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$116.73
▲ $0.81 (+0.7%)
Market data updated: 09/16 07:31 PM
Fundamentals updated: 09/16/2026
News analyzed: 09/16/2026
Market Cap
$4.66B
Day Range
$115.70 - $119.86
52-Week Range
$74.25 - $154.00
Beta
—
Next Earnings
21.09.2026
+54.1% (1Y)
Strengths: 7/29 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
🟡 Mixed
Technical Trend
🔴 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: 1288.6%
Growth
Biggest negative driver
DCF Fair Value
Estimated fair value: $15.03 vs. price $116.73 (-87.1%)
Fair Value
Signal tension
Growth scores strong (79/100), but fair-value analysis scores this stock as relatively expensive (38/100) — the growth story and the current price aren't fully aligned.
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
50
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
79
Quality
50
Value
38
Momentum
23
Risk
48
Sentiment
80
Fundamental
58
Institutional
No data available
Stocks with a similar DNA right now
Not enough comparably-scored stocks yet to show similar matches.
This stock hasn't been analyzed by StockIQAI's movement engine yet — coverage is still expanding. Check back soon.
Recent media coverage of AAR Corp. has centered on its strategic shifts and market positioning. Key themes include the company’s focus on digital transformation, highlighted by the appointment of Sanjay Sood as Chief Digital and Technology Officer, and its recognition as a "Great Place to Work." Analysts also discuss AAR’s valuation, comparing it favorably to peers amid industry trends, while broader defense and aerospace sector dynamics are noted. No major acquisitions or financial results were explicitly detailed in these sources.
AI summary based on English-language news sources only — not investment advice.
Everyone's writing about AAR Corp.. News trend score: 80. Reason: 7 of the last 20 articles are positive, versus 2 negative.
News trend analysis is based on article sentiment only, and is not investment advice or financial counsel. Read the full disclaimer
🌡️ Emotional Temperature
29
🎯 Conviction (vs. Emotion)
38
Psychology
61
Fundamentals
58
Technical
23
Valuation
38
The price is holding at a real, documented historical support/resistance level (a 50-day high or low).
The price rise has far outpaced the actual improvement in fundamental data.
A significant decline over time, but on unusually low trading volume — holders unwilling to accept the loss.
Extreme momentum, price far above its moving average, and a large premium over fair value.
A sharp drop, unusual volume, and negative news sentiment all at once — selling pressure that looks emotional.
Price (3M)
-13%
Market Narrative
57
Fundamental Reality
38
Narrative Gap
+19
🔀 Psychology Acceleration
News attention/sentiment is running well ahead of the price move itself.
🧠 StockIQ Psychologist
The market’s dominant overconfidence (score 45) is consistent with a disconnect between price (+770% above DCF) and fundamentals (lagging EPS growth), while the extreme narrative gap (28) suggests investors are overestimating tailwinds. Anchoring (3.6% above support) hints at reluctance to accept downside, despite muted panic (22) and no FOMO (10). The key question: *Will fundamentals eventually force a reassessment of this valuation premium?*
Updated: 09/09/2026, 01:08 AM
What could change this?
👥 What the crowd believes
"AAR Appoints Sanjay Sood as Chief Digital and Technology Officer"
"Is AAR (AIR) Outperforming Other Aerospace Stocks This Year?"
"AAR and Ducommun Shares Plummet, What You Need To Know"
📈 4D 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
Samuel Armstrong Nelson — 98/100
🔴 Weakest match
Jesse Livermore — 23/100
🗣️ Why do they disagree?
This stock sparks a sharp divide among methodologies, with some investors seeing it as a high-potential opportunity while others flag significant red flags. Peter Lynch and Samuel Armstrong Nelson both rate it near the top (94 and 93, respectively), praising its growth potential and favorable cycle positioning—suggesting they’d view it as an undervalued or oversold buy. Meanwhile, growth-oriented thinkers like Walter Bagehot and Thorstein Veblen (scores of 73 and 70) also see merit, though with less enthusiasm, emphasizing liquidity and value alignment. In contrast, value-focused investors like Benjamin Graham and his Enterprising Investor framework (scores of 27 and 31) dismiss it outright, arguing it fails defensive metrics and isn’t cheap enough for their standards. The middle ground—where methodologies like Howard Marks (38) and Jesse Livermore (28)—warn of valuation risks or trend resistance—reflects a cautionary split between those who prioritize momentum or growth and those who demand structural safety or statistical cheapness.
