Avantor Inc (AVTR) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $21.49, with 5.3 million shares of worth about $113.86 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -18.13% during that period and on January 29, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -4.19%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 680.60M shares, out of which, 663.86M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -2.76% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 0.05%. Year-to-date (YTD), AVTR shares are showing a performance of 1.99% which decreased to -5.16% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $19.59 but also hit the highest price of $28.00 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Avantor Inc shares is 5.65 million. The stock is currently trading -1.69% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -0.07% for SMA50 and it goes to -8.42% lower than SMA200.
Avantor Inc (NYSE: AVTR) currently have 680.60M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 100.40% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $14.63B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.28. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 47.29, while it has posted earnings per share of $0.45 in the same period. Its PEG reads 7.40 and has Quick Ratio of 1.06 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.89. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for AVTR, volatility over the week remained 2.80% while standing at 2.96% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -7.33% while it is estimated to increase by 12.20% in next year.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by UBS on January 17, 2025 offering a Neutral rating for the stock and assigned a target price range of between $29 and $25 to it. Coverage by Wells Fargo stated Avantor Inc (AVTR) stock as an Overweight in their note to investors on August 28, 2024, suggesting a price target of $30 for the stock. On July 10, 2024, Citigroup Downgrade their recommendations, while on January 04, 2024, Evercore ISI Upgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $26. Stock get an Outperform rating from TD Cowen on December 11, 2023.
