Best Defense Stocks Worth Watching - October 1st

Key Points

• MarketBeat identifies Rocket Lab, Boeing, GE Aerospace, Archer Aviation, and RTX as the top defense stocks to watch due to their high dollar trading volume recently.
• Defense stocks are considered a defensive sector, often benefiting from stable government defense budgets and providing reliable cash flows during economic downturns.
• These companies engage in designing, manufacturing, and servicing military equipment, making them crucial players in the aerospace and defense industries.

Rocket Lab, Boeing, GE Aerospace, Archer Aviation, and RTX are the five Defense stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Defense stocks are shares of publicly traded companies that design, manufacture or service military equipment, weapons systems and related technologies. Investors often view them as a defensive sector because steady government defense budgets can help these companies generate reliable cash flows and exhibit relative stability during economic slowdowns. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Defense stocks within the last several days.

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.

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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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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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Archer Aviation (ACHR)

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RTX (RTX)

RTX Corporation, an aerospace and defense company, provides systems and services for the commercial, military, and government customers in the United States and internationally. It operates through three segments: Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon. The Collins Aerospace Systems segment offers aerospace and defense products, and aftermarket service solutions for civil and military aircraft manufacturers and commercial airlines, as well as regional, business, and general aviation, defense, and commercial space operations.

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