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JOBY · NYSE
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$6.39
+1.27%
Close on Sep 11, 2026
Updated 12/18/2023
Long-term research evidence only. No price targets, no trading signals, no recommendations.
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How strong and defensively sound is the company?
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Does the business have the characteristics needed to create value over many years?
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Is the underlying business getting stronger or weaker?
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Positive disclosed activity
What are important owners actually doing?
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Is today's price reasonable?
No valuation reading is published for this company yet.
5 / 100
Limited Capital Returns
How effectively does the company reward shareholders?
Weaker than most covered companies on this measure — and capital returns are researched separately from the Suggested Investment Score.
No weakening evidence is recorded in today's readings.
Long-Term Potential is not available for this company, so no long-term reading is shown.
No disclosed ownership reading is available at the required confidence, so ownership is left blank rather than estimated.
No Valuation Intelligence reading is published for this company: there is not enough usable valuation evidence today. Valuation is never included in the Suggested Investment Score.
JOBY AVIATION INC reads 5 out of 100 on Capital Returns Intelligence (Limited Capital Returns), reflecting a share count rising about 97.4% a year. Direct capital returns are limited because the company continues reinvesting most of its cash. Capital Returns Intelligence is a research model and contributes nothing to the Suggested Investment Score or the daily ranking.
No meaningful recorded changes in the stored history.
Risk Intelligence is a core model, Long-Term Potential, Fundamental Momentum, Valuation Intelligence and Capital Returns Intelligence are research models, and Ownership Intelligence is supplemental descriptive evidence. Valuation Intelligence and Capital Returns Intelligence each contribute 0% to the Suggested Investment Score. Nothing here is a recommendation.
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60-Second Brief
Too few stored readings exist for this company to summarise honestly.
Composite discovery model
Suggested Investment Score
Risk Intelligence is unavailable. A composite score is only published when every required input is available for this company. Nothing is estimated to fill a gap, and exclusion from the ranking is not a sell instruction.
COMPOSITE DISCOVERY MODEL — RESEARCH STAGE · Ranking updated September 12, 2026
Researched separately
Valuation Intelligence Not Available · Insufficient Valuation Data
Valuation Intelligence is currently researched separately and does not affect the Suggested Investment Score or daily ranking.
Researched separately
Capital Returns Intelligence 5 · Limited Capital Returns
Capital Returns Intelligence is researched separately and contributes 0% to the Suggested Investment Score, the daily rank or any ranking event.
This company does not currently hold a stored Suggested Investment Score, so no contribution breakdown can be shown.
Stored snapshots only
Research-score history available since September 2026.
Stored research history does not yet cover a full 30 days comparison for this company.
A change is reported as meaningful at 8 score points, 5 rank places, or any change of research classification. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell.
Plain-English definitions, with the formula and the limitations of each measure.
Fifth research lens · outside the score
Valuation Intelligence
Valuation Intelligence is currently researched separately and does not affect the Suggested Investment Score or daily ranking.
Insufficient Valuation Data
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Is this company expensive or inexpensive compared with its own history?
Historical Valuation Coverage Limited — not enough point-in-time history for this company.
3
Expensive
How expensive is this stock compared with similar companies?
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How much financial output does an investor receive relative to the price paid?
No positive earnings or cash-flow yield is available, so this lens is not scored.
100
Very Attractive
Does the company's growth help justify the valuation investors are paying?
No Valuation Intelligence reading is published for JOBY AVIATION INC: there is not enough usable valuation evidence today.
Price data through September 11, 2026 · Financial data through the quarter ended June 30, 2026
Stored readings only. The dashed line is this company's own median for the selected measure.
Only one stored valuation reading exists so far, so there is nothing to chart yet. Valuation history builds forward from activation rather than being reconstructed.
Current EV/Sales 41.2x · peer median 2.1x
Valuation is inherently uncertain. A stock that appears inexpensive can continue falling, and a stock that appears expensive can continue rising. Valuation Intelligence provides context about the price investors are paying — it does not predict short-term market movements, and it never produces a fair value, a price target or a buy or sell range. Model VALUATION_INTELLIGENCE_V1.
Sixth research lens · outside the score
Capital Returns Intelligence
Capital Returns Intelligence is researched separately and contributes 0% to the Suggested Investment Score, the daily rank or any ranking event.
Limited Capital Returns
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Not Applicable — No Dividend
Dividend reliability
This company currently retains rather than distributes cash through dividends. Capital Returns Intelligence therefore places more emphasis on its other measurable shareholder-return behaviors according to the frozen V1 methodology.
5
Limited Capital Returns
Do buybacks actually reduce shares?
No net share repurchases are recorded in the stored cash-flow statements.
5
Limited Capital Returns
Is your ownership share protected?
