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) Operating margin

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Avient Corporation's operating margin over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 9.67%, up 3.4 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (6.24%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 5.04% (fiscal 2020) to 10.2% (fiscal 2024); the current reading is higher than 36% of that period. That is above the Specialty Chemicals industry median of 5.64% and above the Basic Materials sector median of 2.88%.

Operating margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
FY2025 6.24% (3.92)
FY2024 10.2% 3.90
FY2023 6.26% (0.90)
FY2022 7.16% (1.28)
FY2021 8.44% 3.40
FY2020 5.04% (0.44)
FY2019 5.48% (0.72)
FY2018 6.20% (0.48)
FY2017 6.68% (2.43)
FY2016 9.11% 0.31

Quarterly newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
Sep 2026 9.27% (2.99)
Jun 2026 12.3% 0.95
Mar 2026 11.3% 6.10
Dec 2025 5.21% (3.11)
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Against its own ten years

Low 5.04% High 10.2%
Ten-year median 6.68%
Current reading's percentile 95

Operating margin against peers

Company Operating margin
BCPC Balchem Corporation compare 20.7%
WDFC WD-40 Company compare 15.8%
SXT Sensient Technologies Corporation compare 14.5%
PRM Perimeter Solutions, SA compare 14.5%
CBT Cabot Corporation compare 12.7%
HWKN Hawkins, Inc. compare 11.1%
AVNT Avient Corporation 9.67%
ASH Ashland Inc. compare 5.64%
CLMT Calumet, Inc. compare 1.03%
Specialty Chemicals industry median 5.64%
Basic Materials sector median 2.88%
Market median 0.00%

What Operating margin is

EBIT Margin tells an investor how much operating profit, before interest and taxes, a company keeps from each unit of revenue.

EBIT ÷ Revenue

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