NASDAQ:AVAVAeroVironment Stock Price, Forecast & News

AeroVironment's stock was trading at $54.73 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, AVAV stock has increased by 45.3% and is now trading at $79.54.
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6 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for AeroVironment in the last year. There are currently 2 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy."
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AeroVironment is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, September 2nd 2020.
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AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ:AVAV) issued its earnings results on Tuesday, June, 23rd. The aerospace company reported $0.75 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.69 by $0.06. The aerospace company had revenue of $135.22 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $123.44 million. AeroVironment had a net margin of 11.18% and a return on equity of 8.92%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 53.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the business posted $0.26 earnings per share.
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AeroVironment updated its FY21 earnings guidance on Tuesday, June, 23rd. The company provided EPS guidance of $1.74-1.94 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $1.90. The company issued revenue guidance of $390-410 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $400.13 million.

6 brokers have issued 1 year target prices for AeroVironment's shares. Their forecasts range from $76.00 to $93.00. On average, they anticipate AeroVironment's stock price to reach $85.80 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 7.9% from the stock's current price.
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News stories about AVAV stock have trended extremely negative recently, InfoTrie reports. InfoTrie identifies negative and positive news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. AeroVironment earned a news impact score of -4.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the aerospace company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next few days.
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AeroVironment saw a drop in short interest in the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 1,500,000 shares, a drop of 11.2% from the April 30th total of 1,690,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 264,500 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 5.7 days. Approximately 6.9% of the company's shares are short sold.
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Some companies that are related to AeroVironment include Honeywell International (HON), Lockheed Martin (LMT), Boeing (BA), Northrop Grumman (NOC), General Dynamics (GD), TransDigm Group (TDG), Heico (HEI), Teledyne Technologies (TDY), Textron (TXT), Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), Axon Enterprise (AAXN), Curtiss-Wright (CW), Hexcel (HXL), Aerojet Rocketdyne (AJRD) and Spirit AeroSystems (SPR).
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AeroVironment trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "AVAV."

AeroVironment's stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.99%), Vident Investment Advisory LLC (1.01%), Vident Investment Advisory LLC (1.01%), Fisher Asset Management LLC (0.99%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.98%) and Redwood Investments LLC (0.73%). Company insiders that own AeroVironment stock include Kirk J Flittie and Timothy E Conver.
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AVAV stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc., New York State Common Retirement Fund, Vident Investment Advisory LLC, Vident Investment Advisory LLC, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Raymond James Financial Services Advisors Inc., Fisher Asset Management LLC, and Goldman Sachs Group Inc..
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AVAV stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Monarch Partners Asset Management LLC, Mitchell Capital Management Co., SG Americas Securities LLC, Teza Capital Management LLC, Rafferty Asset Management LLC, Strs Ohio, Swiss National Bank, and Barclays PLC.
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Shares of AVAV can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of AVAV stock can currently be purchased for approximately $79.54.

AeroVironment has a market capitalization of $1.91 billion and generates $367.30 million in revenue each year. The aerospace company earns $41.07 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.84 on an earnings per share basis. AeroVironment employs 697 workers across the globe.

The official website for AeroVironment is www.avinc.com.

AeroVironment's mailing address is 900 INNOVATORS WAY, SIMI VALLEY CA, 93065. The aerospace company can be reached via phone at 805-520-8350 or via email at [email protected]