Avery Dennison Corporation (AVY) earnings on July 30, 2026

Before the market opens Q2 2026

More Avery Dennison Corporation earnings

Prior outlook: Optimistic Outcome: Accurate

Avery Dennison shares climbed sharply after its earnings report and improved outlook, though the stock gave back some gains by the close.

AVY price around the earnings

174.82

Change: +4.6%

2026-07-30, 20:00 UTC

End of the measured window
167.14 173.63 180.12 186.61 167.14
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July 30, 2026
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Price series around the event

Prior thesis

Prior outlook: Optimistic Outcome: Accurate

Thesis published
Results released

Strong analyst upside and a strong recent record of beating earnings drive accelerating positive trend strength into earnings.

Context analyzed before publication

Trend
Sharp acceleration from 14.2 to 76.1 as recent trend turns positive; 30d still weak but 14d strength dominant.

Analysts

Evidence

Analyst consensus
Buy
Consensus average (1-5)
1.55
Analysts covering the stock
10
Average price target
199.6
Lowest price target
175
Highest price target
218
Upside to price target
19.4%
Quarterly earnings growth
1.1%
Revenue growth
7%
Forward EPS
11.15
Trailing EPS
8.77
Analyst moves in the last 60 days
3
  • Strong buy: 2
  • Buy: 7
  • Hold: 2
  • Sell: 0
  • Strong sell: 0
Strong buy
2
Buy
7
Hold
2
Sell
0
Strong sell
0
  • July 15, 2026 · Truist Securities: Maintains rating (Buy → Buy)
  • July 14, 2026 · B of A Securities: Maintains rating (Buy → Buy)
  • July 9, 2026 · Citigroup: Maintains rating (Neutral → Neutral)

News and sentiment

Evidence

Sentiment
Sentiment
Constructive
Mention volume
Low
Normalized volume
33%
News
Sources (3)

Technicals

Evidence

Price when the context was analyzed
167.23
Average true range (ATR)
2.6%
Distance to 52-week high
-14.4%
14-day change (14d)
+6.6%
30-day change (30d)
+2.4%
30-day relative strength
+4.0%
SPY change (30d)
-1.5%
Nearest support
167.09
Distance to nearest support
0.1%
Nearest resistance
168.97
Distance to nearest resistance
1%
Volume accumulation ratio (14d / 46d)
1.06
  • Major: 167.09 (0.1% away, 0.04 ATR, 29 touches)
  • Mid: 165.55 (1% away, 0.4 ATR, 27 touches)
  • Major: 164.56 (1.6% away, 0.63 ATR, 30 touches)
  • Major: 168.97 (1% away, 0.41 ATR, 31 touches)
  • Mid: 170.12 (1.7% away, 0.68 ATR, 15 touches)
  • Mid: 171.16 (2.4% away, 0.92 ATR, 18 touches)

Trends

Evidence

Average earnings surprise
+1.9%
  • April 28, 2026: actual EPS 2.47 vs estimate 2.43 (surprise +1.8%)
  • February 4, 2026: actual EPS 2.45 vs estimate 2.39 (surprise +2.6%)
  • October 22, 2025: actual EPS 2.37 vs estimate 2.33 (surprise +1.9%)
  • July 22, 2025: actual EPS 2.42 vs estimate 2.39 (surprise +1.1%)

Expected move

Implied move
+1.9%
Source
Options chain

Reactions over its last 20 earnings

Median move
2.6%
75th percentile move
3.5%
90th percentile move
7.2%
Up / down moves
8 / 12
Average up move
+3.6%
Average down move
-2.9%

Monitoring and close

What Avery Dennison Corporation reported

Status
Finished
Actual EPS2.89
EPS estimate2.47
EPS surprise+17.0%
Revenue$2,463 million
Revenue estimate$2,296 million
Revenue surprise+7.3%

Avery Dennison beats Q2 estimates on pricing and productivity, but flags destocking risks in the second half.

Sources (14)

Pre-market second reading after the results

Verdict
Beat expectations

Heading into the open, results beat expectations on both earnings and revenue and the price is indicating +9.6% pre-market, a move 4x the stock's usual reaction (about 3%). The figures confirm the optimistic scenario. Across our market history, in the 1,045 similar cases the close held that direction 96% of the time.

How the stock reacted

Outcome
Accurate
Consolidated
+4.6%
Max favorable move (MFE)
11.8%
Max adverse move (MAE)
0%