Avient (AVNT)

• Market cap: $3.37B
• 1 day: -1.42%
• 5 days: 8.94%
• 1 month: 11.89%
• 3 months: -12.42%
• 6 months: -29.38%
• Year to date: -8.59%
• 1 year: -19.30%
• 5 years: 63.12%
• 10 years: -8.16%
• Sector: Materials
• Industry: Specialty Chemicals

About: Avient Corp manufactures and sells various chemical and plastic-based products to designers and plastic processors. The firm operates in two segments: Color, Additives and Inks, and Specialty Engineered Materials. The company's product portfolio includes concentrated color and ink blends, plastic resins, and various specialized polymer materials used in industries such as food packaging, construction, transportation, cosmetics, and healthcare. The color, additives, & ink segment and the distribution segment together generate a vast majority of revenue. More than half of the total revenue is derived from the United States.

Employees: 9,200

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2024 Q4 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

19% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 44 | Existing positions closed: 37

15% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 128 | Existing positions reduced: 111

2.27% more ownership

Funds ownership: 95.51% [Q3] → 97.78% (+2.27%) [Q4]

1% more funds holding

Funds holding: 322 [Q3] → 325 (+3) [Q4]

0% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 3 [Q3] → 3 (+0) [Q4]

17% less capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $4.38B [Q3] → $3.65B (-$730M) [Q4]

69% less call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $360K | Put options by funds: $1.18M

Research analyst outlook

3 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

• Low target: $42 14% upside
• Avg. target: $49 34% upside
• High target: $56 52% upside

3 analyst ratings

• positive: 3 100%
• neutral: 0 0%
• negative: 0 0%

Wells Fargo Michael Sison 23% 1-year accuracy 13 / 56 met price target	14% upside $42	Overweight Maintained	7 May 2025
Seaport Global Matthew Harrison 45% 1-year accuracy 10 / 22 met price target	52% upside $56	Buy Upgraded	18 Feb 2025
Deutsche Bank David Huang 0% 1-year accuracy 0 / 3 met price target	36% upside $50	Buy Maintained	14 Feb 2025