Avient Announces Fifteenth Consecutive Annual Dividend Increase

CLEVELAND, Oct. 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of Avient Corporation (NYSE: AVNT), an innovator of materials solutions, has declared a quarterly cash dividend of twenty-seven and a half cents ($0.275) per share on the common stock outstanding, representing the fifteenth consecutive annual increase.

The $0.275 per share will be paid on January 7, 2026, to stockholders of record on December 12, 2025.  On an annualized basis, the dividend will increase from $1.08 to $1.10 per share on the common stock outstanding.

"We are pleased to raise our dividend for the fifteenth consecutive year," said Dr. Ashish Khandpur, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Avient Corporation. "Consistent with our disciplined capital allocation strategy, we remain committed to sharing profits with our shareholders supported by underlying earnings growth. At the same time, we are actively strengthening our balance sheet through debt reduction and investing in organic, profitable growth opportunities to deliver long-term shareholder value."

About Avient

Our purpose at Avient Corporation (NYSE: AVNT) is to be an innovator of materials solutions that help our customers succeed, while enabling a sustainable world.  Our local touch and customer engagement, combined with our global presence, allows us to serve customers with agility.  We harness the collective strength of more than 9,000 employees worldwide to collaborate and build on each other's ideas.  In doing so, we innovate solutions that help our customers overcome their challenges or capitalize on opportunities provided by the fast-changing world and secular trends.  Our expanding portfolio of offerings includes colorants, advanced composites, functional additives, engineered materials, and Dyneema®, the world's strongest fiber™.  By intersecting our broad portfolio of technologies with the product roadmaps of our customers, we help create differentiated and high-performance products that make the world better and more sustainable.  Visit www.avient.com to learn more. 

SOURCE Avient Corporation