Axalta Coating Systems (NYSE:AXTA) Updates Q2 2025 Earnings Guidance

Axalta Coating Systems (NYSE:AXTA) issued an update on its second quarter 2025 earnings guidance on Wednesday morning. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 0.600-0.630 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of 0.660. The company issued revenue guidance of -, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.4 billion.

Axalta Coating Systems Price Performance

AXTA opened at $33.27 on Wednesday. The company has a fifty day moving average price of $32.73 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $35.64. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.74, a quick ratio of 1.47 and a current ratio of 2.01. The firm has a market capitalization of $7.27 billion, a PE ratio of 18.69, a P/E/G ratio of 0.92 and a beta of 1.35. Axalta Coating Systems has a 52 week low of $27.70 and a 52 week high of $41.66.

Axalta Coating Systems (NYSE:AXTA) last released its earnings results on Tuesday, February 4th. The specialty chemicals company reported $0.60 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.51 by $0.09. Axalta Coating Systems had a return on equity of 26.29% and a net margin of 7.41%. The firm had revenue of $1.31 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.31 billion. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $0.43 earnings per share. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 1.1% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, analysts anticipate that Axalta Coating Systems will post 2.55 earnings per share for the current year.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of research analysts recently weighed in on the stock. StockNews.com downgraded shares of Axalta Coating Systems from a “strong-buy” rating to a “buy” rating in a research report on Friday, February 28th. Wolfe Research raised Axalta Coating Systems from a “peer perform” rating to an “outperform” rating and set a $41.00 price target on the stock in a research report on Friday, January 17th. Barclays increased their price objective on Axalta Coating Systems from $44.00 to $45.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a report on Wednesday, February 5th. Mizuho set a $37.00 target price on shares of Axalta Coating Systems in a report on Tuesday, April 15th. Finally, Citigroup lowered their price objective on shares of Axalta Coating Systems from $42.00 to $32.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research note on Tuesday, April 8th. Three research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, eleven have issued a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $41.36.

Insider Activity at Axalta Coating Systems

In other news, insider Troy D. Weaver sold 10,457 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, February 10th. The shares were sold at an average price of $37.57, for a total transaction of $392,869.49. Following the sale, the insider now owns 74,905 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $2,814,180.85. This trade represents a 12.25 % decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available through this link. 0.40% of the stock is owned by insiders.

About Axalta Coating Systems

Axalta Coating Systems Ltd., through its subsidiaries, manufactures, markets, and distributes high-performance coatings systems in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, and Latin America. The company operates through two segments, Performance Coatings and Mobility Coatings.