🫧 Edgar looked up AVERY DENNISON CORPORATION ($AVY). Last filing: 8-K (8.01 Other Events), 2026-08-19. 9 event filings (8-K) in the past twelve months.
🔖 Exposure: revenue $8.9B (FY2025), total debt $3.2B. Experience: revenue up 1.1% on the year, up 1.3% a year over 4 years. Soundness: equity 25.5% of assets, return on equity 30.7%, payout 41.9% of profit, dividend per share up 15 years running. Credibility: four or more audited years, reasonable weight. Range: 80% of past cases like this landed between $7.6B and $9.9B next year (method v4.1: its own 5-year record of growth weighed at 57% against $1B–10B filers; on a year the method never saw, 83.4% landed inside). In a shock year the stress range is $6.9B to $11.0B. A statistical range, not company guidance. Against peers (13 filers, $50M+ revenue, its industry group): growth 1.1% against 0.9%.
Gold is paid out to shareholders; navy is kept in the business. Retained profit times return on equity is the pace a company can fund from itself. Facts from the filings, not a recommendation.
| Fiscal year end | 2025-12-31 |
| Revenue | $8.9B |
| Revenue, on the year | 1.1% |
| Revenue, a year over the record | 1.3% |
| Operating margin | — |
| Operating margin, prior year | — |
| Net margin | 7.8% |
| Research and development | $137M · 1.5% of revenue |
| Total debt | $3.2B |
| Equity of assets | 25.5% |
| Return on equity | 30.7% |
| Payout of profit | 41.9% |
| Dividend per share | $3.7 · up 15 years running |
| Earnings per share | $8.81 |
| Book value per share | $28.63 |
| Revenue per share | $113.10 |
| Shares outstanding | 78,300,000 |
| Audited years read | 5 |
Peers: the median of 13 filers with $50M+ revenue in converted paper & paperboard prods (no contaners/boxes).
Events the company itself filed with the SEC, most serious first. Shown beside the figures; they do not change the range or its receipt.
Sailing speed follows growth: -0.7% a year crosses the harbor in 82 seconds.
No warning signs on the measures below.
Boat condition = number of warning signs: a serious warning filing in 12 months; liabilities over assets; slow and jumpy; negative operating cash; an 80% revenue range of ±25% or wider. A picture of the signs, not a rating and not investment advice.
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| Cash conversion (operating cash ÷ revenue) | 10.0% |
| Growth speed (3 years, per year) | -0.7% |
| Revenue swing (std-dev of yearly growth) | 6.5% |
| Cash flow (operating · investing · financing · free) | $881M · −$596M · −$415M · $712M |
| Investment book (cash · short-term · long-term) | $203M · — · — |
| Common dividend | paid, raised on the year |
| Equity of assets | 25.5% |
Avery Dennison is growing slower than its size class, with steadier revenue. SEC XBRL frames, the company’s own audited figures; quadrant split at the median of its size class.
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