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$5.26
▼ $0.14 (-2.6%)
Market data updated: 09/20 03:07 PM
Fundamentals updated: 09/20/2026
News analyzed: 09/20/2026
Market Cap
$4.05B
Day Range
$5.24 - $5.60
52-Week Range
$4.30 - $14.62
Beta
—
Next Earnings
04.11.2026
Support
$4.30
Resistance
$7.29
-43.1% (1Y)
Strengths: 6/29 factors positiveRisk: Medium
This score and all analysis on this page are for informational and educational purposes only and do not constitute investment advice. Read the full disclaimer
Weighted: Technical 25% · Fundamental 20% · Growth 15% · Valuation 15% · News 10% · Quality 10% · Risk 5%
Overall Score
🔴 Bearish
Technical Trend
🔴 Bearish
Insiders
🔴 Bearish
Computed directly from the same signals behind the score above — not AI-generated.
Biggest positive driver
Earnings per share (EPS) growth
Earnings per share (EPS) growth: 30.3%
Growth
Biggest negative driver
DCF Fair Value
Estimated fair value: -$13.78 vs. price $5.26 (-362.0%)
Fair Value
What to watch next
When today echoes the past.
NO RELIABLE ECHO FOUND
Only 2 historical analog(s) found after removing overlapping dates — too few for a statistically meaningful comparison.
Historical matches considered: 2
TIME ECHO identifies historical situations that resemble the current market state. Historical outcomes are not guarantees of future performance. Similarity does not imply causation, and results may change as new data becomes available.
🗓️ What Changed This Week
🌱 Building History
We don't have a real data point from a week ago for this stock yet. The weekly comparison will appear once enough history has accumulated.
📊 Score History
35
Today
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30D
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90D
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1Y
🐂🐻 Investment Thesis
🐂 Bull Case
🐻 Bear Case
🔍 What Could Prove This Wrong
This isn't a price-direction forecast — just a synthesis of real, already-computed data, and future conditions that could change the picture.
🧬 STOCK DNA
This stock's profile across 8 real dimensions — a research tool, not a recommendation
Growth
46
Quality
55
Value
38
Momentum
13
Risk
46
Sentiment
38
Fundamental
36
Institutional
0
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Recent media coverage of Archer Aviation Inc. has centered on its progress in commercializing electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, particularly its "No Roads" tour, which successfully completed a piloted roundtrip flight between Salinas and Hollister. The company’s stock surge—up 24.6% in a month—has fueled speculation about early investor gains, with analysts predicting Archer may carry its first paying U.S. passenger before 2028. Discussions also highlight its potential to revolutionize urban transportation, though some caution remains over Wall Street’s overly optimistic recommendations.
AI summary based on English-language news sources only — not investment advice.
Everyone's writing about Archer Aviation Inc.. News trend score: 38. Reason: 8 of the last 20 articles are negative, versus 6 positive.
News trend analysis is based on article sentiment only, and is not investment advice or financial counsel. Read the full disclaimer
🌡️ Emotional Temperature
18
🎯 Conviction (vs. Emotion)
52
Psychology
22
Fundamentals
36
Technical
13
Valuation
38
A sharp drop, unusual volume, and negative news sentiment all at once — selling pressure that looks emotional.
Price, volume, and sentiment accelerating together — a sign investors are chasing the price, not just following it.
The stock is moving in lockstep with its peers at the same intensity, rather than on its own data.
Extreme momentum, price far above its moving average, and a large premium over fair value.
The price rise has far outpaced the actual improvement in fundamental data.
Price (3M)
-6%
Market Narrative
33
Fundamental Reality
52
Narrative Gap
-19
🔀 Psychology Acceleration
News attention/sentiment is running well ahead of the price move itself.
🧠 StockIQ Psychologist
The market behavior for ACHR suggests a **mild euphoria** underpinned by positive sentiment (92/100) and a modest premium above its 200-day average (+2.7%), despite weak momentum (-5.5% ROC). This may reflect selective optimism, possibly driven by favorable narrative expectations (narrative gap of +3) without extreme overconfidence or anchoring. The absence of panic selling or herding implies a cautious, non-emotional stance, though FOMO remains a secondary influence. The key open question is whether this euphoria persists or if the gap between narrative and reality widens, risking a shift toward skepticism.
