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Investment Firm Adds 44 Million Shares of Avon to Portfolio
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Capital Research now owns 11.3% of Avon’s outstanding stock. The filing does not indicate how much the firm paid for the stock, but at Thursday’s closing price of $5.97 per share, the value of Capital Research’s holdings is nearly $294 million. It is probably safe to assume that the investment firm paid less than that for the stock.
The news follows by a day the announcement by Coty Inc. (NYSE: COTY) that it purchased Procter & Gamble Co.’s (NYSE: PG) cosmetics brands for $12.5 billion. Before coming public in 2013, Coty offered to acquire Avon for something more than $10 billion, an offer that Avon refused as being inadequate. Avon’s market value today is around $2.6 billion.
Earlier this week, Avon sold its U.K.-based Liz Earle cosmetics brand to Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. (NASDAQ: WBA) for about $216 million.
While no further announcements have been forthcoming from either Avon or Capital Research, it is a fair bet that we will be hearing something any day now.
Avon shares traded down about 1% to a new 52-week low of $5.90 on Friday. The 52-week high was $14.49.
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