Woodward (WWD)

• Market cap: $11.4B
• 1 day: 1.77%
• 5 days: 6.41%
• 1 month: 13.07%
• 3 months: 16.32%
• 6 months: 7.02%
• Year to date: 12.31%
• 1 year: 41.31%
• 5 years: 55.59%
• 10 years: 327.81%
• 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

2.01% more ownership

Funds ownership: 85.89% [Q2] → 87.9% (+2.01%) [Q3]

2% less capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $9.12B [Q2] → $8.98B (-$143M) [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

33% less first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 48 | Existing positions closed: 72

Research analyst outlook

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

• Low target: $193 0% upside
• Avg. target: $213 10% upside
• High target: $229 19% upside

4 analyst ratings

• positive: 2 50%
• neutral: 2 50%
• negative: 0 0%

Truist Securities Michael Ciarmoli 78% 1-year accuracy 47 / 60 met price target	19% upside $229	Buy Maintained	14 Jan 2025
Wells Fargo Matthew Akers 55% 1-year accuracy 28 / 51 met price target	0% upside $193	Equal-Weight Maintained	8 Jan 2025
Barclays David Strauss 61% 1-year accuracy 17 / 28 met price target	4% upside $200	Equal-Weight Maintained	3 Dec 2024
UBS Gavin Parsons 50% 1-year accuracy 9 / 18 met price target	18% upside $228	Buy Maintained	26 Nov 2024