Samuel Armstrong Nelson
The ABC of Stock Speculation (1903)
🟢 98
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
Peter Lynch
One Up on Wall Street (1989)
🟢 94
Growth candidate — the price hasn't caught up to the growth
Key question
Is the growth worth the price?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Walter Bagehot
Lombard Street (1873)
🟢 73
Strong liquidity — would likely survive a real credit squeeze
Key question
Does this company have enough liquidity to survive real stress?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Thorstein Veblen
The Theory of Business Enterprise (1904)
🟢 70
Growth appears aligned with real value creation
Key question
Is management building real value, or just building itself?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Charles Mackay
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841)
🟢 66
Some signs of crowd excitement building
Key question
Am I being swept along with the crowd, or thinking for myself?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Philip Fisher
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits (1958)
🟢 65
Solid, but not the exceptional quality Fisher looked for
Key question
How exceptional is this business, really?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Edgar Lawrence Smith
Common Stocks as Long-Term Investments (1924)
🟡 62
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
Howard Marks (Market Cycle)
Mastering the Market Cycle (2018)
🟡 59
Somewhere in the middle of the cycle
Key question
Where are we in the cycle right now — near a hot extreme, or a cold one?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Morgan Housel
The Psychology of Money (2020)
🟡 52
Moderate — holdable, but not effortless
Key question
Could I live with this volatility long enough for compounding to actually work?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Gerald M. Loeb
The Battle for Investment Survival (1935)
🟡 48
Moderate risk to capital
Key question
How much capital could I lose here if I'm wrong?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Burton Malkiel & John Bogle
A Random Walk Down Wall Street (1973) / The Little Book of Common Sense Investing (2007)
🟡 45
Mixed case — the evidence for picking this stock over an index is not strong
Key question
Do I actually have an edge here, or do I just think I do?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Jack Schwager
Market Wizards (1989)
🟡 44
No clear edge either way
Key question
What's the risk/reward here, and where is my exit point?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Howard Marks
The Most Important Thing (2011) / Mastering the Market Cycle (2018)
🟡 42
Mixed — a good business, but expectations may already be high
Key question
What is the market probably misunderstanding about the risk here?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Benjamin Graham
Security Analysis (1934) / The Intelligent Investor (1949)
🔴 32
Fails most of Graham's defensive criteria
Key question
Where is my margin of safety?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Benjamin Graham (Enterprising Investor)
The Intelligent Investor (1949) — the Enterprising Investor chapters
🔴 31
Not statistically cheap enough for the Enterprising Investor's looser safety bar
Key question
Is the stock statistically cheap enough to justify the extra risk?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Jesse Livermore
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923) / How to Trade in Stocks (1940)
🔴 23
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
Based on the last 279 trading days, calculated from real price data. Click an indicator for details and a chart.
🔴 Most indicators support a downtrend (1 bullish · 9 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 downtrend with no defined trading range in the period examined.
High 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
18.8%
Operating Margin
—
Net Margin
5.7%
EBITDA Margin
—
ROE
11.0%
ROA
5.6%
ROIC
—
EPS
$4.88
Cash
$84.00M
Total Debt
$893.90M
Current Ratio
2.84
Debt/Equity
0.52
How is Fair Value calculated? →
Current Price
$116.73
Estimated Fair Value (DCF)
$15.03
Model estimate — not a price target. Highly sensitive to growth/discount-rate assumptions.
Gap
-87.1%
🔴 Appears expensive relative to estimated value
Year 1 Growth Rate
18.5%
Discount Rate (WACC)
9.0%
Terminal Growth Rate
2.5%
Projection Years
5
| Year | Growth Rate | Projected FCF | Present Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 18.5% | $73.56M | $67.49M |
| 2 | 14.5% | $84.21M | $70.87M |
| 3 | 10.5% | $93.03M | $71.84M |
| 4 | 6.5% | $99.07M | $70.18M |
| 5 | 2.5% | $101.54M | $66.00M |
Base FCF (last actual year)
$62.10M
Terminal Value
$1.60B
Present Value of Terminal Value
$1.04B
Enterprise Value
$1.39B
Net Debt
$809.90M
Equity Value
$577.21M
*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
$44.37
Tangible Book Value per Share (Tangible NAV)
$21.92
Sentiment based on basic keywords (not AI) — 7 positive, 11 neutral, 2 negative out of the last 20 articles.
