Celanese Corporation (CE)

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Celanese 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).

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Celanese Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $5.4 billion in fiscal 2016 to $9.5 billion in fiscal 2025, up 6.6% a year; it rose in 5 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 21% from fiscal 2018 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 8 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Celanese Corporation's diluted share count grew about 0.1% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 16% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 7 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-12, buying about $593 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Celanese Corporation lost about 26 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 9 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 79 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 0.2% over the year (the filed statements).

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Celanese Corporation's standing among 15 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $9.5 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 25% by size; a net margin of -12.2% ranks in the bottom 23%; revenue growth of -0.4% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 30% (its annual reports).

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Celanese Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Richardson, Scott A (CEO & President, as filed), filing under that title since 2025-02-19, 1.7 years (bottom 29% of its family); the 19 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 4.6 years (bottom 29%); 14 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 19 people in charge now (bottom 13%; 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.

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Celanese Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $1.3 billion against debt of $13 billion leaves -52.3% of its assets as net cash, bottom 3% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 8.4% of revenue (bottom 37%); a gross margin of 20.5% (bottom 17%); research spending of 1.3% of revenue (bottom 27%) (its annual report).

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Celanese Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -0.4% a year over the last three filed years against 6.6% over all 10, slowing (bottom 23% of its family); the newest year grew -7.1% (bottom 3%); research spending grew 3.7% a year (top 39%); capital spending grew -14.2% a year (bottom 17%) (its annual reports). Celanese Corporation reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Engineered Materials at $5.4 billion (56%), Acetyl Chain at $4.2 billion (44%); 0 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Celanese Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $9.5 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 9.8% below the $11 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 4% of its family); net income of $1.2 billion against a prior three-year average of $765 million (bottom 11%); a net margin of -12.2% against 7.4% before (bottom 18%) (its annual reports).