AVERY DENNISON CORPORATION
In the published model solve dated 2026-Q2, anchored at $177.75, AVERY DENNISON CORPORATION (AVY) is priced for +5.5% growth. boothcheck publishes no house fair value, target price, or buy/sell rating; individual model outputs and user-controlled scenarios are analytical inputs, not Boothcheck targets. The narrative was composed July 25, 2026 from SEC EDGAR filings.
• Avery Dennison coats the films and papers that become labels, a trade whose filing says ⟦entry of competitors into the field of pressure-sensitive adhesives and materials is limited by technical knowledge and capital requirements⟧, and the payoff shows up as roughly 30% earned on a book equity base of $29.88 a share. • The growth story the price leans on is currently going backwards: the enterprise-wide intelligent-label platform came to roughly $0.9 billion of 2025 sales and declined low sin
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759 institutional managers reported holding AVY in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 94% of the company; the top 10 hold 51%. 80 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, Wellington Management, among others. On the short side, 2.7M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 4% of shares outstanding (3.6 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
AVY has cut its share count 7.5% over the past five years, spending $1.49B on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (17 and counting), raised 2 years straight; the current rate is $3.70 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $768.70M in dividends and $931.70M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at AVY over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 17 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
AVY's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-05-03 | +3.0% | -1.3% |
| 2023-08-02 | +2.2% | -1.0% |
| 2023-11-01 | -1.3% | +13.2% |
| 2024-05-01 | +0.9% | -0.5% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
AVY's latest 8-K filings: 2026-08-19 (items 8.01); 2026-07-30 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-06-04 (items 5.02, 9.01); 2026-05-01 (items 5.07, 9.01); 2026-04-28 (items 2.02, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Dates link to the filing on EDGAR. Nothing here is investment advice.
Model solve date: 2026-Q2
Narrative composed: July 25, 2026
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