Just wanted to share a quick point nobody has mentioned.
In January 2026 AE agreed to purchase 60% of L3Harris + Aerodyne space propulsion and power business. The business reportedly had an enterprise value of $845 million and the AE stake was over $500 million.
I’m pretty sure AE has raised somewhere between $350-$400 million from the RDW selling. It seems likely a driver of this selling was to rebalance liquidity after the L3 acquisition.
With warrants and convertible shares AE still own somewhere between 8-10% of RDW. Which is probably as large of a position as you’d realistically want any single institutional owner to have.
It’s definitely anxiety inducing in the short term. I share the fear that AE knows something we don’t and they’re dumping before something worse. But at least potential for a less bearish explanation. And having AE more reasonably positioned could be long term bullish for institutional buy in.