AeroVironment Inc
AeroVironment Inc (AVAV) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in Aerospace & Defense, part of the Industrials sector. It is headquartered in Arlington, United States and has 3,991 employees. The company is worth $5.98B. Revenue was $1.98B in fiscal 2026, up 140.9% from the year before. It reported a net loss of $265.12M. The share price is 71.2% below its 52-week high of $408.25. 7 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Baillie Gifford (Baillie Gifford & Co), at $159.7M. In that quarter, 3 of them opened or added to the position and 2 reduced it. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▲ +50.8% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,366.74▲ +36.7%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 17 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $121.79 | $241.89 | $153.89 | $126.04 | $85.66 | $62.03 | $86.90 | $61.74 | $67.95 | $56.16 | $26.83 | $29.47 | $27.25 | $29.14 | $21.74 | $31.47 | $26.83 | |
| P/E |
Companies of similar size in Industrials, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEXTerex Corp | $52.11 | 25.4x | 1.2x | 1.30% | 4.21% | $5.96B |
| DLBDolby Laboratories, Inc. | $63.28 | 26.9x | 2.3x | 2.28% | 8.76% | $5.93B |
| GATXGATX Corp | $167.50 | 16.6x | 2.1x | 1.58% | 11.80% | $5.91B |
| LGNLegence Corp. | $36.86 |
| 62.0x |
| — |
| 156.1x |
| 70.6x |
| — |
| — |
| 64.6x |
| 50.8x |
| 31.3x |
| 90.6x |
| 100.3x |
| 68.8x |
| 226.7x |
| 45.4x |
| 62.0x |
| 16.0x |
| 26.9x |
| 28.5x |
| P/S | 3.9x | 3.1x | 13.5x | 6.0x | 6.1x | 4.8x | 3.9x | 5.7x | 4.7x | 6.1x | 5.7x | 2.7x | 2.7x | 2.5x | 2.7x | 1.5x | 2.4x | 2.4x |
| P/B | 2.6x | 1.4x | 12.5x | 5.3x | 6.0x | 3.5x | 2.5x | 4.1x | 3.2x | 4.0x | 3.5x | 1.7x | 2.0x | 1.8x | 2.1x | 1.6x | 2.6x | 2.5x |
| EPS | -$5.40 | $1.55 | $2.18 | -$7.04 | -$0.17 | $0.96 | $1.71 | $1.97 | $0.75 | $0.56 | $0.39 | $0.13 | $0.60 | $0.47 | $1.36 | $1.17 | $0.94 |
| Profit margin | 5.61% | -13.41% | 5.32% | 8.32% | -32.59% | -0.94% | 5.91% | 11.18% | 15.09% | 6.57% | 5.61% | 3.84% | 5.04% | 5.45% | 4.34% | 9.37% | 8.86% | 8.30% |
| ROE | 4.01% | -6.02% | 4.92% | 7.25% | -31.97% | -0.69% | 3.81% | 8.05% | 10.25% | 4.31% | 3.42% | 2.48% | 3.75% | 4.01% | 3.31% | 10.18% | 9.83% | 8.87% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
| — |
| 4.7x |
| 0.00% |
| -12.43% |
| $6.06B |
| LOARLoar Holdings Inc. | $64.82 | 88.8x | 5.1x | 0.00% | 5.84% | $6.07B |
| ENSEnerSys | $168.67 | 18.1x | 3.1x | 0.68% | 18.36% | $6.08B |