American Vanguard Corp. (NYSE:AVD) Currently -175.44 Percent Off Its 52-Week High, But Its Upside Possibilities Might Surprise You

In last trading session, American Vanguard Corp. (NYSE:AVD) saw 0.4 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 0.93. Company’s recent per share price level of $5.70 trading at $0.0 or 0.00% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $164.39M. That closing price of AVD’s stock is at a discount of -175.44% from its 52-week high price of $15.70 and is indicating a premium of 13.16% from its 52-week low price of $4.95. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 0.64 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 301.42K if we extend that period to 3-months.

For American Vanguard Corp. (AVD), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 1.00. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 1 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 0 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 1 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight. The company is expected to be making an EPS of -0.09 in the current quarter.

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American Vanguard Corp. (NYSE:AVD) trade information

American Vanguard Corp.’s shares saw a change of -48.04% in year-to-date performance and have moved 11.33% in past 5-day. American Vanguard Corp. (NYSE:AVD) showed a performance of -38.51% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 0.88 million shares which calculate 3.93 days to cover the short interests.

Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 20 to the stock, which implies a rise of 71.5% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 20 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 20. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -250.88% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -250.88% for stock’s current value.

American Vanguard Corp. (AVD) estimates and forecasts

Statistics highlight that American Vanguard Corp. is scoring comparatively lower than the scores of other players of the relevant industry. The company lost -48.56% of value to its shares in past 6 months, showing an annual growth rate of -230.77% while that of industry is 15.00. Apart from that, the company came lowering its revenue forecast for fiscal year 2024. This year revenue growth is estimated to fall -1.30% from the last financial year’s standing.

2 industry analysts have given their estimates about the company’s current quarter revenue by setting an average figure of 139.2M for the same. And 2 analysts are in estimates of company making revenue of 169.55M in the next quarter. Company posted 149.52M and 172.18M of sales in current and next quarters respectively a year earlier.

Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of -20.02% during past 5 years. In 2024, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around -221.15% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of -1.00%.

AVD Dividends

American Vanguard Corp. is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2024-Nov-06 and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt. With an annual yield of 2.11%, the share has a forward dividend of 0.12 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 0.6%.

American Vanguard Corp. (NYSE:AVD)’s Major holders

Insiders are in possession of 10.15% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 81.71 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 90.94%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 81.71% institutions for American Vanguard Corp. that are currently holding shares of the company. BLACKROCK INC. is the top institutional holder at AVD for having 2.13 million shares of worth $27.59 million. And as of 2024-03-31, it was holding 7.6511 of the company’s outstanding shares.

The second largest institutional holder is DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LP, which was holding about 1.85 million shares on 2024-03-31. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 6.6596 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $24.01 million.

On the other hand, Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Northern Lights Fd Tr II-Invenomic Fd are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Mar 31, 2024 , the former fund manager was holding 853.04 shares of worth $4.86 million or 2.96% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 711.34 shares on Apr 30, 2024 , making its stake of worth around $4.05 million in the company or a holder of 2.47% of company’s stock.