AeroVironment Inc (AVAV) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $278.56, with 6.6 million shares of worth about $1.84 billion changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 69.17% during that period and on July 17, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 3.58%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 49.34M shares, out of which, 30.05M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 17.25% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 49.23%. Year-to-date (YTD), AVAV shares are showing a performance of 59.94% which increased to 81.01% 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 1.15 million. The stock is currently trading 14.36% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 37.18% for SMA50 and it goes to 56.18% higher than SMA200.
AeroVironment Inc (NASDAQ: AVAV) currently have 49.34M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 57.57% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $13.74B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.00. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 180.48, while it has posted earnings per share of $1.54 in the same period. Its PEG reads 7.82 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 5.32% while standing at 5.40% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 1.79% while it is estimated to increase by 37.40% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 23.08% 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 Cantor Fitzgerald on July 08, 2025 offering an Overweight rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $335 to it. Coverage by Goldman stated AeroVironment Inc (AVAV) stock as a Buy in their note to investors on June 30, 2025, suggesting a price target of $301 for the stock. On June 24, 2025, Stifel Initiated their recommendations, while on April 08, 2025, Raymond James Upgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $200. Stock get a Buy rating from Jefferies on November 20, 2024.
