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Defense Stocks To Add to Your Watchlist - September 11th

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Key Points

  • Rocket Lab, Corning, and Boeing are highlighted as key defense stocks to watch, noted for their recent high trading volumes and stable government contracts.
  • Rocket Lab specializes in launch services and spacecraft systems for the space and defense industries, showing potential for growth despite recent pullbacks.
  • Corning and Boeing provide diverse technology solutions, with Corning focusing on display technologies and Boeing engaged in commercial and defense aerospace manufacturing.
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Rocket Lab, Corning, and Boeing are the three Defense stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Defense stocks are shares in publicly traded companies that design, manufacture, and service military equipment, weapons systems, and related technologies for government and allied customers. They typically include major aerospace and defense contractors as well as cybersecurity and surveillance firms. Investors often view them as relatively stable due to long-term government procurement contracts and consistent defense budgets. 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.

Read Our Latest Research Report on RKLB

Corning (GLW)

Corning Incorporated engages in the display technologies, optical communications, environmental technologies, specialty materials, and life sciences businesses in the United States and internationally. The company's Display Technologies segment offers glass substrates for flat panel displays, including liquid crystal displays and organic light-emitting diodes that are used in televisions, notebook computers, desktop monitors, tablets, and handheld devices.

Read Our Latest Research Report on GLW

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.

Read Our Latest Research Report on BA

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