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Avery Dennison Corporation — Intrinsic Value & Fair Price

AVY
NYSEConsumer CyclicalPackaging & ContainersCIK 0000008818averydennison.comAbout AVY
Last close · Oct 16, 2026175.31−0.57 (−0.32%)
Market cap$13.3B
Model value · DCF · Perpetuity growth · 5y
160.34
Avery Dennison closed at $175.31 — overvalued by 9% vs model.
90.37the model's range428.53

DCF · Perpetuity growth · 5y leads for a mature, steady company — positive operating income and three years of positive free cash flow. From a five-year discounted cash flow.

Other models
51.51 – 193.16
Wall St. target
208.00 16% below
Above model, 1y
8 of 20 days

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Daily close

Dividends

Quarterly · as of Oct 16, 2026
Yield, trailing 12 months
2.21%
Past 2 years
low 1.49%high 2.50%
Dividends per share, a year at a time
$2.60Aug ’21$2.86Sep ’22$3.12Sep ’23$3.38Sep ’24$3.64Sep ’25$3.88TTM
Dividends / free cash flow, FY2025
40.5%
Raised
15 years in a row
Growth, 5 yrs
8.3% a year
Last change
+6.4% · Jun 2026
Every payment, with ex-dates · latest $1.00, paid Sep 16, 2026

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How it is valued

Valued asMature & stable
Low/slowing growth (~3% recent)Moderate margins (8% net margin)Pays dividendsHighly cyclical earningsStrong FCF yield (5.4%)
What growth the price implies: the reverse DCF

Key figures

FY2025 · chosen for mature companies
P/E
19.9×
EV / EBITDA
12.9×
FCF yield
5.3%
Dividend yield, TTM
2.21%
Beta
0.80
Cost of capital (WACC)
7.60%
Full financials

Analyst actions

third-party, quoted
10-12Truist Financial · target208.00
09-28Jefferies · target181.00
07-31UBS · target225.00
10-28Argus Research · “Buy” from “Hold”upgrade
Ratings, targets and estimates

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About Avery Dennison

Avery Dennison Corporation operates as a materials science and digital identification solutions company in the North America, Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, Asia, and Latin America. It offers pressure-sensitive label materials, which consist of papers, plastic films, and metal foils; performance tapes products, including mechanical fasteners, which are precision-extruded and injection-molded plastic devices; and other pressure-sensitive adhesive-based materials and converted products under the Fasson, JAC, and Avery Dennison brands. The company provides graphics and reflective products that include films and other products for the architectural, commercial sign, digital printing, and other related market segments; durable cast and reflective films to the construction, automotive, and fleet transportation markets; sign shops, commercial printers, and designers for pressure-sensitive materials; reflective films for traffic and safety applications; and pressure-sensitive vinyl and specialty materials for digital imaging, screen printing, and sign cutting applications under the Avery Dennison and Mactac brand names. In addition, it offers branding solutions, which include brand embellishments, graphic tickets, tags, labels, and sustainable packaging; information solutions, such as item-level RFID, visibility and loss prevention, price ticketing and marking, productivity and media, and brand protection and security solutions; and shelf-edge productivity and media solutions under the Vestcom brand names, as well as care, content, and country of origin compliance solutions. It serves home and personal care, apparel, general retail, e-commerce, logistics, food and grocery, pharmaceuticals, and automotive industries. The company was formerly known as Avery International Corporation and changed its name to Avery Dennison Corporation in 1990. The company was founded in 1935 and is headquartered in Mentor, Ohio.

CEO
Deon Stander
Headquarters
Mentor, OH
Employees
35,000
IPO
1973-02-21
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