Valuation
26% of the score
0median 37
An operating loss over the last year: there are no earnings to price.
AVAVAeroVironment
$147.21-35% 1Y
$147.21
$141.0952 weeks$409.83
RyuScore
Seven criteria, each scored 0 to 100 on a published scale, weighted into one number.
RyuScore 20 out of 100, Weak
Weak. AeroVironment scores higher than 18% of the 1,794 companies Ryufin scores.
Carried by cycle position and earnings quality, held back by valuation and return on capital.
Industrials median 56 · all companies 53
How the score has moved
At each fiscal year end, from the reports and price of the time56
42
28
21
29
20
20
202120222023202420252026today
The biggest move was down 14 points from 2021 to 2022, mostly return on new capital.
Return on capital
18% of the score
0median 34
Over 7 years the business earned -4.9% a year after tax on the capital it uses.
2%
8%
15%
25%
-4.9%
None at 2% or less, full points from 25%full points
7 years agolatest -11%
Return on new capital
16% of the score
0median 49
No operating profit over the period, so nothing was earned to reinvest.
Capital allocation
14% of the score
18median 64
How management spends the money: shares bought back or issued, and whether assets grow faster than the business they serve.
Share countUp 15% a year over 5 years: new shares
05%
-3%
15%
0 pointsfull points
Assets against salesAssets grew 44% a year, sales 38%
4412%
-2%
5.8%
0 pointsfull points
Cycle position
12% of the score
100median 62
Today's operating margin of -13% is -2.31x its normal 5.5%: near a trough. Normal is half the 10 year median, half the last four years, so a margin that has held is not taken for a peak.
2x
1.5x
1x
0.7x
-2.3x
A trough earns points, a peak costs themfull points
10 years agonow -13%
Balance sheet
8% of the score
0median 50
What the debt weighs against the profit that has to carry it.
Net debt to EBITDANet debt with no operating cash profit.
0Interest coverOperating profit covers interest -10x
01.5x
12x
-10.4x
0 pointsfull points
Earnings quality
6% of the score
87median 90
Whether the reported profit arrives as cash, and whether the accounts show the usual signs of stretching.
AccrualsCash ran ahead of profit by 5.5% of assets
878%
0%
-8%
-5.5%
0 pointsfull points
Beneish M-scoreTaken out: sales grew 141% in a year, and the model flags that much growth on its own
n/aHow the RyuScore works
Each criterion earns 0 to 100 points on the scale drawn under it, and the RyuScore is their average weighted 26, 18, 16, 14, 12, 8 and 6. Scales bend in the company's favour between their ends, so an ordinary figure is never already near zero. Where a criterion cannot be measured from the filings it is taken out and the remaining weights scale up; a company needs 60% of the weight covered, and always a price, to get a score.
Built from the company's annual and quarterly filings with the SEC and today's share price. Banks, insurers and property trusts are not scored: their debt is their raw material, so these yardsticks mean something else there. Figures as of 2026-08-01, latest annual report FY2026.
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