With 0.54 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.55 million shares. During the session, the Specialty Chemicals company that operates in wider Basic Materials sector, reached to the highest price of $43.7 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $42.67. The 52-week range on AVNT shows that it touched its highest point at $54.68 and its lowest point at $35.58 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $55.83. With its current market cap of 3.92 billion, AVNT has annualized dividend of $1.04 while the current yield stands at 2.43%. AVNT paid its most recent dividend on 1734048000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1734048000. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.53.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of AVNT was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 1.44%, but this was up by 3.77% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -10.58% while six-month performance fell -4.77%. The stock gained 16.63% in the past year, while it has gained 5.07% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for AVNT yields 1.63 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.88. For the next quarter, that number is 0.48. This implies an EPS growth rate of 12.35% for this year and 8.69% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 12.24% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -16.13%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 91.36 million AVNT shares are outstanding with a float of 89.52 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-01-15, short shares totaled 1.48 million, which was 162.0 higher than short shares on 1734048000. In addition to Dr. Ashish K. Khandpur Ph.D. as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Ms. Jamie A. Beggs serves as its Senior VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.9797 of AVNT’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-09-30, AVNT reported revenue of $815200000.0 and operating income of $77200000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $122000000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.41.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for AVNT since 3 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 3 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With AVNT analysts setting a high price target of 70.0 and a low target of 45.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 56.2. Based on these targets, AVNT could surge 63.06% to reach the target high and rise by 4.82% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 30.91% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $2.72932 being high and $2.58974 being low. For AVNT, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.65141. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.78 and the low estimate is $0.72. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.76.
