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Equity Bottom-Up

Celanese Corp Series A / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Celanese Corporation recently concluded its Q4 2024 earnings call, led by CEO Scott Richardson and CFO Chuck Kyrish.</li><li>The company has been taking proactive measures to enhance performance amidst industry challenges.</li><li>The leadership's focus has been on cash generation, cost reduction, and strategic divestitures, as reflected in the company’s actions over the past quarters.</li></ul>

Celanese Corporation recently concluded its Q4 2024 earnings call, led by CEO Scott Richardson and CFO Chuck Kyrish.The company has been taking proactive measures to enhance performance amidst industry challenges.The leadership's focus has been on cash generation, cost reduction, and strategic divestitures, as reflected in the company’s actions over the past quarters.

Celanese's Strategic Shake-Up: New Board, New Markets, New Era of Dominance?

<ul><li>Celanese Corporation's third-quarter 2024 performance was notably impacted by challenging macroeconomic conditions, leading to results that fell short of expectations.</li><li>Despite efforts to sustain value creation, the company faced persistent headwinds that necessitated a strategic shift, including the significant decision to temporarily reduce its quarterly dividend starting from the first quarter of 2025.</li><li>This move, while carefully considered, is intended to support the company's deleveraging efforts amidst ongoing economic pressures.</li></ul>

Celanese Corporation's third-quarter 2024 performance was notably impacted by challenging macroeconomic conditions, leading to results that fell short of expectations.Despite efforts to sustain value creation, the company faced persistent headwinds that necessitated a strategic shift, including the significant decision to temporarily reduce its quarterly dividend starting from the first quarter of 2025.This move, while carefully considered, is intended to support the company's deleveraging efforts amidst ongoing economic pressures.

Celanese Corporation: Will Its Cost Optimization & Synergy Realization Be A Potential Game Changer? - Major Drivers

<ul><li>Celanese Corporation, a global chemical and specialty materials company, reported its financial outcomes for the second quarter of 2024, revealing a mix of predictable challenges and strategic adjustments aimed at maintaining stable performance amidst varied market conditions.</li><li>Positively, Celanese showcased resilience via strategic management of its engineered materials segment and its acetyls mix.</li><li>The company noted a steady demand in automotive applications, benefiting partly from synergy realizations following its integration of DuPont's mobility and materials unit.</li></ul>

Celanese Corporation, a global chemical and specialty materials company, reported its financial outcomes for the second quarter of 2024, revealing a mix of predictable challenges and strategic adjustments aimed at maintaining stable performance amidst varied market conditions.Positively, Celanese showcased resilience via strategic management of its engineered materials segment and its acetyls mix.The company noted a steady demand in automotive applications, benefiting partly from synergy realizations following its integration of DuPont's mobility and materials unit.

Celanese Corporation: Diversification and Stability of Portfolio Is Their Biggest Competitive Edge? - Major Drivers

<ul><li>In the Q1 2024 earnings, Celanese Corporation addressed a range of issues including their outlook on market trends and company-specific activities.</li><li>Starting with the macroeconomic outlook, CEO Lori Ryerkerk stated that the environment remains broadly unchanged from previous expectations.</li><li>Notably, they have not identified any significant positives or negatives in the quarter, with destocking trends appearing to be ending and order books stabilizing.</li></ul>

In the Q1 2024 earnings, Celanese Corporation addressed a range of issues including their outlook on market trends and company-specific activities.Starting with the macroeconomic outlook, CEO Lori Ryerkerk stated that the environment remains broadly unchanged from previous expectations.Notably, they have not identified any significant positives or negatives in the quarter, with destocking trends appearing to be ending and order books stabilizing.

Celanese Corporation: Expanding Capacity in Acetyls Chain and Engineered Materials & Other Major Drivers

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One, Periscope Analytics

Brian Freitas

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One

Periscope Analytics

Periscope Analytics focuses on event-driven trades across Asia Pacific and provides comprehensive, timely and systematic coverage of index changes to major Asia Pacific indices in a structured manner.

The analysis includes forecasted inclusions and exclusions to all major Asian indices that have significant amount of tracking assets, including estimates of passive buy/sell flow on the stocks. The service also provides commentary and impact of market consultations, ground rule changes, and other events (IPOs, spin-offs, M&A) that could lead to index changes and passive flow.

Periscope Analytics works with multi-strategy hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, stat arb trading groups and long-only investors that invest and trade in the Asia Pacific region with the data being used to trade index rebalances, avoid pre-positioning and passive flow, and to time entry into and exit from stocks.

Event-Driven Trades Across Asia Pacific

Index Rebalance

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<li>Constituent changes to the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/s-p-500-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:22886:1" rel="noopener">S&amp;P 500 INDEX</a> and capping changes will result in a round-trip trade of US$15.5bn across the Select Sector indices and the S&amp;P500 Equal Weight Index.</li>
<li>The Select Sector index trackers and S&amp;P500 Equal Weight trackers will need to buy the adds to the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/s-p-500-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:22886:1" rel="noopener">S&amp;P500 INDEX</a> and sell the deletes, further increasing flow for the stocks.</li>
<li>The <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/vaneck-vectors-semiconductor" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:32807:1" rel="noopener">VanEck Vectors Semiconductor (SMH US)</a> ETF will be selling <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/broadcom-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:998:1" rel="noopener">Broadcom (AVGO US)</a> at the same time as the Select Sector and S&amp;P500 Equal Weight Index trackers.</li>
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Constituent changes to the S&amp;P 500 INDEX and capping changes will result in a round-trip trade of US$15.5bn across the Select Sector indices and the S&amp;P500 Equal Weight Index.
The Select Sector index trackers and S&amp;P500 Equal Weight trackers will need to buy the adds to the S&amp;P500 INDEX and sell the deletes, further increasing flow for the stocks.
The VanEck Vectors Semiconductor (SMH US) ETF will be selling Broadcom (AVGO US) at the same time as the Select Sector and S&amp;P500 Equal Weight Index trackers.


Select Sector Indices and S&P Equal Weight Rebalance: US$15.5bn Flow Post Capping

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Celanese Corporation is a global integrated producer of chemicals and advanced materials. The Company's products include acetyl, acetate, vinyl emulsion, and engineered polymers. Celanese Corp's operations are primarily located in North America, Europe and Asia.

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Celanese Corp Series A (CE US)

Celanese's Strategic Shake-Up: New Board, New Markets, New Era of Dominance?

Celanese Corporation recently concluded its Q4 2024 earnings call, led by CEO Scott Richardson and CFO Chuck Kyrish. The company has been taking...

Baptista Research

Celanese Corporation: Will Its Cost Optimization & Synergy Realization Be A Potential Game Changer? - Major Drivers

Celanese Corporation's third-quarter 2024 performance was notably impacted by challenging macroeconomic conditions, leading to results that fell...

Baptista Research

Celanese Corporation: Diversification and Stability of Portfolio Is Their Biggest Competitive Edge? - Major Drivers

Celanese Corporation, a global chemical and specialty materials company, reported its financial outcomes for the second quarter of 2024, revealing...

Baptista Research

Celanese Corporation: Expanding Capacity in Acetyls Chain and Engineered Materials & Other Major Drivers

In the Q1 2024 earnings, Celanese Corporation addressed a range of issues including their outlook on market trends and company-specific...

Baptista Research

Select Sector Indices and S&P Equal Weight Rebalance: US$15.5bn Flow Post Capping

Constituent changes to the S&P 500 Index and capping changes will result in a round-trip trade of US$15.45bn across the Select Sector indices and...

Brian Freitas

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