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AAR Corp. (AIR) currently has a StockIQ AI score of 50/100, rated "Moderate". The score is a weighted average across up to 7 categories (technical, fundamental, growth, fair value, news, quality, risk), based on real data only.
AIR currently scores 50/100 (Moderate) 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, AIR's estimated fair value is $15.03, which is 87.1% below the current price of $116.73. This is one valuation model among several signals in the fair-value category, not a price target.
AIR's technical score is 23/100, 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: 1288.6%; Free cash flow growth: 4335.7%; Net income growth: 1401.6%.
Based on the real signals StockIQ computed: Estimated fair value: $15.03 vs. price $116.73 (-87.1%); ATR: 4.5% of price; Price is below the 50-day average.
StockIQ has no recorded dividend payment history for AIR.
Real transactions by officers and insiders, as reported to the SEC on Form 4 — 0 purchases and 0 sales out of the last 25 filings.
| Name | Transaction Type | Date | Shares | Change | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LEDUC ROBERT F | Grant/Award from Employer | 31.8.2026 | 122 | +122 | $129.29 |
| WALFISH MARC JAY | Grant/Award from Employer | 31.8.2026 | 300 | +300 | $129.29 |
| Garascia Jessica A. | Tax Withholding in Shares | 31.7.2026 | 1,028 | -1,028 | $140.04 |
| Jessup Christopher A. | Tax Withholding in Shares | 31.7.2026 | 7,098 | -7,098 | $140.04 |
| Holmes John McClain III | Tax Withholding in Shares | 31.7.2026 | 6,220 | -6,220 | $140.04 |
| Garascia Jessica A. | Tax Withholding in Shares | 31.7.2026 | 5,635 | -5,635 | $140.04 |
| Pachapa Eric | Tax Withholding in Shares | 31.7.2026 | 3,365 | -3,365 | $140.04 |
| Holmes John McClain III | Tax Withholding in Shares | 31.7.2026 | 34,143 | -34,143 | $140.04 |
| Pachapa Eric | Tax Withholding in Shares | 31.7.2026 | 614 | -614 | $140.04 |
| Jessup Christopher A. | Tax Withholding in Shares | 31.7.2026 | 1,294 | -1,294 | $140.04 |
| Holmes John McClain III | Tax Withholding in Shares | 31.7.2026 | 447,582 | -34,143 | $140.04 |
| Holmes John McClain III | Tax Withholding in Shares | 31.7.2026 | 441,362 | -6,220 | $140.04 |
| Pachapa Eric | Tax Withholding in Shares | 31.7.2026 | 25,801 | -3,365 | $140.04 |
| Pachapa Eric | Tax Withholding in Shares | 31.7.2026 | 25,187 | -614 | $140.04 |
| Garascia Jessica A. | Tax Withholding in Shares | 31.7.2026 | 37,380 | -5,635 | $140.04 |
| Garascia Jessica A. | Tax Withholding in Shares | 31.7.2026 | 36,352 | -1,028 | $140.04 |
| Jessup Christopher A. | Tax Withholding in Shares | 31.7.2026 | 79,339 | -7,098 | $140.04 |
| Jessup Christopher A. | Tax Withholding in Shares | 31.7.2026 | 78,045 | -1,294 | $140.04 |
| Pachapa Eric | Grant/Award from Employer | 23.7.2026 | 2,086 | +2,086 | — |
| Wolin Dylan Zachary | Grant/Award from Employer | 23.7.2026 | 5,793 | +5,793 | — |
| Pachapa Eric | Grant/Award from Employer | 23.7.2026 | 1,390 | +1,390 | — |
| Wolin Dylan Zachary | Grant/Award from Employer | 23.7.2026 | 3,862 | +3,862 | — |
| Holmes John McClain III | Grant/Award from Employer | 23.7.2026 | 161,500 | +161,500 | — |
| Holmes John McClain III | Grant/Award from Employer | 23.7.2026 | 30,123 | +30,123 | — |
| Garascia Jessica A. | Grant/Award from Employer | 23.7.2026 | 5,191 | +5,191 | — |
Official FINRA data — the number of shares open in short positions, plus daily short-sale activity.
1,488,188 shares short as of 2026-08-31 · vs. 1,321,741 on 2026-07-31
Official biweekly report (FINRA Rule 4560) — no real higher-frequency data exists for this metric.
58.8% of trading volume this week was short selling, vs. 72.6% 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