American Vanguard Corporation (AVD)Basic Materials | Agricultural Inputs | Newport Beach, United States | NYSE
2.74 USD
+0.13
(4.981%)
⇧
(April 17, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
EDT)
Short-term: ★★☆☆☆ | Long-term: ★☆☆☆☆ | Dividends: ★★★☆☆ |
Hot Take | April 11, 2026, 1:20 p.m. EDT
AVD is currently trading below its 52-week low, showing weak momentum and negative earnings. The stock has been in a downtrend, with a negative profit margin and poor revenue growth. While it offers a consistent dividend, the stock's fundamentals are weak, and the options market is mixed. Short-term traders may find opportunities in a potential rebound, but long-term investors should be cautious. The stock is not a strong buy at this time. |
| Model | MAE |
|---|---|
| AutoTheta ✓ | 0.309405 |
| AutoETS | 0.309422 |
| AutoARIMA | 0.309422 |
| MSTL | 0.314065 |
Forecast horizon: 45 days | Selected: AutoTheta
| Forecast Reliability | |
|---|---|
| Score | 38% |
| H-stat | 113.95 |
| Ljung-Box p | 0.000 |
| Jarque-Bera p | 0.044 |
| Excess Kurtosis | -1.70 |
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Sector | Basic Materials |
| Ex Dividend Date | 2024-06-25 |
| Last Dividend Date | 2024-06-25 |
| Debt to Equity Ratio | 99.475 |
| Revenue per Share | 18.121 |
| Market Cap | 78,198,400 |
| Forward P/E | 7.03 |
| Beta | 1.43 |
| Profit Margins | -9.68% |
| Website | https://www.american-vanguard.com |
As of April 11, 2026, 1:20 p.m. EDT: Options speculators are showing a mixed sentiment. Calls are predominantly placed on out-of-the-money (OTM) strikes, with significant OI on strikes like 5.0, indicating potential for a significant upward move. However, puts are also showing activity, particularly on OTM strikes, suggesting some bearish sentiment. The ATM IV is relatively low, indicating limited volatility expectations around the current price. Overall, the options market is cautious, with a balance between bullish and bearish positioning.
| Date | Dividend | Yield % |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-06-26 | 0.030000 | 0.339751 |
| 2024-03-26 | 0.030000 | 0.244154 |
| 2023-12-28 | 0.030000 | 0.270879 |
| 2023-09-21 | 0.030000 | 0.256415 |
| 2023-06-27 | 0.030000 | 0.172545 |
| 2023-03-23 | 0.030000 | 0.139961 |
| 2022-12-27 | 0.030000 | 0.138371 |
| 2022-09-22 | 0.025000 | 0.131559 |
| 2022-06-23 | 0.025000 | 0.123657 |
| 2022-03-24 | 0.025000 | 0.125387 |
| 2021-12-23 | 0.020000 | 0.132823 |
| 2021-09-30 | 0.020000 | 0.135648 |
| 2021-06-23 | 0.020000 | 0.120035 |
| 2021-03-24 | 0.020000 | 0.102842 |
| 2020-12-22 | 0.020000 | 0.132855 |
| 2020-03-25 | 0.020000 | 0.163325 |
| 2019-12-24 | 0.020000 | 0.106676 |
| 2019-10-02 | 0.020000 | 0.135758 |
| 2019-06-27 | 0.020000 | 0.137202 |
| 2019-03-26 | 0.020000 | 0.121237 |
| 2018-12-26 | 0.020000 | 0.141125 |
| 2018-10-02 | 0.020000 | 0.108706 |
| 2018-06-27 | 0.020000 | 0.090779 |
| 2018-03-28 | 0.020000 | 0.104887 |
| 2017-12-26 | 0.015000 | 0.078942 |
| 2017-10-04 | 0.015000 | 0.066510 |
| 2017-06-28 | 0.015000 | 0.088485 |
| 2017-03-29 | 0.015000 | 0.100238 |
| 2016-12-21 | 0.010000 | 0.054456 |
| 2016-10-26 | 0.010000 | 0.068463 |
| 2016-06-28 | 0.010000 | 0.072264 |
| 2015-03-31 | 0.020000 | 0.196247 |
| 2014-12-23 | 0.020000 | 0.178920 |
| 2014-10-06 | 0.050000 | 0.501361 |
| 2014-07-01 | 0.050000 | 0.392381 |
| 2014-04-02 | 0.050000 | 0.245185 |
| 2013-12-24 | 0.050000 | 0.224368 |
| 2013-10-02 | 0.050000 | 0.193622 |
| 2013-07-02 | 0.050000 | 0.228068 |
| 2013-04-03 | 0.070000 | 0.264220 |
| 2012-12-07 | 0.100000 | 0.334675 |
| 2012-09-26 | 0.070000 | 0.223370 |
| 2012-03-29 | 0.050000 | 0.251845 |
| 2011-09-27 | 0.050000 | 0.461101 |
| 2011-03-30 | 0.030000 | 0.374264 |
