Basic Materials
Eastman Chemical Company(EMN)
Live Price
Offline$75.22
+2.59% today
1Y Change
-3.41%
Window
Jun 25, 2025 โ Jun 16, 2026
- Market Cap
- $8.84B
- Revenue Growth
- -6.7%
- EPS Growth
- -46.7%
- Dividend Yield
- 4.3%
Coverage: 245 bars ยท Jun 25, 2025 โ Jun 16, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Eastman Chemical Company (EMN) is a Basic Materials stock with a market cap of $8.84B and listed on NYSE. The stock last traded around $75.22 and down 3.4% across the available one-year price window (Jun 25, 2025 โ Jun 16, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of -6.7%, EPS growth of -46.7%, a dividend yield of 4.3%. What stands out right now is revenue -6.7%, EPS -46.7%, free cash flow -38.4% with operating margin 9.4% and ROIC 5.4%. The dividend matters to the case here, with a current yield around 4.3%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at P/E 22.1 and price/sales 1.0. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a turnaround or cyclical reset than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines EMN price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Basic Materials peers on this page.
Sector Context
How this name stacks up against nearby peers on first-pass metrics.
Revenue Growth
Below sector median
-6.7% vs 0.0% peer median
Operating Margin
Near sector median
+9.4% vs +10.5% peer median
What Changed This Quarter
Latest report context and the signals most likely to have changed the story.
Latest report is on the board
2026 was reported on Apr 23, 2026, but the surprise data is still limited.
The operating picture looks softer than before
Revenue is at -6.7% and EPS is at -46.7%, with operating margin around 9.4%.
Shareholder return is still part of the story
The stock is still offering a dividend yield around 4.3%, which matters if the thesis depends on income as much as growth.
Earnings Reaction Memory
How the stock has tended to move after recent reports.
Across the last 3 reported quarters, the stock averaged +6.1% over the next 5 trading days and finished higher after 3 of those reports.
View quarter-by-quarter reaction table
| Quarter | EPS ฮ | 1D | 5D | 20D |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2026 Apr 23, 2026 | โ | +0.1% | +1.6% | +1.8% |
2026 Jan 29, 2026 | -1.3% | +0.5% | +10.3% | +9.5% |
2025 Nov 3, 2025 | -1.7% | +4.9% | +6.3% | +5.4% |
Benchmark Edge
EMN vs SPY, QQQ, and Sector ETFs
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
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Normalized return
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Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
EMN Max Drawdown
-30.89%
Trailing 1Y
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Calendar-Year Returns
Uses the longest available daily history for EMN and SPY.
Company Overview
Eastman Chemical Company
New York Stock Exchange
Eastman Chemical Company operates as a specialty materials company in the United States and internationally. The company's Additives & Functional Products segment offers hydrocarbon and rosin resins; organic acid-based solutions; amine derivative-based building blocks; metam-based soil fumigants, thiram and ziram based fungicides, and plant growth regulators; specialty coalescent, specialty and commodity solvents, paint additives, and specialty polymers; heat transfer and aviation fluids; insoluble sulfur and anti-degradant rubber additives; and performance resins. It serves transportation, personal care, wellness, food, feed, agriculture, building and construction, water treatment, energy, consumables, durables, and electronics markets. Its Advanced Materials segment provides copolyesters, cellulosic biopolymers, cellulose esters, polyvinyl butyral (PVB) sheets, and window and protective films, and aftermarket applied film products for value-added end uses in the transportation, durables, electronics, building and construction, medical and pharma, and consumables markets. The company's Chemical Intermediates segment offers methylamines and salts higher amines and solvents; Olefin and acetyl derivatives, ethylene, and commodity solvents; and primary non-phthalate and phthalate plasticizers, and niche non- phthalate plasticizers to the industrial chemicals and processing, building and construction, health and wellness, and agrochemicals. Its Fibers segment provides cellulose acetate tow, triacetin, cellulose acetate flake, acetic acid, and acetic anhydride for use in filtration media primarily cigarette filters; natural and solution dyed acetate yarns for use in consumables, and health and wellness markets; and wet-laid nonwoven media, specialty and engineered papers, and cellulose acetate fibers for transportation, industrial, agriculture and mining, and aerospace markets. Eastman Chemical Company was founded in 1920 and is headquartered in Kingsport, Tennessee.
- Leadership
- Mark J. Costa
- IPO Date
- Dec 14, 1993
- Employees
- 14.0k
- Street Address
- 200 South Wilcox Drive
- Mailing
- Kingsport, TN, 37662
- Region
- Kingsport, TN, US
- Reporting Currency
- USD
- Investor Line
- 423 229 2000
- Last Updated
- Apr 28, 2026
Key Fundamentals
Valuation, growth, profitability, and balance sheet signals.
Valuation
- P/E
- 22.1
- EV/EBITDA
- 11.3
- Price/Sales
- 1.0
- Price/Book
- 1.5
Growth
- Revenue
- -6.7%
- EPS
- -46.7%
- Free Cash Flow
- -38.4%
Profitability
- Gross Margin
- 19.8%
- Operating Margin
- 9.4%
- Net Margin
- 4.6%
- ROE
- 6.8%
- ROIC
- 5.4%
Balance Sheet
- Debt/Equity
- 0.89
- Current Ratio
- 1.47
Earnings Reports
Latest News
Official Releases
Company announcements and filings-style updates.
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