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.
Over the last 12 months, insiders at American Vanguard Corporation have bought $1.09M and sold $91,380 worth of American Vanguard Corporation stock.
On average, over the past 5 years, insiders at American Vanguard Corporation have bought $902,164 and sold $427,403 worth of stock each year.
Highest buying activity among insiders over the last 12 months: ROSENBLOOM KEITH M (director) — $406,779. Trogele Ulrich (See Remarks) — $384,913. Gottschalk Patrick E (director) — $224,550.
The last purchase of 18,200 shares for transaction amount of $159,318 was made by Trogele Ulrich (See Remarks) on 2024‑05‑16.
2024-05-16 | Trogele Ulrich | See Remarks | 18,200 0.0645% | $8.75 | $159,318 | +0.06% | ||
2024-05-15 | ROSENBLOOM KEITH M | director | 40,000 0.1452% | $8.88 | $355,200 | +0.34% | ||
2024-05-15 | Macicek Steven D | director | 8,500 0.0313% | $9.01 | $76,624 | +0.34% | ||
2023-12-14 | Trogele Ulrich | See Remarks | 5,000 0.0173% | $10.72 | $53,625 | +0.56% | ||
2023-12-11 | Trogele Ulrich | See Remarks | 2,488 0.0086% | $10.05 | $25,004 | +7.55% | ||
2023-12-07 | Trogele Ulrich | See Remarks | 5,015 0.0173% | $9.97 | $50,000 | +7.61% | ||
2023-11-21 | ROSENBLOOM KEITH M | director | 5,700 0.0186% | $9.05 | $51,579 | +13.67% | ||
2023-11-17 | Trogele Ulrich | See Remarks | 10,786 0.0361% | $8.99 | $96,966 | +16.87% | ||
2023-08-16 | Sale | Eilers Peter | See Remarks | 6,000 0.0205% | $15.23 | $91,380 | -29.33% | |
2023-08-14 | Gottschalk Patrick E | director | 15,000 0.0507% | $14.97 | $224,550 | -28.69% | ||
2023-05-22 | ROSENBLOOM KEITH M | director | 7,000 0.0249% | $17.33 | $121,310 | -34.81% | ||
2023-05-19 | ROSENBLOOM KEITH M | director | 56,751 0.2014% | $17.77 | $1.01M | -36.49% | ||
2023-05-18 | ROSENBLOOM KEITH M | director | 6,498 0.0229% | $16.97 | $110,271 | -34.00% | ||
2023-05-17 | ROSENBLOOM KEITH M | director | 205 0.0007% | $17.00 | $3,485 | -33.75% | ||
2023-05-16 | ROSENBLOOM KEITH M | director | 41,359 0.1467% | $16.75 | $692,763 | -32.26% | ||
2023-05-15 | Gottschalk Patrick E | director | 20,000 0.0703% | $16.74 | $334,800 | -32.66% | ||
2022-06-06 | Sale | DONNELLY TIMOTHY | See Remarks | 12,663 0.0429% | $24.96 | $316,068 | -13.26% | |
2022-06-06 | Sale | Johnson David` T. | CFO & Treasurer | 6,721 0.0227% | $24.86 | $167,084 | -13.26% | |
2021-09-15 | Trogele Ulrich | See Remarks | 3,000 0.0101% | $14.70 | $44,100 | +23.11% | ||
2021-05-12 | Sale | Porpiglia Peter | See Remarks | 4,290 0.0144% | $19.31 | $82,840 | -15.98% |
ROSENBLOOM KEITH M | director | 1014155 3.3883% | $8.83 | 7 | 0 | <0.0001% |
Trogele Ulrich | See Remarks | 209876 0.6667% | $8.83 | 15 | 0 | +19.45% |
Gottschalk Patrick E | director | 52629 0.1831% | $8.83 | 2 | 0 | <0.0001% |
Eilers Peter | See Remarks | 45886 0.1596% | $8.83 | 1 | 1 | |
