Avantor Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:AVTR)

Avantor trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "AVTR."

Avantor Inc (NYSE:AVTR) announced its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, August, 6th. The company reported $0.14 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.17 by $0.03. The firm earned $1.53 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.52 billion. Avantor's quarterly revenue was up 3.7% on a year-over-year basis. View Avantor's Earnings History.

Avantor is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, November 5th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Avantor.

Avantor issued an update on its FY19 earnings guidance on Tuesday, August, 6th. The company provided EPS guidance of $0.55-0.58 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $0.66. The company issued revenue guidance of $6.08-6.14 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $6.10 billion.

21 Wall Street analysts have issued 12 month target prices for Avantor's shares. Their forecasts range from $18.70 to $23.00. On average, they expect Avantor's share price to reach $20.81 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 47.9% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Avantor.

21 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Avantor in the last year. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 18 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Avantor.

Press coverage about AVTR stock has trended somewhat positive on Monday, InfoTrie reports. InfoTrie ranks the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Avantor earned a daily sentiment score of 0.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave press coverage about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near term. View News Stories for Avantor.

Avantor saw a increase in short interest during the month of September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 11,730,000 shares, an increase of 91.7% from the August 30th total of 6,120,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 2,500,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 4.7 days. Approximately 2.1% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View Avantor's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Avantor include Agilent Technologies (A), Mettler-Toledo International (MTD), Waters (WAT), Bio-Rad Laboratories (BIO), Bio-Rad Laboratories (BIO.B), PerkinElmer (PKI), Bruker (BRKR), Coherent (COHR), Horiba (HRIBF), Accelerate Diagnostics (AXDX), Pacific Biosciences of California (PACB), Quanterix (QTRX), Fluidigm (FLDM), Eyepoint Pharmaceuticals (EYPT) and Harvard Bioscience (HBIO).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Avantor investors own include Eastman Chemical (EMN), Home Depot (HD), Honeywell International (HON), Alibaba Group (BABA), Verizon Communications (VZ), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO), CSX (CSX) and QUALCOMM (QCOM).

(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's lock-up period expires on Wednesday, November 13th. Avantor had issued 207,000,000 shares in its initial public offering on May 17th. The total size of the offering was $2,898,000,000 based on an initial share price of $14.00. After the end of Avantor's lock-up period, restrictions preventing major shareholders and company insiders from selling shares in the company will be lifted.

Avantor's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Three Peaks Capital Management LLC (0.05%), Meeder Asset Management Inc. (0.01%) and Coastal Investment Advisors Inc. (0.00%). View Institutional Ownership Trends for Avantor.

AVTR stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Coastal Investment Advisors Inc.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Avantor.

AVTR stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Three Peaks Capital Management LLC and Meeder Asset Management Inc.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Avantor.

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 $14.07.

Avantor has a market capitalization of $8.01 billion. Avantor employs 12,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Avantor.

The official website for Avantor is http://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]