American Vanguard Corp. (AVD): Price and Financial Metrics

AVD POWR Grades

• Value is the dimension where AVD ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 72.5% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for AVD is in Stability, which has been heading down over the past 179 days.
• AVD's current lowest rank is in the Growth metric (where it is better than 8.19% of US stocks).

AVD Stock Summary

• AVD's went public 35.27 years ago, making it older than 89.79% of listed US stocks we're tracking.
• Of note is the ratio of AMERICAN VANGUARD CORP's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; 87.22% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of 47.32%, AMERICAN VANGUARD CORP's debt growth rate surpasses 84.12% of about US stocks.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to AMERICAN VANGUARD CORP, a group of peers worth examining would be XPON, BFRI, HBB, DBI, and ACU.
• Visit AVD's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.american-vanguard.com.

AVD Valuation Summary

• AVD's price/earnings ratio is 33.7; this is 106.12% higher than that of the median Basic Materials stock.
• Over the past 243 months, AVD's EV/EBIT ratio has gone up 12.5.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for AVD.

AVD Growth Metrics

Its 5 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at -24.03%.
• Its 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 221.81%.
• Its year over year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 29.61%.

Over the past 67 months, AVD's revenue has gone up $295,133,000.

The table below shows AVD's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-09-30	608.445	40.857	28.38
2022-06-30	603.626	78.035	27.137
2022-03-31	590.152	86.646	25.451
2021-12-31	556.872	86.361	18.587
2021-09-30	538.811	69.827	21.621
2021-06-30	508.952	64.606	19.05

AVD's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• AVD has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 59.91% of graded US stocks.
• AVD's asset turnover comes in at 0.727 -- ranking 34th of 89 Chemicals stocks.
• CC, ICL, and ASIX are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with AVD.

The table below shows AVD's key quality metrics over time.