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AVERY DENNISON CORPORATION

AVY · Materials · $12.4B mkt cap · FY2025 filings · Shallow moat ·

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The five investor questions

52

2021–2025 (latest 5 aligned FYs; v3 window cap 5): revenue $8.4B to $8.9B, increasing; diluted EPS 8.83 to 8.79, decreasing.

49

Median gross margin 27.5% over 10y, very stable.

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Not enough years of ROIC data to score returns on capital.

35

Net debt/EBITDA 2.5x, interest coverage 8x.

97

Owner earnings changed +11.3%/yr over up to the ten most recent annual observations.

The returnsOnCapital component abstained: Not enough years of ROIC data to score returns on capital. The other four 20% weights were renormalized over the scored 80%.

Price vs. value if growth stopped today

A cautious baseline, not a price target: what the shares may support if normalized owner earnings simply hold steady.

Above value if growth stopped todayBelow value if growth stopped today
45% above value if growth stopped today
$770M
$111.24
$180.22
$160.90
45% above value if growth stopped today

What today’s price assumes: owner earnings growing ~8%/yr over 5 years. The zero-growth estimate assumes owner earnings stay flat (0% growth).

How to read this

We solve for the constant annual change in owner earnings that would make the five-year zero-growth estimate equal today’s price. This keeps the existing model inputs and calculation unchanged; it is an expectations lens, not a forecast.

This zero-growth estimate assumes trailing owner earnings persist — unreliable for declining businesses. The recent FY revenue series does not trigger the three-consecutive-declines flag.

Among the current top-score group, the median current price is 239% above the zero-growth estimate across 48 of the current top 50 companies by Moat Score with both values.

Score records captured Jul 26, 2026.

Exactly which 50 companies?

FTNT, META, MEDP, IBEX, MSFT, GOOGL, LULU, ANF, IDXX, TXRH, FHI, QLYS, FFIV, ADBE, LLY, MANH, VEEV, GRMN, SSD, MNST, DOCS, MCO, CPRT, NTAP, LRCX, NVDA, CORT, SFM, MPTI, ULTA, SN, RMD, ROL, PAYC, IRMD, INTU, DECK, MORN, LGCY, DAL, GWW, ISRG, MPWR, CTAS, LOPE, MRK, CMG, FAST, BKNG, ORLY

Missing a usable price or zero-growth estimate: ANF, BKNG.

Model details under moat-index@3.0.0: zero-growth multiple 11.1×, capped-growth comparison at no more than 18×; 9% discount rate; high-end growth 4% (capped at 4%) using min(5y revenue CAGR, 5y diluted-EPS CAGR), clamped to 0%–4%; maintenance capex uses min(capex, D&A); abstain when D&A is unavailable. This is a disclosed model range, not intrinsic value as fact.

19 years of fundamentals

The business, in plain English

AVERY DENNISON CORPORATION booked $8.9B of revenue in FY2025 in the Materials sector and kept 28.8% of it as gross profit — a moderate-margin business by that measure. After every other cost, 7.8% of each revenue dollar reached the bottom line.

Across the filed record, revenue grew from $6.7B (FY2008) to $8.9B (FY2025) — about 1.6% a year compounded over 17 years.

The balance sheet carried $3.7B of total debt in FY2025 against $847M of owner earnings — roughly 4.4 years of owner earnings to retire it all. Balance-Sheet Safety scores it 35/100.

This breakdown is generated from the filed numbers and sub-scores above — no outside narrative, no estimates. Where a filing doesn’t disclose an input, the sentence that would need it is omitted instead of guessed.

FY2007–FY2025 · 19 fiscal years, normalized from AVY’s SEC filings

Sales, as filed$8.9B FY2025
$0$5B2007201320192025
Revenue kept after cost of goods28.8% FY2025
0%20%2007201320192025
Standard ROIC or separately labeled Operating ROIC

Not disclosed in AVY’s filings for these years — we don’t estimate it.

Cash an owner could take out$847M FY2025
$02007201320192025

Gaps in a line mean that item isn’t in AVY’s filings for that year. The series is never interpolated or estimated. The Table view lists every filed value, including operating and net margins, total debt, and share count.

