Avient Announces First Quarter 2026 Results

CLEVELAND, May 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Avient Corporation (NYSE: AVNT), an innovator of materials solutions, today announced its first quarter results for 2026. First quarter GAAP earnings per share (EPS) were $0.61 compared to ($0.22) in the prior year quarter. 

The company noted that first quarter 2026 GAAP EPS includes special items of $0.06 and intangible amortization expense of $0.16 (see attachment 1).

First quarter 2026 adjusted EPS was $0.83 compared to $0.76 in the prior year quarter, reflecting 9% growth in adjusted EPS.

"Once again our teams successfully navigated a complex and ever-changing environment with agility to deliver these results," said Dr. Ashish Khandpur, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Avient Corporation.

"Our first quarter results also reflect the team's strong execution on driving productivity improvement and disciplined cost control, which enabled expansion of adjusted EBITDA margins by 20 basis points to 17.7%. Our teams remain focused on serving our customers, securing raw material supply, and have been proactively working to mitigate the costs of inflation from the ongoing situation in the Middle East and from macro-economic uncertainty," added Dr. Khandpur.

2026 Outlook

"We have a proven track record of successfully managing through volatile environments and supply chain constraints, as we demonstrated during the post-pandemic period in 2021 and 2022, as well as responding to the tariff policy changes in 2025. Accordingly, we expect second quarter adjusted EPS of $0.89, which represents 11% growth over the prior year quarter," said Jamie Beggs, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.

"Our performance expectations for the first half of the year are slightly better-than-expected compared to the beginning of the year.  With that said, the outlook for the second half of the year is less certain, so we are maintaining our full year guidance of adjusted EBITDA of $555 to $585 million and adjusted EPS of $2.93 to $3.17," said Ms. Beggs.

Dr. Khandpur added, "Our strategy has enabled us to deliver consistent results and grow earnings in 2024 and 2025. We remain committed to growing full year earnings again in 2026, while continuing to also invest in our prioritized growth vectors to keep advancing our longer-term plans."

Webcast Details

Avient will provide additional details on its 2026 first quarter and its 2026 full year outlook during its webcast scheduled for 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time on May 7, 2026.

The webcast can be viewed live at avient.com/investors, or by clicking on the webcast link here. Conference call participants in the question and answer session should pre-register using the link at avient.com/investors, or here, to receive the dial-in number and personal PIN.  This information is required to access the conference call.  The question-and-answer session will follow the company's presentation and prepared remarks.

A recording of the webcast and the slide presentation will be available at avient.com/investors/events-presentations immediately following the conference call and will be accessible for one year.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

The Company uses both GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) and non-GAAP financial measures. The non-GAAP financial measures include organic performance (which excludes the impact of foreign exchange), adjusted EPS, adjusted operating income, adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA margins, free cash flow and adjusted free cash flow. Avient's chief operating decision maker uses these financial measures to monitor and evaluate the ongoing performance of the Company and each business segment and to allocate resources.

The Company does not provide reconciliations of forward-looking non-GAAP financial measures, such as adjusted EPS, adjusted EBITDA and free cash flow, to the most comparable GAAP financial measures on a forward-looking basis because the Company is unable to provide a meaningful or accurate calculation or estimation of reconciling items, and the information is not available without unreasonable effort. This is due to the inherent difficulty of forecasting the timing and amount of certain items, such as, but not limited to, environmental remediation costs and associated recoveries, mark-to-market adjustments on pension and other post-retirement obligations, acquisition-related charges, and other non-routine costs. Each of such adjustments has not yet occurred, are out of the Company's control and/or cannot be reasonably predicted. For the same reasons, the Company is unable to address the probable significance of the unavailable information.

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About Avient

Our purpose at Avient Corporation (NYSE: AVNT) is to be an innovator of materials solutions that help our customers succeed, while enabling a sustainable world.  Our local touch and customer engagement, combined with our global presence, allows us to serve customers with agility.  We harness the collective strength of more than 9,000 employees worldwide to collaborate and build on each other's ideas.  In doing so, we innovate solutions that help our customers overcome their challenges or capitalize on opportunities provided by the fast-changing world and secular trends. Our expanding portfolio of offerings includes colorants, advanced composites, functional additives, engineered materials, and Dyneema®, the world's strongest fiber™.  By intersecting our broad portfolio of technologies with the product roadmaps of our customers, we help create differentiated and high-performance products that make the world better and more sustainable. Visit www.avient.com to learn more.

Forward-looking Statements

In this press release, statements that are not reported financial results or other historical information are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements give current expectations or forecasts of future events and are not guarantees of future performance. They are based on management's expectations that involve a number of business risks and uncertainties, any of which could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in or implied by the forward-looking statements. They use words such as "will," "anticipate," "estimate," "expect," "project," "intend," "plan," "believe," and other words and terms of similar meaning in connection with any discussion of future operating or financial condition, performance and/or sales. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those implied by these forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to: disruptions, uncertainty or volatility in the global credit markets that could adversely impact the availability of credit already arranged and the availability and cost of credit in the future; the effect on foreign operations of currency fluctuations, tariffs and other political, economic and regulatory risks; disruptions or inefficiencies in our supply chain, logistics, or operations; changes in laws and regulations in jurisdictions where we conduct business, including with respect to plastics and climate change; changes to foreign trade policy, including new or increased tariffs and changing import/export regulation; fluctuations in raw material prices, quality and supply, and in energy prices and supply; demand for our products and services; production outages or material costs associated with scheduled or unscheduled maintenance programs; unanticipated developments that could occur with respect to contingencies such as litigation and environmental matters; our ability to pay regular quarterly cash dividends and the amounts and timing of any future dividends; information systems failures, cybersecurity breaches and cyberattacks; our ability to service our indebtedness and restrictions on our current and future operations due to our indebtedness; amounts for cash and non-cash charges related to restructuring plans that may differ from original estimates, including because of timing changes associated with the underlying actions; and other factors affecting our business beyond our control, including without limitation, changes in the general economy, changes in interest rates, changes in the rate of inflation, geopolitical conflicts and any recessionary conditions. The above list of factors is not exhaustive.

Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which such statement is made, and we undertake no obligation to publicly update forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. You are advised to consult any further disclosures we make on related subjects in our reports on Form 10-Q, 8-K and 10-K that we provide to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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