Avient Corporation

AVNT Basic Materials Specialty Chemicals

Avient Corporation’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $3.3 billion, up 0.61% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+10.5%
EPS
+31.8%
Free cash flow
+101.7%
Total debt
−7.34%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

45.65 2.21 −4.62%
Market cap
$4.2B
P/E
23.1×
Fwd P/E
17.6×
Dividend yield
2.41%
F-score
5/9
Altman Z
1.67
Beneish M
−2.54
Dividend safety
36/100

Avient Corporation (AVNT) Gross margin

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Avient Corporation's gross margin over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 31.7%, up 0.5 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (31.2%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 21.7% (fiscal 2018) to 32.6% (fiscal 2024); the current reading is higher than 91% of that period. That is above the Specialty Chemicals industry median of 27.8% and above the Basic Materials sector median of 25.0%.

Gross margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Gross margin Change (points)
FY2025 31.2% (1.46)
FY2024 32.6% 4.21
FY2023 28.4% 2.41
FY2022 26.0% (2.48)
FY2021 28.5% (1.33)
FY2020 29.8% 6.84
FY2019 23.0% 1.27
FY2018 21.7% (1.33)
FY2017 23.0% 0.00
FY2016 23.0% 0.78

Quarterly newest first

Period Gross margin Change (points)
Sep 2026 30.5% (3.04)
Jun 2026 33.5% 1.37
Mar 2026 32.2% 1.98
Dec 2025 30.2% (0.18)
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 21.7% High 32.6%
Ten-year median 26.0%
Current reading's percentile 88

Gross margin against peers

Company Gross margin
WDFC WD-40 Company compare 55.3%
PRM Perimeter Solutions, SA compare 54.5%
BCPC Balchem Corporation compare 36.5%
SXT Sensient Technologies Corporation compare 35.1%
ASH Ashland Inc. compare 32.3%
AVNT Avient Corporation 31.7%
HWKN Hawkins, Inc. compare 22.4%
CBT Cabot Corporation compare 21.6%
CLMT Calumet, Inc. compare 6.57%
Specialty Chemicals industry median 27.8%
Basic Materials sector median 25.0%
Market median 45.1%

What Gross margin is

Gross Margin tells an investor how much of each sale a company keeps after paying the direct costs of making or buying what it sells.

Gross Profit ÷ Revenue

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