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Can the cash flow support it?
The company returned no measurable capital in the latest period, so there is nothing to sustain.
5
Limited Capital Returns
Cash returned versus company value
JOBY AVIATION INC reads 5 out of 100 on Capital Returns Intelligence (Limited Capital Returns), reflecting a share count rising about 97.4% a year. Direct capital returns are limited because the company continues reinvesting most of its cash.
This company currently retains rather than distributes cash through dividends. Capital Returns Intelligence therefore places more emphasis on its other measurable shareholder-return behaviors according to the frozen V1 methodology.
No measurable cash was returned to shareholders through dividends or net repurchases in the latest stored statements.
Price data through September 11, 2026 · Financial data through the quarter ended June 30, 2026
Stored readings only. History builds forward from activation rather than being reconstructed.
Only one stored reading exists for this measure so far, so there is nothing to chart yet.
A very high dividend yield may reflect a falling share price or an unsustainable payout. Capital Returns Intelligence emphasizes consistency and sustainability rather than simply rewarding the highest yield.
Announced or gross buyback spending does not always mean shareholders are gaining ownership. Companies can simultaneously issue shares through employee compensation or acquisitions. Suggested Investments therefore considers actual share-count changes alongside repurchase spending.
Capital Returns Intelligence describes how a company returns capital to shareholders. It is not a measure of stock-price performance, it does not predict future returns, and a strong reading is never a recommendation to buy. Dividends and repurchases can be reduced or stopped at any time. Model CAPITAL_RETURNS_INTELLIGENCE_V1, contributing 0% to the Suggested Investment Score.
Stored daily snapshots only
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In the company’s own words
We have spent more than a decade designing and testing a piloted, all-electric, vertical take-off and landing ("eVTOL") air taxi which we intend to operate in cities around the world. We intend to operate air taxi services both directly and through strategic partnerships, while also pursuing aircraft sales to distributors and expanding into defense and other specialized markets. Our mission is to help the world connect faster and more easily with the people and places that matter most by delivering a new form of clean, fast, quiet and convenient aerial transportation service. The Joby eVTOL is being designed to transport a pilot and up to four passengers - or a targeted payload of up to 1,000 pounds - at speeds of up to 200 mph. The aircraft is optimized for urban routes, with a target range of up to 100 miles on a single charge. According to our modeling, more than 99% of urban routes in cities such as New York City and Los Angeles are significantly shorter than this, enabling higher utilization through faster turnaround times of our aircraft. By combining the freedom of air travel with the efficiency of our aircraft, we expect to deliver journeys that are up to 10 times faster than driving, and it is our goal to steadily drive down end-user pricing in the years following commercial launch to make the service widely accessible.
Our aircraft has been specifically designed with multiple redundancies across systems and components for enhanced safety and to achieve a considerably lower noise footprint than that of similarly sized conventional aircraft or helicopters. It is quiet at takeoff and near silent when flying overhead, which we anticipate will allow us to operate from new vertiport locations nearer to where people live and work, in addition to utilizing the more than 5,000 heliport and airport infrastructure facilities already in existence in the U.S.
We are in the process of certifying our aircraft with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration ("FAA"). This involves a rigorous process of design, testing, verification and quality control. We have also begun working with regulators in other countries, including the United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea, Australia, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates ("UAE") to pursue commercialization opportunities in those markets. While foreign certification in many
countries leverages our work with the FAA, in some, such as the UAE, it may also provide a path to commercial operations prior to receiving certification in the United States.
Quoted from the business section of this company’s 10-K filed February 27, 2026. Read the filing
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Business Quality qualification score from the locked IA Defensive Research Core. Price Risk stays a separate category and is never blended in.
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Durable business economics and reinvestment characteristics. Independent external validation is pending.
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Direction and breadth of change in underlying business fundamentals. Not a price-momentum signal.
90
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Only 5 tracked managers disclosed a position — treat as limited coverage.
As of Sep 11, 2026
Not enough stored history to chart JOBY yet. A company needs at least two published research or ownership periods before a trend can be shown.
Share price
Closing prices adjusted for splits and dividends. Past prices do not indicate future results.
Last stored close $6.39 · -54.4% over the selected range · 64 sessions shown
Balanced evidence
Risk and uncertainty
Public filings · descriptive only
Reporting holders
8
New holders
7
Increasing
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Exiting
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Coverage
Excellent
Positive disclosed activity · Report period 2023-09-30 · Public 12/18/2023
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Insufficient high-confidence manager coverage.
Objective stored changes
No qualifying changes are recorded for this company in the stored research and filing history.
No high-confidence public ownership events are available.
General research only. Not personalized advice. Public filings may be delayed, amended, incomplete, or reflect positions that have changed since the reporting date.