Avantor Stock Forecast, Price & News

Avantor's stock was trading at $12.92 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, AVTR shares have increased by 72.4% and is now trading at $22.27.
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15 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Avantor in the last year. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 12 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) posted its quarterly earnings data 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 revenue for the quarter was down 3.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $0.14 EPS.
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Avantor updated its second quarter 2020 Pre-Market earnings guidance on Tuesday, July, 7th. The company provided earnings per share (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.

15 brokerages have issued 1 year target prices for Avantor's shares. Their forecasts range from $15.00 to $29.00. On average, they expect Avantor's share price to reach $21.46 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 3.6%.
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Avantor saw a increase in short interest in August. As of August 14th, there was short interest totaling 15,210,000 shares, an increase of 11.0% from the July 30th total of 13,700,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 4,710,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.2 days. Currently, 2.9% of the shares of the stock are sold short.
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Some companies that are related to Avantor include Illumina (ILMN), Agilent Technologies (A), Mettler-Toledo International (MTD), Bio-Rad Laboratories (BIO), Bio-Rad Laboratories (BIO.B), PerkinElmer (PKI), Waters (WAT), Bruker (BRKR), Berkeley Lights (BLI), Coherent (COHR), Horiba (HRIBF), Pacific Biosciences of California (PACB), Quanterix (QTRX), Accelerate Diagnostics (AXDX) and Fluidigm (FLDM).
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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Avantor investors own include Honeywell International (HON), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Procter & Gamble (PG), Alibaba Group (BABA), CVS Health (CVS), Home Depot (HD), Pfizer (PFE), QUALCOMM (QCOM), Raytheon Technologies (RTX) and Cisco Systems (CSCO).

(AVTR) raised $3 billion in an IPO on Friday, May 17th 2019. The company issued 154,000,000 shares at $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 a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (11.00%), Vanguard Group Inc. (6.29%), Nuveen Asset Management LLC (3.27%), Viking Global Investors LP (0.95%), Eminence Capital LP (0.84%) and Marshall Wace North America L.P. (0.60%). Company insiders that own Avantor stock include Devashish Ohri, Gerard Brophy, Jo Natauri, Justin Miller, 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 Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Viking Global Investors LP, Marshall Wace North America L.P., Artal Group S.A., FMR LLC, Eminence Capital LP, Three Peaks Capital Management LLC, and Point72 Asset Management L.P.. Company insiders that have sold Avantor company stock in the last year include Devashish Ohri, Gerard Brophy, Jo Natauri, Justin Miller, Michael Wondrasch, and New Mountain Investments Iii,.
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AVTR stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Vanguard Group Inc., Alyeska Investment Group L.P., Swiss National Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc., Avidity Partners Management LP, Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, and Teachers Retirement System of The State of Kentucky.
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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 $22.27.

Avantor has a market capitalization of $12.84 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]