Compare Stocks: NOC, KTOS, BA, and GD

Comparative Price Performance Over Time

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
BA Boeing	$189.52 -0.4%	$208.82	$176.77 ▼ $254.35	$150.46B	1.26	9.21 million shs	3.76 million shs
GD General Dynamics	$334.97 +1.1%	$362.49	$306.77 ▼ $400.00	$89.63B	0.33	1.37 million shs	2.09 million shs
KTOS Kratos Defense & Security Solutions	$41.62 -1.7%	$50.56	$40.92 ▼ $134.00	$7.95B	1.11	4.60 million shs	3.55 million shs
NOC Northrop Grumman	$484.64 +0.8%	$530.18	$470.06 ▼ $774.00	$68.28B	-0.11	982,174 shs	573,401 shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
BA Boeing	0.00%	-1.47%	-9.55%	-11.71%	-9.75%
GD General Dynamics	0.00%	+0.33%	-7.04%	-11.16%	-0.51%
KTOS Kratos Defense & Security Solutions	0.00%	-1.65%	-9.27%	-9.80%	-55.24%
NOC Northrop Grumman	0.00%	+0.21%	-7.19%	-11.24%	-22.86%

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
BA Boeing	$189.52 -0.4%	$208.82	$176.77 ▼ $254.35	$150.46B	1.26	9.21 million shs	3.76 million shs
GD General Dynamics	$334.97 +1.1%	$362.49	$306.77 ▼ $400.00	$89.63B	0.33	1.37 million shs	2.09 million shs
KTOS Kratos Defense & Security Solutions	$41.62 -1.7%	$50.56	$40.92 ▼ $134.00	$7.95B	1.11	4.60 million shs	3.55 million shs
NOC Northrop Grumman	$484.64 +0.8%	$530.18	$470.06 ▼ $774.00	$68.28B	-0.11	982,174 shs	573,401 shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
BA Boeing	0.00%	-1.47%	-9.55%	-11.71%	-9.75%
GD General Dynamics	0.00%	+0.33%	-7.04%	-11.16%	-0.51%
KTOS Kratos Defense & Security Solutions	0.00%	-1.65%	-9.27%	-9.80%	-55.24%
NOC Northrop Grumman	0.00%	+0.21%	-7.19%	-11.24%	-22.86%

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
BA Boeing	2.70	Moderate Buy	$269.16	42.02% Upside
GD General Dynamics	2.68	Moderate Buy	$407.16	21.55% Upside
KTOS Kratos Defense & Security Solutions	2.96	Moderate Buy	$94.16	126.23% Upside
NOC Northrop Grumman	2.60	Moderate Buy	$644.70	33.02% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest NOC, KTOS, BA, and GD Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
10/12/2026	KTOS Kratos Defense & Security Solutions	The Goldman Sachs Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Buy	$88.00 ➝ $77.00
10/12/2026	BA Boeing	Sanford C. Bernstein Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Outperform	$298.00 ➝ $278.00
10/9/2026	GD General Dynamics	TD Cowen Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Buy	$420.00 ➝ $380.00
10/9/2026	BA Boeing	Barclays Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Underweight ➝ Overweight	$300.00
10/9/2026	BA Boeing	TD Cowen Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Buy	$250.00 ➝ $240.00
10/9/2026	KTOS Kratos Defense & Security Solutions	Barclays Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Overweight	$90.00
10/9/2026	NOC Northrop Grumman	TD Cowen Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Hold	$590.00 ➝ $540.00
10/8/2026	BA Boeing	Barclays Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Underweight ➝ Overweight	$300.00
10/8/2026	NOC Northrop Grumman	Barclays Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Equal Weight ➝ Underweight	$419.00
10/8/2026	KTOS Kratos Defense & Security Solutions	Barclays Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Overweight	$90.00
10/8/2026	NOC Northrop Grumman	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Hold (C) ➝ Hold (C+)

