AVAV · AeroVironment, Inc.
$144.68
-1.62% last session
End-of-day data · close of 2026-09-11
Market cap
$7B
Enterprise value
$7B
Trailing P/E
—
Forward P/E
33.5
Dividend yield
—
Beta
1.41
Avg volume
2M
Employees
4K
Daily Change %
-1.62%
5 Days Change
-2.66%
10 Days Change
-5.09%
30 Days Change
-28.17%
60 Days Change
-2.61%
Month to Day Change
-2.34%
Year to Day Change
-41.79%
Analyst Outlook
Analyst estimates change daily — follow the shifts on the Estimate Trends page.
Technical Analysis
Analyst sentiment over time — AVAV
Rec Mean (blue, left — higher = more bullish) vs. price targets (right).
Investment Bank Ratings as of 2026-09-11
Latest call per bank · past 12 months
Bank of America
Buy$185
+25.8% vs priceJP Morgan
Overweight$210
+42.8% vs priceUBS
Neutral$170
+15.6% vs priceRBC Capital
Sector Perform$180
+22.4% vs priceJefferies
Buy$229
+55.7% vs priceGoldman Sachs
Buy$429
+191.7% vs priceRecent rating actions
| Date | Firm | Action | Rating | Price target |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-11 | Bank of America | Maintains | Buy | $225 → $185 |
| 2026-09-10 | Citizens | Reiterates | Market Outperform | $230 |
| 2026-09-10 | JP Morgan | Maintains | Overweight | $200 → $210 |
| 2026-09-10 | UBS | Maintains | Neutral | $166 → $170 |
| 2026-09-10 | Needham | Reiterates | Buy | $225 |
| 2026-09-10 | BTIG | Reiterates | Buy | $205 |
| 2026-07-16 | Raymond James | Upgrade | Market Perform → Outperform | $0.00 → $210 |
| 2026-07-10 | Citizens | Maintains | Market Outperform | $350 → $230 |
Ratings and price targets are the published opinions of the issuing banks, compiled from Yahoo Finance rating actions — not investment advice.
Signal Summary as of 2026-09-11
- RSI (14): RSI is 42 — neutral momentum, neither overbought nor oversold.
- Price vs 50-day MA: Trading 8.6% below the 50-day MA ($158.30).
- Price vs 200-day MA: Trading 31.1% below the 200-day MA ($209.84).
- MA cross: The 50-day MA sits below the 200-day MA (death-cross regime) — the longer-term trend points down.
- MACD (12,26,9): MACD histogram is negative (-0.87) — short-term momentum is fading.
- 52-week range: Price is within 10% of the 52-week low ($136.68).
AVAV Price Chart
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Fundamentals
About AeroVironment, Inc.
AeroVironment, Inc., a defense technology provider, designs, develops, produces, delivers, and supports a portfolio of robotic systems and related services for government agencies and businesses in the United States and internationally. The company operates in two segments, Autonomous Systems; and Space, Cyber and Directed Energy. The company provides uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS), which include small and medium UAS, and kinesis command and control software; and counter-UAS and precision strike, a loitering munitions solution that deliver actionable intelligence and precision firepower modern warfighters, including precision strike, radio frequency and kinetic C-UAS, and electronic warfare systems. It also offers autonomy, AI, and platform technologies; unmanned maritime; and uncrewed ground systems. The company provides digital beamforming technology, a multi-band/beam software defined antenna tile that allows simultaneous communication with multiple satellites; laser communications, a data transmission systems for space operations; space-qualified hardware for line of sight stabilization and control electronics in low, medium, and geostationary earth orbit, as well as cislunar orbits; phased array antenna technology to supports hypersonic telemetry and tracking, and other missile testing; and directed energy solution. It also offers cyber solutions for national security and defense operations. AeroVironment, Inc. was incorporated in 1971 and is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.
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