Eastman Chemical beats Q3 profit estimates on higher sales
Oct 31 (Reuters) -Eastman Chemical EMN.N beat Wall Street estimates for third-quarter profit on Thursday, driven by higher revenues amid a pickup in global manufacturing activity and an end to destocking, while also tightening its full-year earnings outlook.
The company, however, flagged that due to normal seasonal volume declines across key end markets, fourth-quarter earnings before interest and taxes could be lower than those of the third quarter.
"After a year in which end-market demand was muted and showed little signs of improvement, we are projecting modest growth from a low base across most of our end markets in 2025 compared to 2024," the company said in its prepared remarks.
The chemicals industry, which had previously been dealing with high inventory that led to destocking, is now facing weaker demand in markets like China and Europe.
But U.S. manufacturing has held steady albeit at weaker levels in September, and new orders improved, which, together with falling interest rates, bode well for a rebound in activity in the coming months, benefiting companies like Eastman.
Eastman, which makes a vast range of chemicals used in manufacturing a variety of end-products in the construction, agricultural and automotive sectors, saw sales rise 8.7% to $2.46 billion.
Analysts were expecting $2.38 billion for the quarter ended Sept. 30, according to data compiled by LSEG.
The company saw most of its earnings come from the U.S. and Canada, where revenues grew 6.8% to $1.03 billion in the quarter.
Eastman tightened its full-year profit forecast to be in the range of $7.50 per share to $7.70 per share, from a prior forecast of $7.40 to $7.85 each, due to higher planned maintenance costs for their assets in the Advanced Materials segment.
The Tennessee-based firm posted an adjusted profit of $2.26 per share in the July-September quarter, compared with analysts' estimates of $2.14 per share, according to data compiled by LSEG.
Reporting by Seher Dareen in Bengaluru; editing by Alan Barona
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