AeroVironment Inc (AVAV) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $246.25, with 5.08 million shares of worth about $1.25 billion changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 56.19% during that period and on July 02, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -2.44%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 28.27M shares, out of which, 27.77M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 4.81% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 36.49%. Year-to-date (YTD), AVAV shares are showing a performance of 35.18% which increased to 60.02% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $102.25 but also hit the highest price of $295.90 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for AeroVironment Inc shares is 826.28K. The stock is currently trading 16.44% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 34.71% for SMA50 and it goes to 40.69% higher than SMA200.
AeroVironment Inc (NASDAQ: AVAV) currently have 28.27M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 62.25% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $11.25B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.01. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 159.55, while it has posted earnings per share of $1.54 in the same period. Its PEG reads 7.83 and has Quick Ratio of 2.69 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.07. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for AVAV, volatility over the week remained 7.53% while standing at 5.41% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that AeroVironment Inc (AVAV) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 0.28 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 0.57 and it is 4.32 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target -0.03 which is 0.81 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of 0.89 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -5.66% while it is estimated to increase by 40.54% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 20.37% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of -2.04% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Goldman on June 30, 2025 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $301 to it. Coverage by Stifel stated AeroVironment Inc (AVAV) stock as a Buy in their note to investors on June 24, 2025, suggesting a price target of $240 for the stock. On April 08, 2025, Raymond James Upgrade their recommendations, while on November 20, 2024, Jefferies Upgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $230. Stock get a Hold rating from Jefferies on November 12, 2024.