(Data available from 10/12/2023 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Compare Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
BA Boeing	$89.46B	1.67	N/A	N/A	$6.94 per share	27.31
GD General Dynamics	$52.55B	1.72	$19.20 per share	17.45	$94.76 per share	3.53
KTOS Kratos Defense & Security Solutions	$1.35B	5.80	$0.72 per share	57.93	$11.82 per share	3.52
NOC Northrop Grumman	$41.95B	1.64	$37.37 per share	12.97	$117.49 per share	4.12

Compare Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
BA Boeing	$2.24B	$2.31	82.04	48.85	N/A	2.41%	-346.82%	-4.96%	10/27/2026 (Estimated)
GD General Dynamics	$4.21B	$16.39	20.44	18.00	1.91	8.18%	17.43%	7.67%	10/30/2026 (Estimated)
KTOS Kratos Defense & Security Solutions	$22M	$0.17	244.82	45.74	N/A	2.03%	3.07%	2.55%	11/3/2026 (Estimated)
NOC Northrop Grumman	$4.18B	$31.48	15.40	15.92	2.82	10.48%	24.25%	8.15%	10/20/2026 (Estimated)

Latest NOC, KTOS, BA, and GD Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
11/3/2026	Q3 2026	KTOS Kratos Defense & Security Solutions	$0.2069	N/A	N/A	N/A	$470.28 million	N/A
10/30/2026	Q3 2026	GD General Dynamics	$4.14	N/A	N/A	N/A	$13.76 billion	N/A
10/27/2026	Q3 2026	BA Boeing	-$0.2303	N/A	N/A	N/A	$24.58 billion	N/A
10/20/2026	Q3 2026	NOC Northrop Grumman	$7.16	N/A	N/A	N/A	$11.14 billion	N/A
8/4/2026	Q2 2026	KTOS Kratos Defense & Security Solutions	$0.1388	$0.21	+$0.0712	$0.02	$410.36 million	$458.80 million
7/29/2026	Q2 2026	GD General Dynamics	$3.96	$4.24	+$0.28	$4.24	$13.52 billion	$14.09 billion
7/28/2026	Q2 2026	BA Boeing	-$0.34	-$0.76	-$0.42	-$0.67	$24.26 billion	$24.56 billion
7/21/2026	Q2 2026	NOC Northrop Grumman	$6.82	$7.68	+$0.86	$7.68	$10.80 billion	$10.88 billion

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	5-Year Annualized Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
BA Boeing	N/A	N/A	-100.00%	N/A	N/A
GD General Dynamics	$6.36	1.90%	+6.50%	38.80%	34 Years
KTOS Kratos Defense & Security Solutions	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
NOC Northrop Grumman	$9.88	2.04%	+9.66%	31.39%	22 Years

Latest NOC, KTOS, BA, and GD Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
8/5/2026	GD General Dynamics	quarterly	$1.59	1.92%	10/9/2026	10/9/2026	11/13/2026
8/19/2026	NOC Northrop Grumman	quarterly	$2.47	1.83%	8/31/2026	8/31/2026	9/16/2026

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
BA Boeing	6.77	1.14	0.33
GD General Dynamics	0.23	1.44	0.96
KTOS Kratos Defense & Security Solutions	0.04	5.54	4.99
NOC Northrop Grumman	0.81	1.17	1.06

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
BA Boeing	64.82%
GD General Dynamics	86.14%
KTOS Kratos Defense & Security Solutions	75.92%
NOC Northrop Grumman	83.40%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
BA Boeing	0.10%
GD General Dynamics	1.40%
KTOS Kratos Defense & Security Solutions	1.50%
NOC Northrop Grumman	0.21%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
BA Boeing	182,000	790.37 million	789.58 million	Optionable
GD General Dynamics	117,000	270.56 million	266.77 million	Optionable
KTOS Kratos Defense & Security Solutions	4,300	187.72 million	184.91 million	Optionable
NOC Northrop Grumman	95,000	142.03 million	141.74 million	Optionable

