Today’s Stock: AeroVironment, Inc. (AVAV)Today’s Stock: AeroVironment, Inc. (AVAV)

AeroVironment, Inc. 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. It 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; uncrewed ground systems; and high-altitude pseudo-satellites.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.

My Thoughts 💭My Thoughts 💭

Never heard of this company until today. It appears Ansel’s re-industrialization portfolio includes the robotic, future space travel, andthe uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) economy. All of these things are something worth investing in to move humanity forward. Let’s see if Ansel is on to something by a quick review of the business fundamentals.

At 339.8k sats per share ($67,622), and no dividend, bitcoiners will only see a return on their investment if the company continues to grow. To make it worthwhile to spend sats on this company it has to grow faster than bitcoin.

The company trades at a PE -157 which means investors are paying $157 to access $1 of losses. Investors are paying a huge premium to access the potential growth this company could have in the future.

Let’s review some key fundamentals to determine if this stock is worth spending sats on.

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The fundamentals of this company are on the weak side. The company is not profitable, and currently losing money even after a rapid rise of revenue. Plus with shares being bided up, the company now has a lot of equity which means they can start to dilute shares by selling more into the market to raise funding. Which according to Simply Wall St. is something that have been doing.

The only positive are the growth expectations. If they are to pull off the growth targets then this valuation makes sense.

From a Bitcoiner perspective. Paying 339k sats for one share is a bit steep. If they hit their growth targets then this company should outgrow bitcoin in fiat terms thus making it an interesting investment if the leadership team can execute.

Here is the performance according to Simply Wall Street

When I think of re-industrialization I don’t think of robots, space travel, and uncrewed aircrafts but apparently Ansel does and is bullish on this company by buying its stock. But from a fundamentals standpoint the leadership team still needs a path to sustainable profits which may come if they hit their projection targets. This stock was under 100k sats I would consider getting a share or two but at this elevated price for a company that doesn’t pay. dividend is putting a majority of your finite sats at risk. I would skip this company.