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Archer Aviation Shares Surge 14% As eVTOL Flight Tests And Anduril Deal Fuel Investor Optimism Today
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Shares of Archer Aviation Inc. surged more than 14% Monday, extending a run of gains driven by a series of technical and partnership milestones for the electric air taxi developer, as investors positioned ahead of the company’s second-quarter earnings report due after markets close.
The stock closed up 14.22% at $6.39, on volume of nearly 22.7 million shares, well above its three-month average of roughly 42.5 million shares, giving the company a market capitalization of approximately $4.83 billion. Despite Monday’s advance, shares remain down 41.40% over the past 12 months, reflecting a difficult stretch for electric vertical takeoff and landing, or eVTOL, companies more broadly over the past year.
Monday’s rally followed a piloted round-trip test flight of Archer’s Midnight aircraft between Salinas Municipal Airport and Monterey Regional Airport, conducted in coordination with the Federal Aviation Administration. Each leg of the roughly 40-mile route took about nine minutes to complete by air, compared with a typical drive time of 35 minutes or more by car. Archer has said it intends to use the route as a template for scaling similar operations, including potential service in the Los Angeles area, and has pointed to the flight as a step toward participation in the federal government’s eVTOL Integration Pilot Program. The company has not yet begun commercial passenger service.
The stock also drew support from continued momentum tied to Archer’s expanding partnership with Anduril Industries, the defense technology company known for its autonomous systems work. The two companies have been developing a new autonomous VTOL aircraft platform under the partnership, including a defense-oriented variant referred to as Thunder, which is intended to extend Archer’s technology into longer-range, heavier-payload missions beyond its original focus on urban air taxi service. The Anduril collaboration has been credited in recent market commentary with helping push Archer’s aircraft development into new defense and government-linked applications, an area investors have increasingly focused on for the company given persistent questions about the near-term commercial timeline for urban air taxi operations.
Institutional buying also appeared to contribute to Monday’s move, with Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest reported to have purchased roughly 940,000 shares of Archer stock, adding to a stretch of renewed momentum trading and institutional interest in the name over recent sessions.
Archer has also continued to expand its technology offerings beyond aircraft manufacturing in recent weeks. The company disclosed that its aviation artificial intelligence platform, known as ZEE, achieved a technical milestone in predicting real-time aircraft movements on airport surfaces, giving pilots and air traffic controllers additional advance warning of potential safety risks. According to the company, the ZEE system is capable of modeling multiple possible aircraft routes rather than producing a single fixed forecast, and uses satellite imagery to identify runways, taxiways and parking areas. Archer has begun testing the technology at Hawthorne Airport in California, which the company took over operational control of late last year, and has said it has demonstrated the system to both commercial partners and regulators as it pursues potential pilot programs with government agencies.
Monday’s share price gains came just ahead of Archer’s second-quarter 2026 earnings report, scheduled for release after market close, with a conference call for investors set for later in the day. Analyst estimates compiled ahead of the report called for a quarterly loss of approximately 25 cents per share, alongside revenue of roughly $1.95 million to $2 million, figures that reflect the company’s continued position as a pre-revenue, development-stage business rather than one generating meaningful commercial sales. Archer has beaten consensus earnings estimates in three of its trailing four quarterly reports, with an average earnings surprise of nearly 8% over that stretch, though some models had flagged a less certain setup heading into Monday’s release given a negative estimate revision trend in the days leading up to the report.
As of its most recent quarterly disclosure, Archer reported approximately $951.1 million in cash on hand, with total cash and short-term investments of roughly $1.78 billion, a liquidity position the company has said provides runway to continue funding its aircraft certification and manufacturing buildout as it works toward commercial launch. The company has previously guided to an annual adjusted EBITDA loss in the range of $170 million to $200 million as it continues to invest heavily in research, development and manufacturing scale-up ahead of anticipated commercial operations.
Archer is one of a small number of companies racing to bring electric air taxi service to market in the United States, alongside competitors such as Joby Aviation, which has also seen its shares decline sharply over the past year amid similar questions about certification timelines and the path to commercial revenue. Shares of both companies have faced pressure for much of 2026 even as each has continued to report technical progress, reflecting broader investor caution about how quickly the eVTOL industry can translate flight-test milestones and partnership announcements into meaningful, sustained revenue.
With Monday’s earnings report expected to provide updated detail on Archer’s cash position, regulatory progress, and the commercial trajectory of both its air taxi and defense-related programs, investors are likely to look closely at whether the recent run of technical and partnership announcements is beginning to translate into a clearer near-term path toward revenue generation, or whether the stock’s rally remains driven primarily by headline-level milestones rather than underlying commercial progress.
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Global Market Today: Asian shares trade lower; oil holds gains
Brent crude was steady near $87.70 a barrel on Tuesday after gaining about 10% over the previous four sessions. The advance in oil weighed on Treasuries, pushing the benchmark 10-year yield up six basis points to 4.71% in the previous session. There will be no cash trading in Treasuries during Asian hours Tuesday due to a Japan holiday.
