AeroVironment Inc (NASDAQ: AVAV) on Tuesday, plunged -4.97% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $203.19. Within the past 52 weeks, AVAV’s price has moved between $116.51 and $236.60.
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Annual sales at Industrials sector company grew by 18.22% over the past five years. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 16.61%. With a float of $27.90 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $28.21 million.
Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 1428 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 39.2%, operating margin of 9.1%, and the pretax margin is 8.3%.
AeroVironment Inc (AVAV) Insider and Institutional Ownership
Observing investor behavior towards Aerospace & Defense industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of AeroVironment Inc is 1.10%, while institutional ownership is 91.38%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Dec 02 ’24, was worth 78,697. In this transaction Sr. VP and CFO of this company sold 396 shares at a rate of $198.73, taking the stock ownership to the 16,472 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Nov 01 ’24, when Company’s Sr. VP and CFO sold 508 for $216.65, making the entire transaction worth $110,058. This insider now owns 16,868 shares in total.
AeroVironment Inc (AVAV) Latest Financial update
As on 7/31/2024, Multinational firm has announced its last quarter scores, in which it reported 0.97 earnings per share (EPS) for the period topping the consensus outlook (set at 0.61) by 0.36. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.86 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 16.61% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 18.20% during the next five years compared to 6.18% growth over the previous five years of trading.
AeroVironment Inc (NASDAQ: AVAV) Trading Performance Indicators
AeroVironment Inc (AVAV) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 3.04 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 7.22. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 151.71.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 2.12, a number that is poised to hit 0.76 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 4.19 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of AeroVironment Inc (AVAV)
AeroVironment Inc (NASDAQ: AVAV) saw its 5-day average volume 0.38 million, a positive change from its year-to-date volume of 0.34 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 46.43%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 9.42.
During the past 100 days, AeroVironment Inc’s (AVAV) raw stochastic average was set at 48.04%, which indicates a significant increase from 10.00% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 43.63% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 47.76% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $208.92, while its 200-day Moving Average is $181.96. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $199.93 in the near term. At $206.77, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $210.33. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $189.53, it is likely to go to the next support level at $185.97. The third support level lies at $179.13 if the price breaches the second support level.
AeroVironment Inc (NASDAQ: AVAV) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 5.45 billion based on 28,206K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 716,720 K and income totals 59,670 K. The company made 189,480 K in profit during its latest quarter, and 21,170 K in sales during its previous quarter.