NOC, KTOS, BA, and GD Headlines

Recent News About These Companies

Northrop Grumman : and Barrett Firearms Forge Strategic Collaboration on Precision Grenadier System

1 hour ago | marketscreener.comM

Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC) Stock Price Target Cut by TD Cowen

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Northrop Grumman : Deploys First Wave of Satellites for SDA’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture

October 10 at 12:15 PM | marketscreener.comM

Northrop Grumman (NOC) Could Be 8% Undervalued As Backlog Conversion Drives The Narrative

October 10 at 7:14 AM | finance.yahoo.com

Barclays initiates coverage of Northrop Grumman at underweight

October 10 at 2:00 AM | msn.com

Barclays initiates coverage of Northrop Grumman Corporation - depositary receipt at underweight

October 9 at 8:56 PM | msn.com

Northrop Grumman (NOC) Upgraded Raid Hunter With New Long Range Radar

October 9 at 8:56 PM | finance.yahoo.com

Citi Remains a Buy on Northrop Grumman (NOC)

October 9 at 3:56 PM | theglobeandmail.com

Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC) Given New $540.00 Price Target at TD Cowen

October 9 at 11:35 AM | marketbeat.com

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Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC) Raised to "Strong-Buy" at Rothschild & Co Redburn

October 7, 2026 | americanbankingnews.com

Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC) Upgraded to "Strong-Buy" at Rothschild & Co Redburn

October 7, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Will Northrop’s New FORTITUDE Chip Redefine Northrop Grumman's (NOC) Advanced Electronics Narrative?

October 7, 2026 | finance.yahoo.com

Rothschild & Co initiates coverage of Northrop Grumman with buy

October 6, 2026 | msn.com

Redburn Starts Coverage of U.S. Defense Stocks With Buy Ratings on Lockheed, Northrop and Kratos

October 6, 2026 | investorshub.advfn.com

Rothschild Initiates Coverage On AVAV, KTOS, NOC Stocks – Flags Changing Warfare And Rising Military Spending

October 6, 2026 | stocktwits.comS

Can MQ-4C Triton Demand Boost Northrop Grumman's Growth?

October 6, 2026 | finance.yahoo.com

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NOC, KTOS, BA, and GD Company Descriptions

Boeing NYSE:BA

$189.52 -0.85 (-0.45%)

Closing price 03:59 PM Eastern

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$189.44 -0.08 (-0.04%)

As of 08:00 PM Eastern

The Boeing Company, together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, sells, services, and supports commercial jetliners, military aircraft, satellites, missile defense, human space flight and launch systems, and services worldwide. The company operates through Commercial Airplanes; Defense, Space & Security; and Global Services segments. The Commercial Airplanes segment develops, produces, and markets commercial jet aircraft for passenger and cargo requirements, as well as provides fleet support services. The Defense, Space & Security segment engages in the research, development, production, and modification of manned and unmanned military aircraft and weapons systems; strategic defense and intelligence systems, which include strategic missile and defense systems, command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, cyber and information solutions, and intelligence systems; and satellite systems, such as government and commercial satellites, and space exploration. The Global Services segment offers products and services, including supply chain and logistics management, engineering, maintenance and modifications, upgrades and conversions, spare parts, pilot and maintenance training systems and services, technical and maintenance documents, and data analytics and digital services to commercial and defense customers. The Boeing Company was incorporated in 1916 and is based in Arlington, Virginia.

