Woodward (WWD)

• Market cap: $11.7B
• 1 day: 0.92%
• 5 days: 3.39%
• 1 month: 19.59%
• 3 months: 6.61%
• 6 months: 15.72%
• Year to date: 18.64%
• 1 year: 14.95%
• 5 years: 277.59%
• 10 years: 307.88%
• Sector: Industrials
• Industry: Aerospace & Defense

About: Woodward Inc is an independent designer, manufacturer, and service provider of control solutions for the aerospace and industrial markets. It designs, produces, and services reliable, efficient, low-emission, and high-performance energy control products for diverse applications in challenging environments. The company operates in two segments, Aerospace and Industrial. The Aerospace segment provides fuel pumps, actuators, air valves, specialty valves, fuel nozzles, and thrust reverser actuation systems for turbine engines and nacelles, and flight deck controls, actuators, servo controls, motors, and sensors for aircraft. The Industrial segment offers actuators, valves, pumps, fuel injection systems, solenoids, ignition systems, speed controls, electronics and software, and sensors.

Employees: 9,300

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2024 Q4 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

127% more call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $51.2M | Put options by funds: $22.6M

113% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 85 | Existing positions closed: 40

25% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 4 [Q3] → 5 (+1) [Q4]

18% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 160 | Existing positions reduced: 136

8% more funds holding

Funds holding: 436 [Q3] → 472 (+36) [Q4]

1.43% more ownership

Funds ownership: 86.65% [Q3] → 88.08% (+1.43%) [Q4]

2% less capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $8.85B [Q3] → $8.71B (-$143M) [Q4]

Research analyst outlook

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

• Low target: $193 5% downside
• Avg. target: $207 2% upside
• High target: $220 8% upside

3 analyst ratings

• positive: 2 67%
• neutral: 1 33%
• negative: 0 0%

Wells Fargo Matthew Akers 62% 1-year accuracy 48 / 78 met price target	5% downside $193	Equal-Weight Maintained	30 Apr 2025
Truist Securities Michael Ciarmoli 55% 1-year accuracy 43 / 78 met price target	3% upside $209	Buy Maintained	29 Apr 2025
UBS Gavin Parsons 70% 1-year accuracy 19 / 27 met price target	8% upside $220	Buy Maintained	29 Apr 2025