Celanese Corp. (CE): Price and Financial Metrics

CE POWR Grades

• Quality is the dimension where CE ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 83.41% of US stocks.
• CE's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving down over the last 179 days.
• CE ranks lowest in Growth; there it ranks in the 3rd percentile.

CE Stock Summary

• The ratio of debt to operating expenses for CELANESE CORP is higher than it is for about 94.8% of US stocks.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of 211.68%, CELANESE CORP's debt growth rate surpasses 93.28% of about US stocks.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for CE comes in at -62.57% -- higher than that of just 8.35% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to CE, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are NGVT, OC, TTMI, BON, and ZEV.
• CE's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit CELANESE CORP's official web site, go to www.celanese.com.

CE Valuation Summary

• CE's EV/EBIT ratio is 7; this is 32.69% lower than that of the median Basic Materials stock.
• Over the past 219 months, CE's price/sales ratio has gone up 0.8.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for CE.

CE Growth Metrics

Its 5 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at -11.26%.
• Its 5 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 13.77%.
• The 5 year price growth rate now stands at -8.04%.

Over the past 49 months, CE's revenue has gone up $2,541,000,000.

The table below shows CE'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	9,600	1,862	1,651
2022-06-30	9,565	2,025	1,966
2022-03-31	9,277	1,957	2,070
2021-12-31	8,537	1,757	1,890
2021-09-30	7,853	1,447	2,819
2021-06-30	6,998	1,248	2,520

CE'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.

• CE has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 93.59% of graded US stocks.
• CE's asset turnover comes in at 0.706 -- ranking 39th of 89 Chemicals stocks.
• WLK, EMN, and FF are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with CE.

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