American Vanguard Reports First Quarter 2025 Results
American Vanguard ® Corporation (NYSE: AVD), a diversified specialty and agricultural products company that develops, manufactures, and markets solutions for crop protection and nutrition, turf and ornamental management and commercial pest control, today reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2025.
Financial and Operational Highlights – First Quarter 2025 versus First Quarter 2024:
Other Operational Highlights:
CEO Douglas A. Kaye III stated, 'The first quarter of 2025 presented a challenging environment for suppliers to the global agricultural sector, continuing trends that we have experienced over the past 18-24 months. Against a backdrop of global economic uncertainty and generally high interest rates, customers focused on managing working capital by reducing inventory and limiting procurement to a just-in-time basis. In the face of these conditions, our results for the quarter declined, as compared to last year. While I am pleased with the progress we have made, if market conditions do not improve, we will enact further cost reduction initiatives over the coming quarters. We have made meaningful improvement to our cost structure, but much of that progress is currently being overshadowed in our financial results so far this year by the continued weakness in the agricultural environment.'
Mr. Kaye continued, 'The environment is beginning to improve in the second quarter, and, like most industry participants in the agricultural chemical industry, we expect the second half of 2025 to be both seasonally stronger and to benefit from improving customer order rates. We expect to realize the benefit of commercial and operational improvements that are either completed or are well underway. As we continue to transform and simplify this business, future margins will improve, and further margin enhancement in 2026 and beyond is the target.'
David T. Johnson, Vice President, CFO and Treasurer, stated 'While the industry recovers from its cyclical downturn, the team has made meaningful improvement to the cost structure. We are pleased with the results from our initial efforts to contain costs and will continue to keep a tight rein on non-essential costs for the foreseeable future. In addition to minimizing operating expenses, we have made significant improvements to our balance sheet. We ended the quarter with total debt of $167 million, which was down from $187 million the prior year. Net working capital decreased to $153 million versus $238 million a year ago. We will continue to focus on strengthening our balance sheet and positioning American Vanguard for a return to growth.'
Mr. Kaye concluded, 'I believe that simplifying many of the things we do will allow us to better understand what is important and to deliver against high priority tasks. My message across the organization in this regard is straightforward – SIMPLIFY, PRIORITIZE and DELIVER. If we embrace this mantra, I believe that we can reaffirm American Vanguard's position as a trusted provider of proven agricultural and environmental solutions.'
The Company, from time to time, may discuss forward-looking information. Except for the historical information contained in this release the matters set forth in this press release include forward-looking statements. These statements can be identified by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts. Forward-looking statements often use words such as 'believe,' 'expect,' 'anticipate,' 'intend,' 'estimate,' 'project,' 'outlook,' 'forecast,' 'target,' 'trend,' 'plan,' 'goal,' or other words of comparable meaning or future-tense or conditional verbs such as 'may,' 'will,' 'should,' 'would,' or 'could.' These forward-looking statements are based on the current expectations and estimates by the Company's management and are subject to various risks and uncertainties that may cause results to differ from management's current expectations. Such factors include risks detailed from time-to-time in the Company's SEC reports and filings. All forward-looking statements, if any, in this release represent the Company's judgment as of the date of this release. The company disclaims any intent or obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
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American Vanguard Corporation
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(949) 221-6119
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KEYWORD: UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA CALIFORNIA NEW YORK
INDUSTRY KEYWORD: OTHER NATURAL RESOURCES CHEMICALS/PLASTICS FOREST PRODUCTS MANUFACTURING AGRICULTURE NATURAL RESOURCES OTHER MANUFACTURING
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