Time to Sound the Alarm on Archer Aviation?
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Archer Aviation ( ACHR +1.39% ) , an early mover in the nascent market for electric vertical takeoff-and-landing ( eVTOL ) aircraft, set a record high of $17.14 per share on Feb. 18, 2021. Today, it trades at less than $5. Is it time to sound the alarm on this fallen stock? Before Archer went public through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), it claimed it could produce 10 eVTOLs in 2024 and 250 eVTOLs in 2025. But as of this writing, it has only manufactured two test aircraft and one full-scale Midnight aircraft. The Midnight can carry a single pilot and four passengers, travel up to 100 miles, and reach a maximum speed of 150 miles per hour. However, it has a lower top speed and a shorter range than Joby Aviation 's ( JOBY +3.53% ) S4 eVTOL. Joby is also further along in the FAA certification process for its U.S. commercial flights than Archer. Those setbacks -- along with its lack of meaningful revenue, steep losses, and high valuation -- make Archer a less appealing eVTOL stock than Joby. However, Archer's indicative (non-committal) backlog still swelled to $6 billion at the end of 2025 with pending orders for roughly 1,200 aircraft. Its biggest investor, Stellantis , still plans to help the company ramp up its production after the FAA fully certifies its first commercial flights.
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