American Vanguard Corporation (AVD)
NYSE
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
American Vanguard Corporation trades at USD2.57. We do not hold enough of the inputs to run a discounted cash flow on this company, so we publish no fair value for it rather than a number we would not defend.
About American Vanguard Corporation
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.
Super investor ownership
7 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:
- Two Sigma, TWO SIGMA INVESTMENTS, LP$1.86M · 0.0% of book
- D. E. Shaw, D. E. Shaw & Co., Inc.$1.32M · 0.0% of book
- Renaissance Technologies, RENAISSANCE TECHNOLOGIES LLC$543.6K · 0.0% of book
- Paul Tudor Jones, TUDOR INVESTMENT CORP ET AL$501.4K · 0.0% of book
- Cliff Asness, AQR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC$417.1K · 0.0% of book
A word of warning on reading these figures: a 13F reports the market value of a holding, so a fund that traded nothing at all still appears to have sold when the price fell. We found 102 companies where the standard reading gives the opposite answer. Only the share count is honest.
Common questions
Which funds own AVD?
7 of the institutions we track reported a position in AVD in their most recent SEC 13F filing. A 13F is filed up to 45 days after quarter end, so it tells you what a fund held then, not what it holds now.
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Data from company filings, exchange quotes and SEC EDGAR 13F disclosures. Quotes are delayed. Metrics we do not have are left out rather than estimated. Educational information, not financial advice.