| 2010-09-22 | 0.020000 | 0.312062 |
| 2010-03-30 | 0.010000 | 0.135405 |
| 2009-09-23 | 0.010000 | 0.123980 |
| 2009-03-27 | 0.050000 | 0.420613 |
| 2008-09-24 | 0.030000 | 0.222518 |
| 2008-03-27 | 0.050000 | 0.327740 |
| 2007-09-26 | 0.030000 | 0.174085 |
| 2007-03-28 | 0.040000 | 0.268863 |
| 2006-09-27 | 0.030000 | 0.200170 |
| 2006-03-30 | 0.052500 | 0.258436 |
| 2005-09-28 | 0.022500 | 0.179004 |
| 2005-03-24 | 0.041250 | 0.292791 |
| 2004-09-29 | 0.018750 | 0.156073 |
| 2004-03-24 | 0.030000 | 0.301879 |
| 2003-10-01 | 0.012500 | 0.220596 |
| 2003-03-26 | 0.021667 | 0.615324 |
| 2002-10-02 | 0.008333 | 0.270989 |
| 2002-03-26 | 0.017500 | 0.668796 |
| 2001-10-03 | 0.007500 | 0.449241 |
| 2001-03-28 | 0.013750 | 1.070780 |
| 2000-10-04 | 0.005682 | 0.741823 |
| 2000-03-29 | 0.014773 | 1.973063 |
| 1999-04-06 | 0.006198 | 1.412391 |
| 1998-03-11 | 0.007231 | 0.966283 |
| 1997-03-18 | 0.006198 | 0.952011 |
| 1996-02-27 | 0.000620 | 0.074415 |
| 1988-02-02 | 0.004132 | 1.209664 |
| 1987-09-29 | 0.001653 | 0.488812 |
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| 52 Week Change | -0.31315792 |
| Address1 | 4,695 MacArthur Court |
| All Time High | 37.51 |
| All Time Low | 0.206612 |
| Ask | 2.71 |
| Ask Size | 300 |
| Audit Risk | 10 |
| Average Daily Volume10 Day | 316,460 |
| Average Daily Volume3 Month | 341,663 |
| Average Volume | 341,663 |
| Average Volume10Days | 316,460 |
| Beta | 1.431 |
| Bid | 2.7 |
| Bid Size | 300 |
| Board Risk | 5 |
| Book Value | 6.632 |
| City | Newport Beach |
| Compensation As Of Epoch Date | 1,735,603,200 |
| Compensation Risk | 4 |
| Country | United States |
| Crypto Tradeable | 0 |
| Currency | USD |
| Current Price | 2.74 |
| Current Ratio | 1.769 |
| Custom Price Alert Confidence | HIGH |
| Date Short Interest | 1,774,915,200 |
| Day High | 2.76 |
| Day Low | 2.56 |
| Debt To Equity | 99.475 |
| Display Name | American Vanguard |
| Dividend Date | 1,720,569,600 |
| Earnings Call Timestamp End | 1,773,693,000 |
| Earnings Call Timestamp Start | 1,773,693,000 |
| Earnings Timestamp | 1,773,691,200 |
| Earnings Timestamp End | 1,778,529,600 |
| Earnings Timestamp Start | 1,778,529,600 |
| Ebitda | 22,800,000 |
| Ebitda Margins | 0.044260003 |
| Enterprise To Ebitda | 11.116 |
| Enterprise To Revenue | 0.492 |
| Enterprise Value | 253,449,264 |
| Eps Forward | 0.39 |
| Eps Trailing Twelve Months | -1.75 |
| Esg Populated | 0 |
| Ex Dividend Date | 1,719,360,000 |
| Exchange | NYQ |
| Exchange Data Delayed By | 0 |
| Exchange Timezone Name | America/New_York |
| Exchange Timezone Short Name | EDT |
| Fax | 949 260 1214 |
| Fifty Day Average | 3.792 |
| Fifty Day Average Change | -1.052 |
| Fifty Day Average Change Percent | -0.27742618 |
| Fifty Two Week Change Percent | -31.315792 |
| Fifty Two Week High | 5.92 |
| Fifty Two Week High Change | -3.18 |
| Fifty Two Week High Change Percent | -0.5371622 |
| Fifty Two Week Low | 2.05 |
| Fifty Two Week Low Change | 0.69000006 |
| Fifty Two Week Low Change Percent | 0.3365854 |
| Fifty Two Week Range | 2.05 - 5.92 |
| Financial Currency | USD |
| First Trade Date Milliseconds | 541,780,200,000 |
| Five Year Avg Dividend Yield | 0.79 |
| Float Shares | 26,647,674 |
| Forward Eps | 0.39 |
| Forward P E | 7.0256414 |
| Free Cashflow | -4,736,875 |
| Full Exchange Name | NYSE |
| Full Time Employees | 739 |
| Gmt Off Set Milliseconds | -14,400,000 |
| Governance Epoch Date | 1,775,001,600 |
| Gross Margins | 0.28646 |
| Gross Profits | 147,560,992 |
| Has Pre Post Market Data | 1 |
| Held Percent Insiders | 0.07829 |
| Held Percent Institutions | 0.70724 |
| Implied Shares Outstanding | 28,539,562 |
| Industry | Agricultural Inputs |
| Industry Disp | Agricultural Inputs |
