Top Defense Stocks To Follow Today - July 8th

BigBear.ai, Boeing, and Citigroup are the three Defense stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Defense stocks are shares of companies that design, produce and service military systems—ranging from aircraft and naval vessels to weapons, electronics and cybersecurity solutions—typically under long-term government contracts. Their revenues and valuations move in step with national defense budgets and geopolitical developments. As a result, investors often view them as a way to gain exposure to—and potentially hedge against—global security and military spending trends. 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 up $0.02 on Tuesday, hitting $7.80. The company had a trading volume of 133,475,512 shares, compared to its average volume of 50,619,862. BigBear.ai has a 1-year low of $1.17 and a 1-year high of $10.36. The stock has a market cap of $2.27 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -10.00 and a beta of 3.46. The stock has a 50 day moving average price of $4.30 and a 200 day moving average price of $4.28. The company has a current ratio of 1.66, a quick ratio of 1.66 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.55.

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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 NYSE:BA traded down $1.23 on Tuesday, hitting $217.40. The company had a trading volume of 3,526,079 shares, compared to its average volume of 9,459,428. Boeing has a 1-year low of $128.88 and a 1-year high of $219.94. The stock has a market cap of $163.92 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -12.13 and a beta of 1.41. The stock has a 50 day moving average price of $202.86 and a 200 day moving average price of $181.73.

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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.

Shares of NYSE:C traded down $1.54 on Tuesday, hitting $86.06. The company had a trading volume of 6,452,513 shares, compared to its average volume of 14,620,212. Citigroup has a 1-year low of $53.51 and a 1-year high of $88.83. The stock has a market cap of $160.74 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 13.60, a P/E/G ratio of 0.69 and a beta of 1.34. The stock has a 50 day moving average price of $77.01 and a 200 day moving average price of $74.37. The company has a current ratio of 0.98, a quick ratio of 0.98 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.52.

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