General Dynamics NYSE:GD

$334.96 +3.70 (+1.12%)

Closing price 03:59 PM Eastern

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$336.75 +1.79 (+0.53%)

As of 08:00 PM Eastern

General Dynamics Corporation operates as an aerospace and defense company worldwide. It operates through four segments: Aerospace, Marine Systems, Combat Systems, and Technologies. The Aerospace segment produces and sells business jets; and offers aircraft maintenance and repair, management, aircraft-on-ground support and completion, charter, staffing, and fixed-base operator services. The Marine Systems segment designs and builds nuclear-powered submarines, surface combatants, and auxiliary ships for the United States Navy and Jones Act ships for commercial customers, as well as builds crude oil and product tankers, and container and cargo ships; provides maintenance, modernization, and lifecycle support services for navy ships; offers and program management, planning, engineering, and design support services for submarine construction programs. The Combat Systems segment manufactures land combat solutions, such as wheeled and tracked combat vehicles, Stryker wheeled combat vehicles, piranha vehicles, weapons systems, munitions, mobile bridge systems with payloads, tactical vehicles, main battle tanks, armored vehicles, and armaments; and offers modernization programs, engineering, support, and sustainment services. The Technologies segment provides information technology solutions and mission support services; mobile communication, computers, and command-and-control mission systems; intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance solutions to military, intelligence, and federal civilian customers; cloud computing, artificial intelligence; machine learning; big data analytics; development, security, and operations; and unmanned undersea vehicle manufacturing and assembly services. The company was founded in 1899 and is headquartered in Reston, Virginia.

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions NASDAQ:KTOS

$41.62 -0.74 (-1.75%)

Closing price 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$41.58 -0.04 (-0.11%)

As of 07:59 PM Eastern

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. engages in the provision of mission critical products, services and solutions for United States national security priorities. It operates through the Kratos Government Solutions (KGS) and Unmanned Systems (US) segments. The KGS segment consists of an aggregation of KGS operating segments, including microwave electronic products, space, satellite and cyber, training solutions. The US segment refers to the unmanned aerial, unmanned ground, unmanned seaborne and related command, control and communications system businesses. The company was founded on December 19, 1994, and is headquartered in Round Rock, TX.

Northrop Grumman NYSE:NOC

$484.64 +3.92 (+0.82%)

Closing price 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$483.91 -0.74 (-0.15%)

As of 07:54 PM Eastern

Northrop Grumman Corporation operates as an aerospace and defense technology company in the United States, Asia/Pacific, Europe, and internationally. The company's Aeronautics Systems segment designs, develops, manufactures, integrates, and sustains aircraft systems. This segment also offers unmanned autonomous aircraft systems, including high-altitude long-endurance strategic ISR systems and vertical take-off and landing tactical ISR systems; and strategic long-range strike aircraft, tactical fighter and air dominance aircraft, and airborne battle management and command and control systems. Its Defense Systems segment designs, develops, integrates, and produces tactical weapons and missile defense solutions, and provides sustainment, modernization, and training services for manned and unmanned aircraft and electronics systems. It also offers integrated, all-domain command, and control battle management systems, precision strike weapons; high speed air-breathing and hypersonic systems; high-performance gun systems, ammunition, precision munitions and advanced fuzes; aircraft and mission systems logistics support, sustainment, operations and modernization; and warfighter training services. The company's Mission Systems segment offers command, control, communications and computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems; radar, electro-optical/infrared and acoustic sensors; electronic warfare systems; advanced communications and network systems; cyber solutions; intelligence processing systems; navigation; and maritime power, propulsion, and payload launch systems. Its Space Systems segment offers satellites, spacecraft systems, subsystems, sensors, and payloads; ground systems; missile defense systems and interceptors; launch vehicles and related propulsion systems; and strategic missiles. Northrop Grumman Corporation was founded in 1939 and is based in Falls Church, Virginia.

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Comparative Price Performance Over Time

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Latest NOC, KTOS, BA, and GD Analyst Ratings

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Latest NOC, KTOS, BA, and GD Earnings

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Latest NOC, KTOS, BA, and GD Dividends

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Institutional Ownership

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NOC, KTOS, BA, and GD Headlines

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