AVY
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Avery Dennison Corporation
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-0.79%
2026-03-04
From 2026-03-04 session.
Dips in broad market and materials sector selloff on light volume
Avery Dennison announced fourth quarter and full year 2025 results on February 4, 2026. The company reported full year adjusted EPS of $9.53, up 1 percent, with net sales of $8.9 billion, also up 1 percent. Fourth quarter adjusted EPS was $2.45, up 3 percent, with net sales of $2.3 billion, up 4 percent.
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What does Avery Dennison Corporation do?
Avery Dennison is a global materials science company specializing in pressure-sensitive adhesive materials, labels, and RFID/digital identification solutions, with annual revenue of approximately $8.9 billion. The company has been emphasizing growth in high-value categories such as intelligent labels, which now represent roughly 45% of total revenue. Its most recent quarter showed stable performance with adjusted EPS up 3% year-over-year despite tariff headwinds and softer consumer volumes.
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The magnitude of the beat is striking across every metric: revenue, earnings, margins, and forward guidance all cleared estimates by wide margins. The ISG unit's 14.8% operating margin versus the 12.9% estimate is particularly significant — it demonstrates the stock can pass through surging memory costs to customers, the key bear thesis that had weighed on shares since Morgan Stanley's January downgrade. Citi called it an "exceptional beat+raise" while Barclays highlighted the $34 billion in Q4 AI server orders alone, a near-tripling from the prior quarter's $12 billion. Morgan Stanley, the most prominent the stock bear, raised its price target to $110 from $101 but maintained its Underweight rating, noting skepticism about margin sustainability — a notable holdout against otherwise unanimous bullishness. Volume at 4.2x normal confirms heavy institutional conviction behind the move. The stock is outperforming its technology sector peers by roughly 18 percentage points, with the broader XLK index down 1.2%, underscoring this as an entirely company-specific event.