AEROVIRONMENT, INC.
At today's price, AEROVIRONMENT, INC. (AVAV) is priced for today's economics sustained for ~10.6 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.
At $169.57 the price pays roughly 60x mid-cycle operating income, a figure that only resolves if company-wide operating growth holds near its self-funding ceiling for about twelve years. Only about one in seven comparable fast-growers has sustained that pace for a decade. The near-term growth rate is not the stretch. AeroVironment has recently delivered it. The stretch is duration: the price needs that rate to persist far longer than the historical base rate supports, on a balance sheet that ju
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591 institutional managers reported holding AVAV in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 62% of the company; the top 10 hold 33%. 112 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Vanguard Group, State Street, among others. On the short side, 4.8M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 10% of shares outstanding (4.6 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.
AVAV's share count grew 102% over the past five years. It pays no dividend.
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 AVAV 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.
AVAV's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-06-29 | +4.9% | -3.0% |
| 2023-09-07 | +17.3% | +6.5% |
| 2023-12-07 | -9.5% | +0.5% |
| 2024-03-06 | +29.9% | -0.4% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
AVAV's latest 8-K filings: 2026-06-29 (items 2.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-06-25 (items 5.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-06-22 (items 4.02, 5.02); 2026-04-13 (items 5.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-04-09 (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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