Eastman Chemical sees FY25 EPS $8.00-$8.75, consensus $8.46

Commenting on the outlook for full-year 2025, Costa said: “As we begin 2025, the global economic and geopolitical environment remains highly uncertain. Despite this uncertainty, we are confident in our ability to generate growth across our portfolio as we build upon a strong year in 2024. First, we expect modest volume growth in our specialty businesses, and we will continue to leverage our innovation-driven growth model to deliver growth above underlying challenged market trends. Across our consumer discretionary end markets, we are not projecting any underlying demand improvement in 2025. Across our more stable markets, we are projecting modest demand growth. A key driver of our innovative growth will be our circular platform as we remain on track with our 2025 commitments of $75 million-$100 million EBITDA growth shared recently at our Circular Deep Dive event. And finally, we will reduce structural costs to more than offset inflation while continuing to invest in growth and capabilities for long-term value creation. Partially offsetting these factors include headwinds related to higher energy costs, a stronger U.S. dollar, and customer inventory management in the Fibers business. Taking this together, we expect 2025 EPS to be between $8.00-$8.75 and for 2025 cash from operations to be approximately $1.3 billion.”