AVY
Avery Dennison CorpEvidence as of 2026-09-02Moneyta sentiment
Where the published evidence leans after the desk debated it — not a rating or a recommendation.
+0.4 on a −2 to +2 scale.
What builds the score
Solid bars are analyst rubric scores; faded bars are computed directly from data. Claims dropped in debate count for nothing; weakened claims count at half weight.
Editor's note
Written after the debate settled — the rest of the page is the evidence behind it.
The surviving claims leave a mixed evidence balance ( + 0.4 of a possible + 2 ). Revenue in fiscal Q2 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2026-08-01) was reported at $ 2,462,900,000, higher than $ 2,292,500,000 in fiscal Q1 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2026-05-02) and $ 2,220,500,000 in fiscal Q2 2025 (fiscal quarter ended 2025-07-26). Gross profit rose to $ 729,400,000 in fiscal Q2 2026 from $ 621,500,000 in fiscal Q1 2026, implying a gross margin of about 29.6% in fiscal Q2 2026 versus about 27.1% in fiscal Q1 2026.
Reported net income increased to $ 204,100,000 in fiscal Q2 2026 from $ 168,100,000 in fiscal Q1 2026, and diluted EPS moved to $ 2.67 from $ 2.18. Weighted-average diluted shares and point-in-time common shares outstanding both trended lower across the reported dates, with repurchases disclosed ($ 261,600,000 in one reported period and $ 60,600,000 in fiscal Q1 2026) consistent with that decline. Trailing twelve-month free cash flow was $ 64.3 million while trailing diluted EPS of $ 9.39 on 76.4 million shares implies aggregate net income of about $ 717.4 million; capex for the trailing twelve months was $ 177.6 million, exceeding reported FCF.
How this note was made
every stage ran before the note was writtenAnalyst desk
Mercer, Oakes, Nash, Ellis, Yates, Talbot and Archer. The desk: named AI agents, not people. Each reads one slice of the evidence and nothing else — no outside knowledge, no browsing — so every finding traces to a source you can open.
Reads the XBRL figures companies file with the SEC — revenue, margins, income, debt and share count, quarter by quarter — and reports which way the trend is running.
Revenue in the most recent fiscal quarter reported, fiscal Q2 2026 (2026-04-01 to 2026-06-30, 3mo), was $2,462,900,000 versus $2,292,500,000 in fiscal Q1 2026 (2026-01-01 to 2026-03-31, 3mo) and versus $2,220,500,000 in fiscal Q2 2025 (2025-03-30 to 2025-06-28, 3mo), showing higher quarterly revenue in Q2 2026 compared with those earlier quarters.
XBRL companyfacts · 0000008818-26-000131Gross profit rose to $729,400,000 in fiscal Q2 2026 (2026-04-01 to 2026-06-30, 3mo) from $621,500,000 in fiscal Q1 2026 (2026-01-01 to 2026-03-31, 3mo); that implies a gross margin of about 29.6% in fiscal Q2 2026 (729,400,000 / 2,462,900,000) versus about 27.1% in fiscal Q1 2026 (621,500,000 / 2,292,500,000).
XBRL companyfacts · 0000008818-26-000131Reads the filings themselves, above all the year-over-year diff of Item 1A risk factors: which risks a company added, dropped or quietly reworded since its last annual report.
Nothing in this slice of the evidence rose to a claim — a quiet read, which itself is information.
Which filings the desk reads
The desk reads the annual 10-K in full — its risk factors, and how they changed since last year. Quarterly 10-Qs and event filings (8-Ks, insider Form 4s) are listed for context but not read line by line: the 10-K is where the material risk disclosures live. A brand-new company, or one we have only just begun tracking, may have no annual report on file yet — its risk analysis fills in once that lands.
Reads the signal panel above — momentum, volatility, drawdown, relative strength and beta — and ranks each against the whole research universe rather than judging it in isolation.
No computed signal history for this symbol yet — signals need roughly 70 trading days of price history.
Reads which funds hold the name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings, to show the exposure you may already carry through index funds.
As of 2026-09-02T13:45:47.228469+00:00, AVY appears as a holding in the iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV) at a weight of 0.02% of that fund.
ETF constituents · market dataA 0.02% weight in IVV represents a small single-stock exposure within that index fund; diversification principles indicate that such a small weight limits the ETF-driven passive exposure to the company from that specific fund.
ETF constituents · market dataReads recent headlines that are genuinely about this company, ignoring rating chatter and market-wide stories. Findings argue in the debate but never move the sentiment score.