| Industry Key | agricultural-inputs |
| Ir Website | http://www.american-vanguard.com/NewsMedia/InvestorPresentations/tabid/182/Default.aspx |
| Is Earnings Date Estimate | 1 |
| Language | en-US |
| Last Dividend Date | 1,719,360,000 |
| Last Dividend Value | 0.03 |
| Last Fiscal Year End | 1,767,139,200 |
| Last Split Date | 1,145,318,400 |
| Last Split Factor | 4:3 |
| Long Business Summary | American Vanguard Corporation, through its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and markets synthetic, biological, and biorational products for agricultural, commercial, and consumer uses in the United States and internationally. The company synthesizes and formulates chemicals and ferments and extracts microbial products for crops, turf, ornamental plants, and human and animal health protection, such as insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, soil health, plant nutrition, molluscicides, growth regulators, soil fumigants, and biorationals in liquid, powder, and granular forms. It distributes its products through national distribution companies, buying groups, or co-operatives, as well as through sales offices, wholly owned distributors, sales force executives, and sales agents. American Vanguard Corporation was incorporated in 1969 and is headquartered in Newport Beach, California. |
| Long Name | American Vanguard Corporation |
| Market | us_market |
| Market Cap | 78,198,400 |
| Market State | REGULAR |
| Max Age | 86,400 |
| Message Board Id | finmb_250532 |
| Most Recent Quarter | 1,767,139,200 |
| Net Income To Common | -49,882,000 |
| Next Fiscal Year End | 1,798,675,200 |
| Non Diluted Market Cap | 74,488,256 |
| Open | 2.6 |
| Operating Cashflow | -21,191,000 |
| Operating Margins | 0.034849998 |
| Overall Risk | 4 |
| Payout Ratio | 0.0 |
| Peg Ratio | 0.2544 |
| Phone | 949 260 1200 |
| Previous Close | 2.61 |
| Price Hint | 4 |
| Price To Book | 0.41314837 |
| Price To Sales Trailing12 Months | 0.15180795 |
| Profit Margins | -0.09684 |
| Quick Ratio | 0.882 |
| Quote Source Name | Nasdaq Real Time Price |
| Quote Type | EQUITY |
| Recommendation Key | none |
| Region | US |
| Regular Market Change | 0.13000011 |
| Regular Market Change Percent | 4.9808474 |
| Regular Market Day High | 2.76 |
| Regular Market Day Low | 2.56 |
| Regular Market Day Range | 2.56 - 2.76 |
| Regular Market Open | 2.6 |
| Regular Market Previous Close | 2.61 |
| Regular Market Price | 2.74 |
| Regular Market Time | 1,776,450,560 |
| Regular Market Volume | 167,666 |
| Return On Assets | 0.00409 |
| Return On Equity | -0.23446 |
| Revenue Growth | -0.09 |
| Revenue Per Share | 18.121 |
| Sand P52 Week Change | 0.36506534 |
| Sector | Basic Materials |
| Sector Disp | Basic Materials |
| Sector Key | basic-materials |
| Share Holder Rights Risk | 1 |
| Shares Outstanding | 28,539,562 |
| Shares Percent Shares Out | 0.033299997 |
| Shares Short | 949,010 |
| Shares Short Previous Month Date | 1,772,150,400 |
| Shares Short Prior Month | 636,954 |
| Short Name | American Vanguard Corporation |
| Short Percent Of Float | 0.0358 |
| Short Ratio | 1.8 |
| Source Interval | 15 |
| State | CA |
| Symbol | AVD |
| Total Cash | 12,425,000 |
| Total Cash Per Share | 0.435 |
| Total Debt | 191,386,000 |
| Total Revenue | 515,113,984 |
| Tradeable | 0 |
| Trailing Annual Dividend Rate | 0.0 |
| Trailing Annual Dividend Yield | 0.0 |
| Trailing Eps | -1.75 |
| Trailing Peg Ratio | None |
| Triggerable | 1 |
| Two Hundred Day Average | 4.4561 |
| Two Hundred Day Average Change | -1.7161 |
| Two Hundred Day Average Change Percent | -0.38511252 |
| Type Disp | Equity |
| Volume | 167,666 |
| Website | https://www.american-vanguard.com |
| Zip | 92,660 |