BigBear.ai, GE Aerospace, Boeing, Rocket Lab, and AeroVironment are the five Defense stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Defense stocks are shares of publicly traded companies that develop, manufacture, and maintain military equipment, weapons systems, and defense-related technology for government agencies. These firms often secure long-term, government-backed contracts, giving their revenues and dividends relative stability and making them less sensitive to typical economic cycles. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Defense stocks within the last several days.
BigBear.ai (BBAI)
BigBear.ai Holdings, Inc. provides artificial intelligence-powered decision intelligence solutions. It offers national security, supply chain management, and digital identity and biometrics solutions. The company also provides data ingestion, data enrichment, data processing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, predictive analytics, and predictive visualization solutions and services.
Shares of NYSE:BBAI traded down $0.38 during trading on Tuesday, hitting $6.41. 148,904,561 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 46,804,991. The company has a market cap of $1.87 billion, a PE ratio of -8.16 and a beta of 3.30. The company has a current ratio of 1.66, a quick ratio of 1.66 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.55. The company has a fifty day moving average price of $3.86 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $4.13. BigBear.ai has a 12-month low of $1.17 and a 12-month high of $10.36.
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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 NYSE GE traded down $8.61 on Tuesday, hitting $248.78. The company's stock had a trading volume of 2,534,894 shares, compared to its average volume of 5,482,082. The stock has a 50 day moving average of $230.21 and a 200-day moving average of $203.91. The company has a market capitalization of $265.30 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 38.68, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.07 and a beta of 1.38. GE Aerospace has a 12-month low of $150.20 and a 12-month high of $260.55. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.90, a current ratio of 1.08 and a quick ratio of 0.77.
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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.
Shares of BA traded down $0.28 on Tuesday, hitting $209.25. 2,968,953 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 9,445,436. Boeing has a 1 year low of $128.88 and a 1 year high of $218.80. The stock's 50 day moving average is $198.86 and its two-hundred day moving average is $180.35. The firm has a market capitalization of $157.78 billion, a P/E ratio of -11.66 and a beta of 1.43.
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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.
Shares of RKLB stock traded down $1.21 on Tuesday, reaching $34.56. 17,536,022 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 17,907,796. The firm has a 50 day moving average of $26.12 and a two-hundred day moving average of $24.34. Rocket Lab has a 1-year low of $4.20 and a 1-year high of $38.07. The company has a quick ratio of 1.72, a current ratio of 2.08 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.97. The stock has a market cap of $15.67 billion, a P/E ratio of -86.43 and a beta of 2.08.
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AeroVironment (AVAV)
AeroVironment, Inc. designs, develops, produces, delivers, and supports a portfolio of robotic systems and related services for government agencies and businesses in the United States and internationally. It operates through Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (SUAS), Tactical Missile System (TMS), Medium Unmanned Aircraft Systems (MUAS), and High Altitude Pseudo-Satellite Systems (HAPS) segments.
NASDAQ AVAV traded down $23.06 on Tuesday, reaching $261.90. The company had a trading volume of 1,401,038 shares, compared to its average volume of 502,197. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.03, a current ratio of 3.52 and a quick ratio of 2.69. AeroVironment has a 1 year low of $102.25 and a 1 year high of $295.90. The firm has a 50-day moving average of $179.97 and a 200-day moving average of $161.12. The firm has a market capitalization of $7.39 billion, a PE ratio of 168.73 and a beta of 0.81.
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