Flagship explainer

How AVERY DENNISON CORPORATION makes its money

AVERY DENNISON CORPORATION's filing does not supply enough comparable lines for a truthful flow chart — here's what is filed:

Table alternative
Filed lineValue% of revenueSource
$8.9B100%
Cost of revenue$6.3B71%
$2.5B29%
Income before tax$925M10%
Income tax$237M3%
$688M8%
Source: · event Dec 31, 2025 · retrieved Jul 26, 2026 · annual-row source set

Flagship explainer

What AVERY DENNISON CORPORATION owns — and owes

AVERY DENNISON CORPORATION's filing tags don't support a full breakdown — here's what is filed:

Table alternative
Filed lineValue% of assetsSource
Total assets$8.8B100%
Cash and equivalents$203M2%
$3.7B42%
Stockholders’ equity$2.2B25%
Source: · event Dec 31, 2025 · retrieved Jul 26, 2026 · annual-row source set

Flagship explainer

What drives AVERY DENNISON CORPORATION’s return on equity?

One or more filed inputs needed for the five-factor decomposition are unavailable.

DuPont source inputs
InputValueFiscal yearSource
Net income$688MFY2025
Income before tax$925MFY2025
Operating incomeUnavailableFY2025
Revenue$8.9BFY2025
Ending assets$8.8BFY2025
Beginning assets$8.4BFY2024
Ending equity$2.2BFY2025
Beginning equity$2.3BFY2024
Source:
  • SEC filingFiling detailsAccession 0000008818-26-000015
· event Dec 31, 2025 · retrieved Jul 26, 2026 · annual-row source set

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Where AVERY DENNISON CORPORATION's cash went

AVERY DENNISON CORPORATION’s filing does not supply enough provenance-matched cash-flow lines for a truthful flow chart — here’s what is filed:

Table alternative
Filed lineValue% of cash from operationsSource
Cash from operations$881M100%
Depreciation and amortization$328M37%
Source: · event Dec 31, 2025 · retrieved Jul 26, 2026 · annual-row source set

Curated 19-manager tier

Who reported holding AVERY DENNISON CORPORATION

Delayed public 13F reports for 2026-Q2—not live positions, trades, or recommendations.

0 holding0 exited1 not holding1/19 resolved18 unavailable

Named manager positions and quarter-over-quarter changes
ManagerReported positionQuarter-over-quarterFiling accession
Markel / Markel-GaynerNo position reportedNo position reported
Abrams CapitalUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Akre CapitalUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Baupost GroupUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Berkshire HathawayUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Brave Warrior AdvisorsUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Dodge & CoxUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
First EagleUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
FundsmithUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Gardner Russo & QuinnUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Gates Foundation TrustUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Mairs & PowerUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Oakmark / Harris AssociatesUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Pershing SquareUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Polen CapitalUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Sequoia / Ruane CunniffUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Southeastern Asset ManagementUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Tweedy, BrowneUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable
Yacktman Asset ManagementUnavailableComparison unavailableFiling unavailable

Position size uses shares and filed value from each manager’s 13F. Portfolio weight uses the eligible long-share filing denominator. Changes compare only with the immediately preceding calendar quarter.

Source: · event Jun 30, 2026 · retrieved Jul 26, 2026

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What AVERY DENNISON CORPORATION insiders reported

Records still being gathered — partial as of retrieval Aug 19, 2026.

Partial coverage: the incomplete Form 4 walk cannot establish no activity, an activity date, or zero counts.

Moat Score history

16 logged readings since Jul 17, 2026 · append-only, never rewritten

Moat Score over timeLast scored reading of each day, on the 0–100 scale58.5 / 100
0406080100WideNarrowShallowNo moatJul 26, 2026

Score history begins Jul 26, 2026 — the record builds forward from here.

