Avery Dennison Corp. (AVY)

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Avery Dennison Corp.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Avery Dennison Corp.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $6.1 billion in fiscal 2016 to $8.9 billion in fiscal 2025, up 4.3% a year; it rose in 6 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 7% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2023; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Avery Dennison Corp.'s diluted share count shrank about 1.6% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 67% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 27 sales (23 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-06 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Avery Dennison Corp. earned about 31 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 29 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 75 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 3.0% over the year (the filed statements).

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Avery Dennison Corp.'s standing among 19 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $8.9 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 25% by size; a net margin of 7.8% ranks in the top 29%; revenue growth of -0.7% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 50% (its annual reports).

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Avery Dennison Corp.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Stander, Deon (President & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2023-09-05, 3.2 years (top 50% of its family); the 17 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 6.2 years (top 46%); 11 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 17 people in charge now (bottom 23%; 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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Avery Dennison Corp.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $203 million against debt of $3.2 billion leaves -34.2% of its assets as net cash, bottom 34% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 8% of revenue (top 29%); a gross margin of 28.8% (top 28%); research spending of 1.5% of revenue (top 29%) (its annual report).

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Avery Dennison Corp.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -0.7% a year over the last three filed years against 4.3% over all 10, slowing (bottom 45% of its family); the newest year grew 1.1% (top 50%); research spending grew 0.1% a year (bottom 42%); capital spending grew -15.3% a year (bottom 29%) (its annual reports). Avery Dennison Corp. reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Materials Group at $6.1 billion, Solutions Group at $2.8 billion. 2 of 2 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 69% of revenue (its annual report).

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Avery Dennison Corp.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $8.9 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 2.8% above the $8.6 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 42% of its family); net income of $688 million against a prior three-year average of $655 million (top 25%); a net margin of 7.8% against 7.5% before (top 31%) (its annual reports).