Currently, there are 680.60M common shares owned by the public and among those 663.86M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -1.14% and -12.11% over the past three months. AVTR shares are trading 3.32% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 0.88% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $19.59 and touched a high of $28.00 over the same period. AVTR has an average intraday trading volume of 5.75 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by 0.67%, 1.06%, and -7.65% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Avantor Inc (NYSE: AVTR) shares accounts for 100.41% of the company’s 680.60M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $14.82B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.28. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 47.91, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $0.45. The company has a PEG of 7.02 and a Quick Ratio of 1.06 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 0.89. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 3.93% over the week and 2.82% over the month.
Analysts forecast that Avantor Inc (AVTR) will achieve an EPS of 0.26 for the current quarter, 0.25 for the next quarter and 1.11 for current fiscal year. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is 0.25 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of 0.25. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was 0.25 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to decrease by -7.31%, and 12.79% over the next financial year.
Looking at the support for the AVTR, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. UBS stated their Neutral rating for the stock in a research note on January 17, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $29-$25. Wells Fargo coverage for the Avantor Inc (AVTR) stock in a research note released on August 28, 2024 offered a Overweight rating with a price target of $30. Citigroup was of a view on July 10, 2024 that the stock is Neutral, while Evercore ISI gave the stock Outperform rating on January 04, 2024, issuing a price target of $19.50- $26. TD Cowen on their part issued Outperform rating on December 11, 2023.
