Short interest on AVY sees a significant decrease on 2025-06-13

The buying and selling of stock by a company’s insider give investors a sense that the stock will rise or fall in the future. Avery Dennison Corp shares valued at $1,600,250 were purchased by Avery Dennison Corp on Jun 12 ’25. At $8.65 per share, Avery Dennison Corp acquired 185,000 shares.

Also, Butier Mitchell R sold 12,969 shares, netting a total of over 2,358,387 in proceeds. Following the sale of shares at $181.85 each, the insider now holds 303,331 shares.

Before that, Butier Mitchell R had sold 8,068 shares from its account. In a trade valued at $1,502,199, the Executive Chairman traded Avery Dennison Corp shares for $186.19 each. Upon closing the transaction, the insider’s holdings decreased to 8,068 shares, worth approximately $55.65 million.

As published in a research note from JP Morgan on April 24, 2025, Avery Dennison Corp [AVY] has been rated down from an Overweight to a Neutral and the price target has been revised to $172. Analysts at Jefferies started covering the stock with ‘”a Hold”‘ outlook in a report released in late April. As of January 31, 2025, JP Morgan has increased its “Neutral” rating to a “an Overweight” for AVY. Earlier on October 24, 2024, JP Morgan downgraded its rating. Their new recommendation was “a Neutral” for AVY stock which previously was a “an Overweight”.

Analyzing AVY Stock Performance

On last trading session,, Avery Dennison Corp [NYSE: AVY] plunged -0.37% to $175.95. The stock’s lowest price that day was $175.41, but it reached a high of $178.16 in the same session. During the last five days, there has been a surge of approximately 1.16%. Over the course of the year, Avery Dennison Corp shares have dropped approximately -23.34%. Shares of the company reached a 52-week high of $196.40 on 01/28/25 and a 52-week low of $157.00 on 04/08/25.

Support And Resistance Levels for Avery Dennison Corp (AVY)

According to the 24-hour chart, there is a support level at 174.85, which, if violated, would cause prices to drop to 173.76. In the upper region, resistance lies at 177.60. The next price resistance is at 179.26. RSI (Relative Strength Index) is 47.34 on the 14-day chart, showing neutral technical sentiment.

Is Avery Dennison Corp subject to short interest?

Stocks of Avery Dennison Corp saw a sharp steep in short interest on 2025-06-13 dropping by -0.42 million shares to 2.31 million. Data from Yahoo Finance shows that the short interest on 2025-05-15 was 2.72 million shares. A decline of -18.01% in short interest reflects a positive sentiment towards the stock. Despite the fact that short shares comprise just 3.86 of the overall float, the days-to-cover ratio (short ratio) decline to 3.86.

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In terms of Avery Dennison Corp share price expectations, FactSet research, analysts set an average price target of 213 in the next 12 months, up nearly 20.61% from the previous closing price of $176.6. Analysts anticipate Avery Dennison Corp stock to reach 220 by 2025, with the lowest price target being 208. In spite of this, 6 analysts ranked Avery Dennison Corp stock as Buy at the end of 2025. On October 17, 2024, BofA Securities assigned a price target of “a Buy” to the stock and upgraded coverage with a $250.

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