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Best Defense Stocks To Watch Now - September 22nd

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Key Points

  • Boeing, Rocket Lab, GE Aerospace, BigBear.ai, and Teradyne are identified as the top defense stocks to watch, known for their reliance on government contracts and stable revenue tied to defense spending.
  • BigBear.ai specializes in AI-powered solutions for national security and supply chain management, while Teradyne focuses on automated test systems and robotics.
  • These companies have exhibited the highest dollar trading volume among defense stocks recently, indicating significant investor interest.
  • MarketBeat previews top five stocks to own in October.

Boeing, Rocket Lab, GE Aerospace, BigBear.ai, and Teradyne are the five Defense stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Defense stocks are equity securities issued by companies that design, manufacture or supply military and defense-related products and services—ranging from weapons systems and aircraft to cybersecurity and logistics. Often called defense contractors, these firms rely heavily on government contracts and long-term procurement programs, which can provide investors with relatively stable revenue streams tied to defense spending. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Defense stocks within the last several days.

Boeing (BA)

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.

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Rocket Lab (RKLB)

Rocket Lab USA, Inc., a space company, provides launch services and space systems solutions for the space and defense industries. The company provides launch services, spacecraft design services, spacecraft components, spacecraft manufacturing, and other spacecraft and on-orbit management solutions; and constellation management services, as well as designs and manufactures small and medium-class rockets.

Read Our Latest Research Report on RKLB

GE Aerospace (GE)

GE Aerospace (also known as General Electric) is a company that specializes in providing aerospace products and services. It operates through two reportable segments: Commercial Engines and Services and Defense and Propulsion Technologies. It offers jet and turboprop engines, as well as integrated systems for commercial, military, business, and general aviation aircraft.

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BigBear.ai (BBAI)

BigBear.ai Holdings, Inc. provides artificial intelligence-powered decision intelligence solutions. It offers national security, supply chain management, and digital identity and biometrics solutions. The company also provides data ingestion, data enrichment, data processing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, predictive analytics, and predictive visualization solutions and services.

Read Our Latest Research Report on BBAI

Teradyne (TER)

Teradyne, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and sells automated test systems and robotics products worldwide. It operates through four segments; Semiconductor Test, System Test, Robotics, and Wireless Test. The Semiconductor Test segment offers products and services for wafer level and device package testing of semiconductor devices in automotive, industrial, communications, consumer, smartphones, cloud, computer and electronic game, and other applications.

Read Our Latest Research Report on TER

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