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AeroVironment
Uncrewed defence systems
Closing price, USD — not a valuation, not real-time. As of 2026-08-19.
Published 2026-04-07: Defence drones, priced for a long runway. The article asks when earnings catch a price that ran ahead.
- Sector
- Industrials
- Industry
- Aerospace & Defense
- Head office
- United States
- Employees
- 3,991
- Market cap (as of 2026-08-19)
- USD 8,847,709,184
- Website
- avinc.com
- Growth (YoY, company-reported)
- Revenue +133.3% · EPS -0.9%
AeroVironment, Inc., a defense technology provider, designs, develops, produces, delivers, and supports a portfolio of robotic systems and related services for government agencies and businesses in the United States and internationally. The company operates in two segments, Autonomous Systems; and Space, Cyber and Directed Energy. The company provides uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS), which include small and medium UAS, and kinesis command and control software; and counter-UAS and precision strike, a loitering munitions solution that deliver actionable intelligence and precision firepower modern warfighters, including precision strike, radio frequency and kinetic C-UAS, and electronic warfare systems. It also offers autonomy, AI, and platform technologies; unmanned maritime; and uncrewed ground systems. The company provides digital beamforming technology, a multi-band/beam software defined antenna tile that allows simultaneous communication with multiple satellites; laser communications, a data transmission systems for space operations; space-qualified hardware for line of sight stabilization and control electronics in low, medium, and geostationary earth orbit, as well as cislunar orbits; phased array antenna technology to supports hypersonic telemetry and tracking, and other missile testing; and directed energy solution. It also offers cyber solutions for national security and defense operations. AeroVironment, Inc. was incorporated in 1971 and is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.