Tier changesSame-methodology and same-normalizer crossings of the Wide / Narrow / Shallow bars

  1. Normalizer upgraded unstamped (version unknown)moat-xbrl-normalizer@1.1.0 — readings across versions aren’t comparedJul 26, 2026
  2. Methodology upgraded moat-index@2.0.0moat-index@3.0.0 — readings across versions aren’t comparedJul 23, 2026
  3. Methodology upgraded moat-index@1.2.0moat-index@2.0.0 — readings across versions aren’t comparedJul 20, 2026

Scores are logged append-only and never overwritten — this record cannot be reconstructed retroactively, which is exactly why it’s worth keeping.

Insider activity

Form 4 reports mix P/S market or private transactions with compensation-plan mechanics. Activity casually described as “insider selling” can include compensation mechanics; awards, tax withholding, and option exercises are shown by their exact filed class here, never collapsed into “Bought” or “Sold.”

These are disclosed filing facts and arithmetic aggregates, not a signal or verdict.

This machine-readable surface covers SEC ownership filings from 2003; it does not represent earlier paper-era records.

Records still being gathered — partial as of retrieval Aug 19, 2026.

Trailing-12-month totals and the 90-day cluster result are withheld because this issuer walk is incomplete.

InsiderShares owned afterDateFiling detail
Butier Mitchell RDirectorDiscretionary transaction (I)Table I · Disposed · Common Stock (Savings Plan)2,184.5792$178.93$390,8870Aug 14, 2026
1 filed lot
  • Table I · Common Stock (Savings Plan): 2,184.5792 shares at $178.93 · code I · owned after 0 ·
Butier Mitchell RDirectorDiscretionary transaction (I)Table I · Disposed · Common Stock (Savings Plan)2,184.5792$180.01$393,2462,184.5792Aug 13, 2026
1 filed lot
  • Table I · Common Stock (Savings Plan): 2,184.5792 shares at $180.01 · code I · owned after 2,184.5792 ·
Walker Ignacio JSVP and Chief Legal OfficerOpen-market or private sale (S)Table I · Disposed · Common Stock1,742$171.61$298,9457,585Aug 4, 2026
1 filed lot
  • Table I · Common Stock: 1,742 shares at $171.61 · code S · owned after 7,585 ·

Source-event as of . Retrieved .

Materials context

#60 of 309 scored Materials companies, ranked by Moat Score.

Nearest peers by Moat Score

  1. #58ETD Ethan Allen Interiors Inc.58.6Shallow moat
  2. #59UFPI UFP INDUSTRIES, INC.58.6Shallow moat
  3. #61GPOR Gulfport Energy Corporation58.5Shallow moat
  4. #62FCX Freeport-McMoRan Inc.58.3Shallow moat

Compare AVY with its nearest peers →All Materials companies on the Index →

Common questions about AVY

Does AVERY DENNISON CORPORATION have an economic moat?
Based on its FY2025 SEC filings, the Moat Index scores AVERY DENNISON CORPORATION (AVY) 58.5 out of 100 — a Shallow moat. The five questions behind that score begin at 20% each; if exactly one genuinely lacks data, the other four weights are renormalized and disclosed. revenue and EPS trend 52, pricing power 49, returns on capital not measurable from the filings, balance-sheet safety 35, capital allocation 97.
Is AVY trading below the conservative owner-earnings estimate?
The value if growth stopped today — a zero-growth baseline — is $111.24 per share. It capitalizes normalized owner earnings at a 9% rate and assumes 0% growth. Versus a recent price of $160.90, that is 45% above value if growth stopped today. The model also publishes a capped-growth comparison, but the zero-growth estimate is the cautious baseline. It assumes trailing owner earnings persist and is unreliable for declining businesses. This is an educational estimate from primary SEC filings, not intrinsic value as a fact or investment advice.
How has AVY's Moat Score changed over time?
The record logs 16 readings since Jul 17, 2026; the latest reads 58.5 out of 100 (shallow moat). No tier changes on record yet. (Methodology or normalizer upgrades on Jul 20, 2026, Jul 23, 2026, Jul 26, 2026 re-based the score; readings across versions aren't compared.) The history is append-only — readings are only ever added, never rewritten.

Scored from primary SEC filings via the public methodology. Educational only — not a recommendation to buy or sell AVY. See the disclaimer.