American Vanguard Corp

Industrials
Agricultural Chemicals
www.american-vanguard.com

Earnings Score
Moat Score

Market Cap $158.85M
PE -5
Debt $178.75M
Cash $11.88M
EV $325.71M
FCF $NaN

Earnings

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Sales & Net Margins

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Earnings	-$28.93M
EBIT	-$19.45M
ROE	-9%
ROA	-3%
Equity	$327.91M
Growth Stability	37%
PE	-5.49
PEG	1.23
PB	0.48
P/S	0.29
Price/Cash	0.07
Debt/Equity	0.55
Net Margins	-9%
Gross Margins	27%
Op. Margins	-4%
Earnings CAGR	0%
Sales Growth YoY	-21%
Sales Growth QoQ	-8%
Sales CAGR	9%
Equity CAGR	4%
Earnings Stability	0
Earnings Growth YoY	8K%
Earnings Growth QoQ	120%
Earnings CAGR 5Y	-4%

Sales CAGR 5Y	6%
Equity CAGR 5Y	1%
Earnings CAGR 3Y	-1%
Sales CAGR 3Y	-1%
Equity CAGR 3Y	-3%
Market Cap	$158.85M
Revenue	$553.84M
Dividend Yield	2%
Payout Ratio	-12%
Assets	$759.46M
Total Debt	$178.75M
Cash	$11.88M
Shares Outstanding	28.02M
EV	325.71M
Earnings Score	6%
Moat Score	7%
Working Capital	199.8M
Current Ratio	1.89
Gross Profit	$152.11M
Shares Growth 3y	-3%
Equity Growth QoQ	-7%
Equity Growth YoY	-9%

Assets & ROA

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Stockholders Equity & ROE

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American Vanguard Corp is a United States-based diversified specialty and agricultural products company. It manufactures and formulates chemicals for crops, turf and ornamental plants, and human and animal health protection. These chemicals include insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, molluscicides, growth regulators, and soil fumigants, which are marketed in liquid, powder, and granular forms. The company generates a majority of its revenue from the sale of insecticides and herbicides.

SEC Filings

Direct access to American Vanguard Corp (AVD) Annual Reports (10K) and Quarterly Reports (10Q) from the SEC website.

2024
- 10-Q Sep 30
- 10-Q Jun 30
- 10-Q Mar 31
2023
- 10-K Dec 31
- 10-Q Sep 30
- 10-Q Jun 30
- 10-Q Mar 31
2022
- 10-K Dec 31
- 10-Q Sep 30
- 10-Q Jun 30
- 10-Q Mar 31

Sector Comparison

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Peter Lynch's Chart

This chart shows the current pricing of American Vanguard Corp compared to its past. The addition of the earnings trend line provides further insights into the company's earnings power.

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American Vanguard Corp Discounted Cash Flow

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Competitiveness and MOAT

High margins render the company resilient under dire circumstances, hence able to drive competitors out or acquire them. ROE and ROA measure the average flow generated by each invested dollar. Their marginal value is a forecast of future growth, and it is considered by Buffett and Munger the most important single indicator.

Years	12/2014	12/2015	12/2016	12/2017	12/2018	12/2019	12/2020	12/2021	12/2022	12/2023	TTM
Net Margins	1%	2%	4%	6%	5%	3%	3%	3%	4%	1%	-9%
ROA	-	3%	5%	5%	7%	4%	3%	4%	6%	3%	-3%
ROE	-	2%	5%	7%	7%	4%	4%	5%	7%	2%	-9%

Bad Net Margins (-9.41%)

Net Margins are too low to guarantee profitability in case of higher costs or higher interest rates. Furthermore lower margins cause higher earnings’ volatility.

Safety and Stability

Being debt the number one cause of investment losses and company death, the ratio Debt/FCF is of utmost importance to guarantee safety. On the other hand the Graham’s stability measures the drawdown of earnings, hence indicating the reliability of the flow generated by the company.

Years	12/2014	12/2015	12/2016	12/2017	12/2018	12/2019	12/2020	12/2021	12/2022	12/2023	TTM
Debt over FCF	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Debt over Equity	0.38	0.26	0.15	0.25	0.29	0.43	0.3	0.14	0.14	0.38	0.55
Growth Stability	-	-	-	100%	100%	71%	79%	100%	100%	37%	37%

Neutral Debt/FCF ratio (-)

Net Margins are at a level that is not too high nor too low. They are not a competitive advantage but they are not a competitive disadvantage either.

Good Debt/Equity ratio (0.55)

The company is not overleveraged and has a good balance between equity and debt.

Bad Graham’s Stability (37%)

The company has a bad stability in its earnings, which is a sign of a bad competitive advantage.

Growth

Growth can be dangerous when forecasting, simply projecting the current growth is in general wrong. A company passes through multiple phases, from being young and unprofitable, to the first periods of profitability and high growth, until it arrives at a period of regime with limited growth. Identifying in which phase the company is in may help forecasting.

Years	12/2014	12/2015	12/2016	12/2017	12/2018	12/2019	12/2020	12/2021	12/2022	12/2023	CAGR 5Y
Revenue YoY growth	-	-3%	8%	14%	28%	3%	-2%	21%	9%	-5%	6%
Earnings YoY growth	-	55%	102%	59%	19%	-43%	12%	22%	47%	-73%	-4%
Equity YoY growth	-	3%	5%	8%	8%	5%	5%	3%	-1%	0%	1%
FCF YoY growth	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-