NYSE:AVTRAvantor Stock Price, Forecast & News

Avantor's stock was trading at $12.92 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 (Coronavirus) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, AVTR shares have increased by 67.7% and is now trading at $21.67.
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14 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Avantor in the last year. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 11 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy."
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Avantor is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, November 3rd 2020.
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Avantor Inc (NYSE:AVTR) released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, July, 29th. The company reported $0.19 EPS for the quarter, topping the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.14 by $0.05. The business earned $1.48 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.49 billion. Avantor's quarterly revenue was down 3.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the company posted $0.14 earnings per share.
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Avantor updated its second quarter 2020 Pre-Market earnings guidance on Tuesday, July, 7th. The company provided EPS guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.48-1.49 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.44 billion.

14 analysts have issued 12-month target prices for Avantor's shares. Their forecasts range from $15.00 to $29.00. On average, they anticipate Avantor's stock price to reach $21.27 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 1.8%.
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Media coverage about AVTR stock has trended very positive this week, InfoTrie reports. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Avantor earned a news sentiment score of 4.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near term.
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Avantor saw a increase in short interest in July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totaling 13,700,000 shares, an increase of 6.9% from the July 15th total of 12,810,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 4,390,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 3.1 days. Approximately 2.6% of the shares of the stock are short sold.
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Some companies that are related to Avantor include Agilent Technologies (A), Mettler-Toledo International (MTD), Bio-Rad Laboratories (BIO), Bio-Rad Laboratories (BIO.B), PerkinElmer (PKI), Waters (WAT), Bruker (BRKR), Coherent (COHR), Horiba (HRIBF), Quanterix (QTRX), Accelerate Diagnostics (AXDX), Pacific Biosciences of California (PACB), Fluidigm (FLDM), Harvard Bioscience (HBIO) and Eyepoint Pharmaceuticals (EYPT).
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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Avantor investors own include Eastman Chemical (EMN), Alibaba Group (BABA), Home Depot (HD), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Procter & Gamble (PG), AT&T (T), CVS Health (CVS), Honeywell International (HON), Abbott Laboratories (ABT) and Cisco Systems (CSCO).

(AVTR) raised $3 billion in an initial public offering 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 acted 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 trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "AVTR."

Avantor's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Viking Global Investors LP (0.95%), Country Trust Bank (0.35%), Swiss National Bank (0.29%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.29%), Jennison Associates LLC (0.18%) and Peregrine Capital Management LLC (0.18%). Company insiders that own Avantor stock include Devashish Ohri, Gerard Brophy, Jo Natauri, Michael Wondrasch and New Mountain Investments Iii,.
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AVTR stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Viking Global Investors LP, Three Peaks Capital Management LLC, Principal Financial Group Inc., Deltec Asset Management LLC, Palisade Capital Management LLC NJ, Norris Perne & French LLP MI, Country Trust Bank, and Nisa Investment Advisors LLC. Company insiders that have sold Avantor company stock in the last year include Devashish Ohri, Gerard Brophy, Jo Natauri, Michael Wondrasch, and New Mountain Investments Iii,.
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AVTR stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Swiss National Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc., Jennison Associates LLC, Raymond James & Associates, UBS Group AG, State Board of Administration of Florida Retirement System, Russell Investments Group Ltd., and New York State Common Retirement Fund.
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Shares of AVTR can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of AVTR stock can currently be purchased for approximately $21.67.

Avantor has a market capitalization of $12.49 billion and generates $6.04 billion in revenue each year. Avantor employs 12,000 workers across the globe.

The official website for Avantor is www.avantorsciences.com.

Avantor's mailing address is BUILDING ONE SUITE 200 100 MATSONFORD ROAD, RADNOR PA, 19087. The company can be reached via phone at 610-386-1700 or via email at [email protected]