American Vanguard Corporation ($0.10 Par Value) (AVD): Price and Financial Metrics

AVD POWR Grades

• AVD scores best on the Value dimension, with a Value rank ahead of 96.29% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for AVD is in Stability, which has been heading down over the past 52 weeks.
• AVD's current lowest rank is in the Growth metric (where it is better than 38.28% of US stocks).

AVD Stock Summary

• AVD's went public 33.37 years ago, making it older than 89.15% 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; 97.83% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• With a price/sales ratio of 0.96, American Vanguard Corp has a higher such ratio than just 20.92% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to AVD, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are TRNS, ODC, HWKN, ROCK, and LAKE.
• 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

• In comparison to the median Basic Materials stock, AVD's price/sales ratio is 43.75% lower, now standing at 0.9.
• AVD's price/sales ratio has moved up 0.4 over the prior 243 months.
• AVD's EV/EBIT ratio has moved up 15.5 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for AVD.

AVD Growth Metrics

• The 4 year revenue growth rate now stands at 58.91%.
• The year over year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at 148.29%.
• The 3 year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at -99.53%.

AVD's revenue has moved up $219,570,000 over the prior 67 months.

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
2021-06-30	508.952	64.606	19.05
2021-03-31	478.897	70.544	17.793
2020-12-31	458.704	89.198	15.242
2020-09-30	448.478	50.284	10.77
2020-06-30	455.923	47.177	10.996
2020-03-31	464.472	15.72	10.215

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 59.55% 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.