WoodwardWWD
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 Q4 regulatory filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)
127% more call options, than puts
Call options by funds: $51.2M | Put options by funds: $22.6M
108% more first-time investments, than exits
New positions opened: 81 | Existing positions closed: 39
25% more funds holding in top 10
Funds holding in top 10: 4 [Q3] → 5 (+1) [Q4]
15% more repeat investments, than reductions
Existing positions increased: 158 | Existing positions reduced: 137
7% more funds holding
Funds holding: 435 [Q3] → 465 (+30) [Q4]
0.1% more ownership
Funds ownership: 87.9% [Q3] → 88.0% (+0.1%) [Q4]
3% less capital invested
Capital invested by funds: $8.98B [Q3] → $8.7B (-$280M) [Q4]
Research analyst outlook
4 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months
4 analyst ratings
UBS Gavin Parsons 59% 1-year accuracy 10 / 17 met price target | 26%upside $232 | Buy Maintained | 4 Feb 2025 |
Wells Fargo Matthew Akers 34% 1-year accuracy 20 / 58 met price target | 11%upside $205 | Equal-Weight Maintained | 4 Feb 2025 |
Truist Securities Michael Ciarmoli 68% 1-year accuracy 42 / 62 met price target | 24%upside $229 | Buy Maintained | 14 Jan 2025 |
Barclays David Strauss 36% 1-year accuracy 10 / 28 met price target | 8%upside $200 | Equal-Weight Maintained | 3 Dec 2024 |
Financial journalist opinion
Based on 11 articles about WWD published over the past 30 days
