American Vanguard Corporation (AVD)

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American Vanguard Corporation's filings since 2017 show 8 warning events of 3 kinds: a notice about its exchange listing (8-K item 3.01, 2 times, the latest 2025-06-09); an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, the latest 2023-04-06); a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, 5 times, the latest 2025-05-12) (its current reports).

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American Vanguard Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $312 million in fiscal 2016 to $515 million in fiscal 2025, up 5.7% a year; it rose in 5 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 16% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2025; net income was positive in 8 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, American Vanguard Corporation lost about 26 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 25 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 68 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 1.3% over the year (the filed statements).

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American Vanguard Corporation's standing among 11 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $515 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 41% by size; a net margin of -9.7% ranks in the bottom 41%; revenue growth of -5.5% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 50% (its annual reports).

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American Vanguard Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Kaye, Douglas (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, as filed), filing under that title since 2025-01-21, 1.8 years (top 36% of its family); the 14 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 3.6 years (bottom 36%); 9 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 14 people in charge now (top 36%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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American Vanguard Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash from operations less capital spending is -4.1% of revenue (bottom 41%); a gross margin of 28.6% (bottom 35%); research spending of 4.5% of revenue (top 50%) (its annual report).

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American Vanguard Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -5.5% a year over the last three filed years against 5.7% over all 10, slowing (top 41% of its family); the newest year grew -5.9% (bottom 32%); research spending grew -10% a year (bottom 21%) (its annual reports). American Vanguard Corporation tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

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American Vanguard Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $515 million in fiscal 2025 came in 0.7% below the $519 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 41% of its family); net income of $50 million against a prior three-year average of $30 million (bottom 32%); a net margin of -9.7% against -5.8% before (bottom 41%) (its annual reports).