Woodward (WWD)

• Market cap: $10B
• 1 day: 0.33%
• 5 days: -3.55%
• 1 month: -2.02%
• 3 months: 0.39%
• 6 months: -8.43%
• Year to date: 24.98%
• 1 year: 24.98%
• 5 years: 41.50%
• 10 years: 237.13%
• Sector: Industrials
• Industry: Electrical Industrial Apparatus

About: Woodward Inc is an independent designer, manufacturer, and service provider of control solutions for the aerospace and industrial markets. It designs, produces, and services reliable, efficient, low-emission, and high-performance energy control products for diverse applications in challenging environments. The company operates in two segments, Aerospace and Industrial. The Aerospace segment provides fuel pumps, actuators, air valves, specialty valves, fuel nozzles, and thrust reverser actuation systems for turbine engines and nacelles, and flight deck controls, actuators, servo controls, motors, and sensors for aircraft. The Industrial segment offers actuators, valves, pumps, fuel injection systems, solenoids, ignition systems, speed controls, electronics and software, and sensors.

Employees: 9,300

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2024 Q3 regulatory filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

12% more call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $27.7M | Put options by funds: $24.7M

1.04% more ownership

Funds ownership: 85.19% [Q2] → 86.24% (+1.04%) [Q3]

3% less capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $9.05B [Q2] → $8.81B (-$240M) [Q3]

7% less funds holding

Funds holding: 465 [Q2] → 434 (-31) [Q3]

20% less funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 5 [Q2] → 4 (-1) [Q3]

23% less repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 132 | Existing positions reduced: 172

39% less first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 48 | Existing positions closed: 79

Research analyst outlook

5 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

• Low target: $160 5% downside
• Avg. target: $195 16% upside
• High target: $228 35% upside

5 analyst ratings

• positive: 2 40%
• neutral: 3 60%
• negative: 0 0%

Barclays David Strauss 54% 1-year accuracy 14 / 26 met price target	19% upside $200	Equal-Weight Maintained	3 Dec 2024
UBS Gavin Parsons 50% 1-year accuracy 9 / 18 met price target	35% upside $228	Buy Maintained	26 Nov 2024
Truist Securities Michael Ciarmoli 66% 1-year accuracy 39 / 59 met price target	34% upside $226	Buy Reiterated	26 Nov 2024
TD Cowen Gautam Khanna 82% 1-year accuracy 9 / 11 met price target	5% downside $160	Hold Downgraded	4 Oct 2024
Deutsche Bank Scott Deuschle 52% 1-year accuracy 17 / 33 met price target	4% downside $162	Hold Maintained	3 Oct 2024