Avient Corporation (AVNT) Earnings: Q3 2026 Results

The quarter ended September 30, 2026 and Avient published the results on November 4, 2026. Revenue and diluted EPS are shown against Q3 2025, the same quarter a year earlier, which takes seasonal swings out of the comparison. Avient reports EPS two ways: GAAP, under the accounting rules every US filer follows, and adjusted EPS, which leaves out items the company considers outside its operating results. The release reconciles the two, and when they diverge, the reconciliation says why.

• Avient calls its revenue line sales. The Corporate row carries intersegment sales eliminations, as Avient's segment table presents it.
• Avient's GAAP results for the first nine months of 2025 included an $86.3 million impairment of a cloud-based enterprise resource planning system, which it treats as a special item. Special items cut nine-month 2025 diluted EPS by $1.06.

Source: Avient Q3 2026 results, November 4, 2026. Also in the Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2026. Figures as reported; checked against the release on November 10, 2026.

How Avient splits revenue in its own release, under its own labels, for Q3 2026 against Q3 2025. Indented lines are parts of the line above them.

• Avient's Color, Additives and Inks revenue was $552 million in Q3 2026, up 8% from $510 million in Q3 2025, 62% of total revenue.
• Avient's Specialty Engineered Materials revenue was $341 million in Q3 2026, up 14% from $298 million in Q3 2025, 38% of total revenue.

Segment lines are the figures writers cite most often, because they show where the growth in a quarter came from. Companies redraw their segments from time to time and restate the prior year to match, so a year-ago figure here can differ from the one printed a year ago. When that has happened, the note above says so.

From the earnings release

In its Q3 2026 release (Joe Di Salvo, CFO), Avient said:

“Supported by our year-to-date results and visibility into fourth quarter demand, we are narrowing our full-year 2026 adjusted EBITDA guidance to $593 to $603 million and raising our adjusted EPS guidance to $3.22 to $3.32, representing 9% to 11% adjusted EBITDA growth and 14% to 18% adjusted EPS growth for the year”

“We expect to end 2026 with net debt to adjusted EBITDA leverage ratio of 2.2x to 2.3x.”

Source: Avient Q3 2026 release, Nov 4, 2026.

This is the company's own guidance as of Nov 4, 2026, quoted as given. Walnut does not make forecasts of its own. Analyst estimates for the coming quarters are on the AVNT forecast page.

Revenue and diluted EPS for the last 5 quarters. Each date links to that quarter's release.

GAAP sales and diluted EPS, each as first reported in that quarter's release.

We do not hold a confirmed date for Avient's next report. Companies post the date on their investor relations site a few weeks ahead, usually with the time of the conference call.

Each quarter keeps its own page with the figures as reported, so a link to one stays pointed at the same numbers after the next report.

• Q3 2026 (this page), reported Nov 4, 2026

Avient reports sales in two segments. In Q3 2026 Color, Additives and Inks brought in $551.5 million and Specialty Engineered Materials $340.6 million, for total sales of $891.2 million after a Corporate line of $(0.9) million. Total sales grew 10.5%, with a negative 0.1% impact from foreign exchange, so organic sales growth was 10.6%. (Avient Q3 2026 release, Nov 4, 2026)

Avient's 10-Q puts the growth down to demand for its growth vectors, favorable sales mix and pricing actions to offset inflation in raw materials, wages, freight and energy. Packaging, its largest end market, contributed 2.5% to total sales growth; building & construction, industrial and consumer each contributed approximately 1.5%, and energy 1.0%. (Avient Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Nov 4, 2026)

Demand for high-performance computing and electronic applications and for functional additives drove the growth vector gains, while building & construction and energy sales rose on commercial infrastructure investment, according to the 10-Q. Specialty Engineered Materials sales rose from $297.7 million a year earlier. (Avient Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Nov 4, 2026; Avient Q3 2026 release, Nov 4, 2026)

Avient describes itself as an innovator of materials solutions between large chemical producers and the companies that process polymers. Its 2025 sales were $3.3 billion, approximately 61% of them to customers outside the United States, from 98 manufacturing sites, and its portfolio includes colorants, advanced composites, functional additives, engineered materials and Dyneema fiber. (Avient Form 10-K, 2025, Feb 17, 2026; Avient Q3 2026 release, Nov 4, 2026)

Avient's GAAP diluted EPS was $0.46 and adjusted EPS $0.86 in Q3 2026. The gap is special items of $0.23 per share and intangible amortization of $0.17. Special items before tax totaled $26.0 million, mostly $19.1 million of environmental remediation costs and $5.6 million of restructuring costs. (Avient Q3 2026 release, Nov 4, 2026)

Adjusted EPS rose 23% from $0.70 and beat Avient's own adjusted EPS guidance of $0.80, which the company put down primarily to better-than-expected sales growth. Interest expense, net fell to $22.7 million from $24.2 million after Avient repaid $50 million of debt in the quarter and $100 million year to date. (Avient Q3 2026 release, Nov 4, 2026)

Diluted shares were 92.4 million, against 91.8 million a year earlier. After quarter end Avient repurchased 281,000 shares for approximately $10.9 million, its first buyback since 2022. (Avient Q3 2026 release, Nov 4, 2026)

Diluted EPS divides net income by the weighted average number of shares outstanding in the quarter, plus the shares that options and other equity awards could add. Buybacks shrink that count and lift EPS for the same profit; share issuance and stock awards enlarge it.

Avient gives a full-year outlook in its release. With Q3 2026 it raised full-year adjusted EPS guidance to $3.22 to $3.32 from $3.10 to $3.25, or 14% to 18% growth, and narrowed adjusted EBITDA guidance to $593 to $603 million. It expects to end 2026 with net debt to adjusted EBITDA of 2.2x to 2.3x. (Avient Q3 2026 release, Nov 4, 2026)

Avient does not reconcile its forward-looking adjusted EPS and adjusted EBITDA to GAAP, saying items such as environmental remediation costs and pension mark-to-market adjustments cannot be reasonably predicted. (Avient Q3 2026 release, Nov 4, 2026)

A consensus figure is the average of the models published by the analysts who cover Avient, collected by a data provider and revised up to the day of the report. A quarter that lands above it says how expectations were set as much as how the business did, and the share price on the day also reflects the guidance and the lines no consensus covers.

The consensus figures on this page are Yahoo Finance's, as pulled on the date shown. Each comes with the number of analysts behind it; the smaller that number, the more one revised estimate can move the average.

The figures below are the ones Avient's own release and filings put weight on for Q3 2026, with the latest reported value for each.

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• The quarterly report (Form 10-Q) follows within a few weeks and carries the full financial statements, the segment note and management's discussion of what changed. The fourth quarter is covered by the annual report (Form 10-K) instead.
• Restated comparisons are flagged in the notes on this page. When a company redraws its segments or changes how it adjusts EPS, it restates the year-ago column, so the year-ago figure in a new release can differ from the one printed a year ago. This page always uses the comparison in the newer release, because that is the like-for-like one.

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