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Artivion AORT
Outside our quality screen, so we don’t track its dips. It’s 50% below its 52-week high.
Outside our quality screen, 5% under its Market Value. No fair value estimate for now: its free cash flow is negative.
Worth knowing
- Down 51% from its 52-week high while revenue grew 16%
From the data on this page, as of the last close. How we pick these
- Fair value est.
- n/a
- Market Value
- $24.89price −5%
- Off 52-wk high
- −50%
- Risk vs market
- Lowbeta 0.23
52-week range 13% of the way from its 52-week low to its high
Price $23.58Market Value $24.89
4 bullish · 5 bearish See why
Repriced or dip?
Mixed signals
The price is 50% below its 52-week high (Nov 12), but the business held up: revenue +11.6%, revenue growth rate +6.6 pts, shares outstanding fewer shares, each owns more.
Some numbers held up (revenue +11.6%, revenue growth rate +6.6 pts, shares outstanding fewer shares, each owns more), others slipped (free cash flow $18M → −$9M, turned negative, net cash (cash minus debt) −13.2% of market cap since the high, operating margin −1.7 pts). The price is 50% below its 52-week high.
The price is 50% below its 52-week high, and the business changed too: free cash flow $18M → −$9M, turned negative, net cash (cash minus debt) −13.2% of market cap since the high, operating margin −1.7 pts.
Within 10% of its 52-week high, so there is no dip to judge yet.
The evidence 8 numbers, high vs now
- Revenue, last 12 months$423M → $471M (+11.6%)held up
- Revenue growth rate+9.8% → +16.4% a year (+6.6 pts)held up
- Free cash flow, 12 months$18M → −$9M, turned negativechanged
- Operating margin6.1% → 4.4% (−1.7 pts)changed
- Shares outstanding−4.4% (fewer shares, each owns more)held up
- Net cash (cash minus debt)−13.2% of market cap since the highchanged
- Stock vs its sector (Health Care)stock −50%, sector median +18% since Nov 12changed
- Price fall vs business numbersprice −50%, revenue/EPS/FCF median +12% (shown, not scored)
Business numbers as reported at the high (12 months to Sep 30, 2025) vs the latest filing (12 months to Jun 30, 2026). Each measure is scored from −1 (business changed) to +1 (business intact) and weighted: revenue, earnings per share, free cash flow, operating margin, revenue growth rate, share count, net cash and the move vs its sector. 60 or more reads as a dip, 40 or less as a repricing. Analyst estimates are not in our data, so they are not used. How to read it
Data-based read, not advice.
Priced in
How much growth the market assumed at the 52-week high, the low and today (a reverse DCF).
At the high ($47.63, Nov 12) the price assumed about 44%/yr free-cash-flow growth; at the low ($20.10, Jun 12) about 30%. The last 3 years delivered 12%/yr (revenue).
Dashed line: what the last 3 years delivered, 12%/yr (revenue)
| High | Low | Now | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $47.63Nov 12 | $20.10Jun 12 | $23.58 |
| Implied growth | +44% | +30% | n/a |
| P/E | n/a | 85.6× | n/a |
| P/FCF | 132.8× | 68.6× | — |
| EV/Sales | 5.8× | 2.5× | 2.9× |
What this means: the higher the implied growth, the more the price already counts on. If today's number sits well below what the business has delivered, the market expects less than its track record.
How it’s computed
Reverse DCF: the same 10-year free-cash-flow model as our fair value estimate (9.5% discount rate, growth for years 1–5 fading to 3% by year 10, 3% after), solved for the growth that makes it equal the market value at each price. For the high and the low we use only the filings that were public on that day, so nothing from a later report leaks back. Market value = that close × diluted shares. P/E = market value / 12-month net income; Price / FCF = market value / 12-month free cash flow; EV / Sales = (market value + debt − cash) / 12-month revenue. Hidden when the share count moved over 20% (split, merger), free cash flow is negative, or the company reports in another currency.
Valuation
What we estimate it's worth, and how it ranks on value vs every stock we cover.
Fair value estimate
No estimate for AORT: negative free cash flow. We’d rather show nothing than a made-up number.
Risk vs market
How risk vs market is measured
One year of daily returns (Oct 31 to Nov 2, 252 sessions). Beta = how much AORT moved for each 1% move in the S&P 500 (SPY); 1.0 moves with the market. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns. Past behavior, not a forecast.
Has moved mostly independently of the market, but its own price swings are 3.8× the S&P 500’s (it moves on its own news).
- Beta vs S&P 500
- 0.23
- Volatility
- 49% vs 13% SPY
- Correlation SPY
- 0.06
- Correlation QQQ
- −0.06
How it ranks
Where AORT stands vs every one of the 2,467 stocks we cover that has the number. Longer bar = better.
Not in the top quarter on any of these 4 measures
- Free cash flow yield−0.8% · free cash flow vs market capLowest 17%of 1,690
- Revenue growth, last 12 months+16% · vs the 12 months beforeTop 31%of 2,184
- Operating margin4.4% · of sales kept as operating profitLowest 27%of 1,549
- Return on invested capital1.8% · profit per dollar of capitalLowest 16%of 1,001
From SEC filings and our fair value estimate model. A ranking, not advice.
