AeroVironment (AVAV)

• Market cap: $13.6B
• 1 day: 2.33%
• 5 days: 12.57%
• 1 month: 10.09%
• 3 months: 44.16%
• 6 months: 116.38%
• Year to date: 73.9%
• 1 year: 55.5%
• 5 years: 322.4%
• 10 years: 1,220.73%
• Sector: Industrials
• Industry: Aerospace & Defense

About: AeroVironment Inc operates under a single business segment in which it supplies unmanned aircraft systems, tactical missile systems, high-altitude pseudo-satellites, and other related services to government agencies within the United States Department of Defense as well as the United States allied international governments. The systems can help with security, surveillance, or sensing, and provide eyes in the sky without needing an actual person, or driver in the sky. The company is a defense technology provider delivering integrated capabilities across air, land, sea, space, and cyber. It develops and deploy autonomous systems, precision strike systems, counter-UAS technologies, space-based platforms, directed energy systems, and cyber and electronic warfare capabilities.

Employees: 1,475

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2025 Q2 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

295% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 154 | Existing positions closed: 39

267% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 3 [Q1] → 11 (+8) [Q2]

146% more capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $3.27B [Q1] → $8.03B (+$4.76B) [Q2]

29% more funds holding

Funds holding: 377 [Q1] → 487 (+110) [Q2]

16% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 148 | Existing positions reduced: 128

15% less call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $228M | Put options by funds: $268M

35.29% less ownership

Funds ownership: 97.02% [Q1] → 61.73% (-35.29%) [Q2]

Research analyst outlook

12 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

• Low target: $225
• Avg. target: $288
• High target: $335

12 analyst ratings

• positive: 12 100%
• neutral: 0 0%
• negative: 0 0%

BTIG Andre Madrid	$300	Buy Reiterated	11 Sep 2025
Needham Austin Bohlig	$300	Buy Reiterated	10 Sep 2025
JMP Securities Trevor Walsh	$325	Market Outperform Reiterated	18 Aug 2025
Canaccord Genuity Austin Moeller	$305	Buy Initiated	11 Aug 2025
Baird Peter Arment	$267	Outperform Maintained	4 Aug 2025