Avient (AVNT) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

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DATE

Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026 astatine 8:00 a.m. ET

CALL PARTICIPANTS

• Investor Relations - Patrick Davis

• Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer - Dr. Ashish Khandpur

• Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer - Joe Di Salvo

Full Conference Call Transcript

Operator: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and invited to Avient Corporation webcast to sermon the company's 2nd 4th 2026 results. My sanction is Michelle, and I volition beryllium your relation for today. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this league is being recorded for replay purposes. I would present similar to crook the league implicit to Patrick Davis from Avient's Investor Relations team. Please spell ahead.

Patrick Davis: Thank you, and bully greeting to everyone joining america connected the telephone today. Before we begin, we would similar to punctual you that statements made during this webcast whitethorn beryllium considered forward-looking statements wrong the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements volition springiness existent expectations oregon forecasts of aboriginal events and are not guarantees of aboriginal performance. They're based connected management's anticipation and impact a fig of concern risks and uncertainties, immoderate of which could origin existent results to disagree materially from those expressed successful oregon implied by the forward-looking statements.

We promote you to reappraisal our astir caller reports, including our 10-K oregon immoderate applicable amendments for the implicit treatment of these factors and different risks that whitethorn impact our aboriginal results. During the treatment today, the institution volition usage some GAAP and non-GAAP fiscal measures. Please notation to the presumption posted successful the Investor Relations conception of the Avient website, wherever the institution describes the non-GAAP measures and provides a reconciliation for humanities non-GAAP fiscal measures to their astir straight comparable GAAP fiscal measures. A replay of this telephone volition beryllium disposable connected our website. Information to entree the replay is listed successful today's property release, which is disposable astatine avient.com successful the Investor Relations section.

On the telephone contiguous is our Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Ashish Khandpur; and Joe Di Salvo, Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer. I volition present manus the telephone implicit to Ashish to begin.

Ashish Khandpur: Thank you, Patrick, and bully morning, everyone. I privation to statesman by acknowledging the hard enactment of the full Avient squad and convey them for delivering a beardown quarter, which was a communicative of palmy execution, managing ostentation and navigating proviso concatenation disruptions. Our squad continues to execute with discipline, poise and determination nether a precise dynamic and volatile environment. In the 2nd quarter, our squad delivered $0.96 of adjusted EPS, $0.09 up of expectations, driven by better-than-expected measurement growth. Organic income grew 4.3% with double-digit summation successful adjusted EBITDA year-over-year. By remaining adjacent to our customers, we delivered profitable maturation crossed the portfolio.