Top Defense Stocks To Consider - September 21st

Key Points

• The article highlights five defense stocks to watch: GE Aerospace, Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Citigroup, Boeing, and Cadence Design Systems, based on their recent trading volume.
• These defense companies benefit from consistent government defense budgets and long-term contracts, providing relatively stable revenue, but their performance can be affected by geopolitical tensions.
• GE Aerospace specializes in aerospace products and services, while Kratos focuses on mission-critical solutions for national security, illustrating the diverse offerings within the defense sector.

GE Aerospace, Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Citigroup, Boeing, and Cadence Design Systems are the five Defense stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Defense stocks are shares of companies whose core business is producing military equipment, weapons systems, and support services for national defense agencies. They tend to benefit from steady government defense budgets and long-term contracts, offering relatively stable revenue streams, though their performance can swing with geopolitical tensions and shifts in defense policy. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Defense stocks within the last several days.

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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Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (KTOS)

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. engages in the provision of mission critical products, services and solutions for United States national security priorities. It operates through the Kratos Government Solutions (KGS) and Unmanned Systems (US) segments. The KGS segment consists of an aggregation of KGS operating segments, including microwave electronic products, space, satellite and cyber, training solutions.

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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.

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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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Cadence Design Systems (CDNS)

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. provides software, hardware, services, and reusable integrated circuit (IC) design blocks worldwide. The company offers functional verification services, including emulation and prototyping hardware. Its functional verification offering consists of JasperGold, a formal verification platform; Xcelium, a parallel logic simulation platform; Palladium, an enterprise emulation platform; and Protium, a prototyping platform for chip verification.

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