Top Space Stocks To Watch Now - August 2nd

Key Points

• Five major space stocks highlighted by MarketBeat for investors include Alphabet, Berkshire Hathaway, Boeing, GE Aerospace, and Howmet Aerospace, which have shown high trading volumes in the past few days.
• Alphabet's stock is trading at $189.13 with a market cap of $2.30 trillion, while it has experienced a 52-week high of $207.05 and a low of $140.53.
• Berkshire Hathaway saw its shares reach $472.77, with a market capitalization of $1.02 trillion and a price-to-earnings ratio of 12.60.

Alphabet, Berkshire Hathaway, Boeing, GE Aerospace, and Howmet Aerospace are the five Space stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Space stocks are shares of publicly traded companies involved in space-related activities—such as satellite manufacturing, launch services, space tourism, and spacecraft technology development. They let investors tap into the commercial space sector’s growth, with returns driven by government contracts, technological breakthroughs, and evolving regulatory frameworks. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Space stocks within the last several days.

Alphabet (GOOGL)

Alphabet Inc. offers various products and platforms in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia-Pacific, Canada, and Latin America. It operates through Google Services, Google Cloud, and Other Bets segments. The Google Services segment provides products and services, including ads, Android, Chrome, devices, Gmail, Google Drive, Google Maps, Google Photos, Google Play, Search, and YouTube.

Shares of GOOGL traded down $2.77 during mid-day trading on Friday, reaching $189.13. The stock had a trading volume of 34,777,882 shares, compared to its average volume of 38,669,572. Alphabet has a 52-week low of $140.53 and a 52-week high of $207.05. The firm has a market cap of $2.30 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 20.14, a P/E/G ratio of 1.30 and a beta of 1.01. The business's fifty day moving average is $178.32 and its 200 day moving average is $173.12. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.07, a current ratio of 1.90 and a quick ratio of 1.90.

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Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B)

Berkshire Hathaway Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the insurance, freight rail transportation, and utility businesses worldwide. The company provides property, casualty, life, accident, and health insurance and reinsurance; and operates railroad systems in North America. It also generates, transmits, stores, and distributes electricity from natural gas, coal, wind, solar, hydroelectric, nuclear, and geothermal sources; operates natural gas distribution and storage facilities, interstate pipelines, liquefied natural gas facilities, and compressor and meter stations; and holds interest in coal mining assets.

NYSE:BRK.B traded up $0.89 on Friday, reaching $472.77. The company's stock had a trading volume of 5,282,567 shares, compared to its average volume of 4,084,114. Berkshire Hathaway has a 12-month low of $406.11 and a 12-month high of $542.07. The stock has a 50 day moving average price of $485.54 and a 200 day moving average price of $496.60. The firm has a market cap of $1.02 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 12.60, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.28 and a beta of 0.81.

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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.

NYSE BA traded up $0.10 during trading hours on Friday, reaching $221.94. The company had a trading volume of 8,556,620 shares, compared to its average volume of 7,665,790. The stock has a market capitalization of $167.82 billion, a P/E ratio of -13.44 and a beta of 1.48. The stock has a 50-day moving average of $215.23 and a 200 day moving average of $188.67. Boeing has a 1-year low of $128.88 and a 1-year high of $242.69.

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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 $1.59 during mid-day trading on Friday, reaching $269.49. 4,380,267 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 6,337,291. GE Aerospace has a 1 year low of $150.20 and a 1 year high of $274.94. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.88, a current ratio of 1.04 and a quick ratio of 0.73. The firm's 50-day simple moving average is $252.13 and its 200 day simple moving average is $218.37. The firm has a market cap of $285.78 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 37.59, a P/E/G ratio of 2.92 and a beta of 1.44.

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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.

Howmet Aerospace stock traded up $4.63 during midday trading on Friday, reaching $184.40. 5,089,161 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 2,663,346. The firm has a market cap of $74.44 billion, a PE ratio of 53.92, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.64 and a beta of 1.48. The company has a current ratio of 2.31, a quick ratio of 1.07 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.65. The company has a 50-day simple moving average of $178.35 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $149.14. Howmet Aerospace has a 12-month low of $85.39 and a 12-month high of $193.26.

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