AVD Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (American Vanguard Common ($0.10 Par Value) | NYSE:AVD)

American Vanguard Corp is a United States-based diversified specialty and agricultural products company. It manufactures and formulates chemicals for crops, turf and ornamental plants, and human and animal health protection. These chemicals include insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, molluscicides, growth regulators, and soil fumigants, which are marketed in liquid, powder, and granular forms.

American Vanguard Common ($0.10 Par Value) trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol AVD.

As of April 23, 2024, AVD stock price climbed to $11.30 with 120,743 million shares trading.

AVD has a beta of 0.94, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. AVD has a correlation of 0.08 to the broad based SPY ETF.

AVD has a market cap of $325.38 million. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

Last quarter American Vanguard Common ($0.10 Par Value) reported $172 million in Revenue and $.25 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-720,000 and missed earnings estimates by -$.02.

In the last 3 years, AVD stock traded as high as $25.99 and as low as $8.41.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that AVD belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, IWM, VXF, FNDA, IWN.

AVD has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of -43.3% while the SPY ETF gained +24.3%. However, in the short term, AVD had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning +10.2% vs +4.9% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, AVD shares have been beat by the market, returning -9.6% compared to an SPY return of -2.5%.

AVD support price is $10.80 and resistance is $11.34 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that AVD stock will trade within this expected range on the day.