Mission Produce screens cheap on a forward P/E of 15.0x and a 0.09 PEG ratio, backed by strong cash conversion and net insider buying, but declining revenue, a confirmed technical downtrend, and quality scoring below the engine's floor argue for caution despite the recovery setup.
Thesis pillars
- Cheap Forward Valuation→Stable
- Strong Cash Conversion→Stable
- Declining Revenue Growth→Stable
- +2 more pillars — see the Why tab for full reasoning
Mission Produce, Inc. (AVO) Stock Analysis
Recovery setup
Consumer Defensive · Food Distribution
Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $13.50: a dimension score below its floor triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 5.5/10. Specifically: Elevated put/call ratio: 2.00; Below-average business quality.
Mission Produce farms, packs, markets, and distributes avocados—primarily the Hass variety—sourced mainly from Mexico, Peru, and California, operating through Marketing & Distribution, International Farming, and Blueberries segments. It sells to retail, wholesale, and... Read more
Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $13.50: a dimension score below its floor triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 5.5/10. Specifically: Elevated put/call ratio: 2.00; Below-average business quality. Chart setup: Death cross but MACD improving, RSI 70. Score 5.5/10, moderate confidence.
Passes 7/9 gates (positive momentum, clean insider activity, no SEC red flags, news events none recent, earnings proximity 64d clear, semi cycle peak clear, materials cycle peak clear). Fails on favorable risk/reward ratio. Suitability: aggressive.
About Mission Produce, Inc.
About Mission Produce, Inc.
Mission Produce derives roughly 67% of its net sales from its top 10 customers, and the company describes itself as reliant on essentially one main product, avocados, across its Marketing & Distribution, International Farming, and Blueberries segments. Mexico is the largest single source of the avocados Mission Produce sells, though the company also sources from Peru, California, Colombia, Guatemala, South Africa, and Chile. In May 2026, Mission Produce completed its acquisition of Calavo Growers, combining two of the largest branded avocado suppliers in the United States.
Mission Produce earns revenue by sourcing avocados from thousands of third-party growers as well as its own vertically integrated farms in Peru and Guatemala, then sorting, packing, ripening, and distributing the fruit to retail, wholesale, and foodservice customers through four packing facilities and a global network of forward distribution centers. The company forecasts seasonal avocado costs so it can offer customers fixed-price contracts without bearing spot-market pricing risk, and it layers on value-added services such as custom ripening programs, bagging, and merchandising support rather than competing on commodity fruit alone. Its International Farming segment also earns processing fees packing fruit for the Blueberries segment and third-party crop producers, while substantially all of the blueberries Mission Produce grows are sold to a single distributor under an exclusive marketing agreement. Mission Produce holds no long-term supply contracts with either its growers or its customers, relying instead on relationship continuity and delivery reliability to retain volume.
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Mission Produce's heaviest supply-side exposure sits in Mexico, which the 10-K calls the largest source of its avocado supply; the filing warns that cross-border shipments depend on the U.S.-Mexico border remaining open to imports, that organized-crime and gang violence have stressed Mexican security institutions in ways that could disrupt sourcing, and that Mexican growers strike from time to time. A separate, still-unresolved legal fight adds specificity to that exposure: Mexico's 2022 subcontracting-inspection criteria could force Mission Produce to directly employ its avocado harvesting and picking crews rather than subcontract them, and while the company has won favorable Tax Court rulings suspending enforcement, the government's appeal of those rulings remains pending.
See also: Consumer Defensive · Food Distribution
From Mission Produce, Inc.'s most recent 10-K filing, extracted July 6, 2026.
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Concentration Risks(10-K Item 1A)
- HIGHCustomertop 10 customers67%10-K Item 1A: 'Sales to our top 10 customers amounted to approximately 67% of net sales for the year ended October 31, 2025'
- HIGHProductavocados10-K Item 1A: 'we grow, market, and distribute, as applicable, one main product—avocados'
- MEDIUMGeographicMexico (avocado sourcing)10-K Item 1A: 'Mexico is the largest source of our supply of avocados, and our business is affected by developments in that country.'
- HIGHCustomersingle distributor (Blueberries)10-K Item 1: 'Substantially all blueberries produced are sold to a single distributor under an exclusive marketing agreement.'
Material Events(8-K, last 90d)
- 2026-05-29Item 2.01MEDIUMMission Produce completed its merger with Calavo Growers, Inc. on May 28, 2026, under a January 14, 2026 Merger Agreement; Calavo merged into a Mission Produce subsidiary and became a wholly owned subsidiary. Filing also lists Item 5.02 officer/director changes; details not included in the fetched text.SEC filing →
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Rating Breakdown
3 floor-breakers·1 ceiling hit
Technicals below the gate floor. Component breakdown shows what dragged the score down.static
Ranks in the bottom of its industry peers on the composite signal. Better names in the same sector exist.static
Quality below the gate floor. Component breakdown shows what dragged the score down.static
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Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $13.50: a dimension score below its floor triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 5.5/10. Specifically: Elevated put/call ratio: 2.00; Below-average business quality. Chart setup: Death cross but MACD improving, RSI 70. Prior stop was $12.56. Score 5.5/10, moderate confidence.
Take-profit target: $14.03 (+3.9% upside). Prior stop was $12.56. Stop-loss: $12.56.
Concentration risk — Customer: top 10 customers (67.0%); Concentration risk — Product: avocados; Quality below floor (3.7 < 4.0).
Mission Produce, Inc. trades at a P/E of 41.5 (forward 15.9). TrendMatrix value score: 6.6/10. Verdict: Sell.
8 analysts cover AVO with a consensus score of 4.1/5. Average price target: $17.
What does Mission Produce, Inc. do?Mission Produce farms, packs, markets, and distributes avocados—primarily the Hass variety—sourced mainly from Mexico,...
Mission Produce farms, packs, markets, and distributes avocados—primarily the Hass variety—sourced mainly from Mexico, Peru, and California, operating through Marketing & Distribution, International Farming, and Blueberries segments. It sells to retail, wholesale, and foodservice customers worldwide via packing facilities in Mexico, Peru, and California and distribution centers across North America, China, Europe, and the U.K. In May 2026, the company completed its acquisition of Calavo Growers, consolidating two of the largest players in the avocado industry.