Valuation details
MV $24.89 · FCF value $5.36
Fundamentals
The business itself: sales, profits, cash and debt, from SEC filings.
Bull vs bear
Rule-based from the data on this page, strongest first. Not advice.
Top bullish points 4 of 5
ProfitabilityOperating margin widened to 7.6% in FY2025 from 1.6% in FY2023 (SEC filings).
GrowthSales grew 16% to $471M over the last 12 months vs the 12 months before (SEC filings).
ValuationPrice / book of 2.5×, below the 4.8× median for the 291 Health Care companies we cover.
ValuationTrades 5.3% below its Market Value of $24.89, the average price paid since the Aug 6 filing.
Top bearish points 5 of 5
ValuationFree cash flow is negative (−$9M over the last 12 months), so there’s no cash-flow value under the price.
Balance sheetOperating income covers interest only 0.9× over the last 12 months.
ProfitabilityLost $3M over the last 12 months (net income, SEC filings).
Cash returnsShare count up 7.0% in a year: existing holders are being diluted.
QualityDoesn’t pass our quality screen: ROE under 12% and ROIC under 10%; net debt 5.2× EBITDA (limit 3×).
All fundamentals
FCF yield -0.8% · ROE -1% · Sales +16%
Valuation
- P/E
- n/aloss over the last 12 months
- Price / FCF
- n/anegative free cash flow
- FCF yield
- −0.8%
- EV / EBITDA
- 30.7×
- Price / sales
- 2.33×
- Price / book
- 2.47×
- Market cap
- $1.1Blisted
- Enterprise value
- $1.4B
Growth
- Revenue, 12 months
- $471M
- Sales growth, 12 months
- +16.4%vs the 12 months before
- Sales growth, 3 yrs
- +12.0%/yrfrom FY2022
- Diluted EPS, 12 months
- −$0.06
- EPS growth, last FY
- n/afewer than two years of diluted EPS
- Net income, 12 months
- −$3M
- Net income growth
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
Profitability
- Gross margin
- 64.4%
- Operating margin
- 4.4%
- Net margin
- −0.7%
- FCF margin
- −1.9%
- Return on equity
- −1%
- Return on invested capital
- 2%
Balance sheet
- Cash & short-term inv.
- $77M
- Total debt
- $363M
- Net cash
- −$286M
- Debt / equity
- 0.82×
- Interest coverage
- 0.9×operating income / interest
Cash flow & returns
- Free cash flow, 12 months
- −$9M
- FCF growth, 12 months
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Dividend yield
- n/ano dividend payments tagged
- Payout ratio
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Buybacks, 12 months
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Share count, 1 year
- +7.0%diluted shares vs a year ago
- Stock-based comp
- $27M
Trailing 12 months to Jun 30, 2026; balance sheet at Jun 30, 2026. From Artivion’s SEC filings. Sparklines show up to six fiscal years. n/a means we don’t hold that number, with the reason. How each is computed.
The business
FCF $0.0B · Sales +11%
- Free cash flow, 12 months$0.0B
- Free-cash-flow yield-0.8%
- Free-cash-flow margin3%
- Gross margin64%
- Operating margin9%
- Return on invested capital4%
- Return on equity−1%
- Sales growth (latest quarter vs year-ago quarter)+11%
- Net debt / EBITDA5.2×
Chart & levels
Where the price is vs its key levels and trends.
Key levels
Every level vs today’s $23.58
- 52-wk lowlowest close, 1 year$20.10−14.8%
- PriceMon Nov 2 close$23.58you are here
- Market Valueavg paid since Aug 6$24.89+5.6%
- 52-wk highhighest close, 1 year$47.63+102.0%
Momentum & 52-week range
RSI 55 · 5 days +2.6%
Signals
Reversal signal setups, the public ledger and the next earnings date.
Setup & signals
No setup armed
No setup armed, so there’s no trigger or stop to track yet. Reversal signal rules only run on companies that pass our quality screen.
Next report
Nov 5
- DateThu Nov 5, after the close
- Consensus EPS$0.11
- Year-ago EPS$0.16
- QuarterSep/2026
From Nasdaq’s earnings calendar. A report resets Market Value.
AORT is outside our quality screen
One text when a published rule fires on one of the 332 quality companies we track: the ticker, the price, the stop and a link to the numbers. Nothing else.
Voices & buzz
Who is talking about it, and how it compares with peers.
Who’s talking about it
Notable investors, executives, analysts and public figures on Artivion in the last 48 hours. Headlines as published, each linked. Their words, not ours.
No notable mentions in the last 48 hours. Checked Nov 3, 5:14 PM ET.
Compare with peers
Closest in size in Medical instruments
Information only, not investment advice. Fair value estimates and talking points are rule-based model output from public data and can be wrong; stop levels are reference points, not orders. How every number is computed.