The Bid & Ask

Quotations, Dispatches, and the Daily Tape

Thursday, August 13, 2026

Subject of the day

CE

Concerning the House

Celanese Corporation produces and sells engineered polymers worldwide. It operates through Engineered Materials and Acetyl Chain segments. The company offers ethylene acrylic elastomers, ethylene vinyl acetate pharmaceutical grade copolymers, liquid crystal polymers, long-fiber reinforced thermoplastics, nylon and polypropylene compounds and formulations, polyoxymethylene, ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene, and thermoplastic elastomers, polyesters, and vulcanizates for use in appliance, automotive, construction, consumer apparel, consumer electronics, electrical, energy storage, filtration equipment, industrial, medical, and telecommunication applications. It also provides acetic acid and anhydride, acetate flakes and tows, butyl acetates, emulsion polymers, ethyl acetates, ethylene vinyl acetate resins and compounds, formaldehydes, redispersible powders, and vinyl acetate monomers for use in adhesives, automotive parts, coatings, consumer goods, external thermal insulation composite systems, films, filtration, flexible packaging, food and beverage, food packaging, inks, lamination, lubricants, paints, paper finishing, pharmaceuticals, plasticizers, plasters and renders, solvents, textiles, and tiling applications. The company offers its products under the Amcel, AOPlus, Ateva, Avicor, Celanese, Celanex, Celanyl, Celcon, Celstran, Celvolit, Clarifoil, Crastin, Dur-O-Set, Dytron, ECOMID, EcoVAE, Elotex, Factor, Flexbond, Forprene, FRIANYL, Fortron, Geolast, GHR, GUR, Hostaform, Hytrel, Laprene, Melinex, MetaLX, Mowilith, MT, Mylar, NILAMID, Nylfor, OmniLon, Pibifor, Pibiter, Polifor, Resyn, Rynite, Santoprene, SlideX, Sofprene, Sofpur, Talcoprene, Tarnoform, Tecnoprene, TufCOR, Tynex, Vamac, VAntage, Vectra, Vinac, Vinamul, VitalDose, Zenite, and Zytel brands. It sells its products directly to customers and through distributors; and original equipment manufacturers and suppliers. Celanese Corporation was founded in 1912 and is headquartered in Irving, Texas.

United States · www.celanese.com

The Long Run

FY 2009–2025 · 17 years

LineLatestCAGRTrend
Revenue$10.93B+3.0%
Gross profit$2.58B+4.6%
Operating income-$786.00M+6.0%
Net income-$1.54B+10.4%
Cash from ops$966.00M+3.1%
Quotation

$44.30

+0.99 (+2.3%)

52w hi$69.19
52w lo$35.47
Vol928.05K
As ofAug 13
The Verdict

Sell

Our score -0.94

Short-0.65
Medium-1.07
Long-1.27

computed 2026-08-13

By the Numbers

Celanese Corporation

Basic Materials · Chemicals

Market cap$4.86B
Enterprise value$16.21B
Trailing P/E
Forward P/E7.17x
EV / EBITDA9.47x
P / S (ttm)0.50x
Profit margin-12.0%
Return on equity-22.2%
Revenue growth+8.7%
Earnings growth-37.1%
Debt / equity270.20
Risk Metrics
Beta vs SPX1.29
Corr SPX0.35
Annual vol59.3%
Annual ret-34.3%
Sharpe-0.58
Max DD-74.6%

Window: 504 trading days (504 obs)

Layer Breakdown
LayerRawContribution
Fundamental-0.17
Sector+0.03
Technical-0.45
Earnings+0.00
Sentiment+0.00

macro × 1.00 · 2026-08-13

Recent Sessions
DateOpenHighLowCloseVol
Aug 13$43.17$44.50$43.02$44.30928.05K
Aug 12$45.09$45.25$43.16$43.311.23M
Aug 11$44.31$46.26$44.31$44.841.61M
Aug 10$44.34$44.56$43.60$44.461.27M
Aug 7$44.13$45.15$43.51$43.891.45M