Company Analysis

Avient Corporation (AVNT)

NYSE: AVNT · Plastic Materials, Synth Resins & Nonvulcan Elastomers · Avon Lake, OH · filing with the SEC since 2000
Grade5.8
◀ Past 5.6● Present 5.7▶ Future 6.2

The grade of Avient Corporation

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
5.8/10
◀ Past5.630% of the headline
● Present5.740% of the headline
▶ Future6.230% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

5.6/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
6.7/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 33% of this tense · 67th percentile among 9 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Avient Corporation's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
5.6/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+1.2% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 9 of 10.

weight 45% of this tense · 56th percentile among 9 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Avient Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $2.9 billion in fiscal 2016 to $3.3 billion in fiscal 2025, up 1.2% a year; it rose in 5 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 25% from fiscal 2016 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 9 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span1.2%top 31% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 44% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 39% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak24.6%top 50% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
4.2/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 0.1% a year. 37% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 0 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 42nd percentile among 8 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Avient Corporation's diluted share count shrank about 0.1% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 37% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-14 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearsbottom 28% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowtop 44% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

5.7/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
5.8/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 3%: 3¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 61%: owes 61¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 58th percentile among 9 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Avient Corporation earned about 3 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 17 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 61 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 0.2% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 28% of its family
  • return on equitytop 39% of its family
  • gross profit against assetstop 19% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 39% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
6.4/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 36% of 9 in its family; net margin 2.5%.

weight 33% of this tense · 64th percentile among 9 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Avient Corporation's standing among 9 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $3.3 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 50% by size; a net margin of 2.5% ranks in the top 39%; revenue growth of -1.4% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 19% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$3.26Btop 50% of its family
  • net margin2.5%top 39% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth-1.4%top 19% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed
4.6/10

What are the people in charge doing?

bottom 46% of 9 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2026.

weight 22% of this tense · 46th percentile among 9 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Avient Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Frank, Michael J (President & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2026-10-14, under a month (bottom 6% of its family); the 22 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5.7 years (top 50%); 5 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 22 people in charge now (top 17%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge5 in three years among 22 peopletop 17% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed5.7 yearstop 50% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record1 monthsbottom 6% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

6.2/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
5.8/10

How much room does it have to grow?

top 43% of 9 in its family for room to expand.

weight 45% of this tense · 57th percentile among 9 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Avient Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $511 million against debt of $1.9 billion leaves -23.4% of its assets as net cash, bottom 39% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 6% of revenue (top 39%); a gross margin of 31.2% (top 31%); research spending of 3% of revenue (top 39%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-23.4%bottom 39% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue6.0%top 39% of its family
  • gross margin31.2%top 31% of its family
  • research spending against revenue3.0%top 39% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
7.7/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 23% of 9 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 77th percentile among 9 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Avient Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -1.4% a year over the last three filed years against 1.2% over all 10, slowing (top 19% of its family); the newest year grew 0.6% (top 19%); research spending grew 4.4% a year (top 28%); capital spending grew 0.3% a year (top 28%) (its annual reports). Avient Corporation reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Color Additives and Inks at $2.0 billion, Specialty Engineered Materials at $1.2 billion. 1 of 2 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 62% of revenue (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-2.5 points a yeartop 19% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth0.6%top 19% of its family
  • three-year growth of research spending4.4%top 28% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending0.3%top 28% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
4.8/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

bottom 48% of 8 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 22% of this tense · 48th percentile among 8 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Avient Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $3.3 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 3% above the $3.2 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 31% of its family); net income of $82 million against a prior three-year average of $316 million (top 44%); a net margin of 2.5% against 9.4% before (top 44%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace3.0%bottom 31% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average-74%top 44% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-6.9 pointstop 44% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton AVNT · research, not advice