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) posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, August, 6th. The company reported $0.14 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.17 by $0.03. The company had revenue of $1.53 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.52 billion. Avantor's 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 earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $0.55-0.58 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS 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 analysts have issued 12-month target prices for Avantor's stock. Their predictions range from $18.70 to $23.00. On average, they expect Avantor's stock price to reach $20.8059 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 35.2% 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.

News stories about AVTR stock have trended somewhat negative this week, InfoTrie reports. The research group rates the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog 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 -1.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media stories about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near term. View News Stories for Avantor.

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), Alibaba Group (BABA), Honeywell International (HON), 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 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 lock-up period expires on Wednesday, November 13th. Avantor had issued 207,000,000 shares in its 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 expiration of the company's lock-up period, restrictions preventing company insiders and major shareholders from selling shares in the company will be lifted.

Avantor's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include New Mountain Vantage Advisers L.L.C. (19.42%), Vanguard Group Inc. (3.45%), Nuveen Asset Management LLC (2.89%), Viking Global Investors LP (1.99%), Senator Investment Group LP (1.80%) and Boston Partners (1.53%). View Institutional Ownership Trends for Avantor.

AVTR stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including New Mountain Vantage Advisers L.L.C., Vanguard Group Inc., Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Viking Global Investors LP, Senator Investment Group LP, Boston Partners, Artal Group S.A. and Egerton Capital UK LLP. 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 $15.39.

Avantor has a market capitalization of $8.76 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]