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Avery Dennison filings document formal disclosures for an operating company with common stock listed on the New York Stock Exchange and senior notes registered on Nasdaq. Recent Form 8-K reports furnish preliminary financial results and presentation materials, record annual meeting voting outcomes, disclose amendments to bylaws and governance guidelines, and describe material debt agreements, including senior notes issued under an indenture.
The company's proxy materials cover director elections, advisory executive compensation votes, auditor ratification and stockholder proposals. Its event filings also identify risk factors and operating exposures tied to demand conditions, raw-material and energy costs, tariffs, geopolitical uncertainty, environmental standards, competitive pricing, acquisitions, currency movements and capital-structure actions.
Director Ward H. Dickson of Avery Dennison Corp acquired 1,087 shares of common stock on May 1, 2026 by exercising a 2025 director restricted stock unit (RSU) award at an indicated value of $164.01 per share. After this exercise, he directly owns 1,840 common shares. On the same date, he received a new 2026 director RSU award covering 1,128 RSUs, which are scheduled to cliff-vest on the first anniversary of the grant date, each RSU convertible into one share of common stock.
Avery Dennison Corp director Mitchell R. Butier reported routine equity compensation activity. He exercised 1,763 shares from a 2025 Director RSU Award at $164.01 per share into common stock held in a trust and received a new 2026 Director RSU Award for 1,829 restricted stock units (RSUs).
After these transactions, he holds 188,297 Avery Dennison shares indirectly through a trust, 11,613 shares directly, and about 4,340.8831 shares through a savings plan. The RSUs cliff-vest on the first anniversary of the grant date, with each RSU representing a contingent right to receive one share of common stock.
Avery Dennison Corporation reported the results of its Annual Meeting of Stockholders held in a virtual-only format on April 30, 2026. Stockholders representing 71,592,791 shares, or 93.1% of the 76,917,031 shares outstanding as of the March 2, 2026 record date, were present, providing a quorum.
All ten director nominees were elected for one-year terms, stockholders approved on an advisory basis the Company’s executive compensation, and they ratified the appointment of PwC as independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal year 2026. A stockholder proposal calling for an independent Board Chairman did not receive sufficient support and was not approved.
Vanguard Capital Management reports beneficial ownership of 5,795,652 shares of Avery Dennison Corp common stock, representing 7.53% of the class as of 03/31/2026. The filing shows sole voting power for 785,945 shares and sole dispositive power for 5,795,652 shares. The report is signed on 04/29/2026.
Avery Dennison Corp: Vanguard Portfolio Management reported beneficial ownership of 4,873,512 shares of Common Stock, representing 6.33% of the class as of 03/31/2026. The filing states Vanguard exercises sole dispositive power over these shares and discloses that holdings include securities held for Vanguard funds and client accounts.
Avery Dennison reported preliminary first quarter 2026 results showing modest top-line growth and higher earnings. Net sales were $2.30 billion, up 7.0% year over year and 1.1% higher on an organic basis. Reported EPS was $2.18, while adjusted EPS rose to $2.47, up 7.4%.
The Materials Group delivered reported sales of $1.65 billion, up 11.4% with organic growth of 1.9% and a 15.4% adjusted operating margin. Solutions Group sales were $649 million, down 2.8% with organic decline of 0.9% and margin compression to a 9.0% adjusted operating margin. Adjusted EBITDA margin for the company held at 16.4%.
Cash generation improved significantly, with adjusted free cash flow of $104.4 million versus a prior-year outflow. The company returned $133 million through dividends and share repurchases and ended the quarter with a net debt to adjusted EBITDA ratio of 2.4x. For second quarter 2026, Avery Dennison guides to reported EPS of $2.21–$2.31 and adjusted EPS of $2.43–$2.53, implying continued year-over-year earnings growth.
The Vanguard Group filed an amendment to Schedule 13G/A reporting 0 shares beneficially owned of Avery Dennison Corp common stock. The filing explains an internal realignment effective January 12, 2026, that disaggregates certain subsidiaries' holdings from The Vanguard Group, Inc.
The amendment states Vanguard entities that formerly were aggregated will now report separately in reliance on SEC Release No. 34-39538; the filing is signed by Ashley Grim, Head of Global Fund Administration.
Avery Dennison director Mitchell R. Butier reported open-market sales of a total of 33,000 shares of Avery Dennison common stock on March 11–12, 2026. The shares were sold in multiple transactions at weighted average prices ranging from about $169.71 to $174.53 per share.
The filing states these sales occurred automatically under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan adopted on November 24, 2025, which permits potential total sales of up to 113,000 shares. After the transactions, Butier directly holds 198,147 shares and indirectly holds 4,312.4948 shares through a savings plan.
AVY reported Section 144 notices for secondary sales by an affiliate. The excerpt lists five reported offloads of 20,000 shares each by Butier Trust on 03/05/2026, 03/06/2026, 03/09/2026, 03/10/2026, and 03/11/2026 with listed gross proceeds of $3,691,784.84, $3,585,055.86, $3,519,678.85, $3,512,599.73, and $3,477,687.25 respectively.
The filing also shows an entry for Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC with 13,000 common shares and an amount field of $2,263,040.00 dated 03/12/2026. The transactions are labeled as resale/compensation-related in the excerpt.