Best Defense Stocks To Watch Today - August 31st

Key Points

• MarketBeat’s stock screener identified five defense stocks to watch: Howmet Aerospace, Rocket Lab, Boeing, GE Aerospace, and Honeywell Aerospace, based on their recent dollar trading volume.
• The companies span aerospace manufacturing, military aircraft and missile defense, space-launch services, spacecraft systems, aircraft engines, avionics, and other defense technologies.
• Defense stocks may benefit from steady or rising government spending during economic uncertainty, but remain exposed to contract awards, budgets, regulation, geopolitics, and broader market conditions.

Howmet Aerospace, Rocket Lab, Boeing, GE Aerospace, and Honeywell Aerospace are the five Defense stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Defense stocks are shares of publicly traded companies that provide military equipment, technology, services, or other products to governments and armed forces. Investors often view them as relatively defensive investments because government defense spending can remain steady or increase during periods of economic uncertainty, though these stocks are still affected by contracts, budgets, regulation, geopolitics, and market conditions. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Defense stocks within the last several days.

Howmet Aerospace (HWM)

Howmet Aerospace Inc. provides advanced engineered solutions for the aerospace and transportation industries in the United States, Japan, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Italy, Canada, Poland, China, and internationally. It operates through four segments: Engine Products, Fastening Systems, Engineered Structures, and Forged Wheels.

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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.

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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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Honeywell Aerospace (HONA)

Honeywell Aerospace Inc. manufactures and supplies aircraft components, avionics, engines, and systems for airframe manufacturing, commercial airline, military and defense, business aviation, and space markets, as well as other markets in the aerospace industry. The company offers actuation products, air and thermal management products, auxiliary power units, cabin management and entertainment products, cockpit systems and displays, electric power products, engines, health and usage monitoring products, lighting products, microelectronics, navigation products and radios, recorders and transmitters, satellite communications, sensors, space products, terrain and traffic awareness, vehicle turbochargers, weather radars, and wheels and braking systems.

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