NASDAQ:AVAVAeroVironment Stock Price, Forecast & News

AeroVironment's stock was trading at $54.73 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, AVAV stock has increased by 48.7% and is now trading at $81.41.
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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) posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, June, 23rd. The aerospace company reported $0.75 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate 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 firm's quarterly revenue was up 53.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the company posted $0.26 EPS.
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AeroVironment updated its FY21 earnings guidance on Tuesday, June, 23rd. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $1.74-1.94 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $1.90. The company issued revenue guidance of $390-410 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $400.13 million.

6 brokerages have issued 12-month target prices for AeroVironment's shares. Their forecasts range from $76.00 to $93.00. On average, they expect AeroVironment's share price to reach $85.80 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 5.4% from the stock's current price.
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Media headlines about AVAV stock have trended somewhat negative recently, InfoTrie reports. The research group identifies negative and positive press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. AeroVironment earned a news impact score of -1.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news coverage about the aerospace company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next several days.
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AeroVironment saw a decrease in short interest in the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 1,500,000 shares, a decrease 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 stock 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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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other AeroVironment investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Micron Technology (MU), Netflix (NFLX), Alibaba Group (BABA), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Intel (INTC), Paypal (PYPL), Tesla (TSLA) and Broadcom (AVGO).

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 shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc. (10.34%), American Capital Management Inc. (6.82%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.99%), Vident Investment Advisory LLC (1.01%), Vident Investment Advisory LLC (1.01%) and Fisher Asset Management LLC (0.99%). 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., Federated Hermes Inc., New York State Common Retirement Fund, Vanguard Group Inc., FMR LLC, Vident Investment Advisory LLC, Vident Investment Advisory LLC, and Bank of New York Mellon Corp.
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AVAV stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Marshall Wace North America L.P., Monarch Partners Asset Management LLC, Marshall Wace LLP, Mitchell Capital Management Co., SG Americas Securities LLC, Teza Capital Management LLC, American Capital Management Inc., and Rafferty Asset Management LLC.
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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 $81.41.

AeroVironment has a market capitalization of $1.96 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]