Macicek Steven D | director | 10044 0.0359% | $8.83 | 1 | 0 | |
KRAFT HERBERT A | 2964827 10.3123% | $8.83 | 0 | 29 | ||
WINTEMUTE GLENN A | director | 1061959 3.6937% | $8.83 | 0 | 46 | |
WINTEMUTE ERIC G | Chairman & CEO | 972060 3.381% | $8.83 | 3 | 29 | +21.09% |
GILBANE ROBERT F | President of GemChem, Inc. | 267156 0.9292% | $8.83 | 0 | 17 | |
DONNELLY TIMOTHY | See Remarks | 70302 0.2445% | $8.83 | 0 | 6 | |
Johnson David` T. | CFO & Treasurer | 66970 0.2329% | $8.83 | 1 | 5 | +29.86% |
SODERLIND CARL R | director | 45851 0.1595% | $8.83 | 3 | 49 | <0.0001% |
Killmer John L. | director | 45080 0.1568% | $8.83 | 1 | 0 | <0.0001% |
Rizzi John | See Remarks | 44278 0.154% | $8.83 | 1 | 2 | <0.0001% |
Venter Johann | See Remarks | 41951 0.1459% | $8.83 | 0 | 4 | |
Zirakparvar Esmail | director | 41939 0.1459% | $8.83 | 1 | 0 | +26.42% |
Hendrix Scott | SVP Crop Sales, US & Canada | 34981 0.1217% | $8.83 | 0 | 2 | |
Porpiglia Peter | See Remarks | 34304 0.1193% | $8.83 | 0 | 2 | |
JOHNSON GLEN D | Sr. VP AMVAC Chemical Corp. | 34049 0.1184% | $8.83 | 0 | 27 | |
de Jong Ad | See Remarks | 26947 0.0937% | $8.83 | 0 | 2 | |
THAU IRVING J | director | 20466 0.0712% | $8.83 | 0 | 11 | |
Ashmore Doug | Vice President Mfg. AMVAC | 17401 0.0605% | $8.83 | 0 | 1 | |
Ingulli Alfred F. | director | 10414 0.0362% | $8.83 | 0 | 1 | |
MILES JOHN B | director | 9150 0.0318% | $8.83 | 5 | 0 | +28.76% |
Thorley Trevor | COO & EVP of Amvac Chemical | 8347 0.029% | $8.83 | 1 | 1 | <0.0001% |
Coben Jerome L | director | 2148 0.0075% | $8.83 | 1 | 0 | <0.0001% |
BlackRock | $27.59M | 7.61 | 2.13M | -1.06% | -$295,972.24 | <0.01 | |
Dimensional Fund Advisors | $24.01M | 6.63 | 1.85M | -7.51% | -$1.95M | 0.01 | |
The Vanguard Group | $20.3M | 5.6 | 1.57M | -2.08% | -$432,063.81 | <0.0001 | |
Wellington Management Company | $19.61M | 5.41 | 1.51M | -10.14% | -$2.21M | <0.01 | |
Cruiser Capital Advisors, LLC | $12.62M | 3.48 | 974,155 | 0% | +$0 | 18.98 | |
Morgan Stanley | $10.86M | 3 | 838,718 | -1.31% | -$144,418.68 | <0.01 | |
Invenomic Capital Management LP | $10.26M | 2.83 | 792,181 | -9.64% | -$1.09M | 0.55 | |
Cove Street Capital (CSC) | $9.19M | 2.54 | 709,287 | +166.06% | +$5.73M | 2.91 | |
D. E. Shaw & Co. | $8.95M | 2.47 | 690,963 | -3.65% | -$338,681.36 | 0.01 | |
State Street | $8.09M | 2.23 | 622,950 | -1.81% | -$149,462.08 | <0.0001 | |
Schroder Investment Management Group | $7.89M | 2.18 | 609,302 | -9.7% | -$847,435.06 | 0.01 | |
Geode Capital Management | $7.57M | 2.09 | 584,558 | +0.54% | +$40,667.90 | <0.01 | |
JPMorgan Chase | $7.22M | 1.99 | 557,411 | +6.82% | +$460,644.42 | <0.01 | |
Ameriprise Financial | $6.54M | 1.81 | 505,007 | +0.07% | +$4,921.02 | <0.01 | |
Heartland Advisors Inc | $6.15M | 1.7 | 474,866 | -8.85% | -$596,813.63 | 0.04 | |
Elequin Securities Llc | $5.61M | 1.55 | 433,234 | New | +$5.61M | 0.22 | |