Early focus in Asia is on the yen after the currency weakened 1% on Monday, erasing about half of its recent intervention-led rally. The move is psychologically significant for traders, who remain on alert for further official support. The yen was slightly stronger in early Tuesday trading at about 159.17 per dollar.
Elsewhere, Asian stocks and equity-index futures for US benchmarks edged lower. Australian government bonds fell ahead of an expected policy-rate hold by the central bank. Gold extended its advance for a third day, trading at about $4,400 an ounce.
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Oil’s rally over the past week, amid little progress toward easing tensions in the Middle East, has revived worries over price pressures after Friday’s softer US jobs data tempered expectations for an immediate Federal Reserve interest-rate hike. Attention now turns to Wednesday’s US consumer price index report, which may offer fresh signals on the path for interest rates.
“The jobs report may have eased some anxieties about a Fed rate hike next month, but those concerns could hit new highs without cooler-than-expected inflation numbers this week,” said Chris Larkin at E*Trade from Morgan Stanley.
While stocks had seen a burst of enthusiasm about a possible reopening of Hormuz, markets may be less likely to respond positively to vague reports about progress in talks, he said.
President Donald Trump lashed out against Iran’s demands for compensation as part of talks to wind down the conflict, dimming hopes of a quick agreement that would reopen the strait. Trump had signaled on Sunday that he was prepared to let economic pressure on Iran build, rather than launch fresh strikes.
The closely watched consumer price index is seen rising 0.1% in July following a 0.4% decline in the prior month, based on the median projection in a Bloomberg survey of economists ahead of Wednesday’s Bureau of Labor Statistics release.
Fed Bank of Cleveland President Beth Hammack told Yahoo Finance it’s possible that a number of rate hikes may be needed to bring inflation down to the target.
“I would say in general, one 25-basis-point move probably doesn’t do a whole lot for the economy,” Hammack said Monday in an interview with Yahoo Finance. “So it’s probably some number,” but “I don’t want to prejudge what that number is going to be.”
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AlTi Global, Inc. (ALTI) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript
Operator
At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to AlTi’s Second Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call. I would like to advise all parties that this conference is being recorded and a replay of the webcast is available on AlTi’s Investor Relations website. Now at this time, I will turn things over to [ Jeff Schoenborn ] with AlTi Investor Relations. Please go ahead.
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Good afternoon and welcome to AlTi Global’s Second Quarter 2026 earnings conference call. On today’s call, we will hear prepared remarks from Nancy Curtin, Interim Chief Executive Officer and Global Chief Investment Officer, as well as Pat Keenan, Chief Financial Officer. They will be joined by Kevin Moran, our President and Chief Operating Officer, for the Q&A session.
Before we begin, I would like to remind everyone that certain statements made during the call may be deemed forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, comments made during the prepared remarks and in response to questions. Forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of words such as anticipate, believe, continue, estimate, expect, future, intend, may, plan, and will, or similar terms.
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Trump Media reports $238m loss as crypto falls
President Donald Trump’s social media company reported a loss of $238m (£176m) between April and June as it branched into ventures unrelated to media, including cryptocurrencies.
The quarterly loss is more than 10 times the amount reported during the same period a year earlier, according to the Trump Media and Technology Group, which runs the President’s Truth Social platform.
The firm says it will refocus on its social media mission, which includes a controversial service that offers faster access to Trump’s market-moving posts to paying customers.
The group’s interim chief executive officer Kevin McGurn said on Monday that more than 10 customers have signed up for the new service.
The BBC has contacted Trump Media and Technology Group and the White House for further comment.
The company posted $1.7m in revenue, which it said is up 89% from the same period a year before, but suffered overall loss dure to the drop in cryptocurrencies.
It added that it closed the second quarter with total assets of $2bn and financial assets of around $1.9bn, which includes cash, short-term investments and digital currencies.
The group has yet to turn a profit, even as it expands into areas including cryptocurrency holdings and clean-energy investments.
In July, it announced a plan to give Wall Street traders faster access to Trump’s posts on Truth Social, widely viewed as a way to give subscribers an edge in trading stocks and other heavily traded assets.
The move has prompted a series of legal questions and ethical musings, including whether it is right that a company – of which the president’s family remains the majority shareholder – stands to profit from his own public statements.
The new service is “expected to provide the company with a new revenue stream,” Trump Media said in its earnings statement on Monday.
McGurn said: “I’m encouraged by this momentum, and shareholders should expect more frequent communication from us on our progress each quarter as we enter this next chapter.”
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Tech stocks were hammered one day, then celebrated the next, on the latest hints about the impact of artificial intelligence. International Business Machines stock dropped 25% on July 14, its worst day in the company’s century-old history; Apple shares fell a bracing 7.4% on July 31, the same day that Amazon.com rocketed 15%.
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