Company: AVNT
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001122976-25-000019
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Company: AVIENT CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: DEF 14A
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hip Transitions . On April 29, 2024, Ms. Sanders was appointed as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary. Mr. Garratt retired from his roles and as an employee of the Company on July 25, 2024. On February 21, 2025, Mr. Rathbun ceased serving as an officer and employee of the Company due to the Company's change in strategic direction.

How Pay is Tied to Company Performance . Our compensation programs are designed to: (1) reward employees for generating consistent improvement in Company performance; (2) align compensation with the interests of our shareholders with the ultimate goal of improving long-term shareholder value; and (3) attract, motivate and retain talented executives. We believe that executive compensation, including both pay opportunities and pay actually earned, should be tied to Company performance, which we view in two primary ways:

• The Company’s operating performance, including results against both our long-term and short-term growth targets; and

• Return to shareholders over time.

How our compensation programs contribute to our Company’s success is described below.

Key 2024 Company Performance Results and Return to Shareholders

2024 was an important year of change for Avient. We developed and launched a new strategy to deliver and accelerate organic growth. As we began deploying our new strategy, it was important that we also remained focused on delivering performance in the present. Our overarching objective is organic topline growth with margin expansion on the bottom line and, in 2024, we delivered both.

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#### COMPENSATION DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS
2024 Company highlights include:

• Full-year sales grew 3% to $3.24 billion, compared to $3.14 billion in 2023, which translates to 4% sales growth if the impact of foreign exchange is excluded;

• Full-year GAAP earnings per share ("EPS") from continuing operations of $1.84 in 2024, compared to $0.83 in 2023, an increase of 122%;

• Adjusted EPS increased 13% to $2.66 in 2024, compared to adjusted EPS of $2.36 in 2023 (1) ;

• Increased our dividend on an annualized basis by 5% to $1.08; the 14th consecutive year of annual increase;

• Our safest year ever, with a record low recordable