AVERY DENNISON CORPORATION
AVY · Materials · $13.5B mkt cap · FY2025 filings · · Shallow moat ·
Doesn't clear the bar
The five investor questions
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.
Median gross margin 27.5% over 10y, very stable.
Not enough years of ROIC data to score returns on capital.
Net debt/EBITDA 2.5x, interest coverage 8x.
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.
- $770M
- $111.24
- $180.22
- $175.06
- 57% above value if growth stopped today
What today’s price assumes: owner earnings growing ~9%/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 235% above the zero-growth estimate across 49 of the current top 50 companies by Moat Score with both values.
Score records captured Sep 7, 2026.
Exactly which 50 companies?
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Missing a usable price or zero-growth estimate: ANF.
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.
Exact FY and FY-1 financing invested-capital inputs are required.. Current-year EBIT, tax expense, and non-zero pretax income are required for standard ROIC.
Exact FY and FY-1 financing invested-capital inputs are required.. Current-year EBIT, tax expense, and non-zero pretax income are required for standard ROIC.
The explained ROIC gaps have filed inputs but no meaningful positive invested-capital denominator. Other gaps mean the item is not in the 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.
Visual explainers
The filing-backed explainer service is temporarily unavailable, so no partial or guessed chart is shown.
Moat Score history
Tier changesSame-methodology and same-normalizer crossings of the Wide / Narrow / Shallow bars
- Normalizer upgraded unstamped (version unknown)tomoat-xbrl-normalizer@1.1.0 — readings across versions aren’t comparedJul 26, 2026
- Methodology upgraded moat-index@2.0.0tomoat-index@3.0.0 — readings across versions aren’t comparedJul 23, 2026
- Methodology upgraded moat-index@1.2.0tomoat-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 Sep 9, 2026.
Among the rows shown, A/F/M acquisition, payment or withholding, and exercise or conversion rows outnumber S sale rows (4 versus 1). The filing codes alone do not establish that every such row arose from a compensation plan.
Trailing-12-month totals and the 90-day cluster result are withheld because this issuer walk is incomplete.
| Insider | Shares owned after | Date | Filing detail | ||||
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| Allouche Danny GiladPresident, Materials Group | Grant, award, or other acquisition (A)Table II · Acquired · Suppl. 2026 PU Award | 351 | —Grant, award, or other acquisition (A) | — | 351 | Sep 1, 2026 | 1 filed lot
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| Allouche Danny GiladPresident, Materials Group | Grant, award, or other acquisition (A)Table II · Acquired · Suppl. 2026 RSU Award | 243 | —Grant, award, or other acquisition (A) | — | 243 | Sep 1, 2026 | 1 filed lot
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| Allouche Danny GiladPresident, Materials Group | Grant, award, or other acquisition (A)Table II · Acquired · 2026 Special RSU Award | 2,866 | —Grant, award, or other acquisition (A) | — | 2,866 | Sep 1, 2026 | 1 filed lot
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| Wagner William RaymondDirector | Grant, award, or other acquisition (A)Table II · Acquired · Suppl. 2026 Director RSU Award | 344 | —Grant, award, or other acquisition (A) | — | 344 | Sep 1, 2026 | 1 filed lot
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| Butier Mitchell RDirector | Discretionary transaction (I)Table I · Disposed · Common Stock (Savings Plan) | 2,184.5792 | $178.93 | $390,887 | 0 | Aug 14, 2026 | 1 filed lot
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| Butier Mitchell RDirector | Discretionary transaction (I)Table I · Disposed · Common Stock (Savings Plan) | 2,184.5792 | $180.01 | $393,246 | 2,184.5792 | Aug 13, 2026 | 1 filed lot
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| Walker Ignacio JSVP and Chief Legal Officer | Open-market or private sale (S)Table I · Disposed · Common Stock | 1,742 | $171.61 | $298,945 | 7,585 | Aug 4, 2026 | 1 filed lot
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Source-event as of . Retrieved .
Track record
How AVERY DENNISON CORPORATION’s moat rated in each of the years we can reconstruct from its filings — scored only on what was knowable at the time — and what its price and returns did afterward. The score never saw a price; the two are joined only in hindsight, for education, not as a signal.
How to read this: each dot is what the engine would have scored AVY on that December 31; the line below is its total-return price path (dividends reinvested) in the years since.
Two tracks, one timeline: the score has its own 0–100 scale (top), the price its own 100-based scale (bottom) — never a shared axis. The indexed price path isn't available for this company yet; gaps in the score line are years with no reconstructed rating (see the table for why). The Table view carries every value.
What followed, in the years it rated Wide
In the reconstructed history shown, AVY did not rate Wide-moat in any year, so there is no wide-moat track record to report. That absence is itself the honest answer — we don’t manufacture a comparison where the rating never earned one.
Materials context
#59 of 309 scored Materials companies, ranked by Moat Score.
Nearest peers by Moat Score
- #57KMB KIMBERLY-CLARK CORPORATION58.7 out of 100, Shallow moatShallow moat
- #58UFPI UFP INDUSTRIES, INC.58.6 out of 100, Shallow moatShallow moat
- #60GPOR Gulfport Energy Corp58.5 out of 100, Shallow moatShallow moat
- #61FCX Freeport-McMoRan Inc.58.3 out of 100, Shallow moatShallow moat
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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 $175.06, that is 57% 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 18 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.