NASDAQ:AVAVAeroVironment Stock Price, Forecast & News

AeroVironment's stock was trading at $54.73 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 (Coronavirus) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, AVAV shares have increased by 44.6% and is now trading at $79.15.
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6 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for AeroVironment in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 5 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) released its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, June, 23rd. The aerospace company reported $0.75 EPS for the quarter, beating the Zacks' 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 revenue was up 53.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last 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 (EPS) 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 brokers have issued twelve-month price objectives for AeroVironment's shares. Their forecasts range from $76.00 to $93.00. On average, they expect AeroVironment's stock price to reach $85.80 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 8.4% from the stock's current price.
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News headlines about AVAV stock have been trending neutral on Wednesday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research firm rates the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. AeroVironment earned a news sentiment score of 0.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave press coverage about the aerospace company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next few days.
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AeroVironment saw a decrease in short interest during the month of July. As of July 15th, there was short interest totaling 1,190,000 shares, a decrease of 16.2% from the June 30th total of 1,420,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 227,100 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 5.2 days. Approximately 5.4% of the shares of the company are short sold.
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Some companies that are related to AeroVironment include Lockheed Martin (LMT), Honeywell International (HON), 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 number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Vident Investment Advisory LLC (1.01%), Vident Investment Advisory LLC (1.01%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.98%), Redwood Investments LLC (0.73%), UBS Group AG (0.32%) and CWM LLC (0.32%). 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., Vident Investment Advisory LLC, Vident Investment Advisory LLC, Raymond James Financial Services Advisors Inc., CWM LLC, UBS Group AG, First Trust Advisors LP, and Gradient Investments LLC.
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AVAV stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Monarch Partners Asset Management LLC, Mitchell Capital Management Co., SG Americas Securities LLC, Strs Ohio, Curbstone Financial Management Corp, Redwood Investments LLC, First Quadrant L P CA, and ProShare Advisors 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 $79.15.

AeroVironment has a market capitalization of $1.90 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]