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 earnings results on Tuesday, August, 6th. The company reported $0.14 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.17 by $0.03. The company earned $1.53 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.52 billion. Avantor's revenue was up 3.7% compared to the same quarter last year. 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 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 1-year price objectives for Avantor's shares. Their predictions range from $18.70 to $23.00. On average, they anticipate Avantor's stock price to reach $20.81 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 45.2% 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.

Headlines about AVTR stock have trended somewhat negative recently, according to InfoTrie. The research group rates the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog 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 -1.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave headlines about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near term. View News Stories for Avantor.

Avantor saw a increase in short interest in 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 presently 4.7 days. Approximately 2.1% of the company's 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 initial public offering (IPO) 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'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, company insiders and major shareholders will be able to sell their shares of the company.

Avantor's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders 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 purchased 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 $14.33.

Avantor has a market capitalization of $8.15 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]