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 February 5, 2025, AVD stock price declined to $5.95 with 250,119 million shares trading.

AVD has a beta of 0.59, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. AVD has a correlation of 0.01 to the broad based SPY ETF.

AVD has a market cap of $171.29 million. This is considered a Micro Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, AVD traded as high as $25.99 and as low as $4.26.

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

AVD has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of -46.2%, while SPY returned +23.7%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in AVD shares. However, AVD has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +9.6% and +14.2%, while SPY returned +6.4% and +0.2%, respectively. This indicates AVD has been having a stronger performance recently.

AVD support price is $6.04 and resistance is $6.50 (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 shares will trade within this expected range on the day.