Updated: 09/08/2026, 10:44 PM
What could change this?
👥 What the crowd believes
""Archer's 'No Roads' Tour... Midnight's Piloted Roundtrip Flight From Salinas to Hollister""
""Wall Street analysts' overly optimistic recommendations cast doubt on the effectiveness of this highly sought-after metric. So, is the stock worth buying?""
""Buying Archer Aviation Today Could Set You Up for Life — Archer Aviation can transform transportation with a flying car. Will the stock make investors rich?""
""Archer partnered with Anschutz Entertainment Group to develop what they describe as Los Angeles' first downtown vertiport at L.A. LIVE. For readers tracking how electric aircraft...""
📈 15D Investor Psychology
Signal classification confidence: High (confidence in the behavioral read, not a price prediction). Describes observable market behavior, not what any individual investor thinks, and is not a buy/sell signal.
🏛️ Investor DNA — Historical Investors
A Historical Strategy Simulation: assuming each investor follows their documented principles, how would they rate this stock today? This is not a prediction of what they would actually do.
🟢 Best match
Peter Lynch — 100/100
🔴 Weakest match
Philip Fisher — 0/100
🗣️ Why do they disagree?
This stock splits the historical methodologies into two starkly opposing camps: the bullish growth and liquidity-focused investors versus the cautious, value-driven, or market-skeptical ones. Peter Lynch and Walter Bagehot both assign perfect scores (100), viewing it as either a high-growth opportunity or a resilient financial survivor, respectively—both principles prioritizing upside potential or stability. Meanwhile, Benjamin Graham (Defensive) and Samuel Armstrong Nelson also lean positive, with scores above 80, suggesting it fits their risk-averse or cyclically favorable frameworks. However, the more conservative or market-critical methodologies—like Philip Fisher (0), Thorstein Veblen (13), and the efficient-market proponents (31)—reject it outright, either for lacking Fisher’s signature quality, exhibiting Veblen’s speculative excesses, or being too volatile for passive indexers. The middle ground, represented by Marks, Loeb, and Livermore, hints at moderate caution, questioning whether the stock’s strengths are already priced in or if its risks outweigh its rewards.
Peter Lynch
One Up on Wall Street (1989)
🟢 100
Growth candidate — the price hasn't caught up to the growth
Key question
Is the growth worth the price?
⚠️ Partial data for this stock — score is less reliable — Data availability: 35%
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Charles Mackay
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841)
🟢 100
No obvious signs of crowd mania
Key question
Am I being swept along with the crowd, or thinking for myself?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Walter Bagehot
Lombard Street (1873)
🟢 100
Strong liquidity — would likely survive a real credit squeeze
Key question
Does this company have enough liquidity to survive real stress?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Samuel Armstrong Nelson
The ABC of Stock Speculation (1903)
🟢 91
Cycle position looks favorable — closer to oversold than overbought
Key question
Is the price overextended, or is there still room to move?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Benjamin Graham
Security Analysis (1934) / The Intelligent Investor (1949)
🟢 90
Attractive to a Defensive Graham Investor
Key question
Where is my margin of safety?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Howard Marks (Market Cycle)
Mastering the Market Cycle (2018)
🟢 80
Looks early-to-mid cycle, not overextended
Key question
Where are we in the cycle right now — near a hot extreme, or a cold one?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Howard Marks
The Most Important Thing (2011) / Mastering the Market Cycle (2018)
🟢 78
Risk appears reasonably priced — no obvious cycle-timing red flag
Key question
What is the market probably misunderstanding about the risk here?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Benjamin Graham (Enterprising Investor)
The Intelligent Investor (1949) — the Enterprising Investor chapters
🟡 63
Some discount, but not the deep 'net-net' bargain Graham's enterprising bar sets
Key question
Is the stock statistically cheap enough to justify the extra risk?
