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. Since then, AVAV shares have increased by 48.1% and is now trading at $81.05.
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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 data on Tuesday, June, 23rd. The aerospace company reported $0.75 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.69 by $0.06. The aerospace company earned $135.22 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $123.44 million. AeroVironment had a return on equity of 8.92% and a net margin of 11.18%. The company's revenue was up 53.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the company earned $0.26 earnings per share.
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AeroVironment issued an update on 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 analysts have issued 1-year target prices for AeroVironment's stock. Their forecasts range from $76.00 to $93.00. On average, they anticipate AeroVironment's share price to reach $85.80 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 5.9% from the stock's current price.
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Press coverage about AVAV stock has trended negative on Monday, InfoTrie reports. InfoTrie rates the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. AeroVironment earned a media sentiment score of -2.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news stories about the aerospace company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next several days.
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AeroVironment saw a drop in short interest in the month of July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totaling 1,190,000 shares, a drop of 16.2% from the July 15th total of 1,420,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 227,100 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 5.2 days. Approximately 5.4% 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), Aerojet Rocketdyne (AJRD), Hexcel (HXL) and Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (KTOS).
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AeroVironment trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "AVAV."

AeroVironment's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include 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%), Redwood Investments LLC (0.73%) and Principal Financial Group Inc. (0.69%). 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, Raymond James Financial Services Advisors Inc., Fisher Asset Management LLC, CWM LLC, and UBS Group AG.
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AVAV stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Monarch Partners Asset Management LLC, Mitchell Capital Management Co., SG Americas Securities LLC, Rafferty Asset Management LLC, Strs Ohio, Swiss National Bank, Cookson Peirce & Co. Inc., and Curbstone Financial Management Corp.
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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 $81.05.

AeroVironment has a market capitalization of $1.95 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]