Promising Defense Stocks To Add to Your Watchlist - May 16th

Boeing, GE Aerospace, Rocket Lab USA, Citigroup, and Analog Devices are the five Defense stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Defense stocks are shares of publicly traded companies that manufacture weapons, vehicles, electronics, and other equipment or services for a country’s military and national security agencies. Their performance is closely tied to government defense budgets, geopolitical tensions, and procurement cycles, often making them less sensitive to economic downturns but more exposed to policy changes and international relations. 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.

BA stock traded down $0.37 during midday trading on Friday, reaching $205.87. 4,497,207 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 9,186,588. Boeing has a 52-week low of $128.88 and a 52-week high of $209.66. The business has a 50 day moving average of $170.78 and a 200-day moving average of $168.18. The firm has a market capitalization of $155.23 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -11.23 and a beta of 1.41.

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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.

Shares of GE traded up $0.70 during mid-day trading on Friday, reaching $230.08. 1,718,308 shares of the company's stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 5,336,666. GE Aerospace has a 12 month low of $150.20 and a 12 month high of $231.04. The stock has a market cap of $245.35 billion, a P/E ratio of 38.42, a P/E/G ratio of 2.59 and a beta of 1.31. The stock's 50-day moving average is $197.39 and its two-hundred day moving average is $189.08. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.88, a current ratio of 1.09 and a quick ratio of 0.81.

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Rocket Lab USA (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.

NASDAQ:RKLB traded up $0.07 during midday trading on Friday, hitting $25.29. The stock had a trading volume of 12,983,932 shares, compared to its average volume of 15,786,502. Rocket Lab USA has a one year low of $4.15 and a one year high of $33.34. The company has a market capitalization of $11.47 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -68.32 and a beta of 2.04. The stock has a 50-day moving average of $20.04 and a 200 day moving average of $22.31. The company has a quick ratio of 2.16, a current ratio of 2.58 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.97.

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Citigroup (C)

Citigroup Inc., a diversified financial service holding company, provides various financial product and services to consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions worldwide. It operates through five segments: Services, Markets, Banking, U.S. Personal Banking, and Wealth. The Services segment includes Treasury and Trade Solutions, which provides cash management, trade, and working capital solutions to multinational corporations, financial institutions, and public sector organizations; and Securities Services, such as cross-border support for clients, local market expertise, post-trade technologies, data solutions, and various securities services solutions.

NYSE:C traded down $0.35 during midday trading on Friday, hitting $75.62. The stock had a trading volume of 4,175,830 shares, compared to its average volume of 14,448,583. The company has a quick ratio of 0.96, a current ratio of 0.96 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.50. The company has a market capitalization of $141.23 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 12.71, a PEG ratio of 0.64 and a beta of 1.30. The stock has a 50-day moving average of $67.96 and a 200 day moving average of $71.80. Citigroup has a one year low of $53.51 and a one year high of $84.74.

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Analog Devices (ADI)

Analog Devices, Inc. designs, manufactures, tests, and markets integrated circuits (ICs), software, and subsystems products in the United States, rest of North and South America, Europe, Japan, China, and rest of Asia. The company provides data converter products, which translate real-world analog signals into digital data, as well as translates digital data into analog signals; power management and reference products for power conversion, driver monitoring, sequencing, and energy management applications in the automotive, communications, industrial, and consumer markets; and power ICs that include performance, integration, and software design simulation tools for accurate power supply designs.

NASDAQ ADI traded down $1.23 during midday trading on Friday, hitting $225.89. 877,832 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 3,499,840. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.19, a current ratio of 1.93 and a quick ratio of 1.43. The company has a market cap of $112.04 billion, a PE ratio of 72.00, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.85 and a beta of 0.98. The company's 50-day simple moving average is $196.22 and its 200-day simple moving average is $210.61. Analog Devices has a 52 week low of $158.65 and a 52 week high of $247.10.

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