Joby Aviation, Inc. JOBY

Joby Aviation sits within striking distance of its 52-week low while commercial passenger flights loom on the horizon, and that contradiction raises a question worth examining before the next certification milestone lands.

Regional firms have secured hefty new defense contracts in recent days. The University of Dayton Research Institute has received a contract from the Air Force Research Institute with a ceiling of $85 million for research “to enable a vehicle system design product and thermal management system design methodologies.” Work will be performed at Dayton and is expected to be completed by Sept. 28, ...

Flow Engineering, which is bringing AI agents to hardware design, also landed Roelof Botha as an angel investor and board member.

Flow Engineering, the agentic platform for hardware development, today announced a $50 million Series B at a $750 million valuation. The round was co-led by Antonio Gracias, founder of Valor Equity Partners and Gavin Baker, Managing Partner at Atreides Management. Sequoia Capital, which led Flow's Series A, also participated in the round alongside Human Capital, Evantic, SV Angel, Odyssey, EQT, with contributions from Hugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf, Mercedes-Benz CIO Jonas von Malottki, and

Joby Aviation (JOBY) stock's 14.5% drop in the month to September 28 came without a company setback. Peers Archer Aviation and Eve fell too. A holder may put that down to the industry, but is Joby Aviation sturdier than it was when past shocks hit.

Joby Aviation has lost more than half its value in 2026, yet analysts see a path back above $10 and bulls are eyeing $12 by next year. The question is whether a handful of upcoming catalysts can close that gap before cash burn steals the story.

Joby Aviation (JOBY) just completed what it calls the first autonomous flight across the United States, a 3,199 mile trip that puts the company’s autonomy technology in sharper focus for investors. Investors have rewarded Joby Aviation’s headline autonomy progress only modestly in the short term, with the 7 day share price return up 3.27% and the 90 day share price return down 28.43%. The 1 year total shareholder return has declined 60.77%, pointing to weak longer term momentum and a still...

Earlier this month, Joby Aviation reported that its autonomy-equipped converted Cessna Caravan completed the first-ever fully autonomous 3,199‑mile flight across the United States, remotely supervised from up to 2,323 miles away and integrating into busy airports while autonomously handling taxi, takeoff, routing, and landing. This cross-country mission, part of Joby’s 2026 Electric Skies tour, highlights how its mature autonomy stack could underpin future freight, medical,...

A $10,000 holding in Joby Aviation (JOBY) a year ago is now worth about $3,940. The S&P 500 returned 16.5% over the same year. Even after that fall, Joby’s valuation reflects market expectations for electric air taxis that have not yet entered commercial passenger service. Is buying Joby now too early, before those air taxis carry their first passengers.