QualityDipStocks / Industrials · Aerospace
AeroVironment AVAV
Outside our quality screen, so we don’t track its dips. It’s 68% below its 52-week high.
Outside our quality screen, 11% under its Market Value. No fair value estimate for now: its free cash flow is negative.
- Fair value est.
- n/a
- Market Value
- $141.04price −11%
- Off 52-wk high
- −68%
- Risk vs market
- Highbeta 2.01
3 bullish · 5 bearish See why
Key levels
Every level vs today’s $126.11
- 52-wk lowlowest close, 1 year$117.51−6.8%
- PriceFri Oct 30 close$126.11you are here
- Market Valueavg paid since Sep 9$141.04+11.8%
- 52-wk highhighest close, 1 year$392.86+211.5%
Fair value estimate
No estimate for AVAV: negative free cash flow. We’d rather show nothing than a made-up number.
Risk vs market
How risk vs market is measured
One year of daily returns (Oct 30 to Oct 30, 252 sessions). Beta = how much AVAV moved for each 1% move in the S&P 500 (SPY); 1.0 moves with the market. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns. Past behavior, not a forecast.
Swings much more than the market, and its own price swings are 5.8× the S&P 500’s.
- Beta vs S&P 500
- 2.01
- Volatility
- 75% vs 13% SPY
- Correlation SPY
- 0.34
- Correlation QQQ
- 0.30
Bull vs bear
Rule-based from the data on this page, strongest first. Not advice.
Top bullish points 3 of 5
GrowthSales grew 84% to $2.0B over the last 12 months vs the 12 months before (SEC filings).
GrowthSales compounded 54% a year from FY2023 to FY2026.
ValuationTrades 10.6% below its Market Value of $141.04, the average price paid since the Sep 9 filing.
Top bearish points 5 of 5
ValuationFree cash flow is negative (−$25M over the last 12 months), so there’s no cash-flow value under the price.
ProfitabilityGross margin narrowed to 25.3% in FY2026 from 39.6% in FY2024 (SEC filings).
ProfitabilityOperating margin narrowed to −15.7% in FY2026 from 10.0% in FY2024 (SEC filings).
ProfitabilityLost $203M over the last 12 months (net income, SEC filings).
QualityDoesn’t pass our quality screen: no positive free cash flow; ROE under 12% and ROIC under 10%.
Who’s talking about it
Notable investors, executives, analysts and public figures on AeroVironment in the last 48 hours. Headlines as published, each linked. Their words, not ours.
No notable mentions in the last 48 hours. Checked Nov 1, 9:09 PM ET.
Compare with peers
Closest in size in Aerospace
All fundamentals
FCF yield -0.4% · Sales +84%
Valuation
- P/E
- n/aloss over the last 12 months
- Price / FCF
- n/anegative free cash flow
- FCF yield
- −0.4%
- EV / EBITDA
- n/aD&A or debt not tagged in SEC data
- Price / sales
- 3.45×
- Price / book
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Market cap
- $6.9Blisted
- Enterprise value
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
Growth
- Revenue, 12 months
- $2.0B
- Sales growth, 12 months
- +84.4%vs the 12 months before
- Sales growth, 3 yrs
- +54.1%/yrfrom FY2023
- Diluted EPS, 12 months
- −$4.06
- EPS growth, last FY
- n/afewer than two years of diluted EPS
- Net income, 12 months
- −$203M
- Net income growth
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
Profitability
- Gross margin
- 26.5%
- Operating margin
- −12.6%
- Net margin
- −10.1%
- FCF margin
- −1.2%
- Return on equity
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Return on invested capital
- n/aoperating income, debt, equity or cash not tagged
Balance sheet
- Cash & short-term inv.
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Total debt
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Net cash
- n/acash or debt not tagged in SEC data
- Debt / equity
- n/adebt or equity not tagged in SEC data
- Interest coverage
- n/ainterest expense not tagged in SEC data
Cash flow & returns
- Free cash flow, 12 months
- −$25M
- FCF growth, 12 months
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Dividend yield
- 0%
- Payout ratio
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Buybacks, 12 months
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Share count, 1 year
- +6.3%diluted shares vs a year ago
- Stock-based comp
- $32M
Trailing 12 months to Aug 1, 2026. From AeroVironment’s SEC filings. Sparklines show up to six fiscal years. n/a means we don’t hold that number, with the reason. How each is computed.
Valuation details
MV $141.04
Setup & signals
No setup armed
No setup armed, so there’s no trigger or stop to track yet. Reversal signal rules only run on companies that pass our quality screen.
Momentum & 52-week range
RSI 44 · 5 days +2.3%
The business
FCF $-0.0B · Sales +6%
- Free cash flow, 12 months−$0.0B
- Free-cash-flow yield−0.4%
- Free-cash-flow margin−1%
- Gross margin26%
- Operating margin−2%
- Return on invested capital−1%
- Return on equity−5%
- Sales growth (latest quarter vs year-ago quarter)+6%
- Net debt / EBITDA1.2×
Information only, not investment advice. Fair value estimates and talking points are rule-based model output from public data and can be wrong; stop levels are reference points, not orders. How every number is computed.
AVAV is outside our quality screen
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