AeroVironment Inc (NASDAQ:AVAV) has a beta value of 0.81 and has seen 3.45 million shares traded in the recent trading session. The company, currently valued at $10.67B, closed the recent trade at $233.68 per share which meant it gained $40.4 on the day or 20.90% during that session. The AVAV stock price is -1.25% off its 52-week high price of $236.60 and 56.24% above the 52-week low of $102.25. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 0.81 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 530.55K shares.
The consensus among analysts is that AeroVironment Inc (AVAV) is Buy stock at the moment, with a recommendation rating of 1.38. 0 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, while 0 rate it as Overweight. 2 out of 9 have rated it as a Hold, with 7 advising it as a Buy. 0 have rated the stock as Underweight.
AeroVironment Inc (NASDAQ:AVAV) trade information
Sporting 20.90% in the green today, the stock has traded in the green over the last five days, with the highest price hit on recent trading when the AVAV stock price touched $233.68 or saw a rise of 6.53%. Year-to-date, AeroVironment Inc shares have moved 23.33%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change 23.82%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of AeroVironment Inc (NASDAQ:AVAV) have changed 38.21%. Short interest in the company has seen 3.91 million shares shorted with days to cover at 9.34.
Wall Street analysts have a consensus price target for the stock at $168, which means that the shares’ value could drop -39.1% from the levels at last check today.. The projected low price target is $146.0 while the price target rests at a high of $190.0. In that case, then, we find that the latest price level in today’s session is 18.69% off the targeted high while a plunge would see the stock lose 37.52% from the levels at last check today..
AeroVironment Inc (AVAV) estimates and forecasts
The company’s shares have gained 44.39% over the past 6 months.
If we evaluate the company’s growth over the last 5-year and for the next 5-year period, we find that annual earnings growth was -2.01% over the past 5 years. Earnings growth for 2025 is a modest -1.45% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to increase by 19.87%.
AVAV Dividends
AeroVironment Inc is expected to release its next earnings report on 2025-Jun-24 this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue.
AeroVironment Inc (NASDAQ:AVAV)’s Major holders
Insiders own 0.77% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 77.77% with a share float percentage of 78.38%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with AeroVironment Inc having a total of 524.0 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are BLACKROCK INC. with over 4.55 million shares worth more than $828.82 million. As of 2024-06-30, BLACKROCK INC. held 16.2733% of shares outstanding.
The other major institutional holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC, with the holding of over 3.06 million shares as of 2024-06-30. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $557.79 million and represent 10.9519% of shares outstanding.
Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund . As of Apr 30, 2025 , the former fund manager holds about 6.02% shares in the company for having 1.7 shares of worth $402.94 million while later fund manager owns 894.19 shares of worth $212.09 million as of Mar 31, 2025 , which makes it owner of about 3.17% of company’s outstanding stock.
