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AVAV AeroVironment, Inc.

Industrials

quality needs a look, discounted valuation.

Quality
Weak
Valuation
Cheaper
Key signals
EPS surprise beat
156.45
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Is AeroVironment, Inc. a buy? Fundamentals and valuation first

  • Quality is weaker than peers. Operating margin is only around the 36th percentile. TTM ROE is about -4.6%.

  • Valuation is cheaper than most peers. TTM P/E is in the 7th percentile, lower than most liquid US common stocks.

  • Recent volatility is elevated. 60-day annualized volatility is in the 80th percentile. Average 20-day dollar volume is about $326.1M.

  • Signals are active now. EPS surprise beat currently holds; the tables below show what followed in this stock’s own history.

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Historical evidence

Signals active now

Each active condition is tested against this stock’s own history and benchmarked versus the S&P 500.

EPS surprise beat

Active · now 165.40710751237066%

Reported EPS beat consensus estimate by at least 5%; event date is the earnings-surprise timestamp.

30 historical occurrences (since 2015-03-03)
Average forward return after EPS surprise beat。20-day: Win 65.4%, Sample 26, Median +5.36%, Excess +3.64%, Beat mkt rate 61.5%；60-day: Win 60%, Sample 25, Median +13.13%, Excess +8.07%, Beat mkt rate 56%；120-day: Win 64%, Sample 25, Median +12.26%, Excess +6.79%, Beat mkt rate 56%

120 days after: historical avg +13.46%

20-day +5.18%
60-day +12.15%
120-day +13.46%
20-day
60-day
120-day
Win
65.4%
60%
64%
Sample
26
25
25
Median
+5.36%
+13.13%
+12.26%
Excess
+3.64%
+8.07%
+6.79%
Beat mkt rate
61.5%
56%
56%

Over 25 occurrences, 120-day forward avg gained 13.46%, beat the market by 6.79 pts; win rate 64%.

Valuation regime and forward returns

Daily TTM P/E is converted into an expanding own-history percentile, then grouped into five valuation regimes. Forward returns use adjusted prices over the next 240 trading days.

PE percentile bandSample days240-day avg returnMedianWin rateAvg excess (vs index)
0-20 2Insufficient data
20-40 8Insufficient data
40-60 96+63.1% +44.3% 100% +30.3%
60-80 183+76% +68.3% 100% +39.8%
80-100 You are here192+58.9% +57.2% 100% +17.5%

Quarterly EPS is aligned by SEC filing date before it is forward-filled to daily prices. The expanding percentile uses only information available up to each day.

Current TTM P/E is about 149.03, placing it in the 94.1 own-history percentile, inside the 80-100 bucket.

Valuation × momentum analogs

Each historical day is grouped by own-history P/E tercile and 60-day momentum direction, then tested for the next 120-trading-day adjusted return.

Valuation
Momentum
Cheap (own-history bottom third)
Middle
Expensive (own-history top third)
60-day momentum up
Insufficient data
(0d)
+31.6%
Win rate 100% Excess +22.4%
83d
Now
+2%
Win rate 45.2% Excess -10%
208d
60-day momentum down
Insufficient data
(6d)
+41.4%
Win rate 100% Excess +18.5%
73d
+54.4%
Win rate 87% Excess +35.3%
231d

Currently in “Expensive (own-history top third) × 60-day momentum up”: across 208 historical days, 120-day forward avg gained 2%, win rate 45.2%, lagged the market by 10%.

Days = trading days in this bucket; returns use adjusted prices, ex-costs. 60-day momentum: direction of this stock's price over the past 60 trading days.

Market-wide momentum baseline

Across 98,524 liquid US common-stock samples, top-quintile 6-month momentum was followed by an average 60-trading-day return of +6.12%, a 57.9% positive-return rate, and +2.77 percentage points of average excess return versus the S&P 500.

Baseline: weekly samples since 2016 where a liquid US common stock ranked in the top quintile by 126-trading-day momentum. Forward return is 60 trading days; excess return is versus S&P 500 (^GSPC).

Signals not active now

Inactive signals still show the stock-specific historical forward-return distribution for context.

52-week adjusted-price high

Pending

Adjusted close first reaches a 252-trading-day high; repeated hits within 20 days count once.

19 times historically; 60-day forward avg +9.36%, win rate 57.9%, beating the market by +4.59 pts on average.

Top-quintile 6-month momentum

Pending

The stock ranks in the top 20% of the liquid US common-stock universe by 126-day adjusted return.

26 times historically; 60-day forward avg +8.24%, win rate 53.8%, beating the market by +4 pts on average.

Filed revenue acceleration

Pending

TTM revenue growth is at least 10% and improved versus the prior filed quarter; event date is the SEC filing date.

16 times historically; 60-day forward avg +9.47%, win rate 60%, beating the market by +6.4 pts on average.

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Method and limits

  • Returns use us_price:adj_close, adjusted for splits and dividends where available.
  • Excess returns use world_index:^GSPC as the S&P 500 benchmark proxy.
  • Quarterly fundamentals are aligned to SEC filing dates before daily valuation studies.
  • The promoted universe starts from active NYSE/NASDAQ common stocks, then applies price and dollar-volume gates.
  • Snapshot-only tables such as analyst consensus, DCF, us_ratios, and us_key_metrics are intentionally excluded from historical evidence.
  • Overlapping event windows are descriptive distributions, not independent samples.

This page is for historical data analysis and education only. It is not investment advice. Backtests and historical return distributions do not predict future performance; evaluate risk independently before trading.