials stock, AVNT's price/sales ratio is 38.46% lower, now standing at 0.8.
• Over the past 243 months, AVNT's price/sales ratio has gone up 0.7.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for AVNT.

AVNT Growth Metrics

Its 5 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 711.79%.
• Its year over year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 4.66%.
• Its 2 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at -59.59%.

Over the past 33 months, AVNT's revenue has gone up $1,758,300,000.

The table below shows AVNT's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-09-30	4,621	347.7	188.4
2022-06-30	5,017.5	272.4	251.6
2022-03-31	4,950.3	249.1	235.7
2021-12-31	4,818.8	233.8	230.8
2021-09-30	4,614.3	262.9	275.3
2021-06-30	4,319	213.7	224.1

AVNT's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• AVNT has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 26.18% of graded US stocks.
• AVNT's asset turnover comes in at 0.93 -- ranking 18th of 89 Chemicals stocks.
• PPG, ICL, and LYB are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with AVNT.

The table below shows AVNT's key quality metrics over time.