CELANESE CORPORATION
In the published model solve dated 2026-Q2, anchored at $44.67, CELANESE CORPORATION (CE) is priced for +7.1% growth. boothcheck publishes no house fair value, target price, or buy/sell rating; individual model outputs and user-controlled scenarios are analytical inputs, not Boothcheck targets. The narrative was composed July 25, 2026 from SEC EDGAR filings.
• Across a full cycle Celanese has run operating margins of about 6.7%; over the trailing twelve months that same margin was -6.9%, and the distance between those two numbers is the entire investment case. • The balance sheet carries 14.5 billion dollars of debt, and even on through-cycle economics the operating profit covers the interest bill only about 0.9 times, with the 10-K warning that cash flow will ⟦"be dedicated to the payment of principal and interest on indebtedness"⟧ rather than to o
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452 institutional managers reported holding CE in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. 112 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Dodge & Cox, BlackRock, Vanguard Group, among others. On the short side, 7.5M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 7% of shares outstanding (4.7 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
CE has cut its share count 2.3% over the past five years, spending $500.00M on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (18 and counting). Cash returned over the past three years: $476.00M in dividends.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at CE over the trailing three years: 2024: 2 buys totaling $313k; 2025: 14 buys totaling $1.49M. 18 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
CE's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-09 | +1.1% | -1.7% |
| 2023-11-09 | -3.6% | +26.6% |
| 2024-02-24 | -0.5% | +3.4% |
| 2024-05-11 | -0.8% | -9.2% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
CE's latest 8-K filings: 2026-08-04 (items 7.01, 9.01); 2026-08-04 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-08-04 (items 1.01, 2.03, 9.01); 2026-06-10 (items 8.01); 2026-05-05 (items 7.01, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Dates link to the filing on EDGAR. Nothing here is investment advice.
Model solve date: 2026-Q2
Narrative composed: July 25, 2026
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