“As the Company’s repayment of indebtedness using the proceeds of the common stock issuance and Notes issuance was not directly attributable to the acquisition, the related reduction in interest expense is not reflected in this unaudited pro forma combined fin…”10-Q · Sep 10, 2026 ↗
AeroVironment, Inc.
AVAV
Market read
AeroVironment, Inc.'s move is spreading beyond its market group.
AVAV accounts for 9.3% of the group's measured movement across 6.6 effective names. raw member direction is mixed; 0 of 12 SPY-adjusted paths align to the mixed. Capital-flow agreement is 13%, so confirmation is not yet clean. No verified headline preceded the measured group move.
Is this move genuinely shared?
No material onset for AVAV could be timestamped inside the aligned 5-minute window.
5 of 12 members in Aerospace & Defense are active. 0 of 8 disclosed connections are confirming.
- At least 8 of 12 durable members become active together.
- Capital-flow agreement rises above 55%.
- BWXT remains aligned with the group in the next market snapshot.
Invalidation: The live read weakens if participation falls to 4 of 12 members or fewer.
Research brief
The story so far
AVAV accounts for 9.3% of the group's measured movement across 6.6 effective names. raw member direction is mixed; 0 of 12 SPY-adjusted paths align to the mixed. Capital-flow agreement is 13%, so confirmation is not yet clean. No verified headline preceded the measured group move.
No thresholded supportive filing evidence is available yet.
No thresholded adverse filing evidence is available yet.
- At least 8 of 12 durable members become active together.
- Capital-flow agreement rises above 55%.
- BWXT remains aligned with the group in the next market snapshot.
Company research
Understand the business, not just the ticker
Use the company’s filings to identify the few operating, demand, cost, capital and regulatory variables that determine its earnings power.
- Which operating variable is changing?
- Is that change durable, cyclical or one-off?
- What evidence would disprove the current interpretation?
- Latest annual revenue changed +140.9% year over year.
- Product pipeline and R&D has repeated favorable evidence across 6 filings.
- Operating margin changed -20.7 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- Credit and interest rates has repeated adverse evidence across 6 filings.
- Restructuring and cost reductions has repeated adverse evidence across 5 filings.
- EV/sales is 23% below the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
Price as of Sep 11, 2026
146.60Reported annual revenue and per-share history. This is accounting history, not a forecast.
What management says matters
Persistent and emerging business drivers
“Our backlog is typically subject to large variations from quarter to quarter as existing contracts expire or are renewed or new contracts are awarded.”10-Q · Sep 10, 2026 ↗
“The decrease in SG&A expense was primarily due to a decrease of $17.4 million of intangible amortization expense and a decrease of $22.5 million in acquisition related expenses resulting from the prior year acquisition of BlueHalo, partially offset by an incr…”10-Q · Sep 10, 2026 ↗
“The decrease in cash provided by operating activities was partially offset by an increase in non-cash expenses of $10.9 million, primarily due to a goodwill impairment of $18.4 million in the fiscal year ended April 30, 2025, an increase in stock-based compen…”10-K · Jun 29, 2026 ↗
Valuation discipline
Descriptive valuation snapshot
Price/sales 3.6× · EV/sales 3.8×. Comparisons use only industry-matched filing peers.
Mechanical 2.0-year scenarios are available as editable assumptions, not consensus.
Price action
How the market is pricing the story
Jodie does not have enough daily observations to draw a useful short-term chart for this asset. The latest quoted price was checked 11 Sept, 15:55 GMT-4; this is a coverage limitation, not a flat-price conclusion.
Developments
No sourced recent-development timeline yet
Jodie has not returned a relevant primary source or news item for AVAV. This is an evidence-coverage gap, not a conclusion that nothing material happened.
Business and financial condition
Reported financial figures are not available yet
Jodie has not returned structured SEC XBRL fundamentals for this asset. This is a coverage limitation, not an assessment of the business or its financial health.
Filing analysis
No comparable filing assessment is available yet
Jodie has not yet found a suitable current-versus-prior filing comparison for AVAV. This does not mean the latest filing was neutral or immaterial.
Business ecosystem
The relationships behind AVAV
Customers, suppliers, partners and competitors named in company filings—not inferred from headlines.
Depends on
ARCTFiling-linked nameinvesteeJun 29, 2026 ▾
“Further, we have many U.S.”
BAThe Boeing CompanycompetitorJun 29, 2026 ▾
“Competitors in the C-UAS and Electronic Warfare markets include Anduril Industries, Inc., The Boeing Company, Lockheed Martin Corporation, RTX Corporation, DroneShield Limited, SRC Inc., Polaris, Inc., CACI International Inc., Northrop Grumman Corporation, L3…”
Depended on by
AMPXAmprius Technologies, Inc.partnerMay 7, 2026 ▾
“Our batteries and their performance specifications have been tested and validated for application by various customers, including our longtime partners such as AALTO Airbus, AeroVironment, BAE Systems, Kraus Hamdani Aerospace, Nokia Drone Networks, Nordic Win…”
Filing peers
Companies whose filings use similar operating language.
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What is moving around it
Live connections
AVAV is currently a Follower in the organic co-movement group Aerospace & Defense. This group is discovered from market behaviour rather than assigned from an industry taxonomy. 3 filing-linked names are in the relationship map; none is currently confirmed as moving with the group.
Context history
Theme membership history
No durable theme membership has been observed for this name yet.