NYSE:AVTR - Avantor Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

Avantor Inc (NYSE:AVTR) posted its earnings results on Friday, February, 7th. The company reported $0.19 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.16 by $0.03. The company had revenue of $1.52 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.53 billion. The firm's revenue was up 3.4% compared to the same quarter last year. View Avantor's Earnings History.

Avantor is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, May 1st 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Avantor.

Avantor issued an update on its FY20 earnings guidance on Friday, February, 7th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $0.74-0.79 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $0.79.

23 brokers have issued twelve-month price objectives for Avantor's stock. Their forecasts range from $15.00 to $23.00. On average, they anticipate Avantor's share price to reach $20.71 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 16.1% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Avantor.

23 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Avantor in the last year. There are currently 4 hold ratings and 19 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Avantor.

Headlines about AVTR stock have been trending very positive on Sunday, InfoTrie reports. The research firm identifies positive and negative news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Avantor earned a news sentiment score of 4.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news stories about the company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Avantor.

Avantor saw a decline in short interest in January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 8,200,000 shares, a decline of 39.3% from the January 15th total of 13,510,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 4,200,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.0 days. Approximately 1.5% 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), Quanterix (QTRX), Pacific Biosciences of California (PACB), 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), Alibaba Group (BABA), CVS Health (CVS), Home Depot (HD), Honeywell International (HON), Verizon Communications (VZ), Uber Technologies (UBER), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Procter & Gamble (PG) and CSX (CSX).

(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's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (13.69%), Public Sector Pension Investment Board (2.70%), Boston Partners (1.53%), Third Point LLC (1.22%), Marshall Wace North America L.P. (1.13%) and Lexington Partners L.P. (1.03%). Company insiders that own Avantor stock include Devashish Ohri and New Mountain Investments Iii,. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Avantor.

AVTR stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Public Sector Pension Investment Board, Boston Partners, Cubist Systematic Strategies LLC, Acadian Asset Management LLC, Jefferies Group LLC, Blair William & Co. IL, Stifel Financial Corp and ADI Capital Management LLC. Company insiders that have sold Avantor company stock in the last year include Devashish Ohri and New Mountain Investments Iii,. View Insider Buying and Selling for Avantor.

AVTR stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Third Point LLC, Lexington Partners L.P., Marshall Wace LLP, Maverick Capital Ltd., Samlyn Capital LLC, Marshall Wace North America L.P., Highside Global Management LLC and Loomis Sayles & Co. L P. 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 $17.84.

Avantor has a market capitalization of $10.22 billion and generates $6.04 billion in revenue each year. 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]