Not financial advice. Do your own research.
TL;DR: Eve Air Mobility can become one of the top eVTOL companies because its backed and supported by Embraer (third largest civil aircraft producer worldwide, after Boeing and Airbus).
Eve will leverage their sales, production, and operational infrastructure while competitors will need to burn cash and time to build that from scratch.
Additionally, Eve has the largest order backlog against competitors, but still trades at $1B market cap (compared to Joby at $10B and Archer at $5B).
Numbers:
- Market Cap: $1.05B
- Total Capital Raised: $1.2B ($395M in the last 6 months)
- Current Liquidity: $648M
- Runway: ~2.5 years at $250M/year burn rate
- Founded: 2020
- CEO: Johann Bordais (former Embraer executive with +20 years in aerospace)
- Order Backlog: +2,800
Hypothesis:
Eve has a strong potential to grow 5-10x in the next few years due to:
- Embraer's manufacturing and certification support: reusing their existing facilities and learnings from certifying aircrafts on time
- Lower-risk design (no tilt-rotor): simpler mechanics means faster certification (and lower operating costs)
- Local market advantages: Brazilian government backing and São Paulo as the biggest helicopter market worldwide
- Cash efficiency: saves money by leveraging Embraer's infrastructure instead of building from scratch
- Largest order backlog: more total orders than ACHR, BETA, and Vertical Aerospace
1. Embraer Advantage:
Eve doesn't need to build factories, negotiate with suppliers, or establish quality systems because Embraer already has:
- Global manufacturing presence (Brazil, Portugal, USA, China)
- Strong supplier relationships
- AS9100 quality management system certification
- 70+ global service centers
Embraer has certified +20 aircraft models with FAA, EASA (Europe), and ANAC (Brazil). Their most recent aircraft (E2 Jets, KC-390, Praetor 500/600) were certified on or before the schedule. Competitors have no such strong experience with certifying airplanes.
2. Aircraft Design:
Eve chose to have:
- 8 fixed rotors for vertical lift
- 1 rear pusher prop for forward flight
- No tilting mechanisms
The design used by competitors like Joby (6 tilting rotors) and Archer (12 rotors, 6 tilt) is more complex and will make certification harder – in other words:
more moving parts => more failure modes => longer certification timelines => higher operating costs once in operation.
In terms of flight progress, Eve is slightly behind Joby and Archer, but has already achieved +20 total flights with ~1hr of total flight time. See video below.
3. Sao Paulo Advantage:
Sao Paulo is the city with largest number of helicopters worlwide (+2,100 active helicopters, 700 heliports). (Rich) people are already used to pay $500–800/flight to avoid being stuck in traffic.
This existing market will make it easier to Eve to test and validate the product.
4. Cash Efficiency:
Eve is the most recent company, has been spending way less compared to competitors, and still plans to launch in 2027:
| Company | Program Start | Cash Burned | Expected EIS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eve | 2020 | ~$500M | 2027 |
| Archer | 2018 | ~$1.5B | 2027 |
| Beta | 2017 | ~$720M | 2027 |
| Joby | 2009 | ~$1.9B | 2027 |
5. Largest Order Backlog
Eve has the largest order backlog (+2,800 aircrafts), with a customers such as airlines (United, Republic), leasing companies (Azorra, Falko), and helicopter operators (Helisul, Bristow, OHI/Revo).
That's it. Despite the points mentioned above, Eve still trades at a way lower valuation compared to other eVTOL stocks (and that's why I am bullish on the stock)
| Company | Order Backlog | Market Cap |
|---|---|---|
| Joby | – | ~$10B |
| Archer | ~1,300 | $4.9B |
| Beta | ~1,050 | $4.53B |
| Eve | ~2,800 | $1.05B |
| Vertical | ~1,750 | $422M |
Sources:
• Flight Videos
• Investors Day Presentation
Positions:
$EVEX – Eve Air and its strong relationship with Embraer
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Posted by kiabows223
10 Comments
Sinaloa Cartel is gonna buy one of those eVTOL…. but not sure which one It wasn’t brains that brought me here
No no not again. Please I’m already bag holding ACHR. Alright in for 1,000 shares
Well, as an industry insider- icing certification will make or break these. Embraer is probably one of the few who knows what needs to be done
Big brain move here is to buy CEMEX instead. Who do you think is going to build all the helipads?
60 mile (100km) range electric helo with even a single pilot is not even close to cost effective. No one’s gonna pay for a helo ride 45 minutes away when you’re going to then need to drive from wherever this helo pad is to get to final destination anyways. It’s not time or cost effective and unmanned crew certification is so far from possible with current FAA regulatory stances on this kind of stuff. Amazing concept but the tech isn’t there for execution.
Boeing has opened and grown new major offices near São Paulo. Over the last 5 years, they’ve scalped a ton of Embraer engineers to support major commercial programs remotely.
Similar to what’s being done in India, major aerospace players are opening satellite offices in Brazil to harness the aeronautical experience but also the low wages of Brazilian engineers. Not a great look for program development when major companies are eating up talent.
Opendoor mortage 4.99%, Why? Do I write in the reply? You guys block the main writing and write it in the replies
I love how everyone says **”this is not financial advice”** as if I could possibly sue over the equivalent of an instagram post drawn in crayon
I love its sticker name. I bought some when it was $5 several months ago. I was thinking if it’s good to put more into it.
The best move for us is to short your DD