AAR CORP
At today's price, AAR CORP (AIR) is priced for today's economics sustained for ~8.6 years. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
The surprise is the parts distribution business: the Parts Supply segment grew 45 percent in the third fiscal quarter, with 36 percent organic growth in new-parts distribution and 55 percent organic growth in sales to government customers. This is not the slow-moving MRO shop the name suggests. At $135.25 the stock trades near 35 times operating income, and the price embeds operating growth held at the self-funding ceiling for roughly nine years, a pace well above what the company has historica
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362 institutional managers reported holding AIR in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. 87 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Vanguard Group, State Street, among others. On the short side, 1.3M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 3% of shares outstanding (3.4 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
AIR's share count grew 9.8% over the past five years even with $97.60M spent on repurchases. It pays no dividend. Cash returned over the past three years: $5.10M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at AIR over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 18 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
AIR's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-03-22 | +6.8% | -5.1% |
| 2023-09-27 | -1.1% | +12.7% |
| 2023-12-22 | -10.6% | +3.8% |
| 2024-03-22 | -6.5% | +18.6% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
AIR's latest 8-K filings: 2026-05-12 (items 7.01, 9.01); 2026-05-06 (items 7.01, 9.01); 2026-04-24 (items 7.01, 8.01, 9.01); 2026-03-24 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-02-11 (items 5.02, 7.01, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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