Archer Aviation Inc (NYSE: ACHR): Can A Stock Be -14.56% Lower Year-To-Date And Still Be A Loser?

Archer Aviation Inc (NYSE:ACHR)’s traded shares stood at 28.42 million during the last session, with the company’s beta value hitting 3.11. At the close of trading, the stock’s price was $8.33, to imply a decrease of -7.34% or -$0.66 in intraday trading. The ACHR share’s 52-week high remains $12.48, putting it -49.82% down since that peak but still an impressive 66.15% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $2.82. The company has a valuation of $4.57B, with an average of 19.92 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 27.52 million shares over the past 3 months.

Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Buy for Archer Aviation Inc (ACHR), translating to a mean rating of 1.56. Of 4 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 0 analyst(s) give ACHR a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 1 advise Hold as 3 recommend it as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) have given it an Underweight rating. Estimates put the company’s current-quarter earnings per share at -0.22.

Archer Aviation Inc (NYSE:ACHR) trade information

After registering a -7.34% downside in the last session, Archer Aviation Inc (ACHR) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is 3.48%, and 17.16% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is -14.56%. Short interest in Archer Aviation Inc (NYSE:ACHR) saw shorts transact 63.41 million shares and set a 2.71 days time to cover.

The extremes give us $13.5 and $13.5 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, ACHR has been trading -62.06% off suggested target high and -62.06% from its likely low.

Revenue forecast for the current quarter as set by 5 analysts is 2M. Meanwhile, for the current quarter, a total of 5 analyst(s) estimate revenue growth to 8.6M.

An assessment of the company’s 5-year growth patterns shows that annual earnings shrunk an estimated -60.86% for the past 5-year period. While 2025 is set for a 26.73% return in earnings, projections for the next 5 years are at 15.26% annually.

ACHR Dividends

Archer Aviation Inc has its next earnings report out on 2025-Feb-26. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too.

Archer Aviation Inc (NYSE:ACHR)’s Major holders

Archer Aviation Inc insiders hold 14.41% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 38.98% of the shares at 45.54% float percentage. In total, 38.98% institutions holds shares in the company, led by ARK INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LLC. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 25.46 million shares (or 7.6203% of shares), all amounting to roughly $89.61 million.

The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is BLACKROCK INC. with 19.61 million shares, or about 5.8709% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $69.04 million.

We also have ARK ETF Trust-ARK Innovation ETF and SPDR SERIES TRUST-SPDR(R) S&P(R) Aerospace & Defense ETF as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the Archer Aviation Inc (ACHR) shares. Going by data provided on Mar 31, 2025 , ARK ETF Trust-ARK Innovation ETF holds roughly 16.94 shares. This is just over 3.09% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $141.13 million. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 13.56, or 2.47% of the shares, all valued at about 112.99 million.