⚠️ Partial data for this stock — score is less reliable — Data availability: 45%
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Edgar Lawrence Smith
Common Stocks as Long-Term Investments (1924)
🟡 58
Reasonable but not a clear long-term holding
Key question
Is this a stock I'd be happy to hold and forget about for a decade?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Gerald M. Loeb
The Battle for Investment Survival (1935)
🟡 53
Moderate risk to capital
Key question
How much capital could I lose here if I'm wrong?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Jack Schwager
Market Wizards (1989)
🟡 51
No clear edge either way
Key question
What's the risk/reward here, and where is my exit point?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Burton Malkiel & John Bogle
A Random Walk Down Wall Street (1973) / The Little Book of Common Sense Investing (2007)
🔴 32
Weak case — Malkiel/Bogle would say a low-cost index is the simpler bet
Key question
Do I actually have an edge here, or do I just think I do?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Morgan Housel
The Psychology of Money (2020)
🔴 31
The kind of volatility that tends to shake patient holders out
Key question
Could I live with this volatility long enough for compounding to actually work?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Jesse Livermore
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923) / How to Trade in Stocks (1940)
🔴 15
Negative trend — against Livermore's core rule of trading with the trend
Key question
What is the price telling me right now?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Thorstein Veblen
The Theory of Business Enterprise (1904)
🔴 13
Pattern Veblen would flag as growth pursued for its own sake
Key question
Is management building real value, or just building itself?
⚠️ Partial data for this stock — score is less reliable — Data availability: 45%
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Philip Fisher
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits (1958)
🔴 0
Doesn't show the quality/growth signature Fisher required
Key question
How exceptional is this business, really?
⚠️ Partial data for this stock — score is less reliable — Data availability: 35%
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Based on the last 280 trading days, calculated from real price data. Click an indicator for details and a chart.
🔴 Most indicators support a downtrend (0 bullish · 10 bearish · 1 neutral)
A market-structure read based purely on real price and volume data — not full classic Wyckoff schematic identification (Phase A-E), but a quantitative analysis of what can reliably be computed: trading ranges, "effort vs. result", volume within the range, and Spring/Upthrust detection.
The stock is in a clear uptrend with no defined trading range in the period examined.
Medium confidence
The Wyckoff Method, developed by Richard Wyckoff in the early 20th century, reads the balance of supply and demand through price and volume, based on the premise that large investors ("smart money") quietly accumulate shares before rallies and quietly distribute them before declines. The read here is based solely on real price and volume data — full, precise identification of classic Wyckoff patterns (such as Phases A-E) requires human chart-reading experience and judgment, so this is an approximate algorithmic read, not a substitute for professional analysis. This should not be considered investment advice.
Gross Margin
33.3%
Operating Margin
-243100.0%
Net Margin
-206066.7%
EBITDA Margin
-236433.3%
ROE
-28.1%
ROA
-25.1%
ROIC
—
EPS
-$0.99
Cash
$1.02B
Total Debt
$80.30M
Current Ratio
19.89
Debt/Equity
0.04
How is Fair Value calculated? →
Current Price
$5.26
Estimated Fair Value (DCF)
-$13.78
Model estimate — not a price target. Highly sensitive to growth/discount-rate assumptions.
Gap
-362.0%
🔴 Appears expensive relative to estimated value
Year 1 Growth Rate
10.0%
Discount Rate (WACC)
9.0%
Terminal Growth Rate
2.5%
Projection Years
5
| Year | Growth Rate | Projected FCF | Present Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10.0% | $-562.87M | $-516.39M |
| 2 | 8.1% | $-608.60M | $-512.25M |
| 3 | 6.3% | $-646.64M | $-499.33M |
| 4 | 4.4% | $-674.93M | $-478.14M |
| 5 | 2.5% | $-691.80M | $-449.63M |
Base FCF (last actual year)
$-511.70M
Terminal Value
$-10.91B
Present Value of Terminal Value
$-7.09B
Enterprise Value
$-9.55B
Net Debt
$-941.20M
Equity Value
$-8.60B
*The DCF model is an estimate based on assumptions — not a guaranteed forecast. You can change the assumptions to examine different scenarios.
Book Value per Share
$3.53
Tangible Book Value per Share (Tangible NAV)
$3.40
Sentiment based on basic keywords (not AI) — 6 positive, 6 neutral, 8 negative out of the last 20 articles.
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Archer Aviation Inc. (ACHR) currently has a StockIQ AI score of 35/100, rated "Weak". The score is a weighted average across up to 7 categories (technical, fundamental, growth, fair value, news, quality, risk), based on real data only.
ACHR currently scores 35/100 (Weak) across the categories we measure. StockIQ doesn't give buy/sell recommendations — use this as one data point in your own research, not as investment advice.
