American Vanguard Corporation, through its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and markets specialty chemicals for agricultural, commercial, and consumer uses in the United States and internationally. It manufactures and formulates chemicals, including insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, molluscicides, soil health, plant nutrition, growth regulators, and soil fumigants in liquid, powder, and granular forms for crops, turf and ornamental plants, and human and animal health protection. The company also markets, sells, and distributes end-use chemical and biological products for crop applications; and distributes chemicals for turf and ornamental markets. It distributes its products through national distribution companies, and buying groups or co-operatives; and through sales offices, sales force executives, sales agents, and wholly owned distributors. The company was incorporated in 1969 and is headquartered in Newport Beach, California.
P/B ratio for American Vanguard Corporation (AVD)
P/B ratio as of 2023: 0.83
According to American Vanguard Corporation's latest financial reports and stock price the company's current price-to-sales ratio (TTM) is 0.83. At the end of 2022 the company had a P/B ratio of 1.72.
P/B ratio history for American Vanguard Corporation from 1986 to 2023
P/B ratio at the end of each year
| Year | P/B ratio |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.83 |
| 2022 | 1.72 |
| 2021 | 1.31 |
| 2020 | 1.27 |
| 2019 | 1.64 |
| 2018 | 1.35 |
| 2017 | 1.87 |
| 2016 | 1.96 |
| 2015 | 1.50 |
| 2014 | 1.26 |
| 2013 | 2.66 |
| 2012 | 3.85 |
| 2011 | 1.97 |
| 2010 | 1.41 |
| 2009 | 1.47 |
| 2008 | 2.00 |
| 2007 | 3.27 |
| 2006 | 3.41 |
| 2005 | 5.21 |
| 2004 | 5.16 |
| 2003 | 4.37 |
| 2002 | 2.12 |
| 2001 | 1.54 |
| 2000 | 1.16 |
| 1999 | 0.58 |
| 1998 | 0.64 |
| 1997 | 0.60 |
| 1996 | 0.89 |
| 1995 | 0.87 |
| 1994 | 1.14 |
| 1993 | 2.38 |
| 1992 | 1.53 |
| 1991 | 1.34 |
| 1990 | 1.29 |
| 1989 | 1.60 |
| 1988 | 1.89 |
| 1987 | 2.13 |
| 1986 | 1.04 |