Arkema (AKEN) Stock Price & Analysis
AKEN Stock Chart & Stats
- Day’s Range
- MXN 1,152.71 - MXN 1,152.71
- 52-Week Range
- MXN 1,113.00 - MXN 1,336.00
- Previous Close
- MXN 1,152.71
- Volume
- 0
- Average Volume (3M)
- 0
- Market Cap
- MXN 90.21B
- Enterprise Value
- MXN 9.45B
- Total Cash (Recent Filing)
- MXN 1.47B
- Total Debt (Recent Filing)
- MXN 4.27B
- Price to Earnings (P/E)
- 329.7
- Beta
- -0.16
- Next Earnings
- Nov 05, 2026 (Est.)
- EPS Estimate
- 27.59
- Next Dividend Ex-Date
- N/A
- Dividend Yield
- 6.08%
Bulls Say, Bears Say
Bulls Say
Revenue Rebound
The strong TTM revenue rebound indicates renewed demand across Arkema’s markets and provides a broader sales base for recovery. If sustained, higher volume can improve capacity utilization, support customer relationships, and create operating leverage as specialty-materials demand normalizes.
Positive Cash Generation
Arkema continues to generate substantial operating and free cash flow despite weak reported profitability. This internally generated liquidity supports investment, debt service, and shareholder distributions, giving the company a practical funding base while it works to rebuild margins.
Differentiated Specialty Materials
The specialty-materials model can provide more durable customer relationships than commodity chemical sales because products are embedded in applications and require qualification. Technical support, differentiated performance, and switching costs can protect repeat demand and pricing power over time.
Bears Say
Severely Compressed Profitability
Near-break-even net profitability leaves little cushion against operating setbacks and limits the earnings benefit of the revenue rebound. Lower gross, EBIT, and EBITDA margins versus prior years suggest that pricing, product mix, or cost conditions have weakened the quality and durability of earnings.
Higher Leverage And Weaker Returns
Rising leverage combined with very low ROE indicates that Arkema is carrying more balance-sheet risk while generating less profit from shareholder capital. This reduces financial flexibility for investment or downturn protection and makes a sustained earnings recovery more important to balance-sheet resilience.
Weaker Cash-flow Trajectory
Positive absolute cash generation is being offset by a declining trajectory and weaker conversion from reported earnings. If this persists, Arkema may have less internally generated funding for growth, deleveraging, and distributions, increasing reliance on operational improvement to sustain financial flexibility.
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Company Description
Arkema
Arkema S.A. operates as a global producer and distributor of specialty chemicals and advanced materials. Its operations are strategically divided into four key business segments: Adhesive Solutions, Advanced Materials, Coating Solutions, and Intermediates. Through its Adhesive Solutions segment, Arkema delivers bonding products essential for construction, building renovation, DIY projects, durable consumer goods, and various packaging and non-woven applications. This encompasses sealants, tiling and flooring adhesives, and waterproofing systems for both professional and individual users. Industrially, these solutions are vital for sectors like automotive, textiles, glazing, flexible and rigid packaging, and hygiene. The Advanced Materials division focuses on high-performance polymers like specialty polyamides and polyvinylidene fluoride, alongside a range of performance additives. These additives, including specialty surfactants, molecular sieves, organic peroxides, thiochemicals, and hydrogen peroxide, find critical applications across diverse industries. These span automotive and transportation, oil and gas, renewable energy, consumer products, electronics, construction, protective coatings, animal feed, and water treatment. Within Coating Solutions, Arkema supplies a comprehensive array of products, such as acrylics and coating resins for both European and North American markets. This segment also features Sartomer photocure resins and Coatex rheology additives, as well as decorative paints, industrial coatings, and adhesives. Its offerings cater to diverse industries, including paper manufacturing, superabsorbent materials, water treatment, oil and gas extraction, 3D printing, and electronics. Finally, the Intermediates segment delivers essential industrial chemicals, including fluorogases and acrylics. These are crucial for a variety of applications in construction, refrigeration and air conditioning, automotive manufacturing, coatings, and water treatment. Established in 2003, Arkema S.A. maintains its headquarters in Colombes, France.
- Sector
- General
- Industry
- Chemicals - Specialty
- CEO
- Thierry Le Henaff
- Employees
- 20,648
- Website
- www.arkema.com
- Address
- 51 Esplanade du Général de Gaulle, Puteaux, IF, 92907, FR
Arkema (AKEN) Earnings & Revenues
AKEN Stock 12 Month Forecast
Average Price Target
Technical Analysis
Overall Consensus
| Indicator | Bullish | Neutral | Bearish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall Consensus | 9 | 1 | 5 |
| Technical Analysis | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Moving Averages | 7 | 1 | 4 |