Per StockIQ's DCF model, ACHR's estimated fair value is -$13.78, which is 362.0% below the current price of $5.26. This is one valuation model among several signals in the fair-value category, not a price target.
ACHR's technical score is 13/100, which currently reads as bearish — based on real price/volume signals (moving averages, RSI, MACD, and more), not a prediction of what happens next.
Based on the real signals StockIQ computed: Earnings per share (EPS) growth: 30.3%; Debt/equity: 0.04; Current ratio: 19.89.
Based on the real signals StockIQ computed: Estimated fair value: -$13.78 vs. price $5.26 (-362.0%); Operating margin: -243100.0% (negative); Net margin: -206066.7% (negative).
StockIQ has no recorded dividend payment history for ACHR.
Real transactions by officers and insiders, as reported to the SEC on Form 4 — 0 purchases and 5 sales out of the last 25 filings.
| Name | Transaction Type | Date | Shares | Change | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lentell Eric | Open Market Sale | 20.8.2026 | 100,000 | -100,000 | $6.31 |
| Lentell Eric | Open Market Sale | 17.8.2026 | 52,762 | -52,762 | $6.41 |
| Rungta Harsh | Open Market Sale | 17.8.2026 | 13,880 | -13,880 | $6.41 |
| Gupta Priya | Open Market Sale | 17.8.2026 | 10,015 | -10,015 | $6.41 |
| Lyon Benjamin | Open Market Sale | 17.8.2026 | 50,188 | -50,188 | $6.41 |
| Lentell Eric | Exercise of Derivative Securities | 15.8.2026 | 7,301 | -7,301 | — |
| Lentell Eric | Exercise of Derivative Securities | 15.8.2026 | 8,946 | -8,946 | — |
| Lentell Eric | Exercise of Derivative Securities | 15.8.2026 | 26,096 | -26,096 | — |
| Lentell Eric | Exercise of Derivative Securities | 15.8.2026 | 19,797 | -19,797 | — |
| Lentell Eric | Exercise of Derivative Securities | 15.8.2026 | 22,866 | -22,866 | — |
| Lyon Benjamin | Exercise of Derivative Securities | 15.8.2026 | 41,164 | -41,164 | — |
| Lentell Eric | Exercise of Derivative Securities | 15.8.2026 | 26,096 | +26,096 | — |
| Rungta Harsh | Exercise of Derivative Securities | 15.8.2026 | 12,412 | +12,412 | — |
| Lentell Eric | Exercise of Derivative Securities | 15.8.2026 | 15,437 | -15,437 | — |
| Gupta Priya | Exercise of Derivative Securities | 15.8.2026 | 6,524 | +6,524 | — |
| Lyon Benjamin | Exercise of Derivative Securities | 15.8.2026 | 41,164 | +41,164 | — |
| Lentell Eric | Exercise of Derivative Securities | 15.8.2026 | 8,946 | +8,946 | — |
| Lentell Eric | Exercise of Derivative Securities | 15.8.2026 | 15,437 | +15,437 | — |
| Rungta Harsh | Exercise of Derivative Securities | 15.8.2026 | 12,412 | -12,412 | — |
| Rungta Harsh | Exercise of Derivative Securities | 15.8.2026 | 21,754 | -21,754 | — |
| Gupta Priya | Exercise of Derivative Securities | 15.8.2026 | 6,524 | -6,524 | — |
| Lentell Eric | Exercise of Derivative Securities | 15.8.2026 | 22,866 | +22,866 | — |
| Rungta Harsh | Exercise of Derivative Securities | 15.8.2026 | 21,754 | +21,754 | — |
| Lentell Eric | Exercise of Derivative Securities | 15.8.2026 | 19,797 | +19,797 | — |
| Gupta Priya | Exercise of Derivative Securities | 15.8.2026 | 10,291 | +10,291 | — |
Official FINRA data — the number of shares open in short positions, plus daily short-sale activity.
97,736,674 shares short as of 2026-08-31 · vs. 89,919,543 on 2026-07-31
Official biweekly report (FINRA Rule 4560) — no real higher-frequency data exists for this metric.
53.2% of trading volume this week was short selling, vs. 44.0% the prior week
Based on daily short-sale volume (Reg SHO) — a different metric from the open short interest above: this is daily trading volume, not an open position, so it updates weekly rather than biweekly.
Full breakdown of every data type and its source: Data Sources · Methodology