Eastman Chemical (EAC) Price & Analysis
EAC Stock Chart & Stats
- Day’s Range
- EUR 58.64 - EUR 59.30
- 52-Week Range
- EUR 48.82 - EUR 68.86
- Previous Close
- EUR 60.26
- Volume
- 0
- Average Volume (3M)
- 26
- Market Cap
- EUR 6.79B
- Enterprise Value
- EUR 12.33B
- Total Cash (Recent Filing)
- EUR 691.00M
- Total Debt (Recent Filing)
- EUR 5.22B
- Price to Earnings (P/E)
- 11.7
- Beta
- 0.86
- Next Earnings
- Feb 04, 2027
- EPS Estimate
- 1.15
- Next Dividend Ex-Date
- N/A
- Dividend Yield
- 4.94%
Bulls Say, Bears Say
Bulls Say
Differentiated Specialty Materials And Innovation
Eastman’s specialty portfolio and application-focused innovation support differentiation beyond basic chemical volume. Growth in automotive interlayers, Renew, and Tritan applications can deepen customer relationships, improve product mix, and create more durable demand as new applications scale.
Circular Growth Supported By DOE Funding
DOE support materially improves the economics of Eastman’s circular expansion by reducing required capital investment. The related methanolysis capacity, recycled-content offerings, and major-brand opportunities could strengthen long-term growth while allowing the company to pursue sustainability demand more efficiently.
Positive Cash Generation And Solid Balance Sheet
Eastman continues to generate substantial operating and free cash flow despite weaker earnings, providing resources for capital investment, debt service, and shareholder returns. Multi-year equity growth and generally solid leverage also provide a useful financial base for navigating cyclical demand.
Bears Say
Material Profitability And Earnings Compression
The decline in gross, EBIT, and net margins indicates that Eastman’s current earnings power is materially below recent historical levels. Lower profitability reduces internal funding capacity and makes future returns more dependent on a sustained recovery in product mix, volumes, and price-cost performance.
Exposure To Weak Cyclical End Markets
Eastman remains exposed to cyclical markets where weaker vehicle production, housing activity, and consumer affordability can suppress volumes across several segments. Customer caution and destocking may prolong the recovery, limiting operating leverage and keeping revenue growth vulnerable over the next several quarters.
Ongoing Pricing Pressure In Acetate Tow
Further acetate tow price declines can compress revenue quality and margins even if volumes improve. Management expects earnings to remain stable, but continued contract repricing leaves the fibers business reliant on higher utilization, market-share recovery, and growth programs to offset lower realized pricing.
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Company Description
Eastman Chemical
Eastman Chemical Company functions as a worldwide provider of specialized materials. Its Additives & Functional Products division offers a comprehensive range, including hydrocarbon and rosin resins, organic acid-based solutions, and amine-derived building blocks. This segment also provides agricultural chemicals like metam-based soil fumigants, thiram and ziram fungicides, and plant growth regulators. Additional offerings include specialty coalescents, various commodity and specialty solvents, paint additives, specialty polymers, heat transfer and aviation fluids, and rubber additives such as insoluble sulfur and anti-degradants, along with performance resins. These products cater to diverse sectors such as transportation, personal care, wellness, food, agriculture, construction, water treatment, energy, consumables, durables, and electronics. The Advanced Materials segment produces high-performance products including copolyesters, cellulosic biopolymers, cellulose esters, and polyvinyl butyral (PVB) sheets. It further supplies a variety of window and protective films, including those applied aftermarket, for high-value applications in transportation, consumer durables, electronics, building and construction, medical, pharmaceutical, and general consumables markets. Through its Chemical Intermediates segment, Eastman delivers essential chemical building blocks. This encompasses methylamines and their salts, various higher amines and solvents, olefin and acetyl derivatives, ethylene, and both primary phthalate and non-phthalate plasticizers, including specialized non-phthalate alternatives. These intermediates are vital for industrial chemical processes, construction, health and wellness products, and agrochemical formulations. Lastly, the Fibers segment is a significant producer of cellulose acetate tow, triacetin, cellulose acetate flake, acetic acid, and acetic anhydride, primarily for filtration media, notably cigarette filters. It also furnishes natural and solution-dyed acetate yarns for consumables and health and wellness markets, alongside wet-laid nonwoven media, specialty engineered papers, and cellulose acetate fibers for the transportation, industrial, agriculture, mining, and aerospace industries. Eastman Chemical Company was founded in 1920 and is headquartered in Kingsport, Tennessee.
- Sector
- Basicmaterials
- Industry
- Chemicals - Specialty
- CEO
- Mark J. Costa
- Employees
- 13,000
- Website
- www.eastman.com
- Address
- 200 South Wilcox Drive, Kingsport, TN, 37662, US
Eastman Chemical (EAC) Earnings & Revenues
EAC Company Deck
EAC Earnings Call
Earnings Call SentimentPositive
The call was broadly positive. Management highlighted the reinstated DOE grant, lower-capital circular expansion, strong innovation-driven volume growth, record earnings expectations for AFP and functional amines, the high-return metathesis project, and expected 2027 volume and cash-flow improvement. These positives outweighed challenges including macroeconomic weakness, automotive and construction declines, Q4 price-cost and Chemical Intermediates pressure, project delays, elevated working capital, and acetate tow pricing declines.
View all DE:EAC earnings summariesEAC Net sales Breakdown
- 32.91% Advanced Materials
- 32.91% Additives & Functional Products
- 21.99% Chemical Intermediates
- 12.00% Fibers
- 0.19% Other
EAC Stock 12 Month Forecast
Average Price Target
Technical Analysis
Overall Consensus
| Indicator | Bullish | Neutral | Bearish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall Consensus | 13 | 3 | 6 |
| Technical Analysis | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| Moving Averages | 9 | 0 | 3 |