Avery Dennison Corporation : No turn-around in sight
September 28, 2017 at 11:13 am EDT
By Jordan Dufee
Share
BUY
Target price hit
Entry price
Target
Stop-loss
Potential
$99.61
$108
$95
+8.42%
Shares in Avery Dennison Corp show a positive technical chart pattern over the medium term, which suggests that the rising trend should be followed.
Summary
● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of listed companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility criteria.
● The company has solid fundamentals for a short-term investment strategy.
Strengths
● Predictions on business development from analysts polled by Thomson-Reuters are tight. This results from either a good visibility into core activities or accurate earnings releases.
● Sales forecast by analysts have been recently revised upwards.
● Over the last twelve months, the sales forecast has been frequently revised upwards.
● For the last few months, EPS revisions have remained quite promising. Analysts now anticipate higher profitability levels than before.
● For the last twelve months, analysts have been gradually revising upwards their EPS forecast for the upcoming fiscal year.
● Analysts have a positive opinion on this stock. Average consensus recommends overweighting or purchasing the stock.
● The stock is in a well-established, long-term rising trend above the technical support level at 82.76 USD
Avery Dennison Corporation specializes in the development, manufacturing and marketing of pressure-sensitive materials and self-adhesive products. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:
- adhesive materials and specialty products (71.9%): papers, plastic films, metal foils and fabrics coated with adhesives, reflective films, polymer adhesives, specialty tapes, highly engineered films, inlays, self-adhesive battery labels, postage stamps, etc.;
- price marking and identification products (28.1%): printed labels, graphic tags, barcode tags, price tickets, carton labels, etc. intended for retailers, apparel manufacturers, and distributors. The group also provides copiers, ink-jet and laser printer labels and printer cards, binders, dividers, sheet protectors, markers, adhesives, etc.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (30.8%), Asia (30.4%), Europe /Middle East/ Africa (27.6%), Latin America (7%) and other (4.2%).
AVERY DENNISON CORPORATION 
