---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-23-262236"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AVY"
cik: "0000008818"
company_name: "Avery Dennison Corp"
filed_at: "2023-10-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-09T12:44:49.500009+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Avery Dennison Q3 net sales $2.1B, down 11% organic; adjusted EPS $2.10, up 9% sequentially

## Summary
- Q3 reported EPS $1.71; adjusted EPS $2.10 (non-GAAP), up 9% from Q2 2023.
- Net sales $2.1B; sales change ex-currency down 10%, organic sales down 11% YoY.
- Q4 2023 guidance: reported EPS $2.05-$2.20; adjusted EPS $2.10-$2.25.
- Adjusted EPS improvement attributed to productivity measures and pricing actions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-262236
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AVY
- cik: 0000008818
- company_name: Avery Dennison Corp
- filed_at: 2023-10-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/8818/000119312523262236/0001193125-23-262236-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/8818/000119312523262236/d510959d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-262236.txt

## Key facts
- Earnings Releases
  Avery Dennison Corp reported preliminary financial results for third quarter of 2023.
  - Period: third quarter of 2023
  - Result: preliminary results
  source text: Avery Dennison Corporation’s (the “Company’s”) press release, dated October 25, 2023, announcing the Company’s preliminary, unaudited financial results for the third quarter of 2023 and guidance for the fourth quarter of 2023 is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/8818/000119312523262236/0001193125-23-262236-index.htm

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