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AIRO Group Holdings, Inc. Common Stock (AIRO)

Industrials

No action
Fundamental
3
Sentiment
2
Technical
3

Do Nothing: qualitativeScore is 2 (below the required floor of 3) — the upstream qualitative screen blocks this name and no chart pattern overrides it; liquidity independently fails (avgDollarVolume20 ≈ $3.0M vs the $5M floor; recent 3-session regular-session average ≈ $1.47M vs the $1.5M floor).

Analysis as of 2026-09-18· more than 2 trading days ago

Company overview

AIRO Group is an American aerospace and defense company based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It specializes in unmanned aircraft systems, avionics, flight crew training, and eVTOL mobility solutions. The company is known for its AI-powered surveillance drones, including the Sky Watch series.

Fundamental

fair
Fundamental3
Mixed fundamentals

AIRO Group shows strong revenue growth and gross margins but remains loss-making with high execution risks.

Mixed fundamentals: strong revenue momentum and attractive gross margins, but the company is still loss-making and burning cash on a trailing basis. The balance sheet is lightly levered and recent SEC filings indicate enough liquidity for the next year, yet customer concentration, government-contract exposure, and internal-control weaknesses keep execution risk high. Best viewed as a watchlist/speculative growth name until earnings and cash conversion become more consistent.

Sentiment

weak
Sentiment2
Cooling sentiment

Sentiment has cooled with no immediate catalysts and a recent price-target cut within a Hold consensus.

Only actionable catalyst is a Mizuho price-target cut (announced, 2026-09-14, partially priced) inside an analyst Hold consensus; the sentiment delta is determinate but cooling — a positive +0.28 baseline of drone-milestone coverage fading to a flat −0.01 scoring window with a slightly negative on-topic item mix. Red-flag screen is clean (stale law-firm solicitation only, no regulator confirmation) and retail is silent, so with no forward-dated catalyst this is a weak, absent setup.

Technical

fair
Technical3
Mixed trend

Technical indicators show a mixed trend with early stabilization signs but no confirmed trend strength.

Trend frame is still bearish-to-neutral: price 7.38 sits below SMA20 7.53, SMA50 7.52 and SMA200 8.61, has just reclaimed EMA9 (7.28) but remains under EMA21 (7.49) and right at daily VWAP (7.385). Momentum is mixed: RSI14 47.5 and Williams %R −49.2 are dead-neutral; MACD −0.19/−0.17 with histogram −0.03 narrowing for nine straight sessions toward a bullish cross (not yet positive); ADX 13.2 shows no tradable trend strength. Volatility is moderate: ATR14 0.48 (6.5% of price), stdDev20 0.48. Structure is stabilizing — higher regular-session lows 6.98 (09-15) → 7.01 (09-16) and a +2.6% up day on 09-17 with the heaviest regular-session volume of the recent stretch — but the daily downtrend stack is intact. Score 3: mixed, early-repair signals without trend confirmation.

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