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 quarterly earnings results on Friday, February, 7th. The company reported $0.19 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.16 by $0.03. The firm earned $1.52 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.53 billion. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 3.4% on a year-over-year basis. 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 EPS estimate of $0.79.

23 brokerages have issued twelve-month target prices for Avantor's shares. Their forecasts range from $15.00 to $23.00. On average, they expect Avantor's share price to reach $20.71 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 16.8% 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.

Press coverage about AVTR stock has trended extremely negative on Thursday, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm scores 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 five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Avantor earned a media sentiment score of -4.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news coverage about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Avantor.

Avantor saw a decrease in short interest during the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 8,200,000 shares, a decrease of 39.3% from the January 15th total of 13,510,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 4,200,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.0 days. Approximately 1.5% of the company's stock are short sold. 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), Home Depot (HD), CVS Health (CVS), Honeywell International (HON), Verizon Communications (VZ), Uber Technologies (UBER), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Procter & Gamble (PG) and CSX (CSX).

(AVTR) raised $3 billion in an 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 stock is owned by a number 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%). 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 Three Peaks Capital Management LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Avantor.

AVTR stock was purchased 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 $17.73.

Avantor has a market capitalization of $10.16 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]