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CE vs SEE

Side-by-side comparison of Celanese Corporation (CE) and Sealed Air Corporation (SEE): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both CE and SEE operate in Major Chemicals (Industrials), so they compete in similar markets.
  • SEE is the larger of the two at $10.06B, about 2.0x CE ($5.02B).
  • Over the past year, CE is down 21.8% and SEE is up 34.2% - SEE leads by 56.0 points.
  • CE has been more active in the news (4 items in the past 4 weeks vs 1 for SEE).
  • Both have 25 recent analyst ratings on file.
PerformanceCE+13.24%SEE+34.16%
2025-10-22+0.00%2026-07-16
MetricCESEE
Company
Celanese Corporation
Sealed Air Corporation
Price
$45.76-3.03%
$42.14-0.02%
Market cap
$5.02B
$10.06B
1M return
-14.94%
+0.29%
1Y return
-21.79%
+34.16%
Industry
Major Chemicals
Major Chemicals
Exchange
NYSE
NYSE
IPO
2005
News (4w)
4
1
Recent ratings
25
25
CE

Celanese Corporation

Celanese Corporation, a technology and specialty materials company, manufactures and sells high performance engineered polymers in the United States and internationally. The company operates through Engineered Materials, Acetate Tow, and Acetyl Chain segments. The Engineered Materials segment develops, produces, and supplies specialty polymers for automotive and medical applications, as well as for use in industrial products and consumer electronics. It also offers acesulfame potassium, a sweetener for use in various beverages, confections, and dairy products; and food protection ingredients, such as potassium sorbate and sorbic acid for use in foods, beverages, and personal care products. The Acetate Tow segment provides acetate tows and flakes for use in filter products applications. The Acetyl Chain segment produces and supplies acetyl products, including acetic acid, vinyl acetate monomers, acetic anhydride, and acetate esters that are used as starting materials for colorants, paints, adhesives, coatings, and pharmaceuticals; and organic solvents and intermediates for pharmaceutical, agricultural, and chemical products. It also offers vinyl acetate-based emulsions for use in paints and coatings, adhesives, construction, glass fiber, textiles, and paper applications; and ethylene vinyl acetate resins and compounds, as well as low-density polyethylene for use in flexible packaging films, lamination film products, hot melt adhesives, automotive parts, and carpeting applications. In addition, it manufactures ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene. Celanese Corporation was founded in 1918 and is headquartered in Irving, Texas.

SEE

Sealed Air Corporation

Sealed Air Corporation provides food safety and security, and product protection solutions and equipment in North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. It operates in two segments, Food and Protective. The Food segment offers integrated packaging materials and automation equipment solutions to provide food safety and shelf life extension, automate processes, and optimize total cost for perishable food processors in the fresh red meat, smoked and processed meats, poultry, seafood, plant-based, and dairy markets under the Cryovac, Cryovac Grip & Tear, Cryovac Darfresh, Cryovac Mirabella, Simple Steps, and Optidure brands. This segment sells its solutions directly to customers through its sales, marketing, and customer service personnel. The Protective segment provides foam, corrugated, molded pulp, and wood packaging solutions to protect goods in shipping for the e-commerce, consumer goods, pharmaceutical and medical devices, and industrial manufacturing markets under the Bubble Wrap, Autobag, Sealed Air, Instapak, Korrvu, Kevothermal, and TempGuard brands. This segment sells its solutions through supply distributors, as well as directly to fabricators, original equipment manufacturers, contract manufacturers, third-party logistics partners, e-commerce/fulfillment operations, and retail centers. Sealed Air Corporation was founded in 1960 and is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.