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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.
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- Basic Materials
- Industry
- Agricultural Inputs
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5 years, 6 months ago
American Vanguard Corporation is currently in a long term downtrend where the price is trading 2.0% below its 200 day moving average.
From a valuation standpoint, the stock is 85.8% cheaper than other stocks from the Basic Materials sector with a price to sales ratio of 1.4.
American Vanguard Corporation's total revenue rose by 7.8% to $141M since the same quarter in the previous year.
Its net income has increased by 130.2% to $8M since the same quarter in the previous year.
Finally, its free cash flow grew by 136.5% to $68M since the same quarter in the previous year.
Based on the above factors, American Vanguard Corporation gets an overall score of 4/5.