Eastman Chemical Company is a global chemical company with a broad portfolio of chemical, plastic, and fiber products. The company manufactures and sells chemicals and specialty polymers supplied to the inks, coatings, adhesives, sealants, and textile industries; fine chemicals; performance chemicals and intermediates; specialty plastics; polyester plastics such as polyethylene terephthalate sold under the trademark EASTAPAK polymers; and fibers.
Looking at a few key industries, such as chemical manufacturing, one can usually summarize the strength of a nation’s economy. So many industries rely on the raw products of these companies. Fuel additives and detergents are probably the most common encounter we have with products from these firms. They also produce pharmaceuticals, polymers, resins, monomers, plastics, agricultural chemicals, and industrial gases. Just a few of the industries that use these items are aerospace, beverage, electronic, food processing, automotive, and construction.
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| Totals |
Company |
Industry |
| Sales: |
$5,047.0 Mil |
$141,648.6 Mil |
| Market Cap: |
$11,351.3 Mil |
$179,392.4 Mil |
| Analysts Recommendation: |
Buy |
Buy |
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| Averages |
Company |
Industry |
 |
| Growth |
| Historic Revenue: |
(25.0%) |
(18.9%) |
| Estimated Revenue: |
N/A |
N/A |
| Historic Earnings: |
(19.3%) |
(22.2%) |
| Estimated Earnings: |
47.1% |
56.6% |
| Stock Price (1 Year): |
57.9% |
22.1% |
| Cash per Share: |
104.4% |
73.4% |
| Dividend: |
(31.8%) |
48.3% |
| Price |
| Trailing PE: |
21.2 |
23.3 |
| Forward PE: |
10.2 |
13.6 |
| Price-to-Sales: |
1.3 |
N/A |
| Price-to-Book: |
3.5 |
6.4 |
| Dividend Yield: |
1.7% |
2.2% |
| Market Cap: |
$11,351.3 Mil |
$22,424.0 Mil |
| Operations |
| Net Margin: |
10.3% |
10.8% |
| Gross Margin: |
20.9% |
27.5% |
| Return on Equity: |
.1 |
.3 |
| Return on Assets: |
.0 |
.1 |
| Balance Sheet |
| Current Ratio: |
2.2 |
1.8 |
| Quick Ratio: |
1.5 |
1.2 |
| Cash Ratio: |
1.0 |
.4 |
| Debt-to-Equity: |
2.6 |
3.8 |
| Interest Coverage: |
(.2) |
.1 |
| Technicals |
| Relative-Strength Index: |
57.6 |
N/A |
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