How 433 Investors Unlocked 400X Return Potential
VCs back startups for outsized gains. Regular investors wait. But rule changes fixed that. Take Revolut. In 2016, 433 people averaged a $2,370 stake. Today? It's worth $1M+, up 89,900%. No wonder 10K+ people and the VCs behind Uber and eBay took the chance on Pacaso's $1.3T market disruption.

Financials
Curr Year EPS Estimate | 3.07 |
Profit Margin | 5.32% |
Operating Margin | 7.21 |
Return on Assets | 0.04 |
Return on Equity | 0.05 |
Revenue | 820.6M |
Earnings Per Share | 1.54 |
Revenue Per Share | 29.29 |
Gross Profit | 322,936,000 |
Quarterly Revenue Growth | 0.40 |
General
Name | AeroVironment Inc |
Ticker | AVAV |
Exchange | NASDAQ |
Sector | Industrials |
Industry | Aerospace & Defense |
Currency | USD |
Country | USA |
Fiscal Year End | April |
Full Time Employees | 1,456 |
About AeroVironment Inc
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. It also offers cyber solution for national security and defense operations; and HaloCortex OSINT, an AI-powered OSINT analysis platform to provide insights and solve department of defense and commercial challenges. AeroVironment, Inc. was incorporated in 1971 and is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.
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