Avantor (AVTR) Stock Price, News & Analysis

16 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Avantor in the last year. There are currently 4 hold ratings and 12 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" AVTR shares.
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16 Wall Street analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for Avantor's shares. Their AVTR share price targets range from $22.00 to $30.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $26.50 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 7.2% from the stock's current price.
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Avantor's stock was trading at $22.83 at the beginning of the year. Since then, AVTR stock has increased by 8.2% and is now trading at $24.71.
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Avantor saw a increase in short interest during the month of March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 29,290,000 shares, an increase of 6.6% from the March 15th total of 27,470,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 5,900,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 5.0 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, April 26th 2024.
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Avantor will be holding an earnings conference call on Friday, April 26th at 8:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

Avantor, Inc. (NYSE:AVTR) posted its earnings results on Wednesday, February, 14th. The company reported $0.25 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.22 by $0.03. The business earned $1.72 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.70 billion. Avantor had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 14.11% and a net margin of 4.61%. The business's revenue for the quarter was down 4.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the company posted $0.32 earnings per share.

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Avantor updated its FY 2024 earnings guidance on Wednesday, February, 14th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of 0.960-1.040 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of 1.060. The company issued revenue guidance of -.

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Avantor (AVTR) raised $3 billion in an initial public offering (IPO) on Friday, May 17th 2019. The company issued 154,000,000 shares at a price of $18.00-$21.00 per share. Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, BofA Merrill Lynch, Barclays and Jefferies served as the underwriters for the IPO and Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank Securities, Evercore ISI, Guggenheim Securities, Morgan Stanley, UBS Investment Bank, Citigroup, Cowen, Piper Jaffray, RBC Capital Markets, Baird, William Blair, Janney Montgomery Scott, KeyBanc Capital Markets, PJT Partners, Raymond James, Stephens, Stifel, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Wells Fargo Securities and Drexel Hamilton were co-managers.

Avantor's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Perpetual Ltd (0.19%), Reinhart Partners LLC. (0.09%), IMC Chicago LLC (0.00%), First Hawaiian Bank (0.01%), Banque Cantonale Vaudoise (0.01%) and Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.01%). Insiders that own company stock include Christophe Couturier, David D Petratis, Devashish Ohri, Frederic Vanderhaegen, Gerard Brophy, James Bramwell, Jo Natauri, Justin Miller, Michael Stubblefield, Rajiv Gupta, Steven W Eck and Thomas A Szlosek.
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