Avery Dennison Materials Group President acquired three equity awards on September 1, 2026.
News · kalkinemedia.com · 2026-09-01Royal London Asset Management Ltd. reduced its Avery Dennison holdings by 7.7% in the second quarter, according to a 13F-derived report.
News · thelincolnianonline.com · 2026-09-01Reads parsed Forms 3/4/5 — who bought or sold, at what size, and whether a 10b5-1 plan was involved. Flags clustered open-market officer buying; treats plan sales as routine and never counts a fund or 10%-holder as an officer.
No insider transactions on file in the trailing 180 days.
Reads the implied-expectations math built from the company's own filings (the growth rate today's price would justify, and the multiples beside it) and argues whether the market's bar looks high or low for this business. Never turns the math into a target.
Free cash flow for the trailing twelve months was $64.3 million as of the filings provided.
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closeReported diluted earnings per share for the trailing twelve months was $9.39 and the provided weighted-average diluted share count was 76.4 million, implying aggregate net income of about $717.4 million for the trailing twelve months (9.39 × 76.4 million).
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closeDebate and risk review
A bull and a bear contest the claims and the chair rules on each; the risk review stress-tests what survived.
A bull and a bear argue the analysts' claims across two rounds, then a chair rules on each one. Only what survives feeds the score — the argument is shown, not hidden, so you can judge the reasoning yourself.
The filings show sequential and year-over-year revenue growth with Q2 2026 revenue above both Q1 2026 and Q2 2025, paired with rising gross profit and a roughly 250 bp quarter-over-quarter gross-margin improvement; these are direct, current company-reported figures and therefore strong evidence of improving near-term operating performance. Reported net income and diluted EPS increased quarter-over-quarter while weighted-average diluted shares and point-in-time outstanding shares trended lower, with explicit repurchase payments disclosed in filings — together these items provide strong evidence that earnings per-share improvement is driven by both higher reported profitability and active capital return. Institutional 13F-derived reports showing new or increased positions by some managers, plus multiple sell-side buy ratings in the provided street-consensus snapshot, are medium-strength third-party signals that some market participants interpret recent results positively. The evidence that free cash flow is materially lower than reported net income and that long-term debt rose are notable counterpoints that weaken the cash-generation picture; these are company-reported facts and therefore strong evidence to contest an unqualified favorable read.
Chair's verdict, claim by claim
Fragility · computed, not argued
balanced0.30
20 surviving claims rest on 12 distinct sources; the heaviest analyst carries 35% of them, and 100% of what the desk raised survived the debate.
The read is supported by a moderate number of independent documents, but source concentration and analyst influence reduce how much weight to place on the package: one analyst is responsible for a large share of the surviving claims and every point raised by the desk survived debate, which can indicate confirmation persistence rather than rigorous culling. In short, the evidence is informative for education and hypothesis-generation, but fragility indicators mean these claims should be treated as provisional until corroborated by further independent filings or external data.
Disconfirming evidence · base rates · falsifiers
Context
Outside consensus, and where this name already sits in your own portfolio.
Third-party consensus shown for context. It never enters Moneyta sentiment — when the two diverge, the debate above is where the why lives.
What this was built from
Every figure on this page traces to one of these. The desk reads only what is listed here — no outside knowledge, no browsing — and each card shows who read it and what it contributed to the score.
15 filings· 1 cited
SEC XBRL filings
Quarterly figures as filed with the SEC, read straight from EDGAR's structured data — not retyped or estimated.
Read by Mercer+0.7 to the score
1 holdings record
Fund holdings
Which funds hold this name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings.
Read by Ellis+0.0 to the score
8 headlines· 2 cited
News coverage
Recent headlines about this company, rating chatter excluded and nothing published after the report date.
Read by Yatesnothing survived
1 computation
Valuation inputs
TTM cash-flow figures from the company's own XBRL filings, priced with the stored closing price. Implied growth and multiples only; no fair-value dollar figure reaches the desk, by design.
Read by Archercontext only
1 record· 0 cited
Company profile
Sector, industry and company details.
1 record· 0 cited
Analyst consensus
Third-party consensus, shown for context only — it never enters Moneyta sentiment.
Read means we pulled and handed it to an analyst; cited means a claim on this page points at it. Reading twelve quarters to state one trend is normal — the gap is shown rather than hidden.
Written by AI, checked against sources
The analysts, the bull–bear debate and the editor's note are AI agents reading only the evidence listed on this page. They can misread a filing or a headline, which is why every claim cites a source you can open and check yourself. The sentiment score is arithmetic over the claims that survived the debate, not a language model's opinion.
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