Penn Capital Management Co Inc | $5.61M | 1.55 | 433,234 | -3.79% | -$221,004.69 | 0.22 | |
Capital Group L P Barington | $5.5M | 1.52 | 425,000 | +844.44% | +$4.92M | 5.42 | |
Nuveen | $5.23M | 1.44 | 403,619 | +389.77% | +$4.16M | <0.01 | |
Acadian Asset Management | $4.59M | 1.27 | 354,662 | +3.58% | +$158,624.59 | 0.02 | |
Millennium Management LLC | $4.54M | 1.25 | 350,555 | -63.15% | -$7.78M | <0.01 | |
Charles Schwab | $4.12M | 1.14 | 317,789 | +14.16% | +$510,605.61 | <0.01 | |
Jacobs Levy Equity Management | $4.09M | 1.13 | 315,483 | -6.95% | -$305,089.06 | 0.02 | |
First Eagle Investment Management | $4.02M | 1.11 | 310,598 | +788.82% | +$3.57M | 0.01 | |
Renaissance Technologies | $3.92M | 1.08 | 302,452 | +9.01% | +$323,770.38 | 0.01 | |
Ancora Advisors Llc | $3.52M | 0.97 | 271,531 | -17.61% | -$751,682.65 | 0.08 | |
Northern Trust | $2.98M | 0.82 | 229,838 | -1.27% | -$38,293.16 | <0.01 | |
Russell Investments Group Ltd | $2.96M | 0.82 | 228,478 | +28.33% | +$653,198.20 | <0.01 | |
Two Sigma | $2.68M | 0.74 | 207,275 | +26.38% | +$560,320.55 | 0.01 | |
Goldman Sachs | $2.53M | 0.7 | 195,655 | +2.54% | +$62,742.77 | <0.0001 | |
Two Sigma Advisers LP | $2.24M | 0.62 | 173,200 | +44.09% | +$686,350.00 | <0.01 | |
Rice Hall James & Associates, LLC | $2.23M | 0.62 | 172,458 | +0.41% | +$9,194.50 | 0.14 | |
Cubist Systematic Strategies | $1.66M | 0.46 | 128,506 | -21.8% | -$464,024.48 | 0.02 | |
BNY Mellon | $1.57M | 0.43 | 121,253 | -14.94% | -$275,744.29 | <0.0001 | |
Squarepoint Ops LLC | $1.52M | 0.42 | 117,528 | -27.64% | -$581,209.10 | 0.01 | |
Fidelity Investments | $1.49M | 0.41 | 115,221 | +0.47% | +$6,928.25 | <0.0001 | |
Invesco | $1.41M | 0.39 | 108,909 | +138.44% | +$818,880.56 | <0.0001 | |
Citadel Advisors LLC | $1.29M | 0.36 | 99,599 | -60.47% | -$1.97M | <0.01 | |
Royal Bank of Canada | $1.28M | 0.35 | 99,170 | +119.4% | +$699,318.85 | <0.0001 | |
Tudor Investment Corp Et Al | $1.2M | 0.33 | 92,291 | +28.71% | +$266,575.65 | 0.01 | |
UBS | $1.11M | 0.31 | 86,043 | -2.08% | -$23,633.75 | <0.0001 | |
Gsa Capital Partners Llp | $1.07M | 0.3 | 82,913 | -43.34% | -$821,643.10 | 0.09 | |
Kennedy Capital Management Inc | $1.03M | 0.28 | 79,596 | +4.7% | +$46,244.44 | 0.02 | |
First Trust | $981,182.00 | 0.27 | 75,767 | +3.12% | +$29,681.38 | <0.01 | |
Barclays | $899,000.00 | 0.25 | 69,418 | -19.29% | -$214,823.42 | <0.0001 | |
GOLDEN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC | $853,405.00 | 0.24 | 65,900 | 0% | +$0 | 0.02 | |
Advisors Asset Management Inc | $820,344.00 | 0.23 | 63,347 | -32.77% | -$399,831.42 | 0.02 | |
Advisory Services Network Llc | $798,976.00 | 0.22 | 61,697 | 0% | +$0 | 0.02 | |
Trexquant Investment LP | $782,038.00 | 0.22 | 60,389 | New | +$782,038.00 | 0.01 | |
The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company | $773,219.00 | 0.21 | 59,708 | -10.3% | -$88,824.10 | <0.01 |