In the latest trading session,, 2.0 million Avantor Inc (NYSE:AVTR) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.05. With the company’s most recent per share price at $13.67 changing hands around $0.21 or 1.56% at last look, the market valuation stands at $9.32B. AVTR’s current price is a discount, trading about -104.83% off its 52-week high of $28.00. The share price had its 52-week low at $11.82, which suggests the last value was 13.53% up since then. When we look at Avantor Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 12.52 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 12.92 million.
Analysts gave the Avantor Inc (AVTR) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 2.22. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 10 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 2 recommended AVTR as a Hold, 8 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight.
Avantor Inc (NYSE:AVTR) trade information
Instantly AVTR is in green as seen in intraday trades today. With action 1.56%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -36.18%, with the 5-day performance at 1.56% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Avantor Inc (NYSE:AVTR) is 5.89% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 31.67 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 2.75 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 24.5, meaning bulls need an upside of 44.2% from its recent market value. According to analyst projections, AVTR’s forecast low is 15 with 26 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -90.2% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to soar -9.73% for it to hit the projected low.
The 2025 estimates are for Avantor Inc earnings to increase by 3.69%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 8.29% per year.
AVTR Dividends
Avantor Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2025-Apr-25.
Avantor Inc (NYSE:AVTR)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 1.35% of Avantor Inc shares while 103.17% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 104.57%. There are 103.17% institutions holding the Avantor Inc stock share, with T. ROWE PRICE INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, INC. the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 10.2552% of the shares, roughly 69.67 million AVTR shares worth $1.48 billion.
DODGE & COX holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 9.6209% or 65.36 million shares worth $1.39 billion as of 2024-06-30.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Mar 31, 2025 were Dodge & Cox Funds-Dodge & Cox Stock Fund and iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF . With 66.84 shares estimated at $920.07 million under it, the former controlled 9.81% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF held about 3.24% of the shares, roughly 22.11 shares worth around $304.35 million.
