Woodward (WWD)

• Market cap: $15.1B
• 1 day: 2.52%
• 5 days: 2.43%
• 1 month: -2.44%
• 3 months: 15.43%
• 6 months: 37.13%
• Year to date: 47.15%
• 1 year: 55.05%
• 5 years: 202.46%
• 10 years: 473.55%
• 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 2025 Q2 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

145% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 103 | Existing positions closed: 42

129% more call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $103M | Put options by funds: $44.9M

36% more capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $9.63B [Q1] → $13.1B (+$3.42B) [Q2]

11% more funds holding

Funds holding: 476 [Q1] → 528 (+52) [Q2]

0.81% more ownership

Funds ownership: 88.93% [Q1] → 89.75% (+0.81%) [Q2]

1% less repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 167 | Existing positions reduced: 168

8% less funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 12 [Q1] → 11 (-1) [Q2]

Research analyst outlook

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

• Low target: $255 1% upside
• Avg. target: $278 10% upside
• High target: $299 19% upside

5 analyst ratings

• positive: 4 80%
• neutral: 1 20%
• negative: 0 0%

Alembic Global Pete Skibitski	11% upside $281	Overweight Upgraded	20 Aug 2025
Barclays David Strauss	3% upside $260	Equal-Weight Maintained	4 Aug 2025
UBS Gavin Parsons	19% upside $299	Buy Maintained	29 Jul 2025
Truist Securities Michael Ciarmoli	17% upside $294	Buy Maintained	11 Jul 2025
Goldman Sachs Noah Poponak	1% upside $255	Buy Maintained	23 Jun 2025