{"id":288182,"date":"2026-02-09T02:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T02:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/288182\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T02:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T02:06:10","slug":"the-autonomous-robotics-stock-wall-street-insiders-are-quietly-buying-hint-its-not-tesla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/288182\/","title":{"rendered":"The Autonomous Robotics Stock Wall Street Insiders Are Quietly Buying (Hint: It&#8217;s Not Tesla)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Autonomous vehicles and robotics are all the rage right now, but it&#8217;s hard to know what stocks are most likely to succeed in this cutting-edge space. Certainly, Elon Musk&#8217;s Tesla\u00a0has made big headlines by announcing it&#8217;s ending production of some electric-car models to repurpose its manufacturing facilities for making humanoid robots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">However, Wall Street insiders have been quietly buying up shares of a different company with experience in robotics and autonomous vehicle technology. That company is Aerovironment (NASDAQ: AVAV). And now that its stock is down by more than 30% from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/2025\/11\/28\/evaluating-avav-stocks-actual-performance\/?utm_source=yahoo-host-full&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;referring_guid=dc9ed638-1d24-41d2-8bb0-e8e19c2f78b0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:its 2025 high;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">its 2025 high<\/a>, more big investors may follow suit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Will AI create the world&#8217;s first trillionaire?\u00a0Our team just released a report on the one little-known company, called an &#8220;Indispensable Monopoly&#8221; providing the critical technology Nvidia and Intel both need.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/api.fool.com\/infotron\/infotrack\/click?apikey=35527423-a535-4519-a07f-20014582e03e&amp;impression=4cb66678-d9d9-4969-b5c2-2cf63f3b171d&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fool.com%2Fmms%2Fmark%2Fa-sa-ai-boom-nvidias%3Faid%3D10891%26source%3Disaediica0000069%26ftm_cam%3Dsa-ai-boom%26ftm_veh%3Dtop_incontent_pitch_feed_yahoo%26ftm_pit%3D18914&amp;utm_source=yahoo-host-full&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;referring_guid=dc9ed638-1d24-41d2-8bb0-e8e19c2f78b0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Continue \u00bb;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Continue \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/47445083a465c9b33a45238f7486fd13.jpeg\" alt=\"A rendering of an autonomous aerial vehicle.\" loading=\"eager\" height=\"538\" width=\"960\" class=\"yf-lglytj  loaded\"\/> Image source: Getty Images.      <\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Among the billionaire investors who&#8217;ve recently opened new positions in Aerovironment are John Overdeck and Ray Dalio. Overdeck&#8217;s Two Sigma hedge fund picked up 27,327 shares of the autonomous systems maker for $8.6 million in its most recently reported quarter. Meanwhile, Dalio&#8217;s Bridgewater Associates hedge fund also opened a new position in the stock, buying 11,349 shares for $3.6 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">But the most recent moves came from legendary investor Cathie Wood. Two of her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/how-to-invest\/famous-investors\/ark-invest\/?utm_source=yahoo-host-full&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;referring_guid=dc9ed638-1d24-41d2-8bb0-e8e19c2f78b0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ARK Invest funds;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">ARK Invest funds<\/a> bought shares of Aerovironment on Monday. The ARK Space &amp; Defense Innovation ETF (NYSEMKT: ARKX) took a $1.6 million position, while the ARK Autonomous Technology &amp; Robotics ETF (NYSEMKT: ARKQ) bought $3.9 million in Aerovironment shares.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">After receiving a stop-work order on a government contract for satellite antenna systems on Jan. 16, Aerovironment&#8217;s shares gave up more than two-thirds of their year-to-date gains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">After the stock&#8217;s 57% gain last year, some Wall Street insiders clearly see this pullback as a buying opportunity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Before you buy stock in AeroVironment, consider this:<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The Motley Fool Stock Advisor analyst team just identified what they believe are the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/api.fool.com\/infotron\/infotrack\/click?apikey=35527423-a535-4519-a07f-20014582e03e&amp;impression=143bc95b-6b44-416e-8cf8-89a128dc55ab&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fool.com%2Fmms%2Fmark%2Fe-sa-bbn-dyn-headline%3Faid%3D8867%26source%3Disaeditxt0001181%26company%3DAeroVironment%26ftm_cam%3Dsa-bbn-evergreen%26ftm_veh%3Darticle_pitch_feed_yahoo%26ftm_pit%3D18781&amp;utm_source=yahoo-host-full&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;referring_guid=dc9ed638-1d24-41d2-8bb0-e8e19c2f78b0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:10 best stocks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">10 best stocks<\/a> for investors to buy now\u2026 and AeroVironment wasn\u2019t one of them. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Consider when Netflix made this list on December 17, 2004&#8230; if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation,\u00a0you\u2019d have $443,299!* Or when Nvidia made this list on April 15, 2005&#8230; if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you\u2019d have $1,136,601!*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Autonomous vehicles and robotics are all the rage right now, but it&#8217;s hard to know what stocks are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[138257,220,218,219,138258,15825,605,61,60,138260,138259,5580,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-288182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-aerovironment","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-autonomous-vehicle-technology","13":"tag-autonomous-vehicles","14":"tag-elon-musk","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-john-overdeck","18":"tag-manufacturing-facilities","19":"tag-ray-dalio","20":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}