NYSE:HII - Huntington Ingalls Industries Stock Price, Forecast & News

Huntington Ingalls Industries trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "HII."

Huntington Ingalls Industries announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, November 5th. Shareholders of record on Friday, November 29th will be paid a dividend of $1.03 per share on Friday, December 13th. This represents a $4.12 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.49%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, November 27th. This is a positive change from Huntington Ingalls Industries's previous quarterly dividend of $0.86. View Huntington Ingalls Industries' Dividend History.

Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc (NYSE:HII) issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, November, 7th. The aerospace company reported $3.74 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $3.63 by $0.11. The aerospace company had revenue of $2.22 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.20 billion. Huntington Ingalls Industries had a return on equity of 38.18% and a net margin of 7.05%. The firm's revenue was up 6.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $5.29 earnings per share. View Huntington Ingalls Industries' Earnings History.

Huntington Ingalls Industries is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 13th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Huntington Ingalls Industries.

6 brokerages have issued 1 year price objectives for Huntington Ingalls Industries' stock. Their forecasts range from $215.00 to $320.00. On average, they anticipate Huntington Ingalls Industries' stock price to reach $268.75 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 3.0%. View Analyst Price Targets for Huntington Ingalls Industries.

6 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Huntington Ingalls Industries in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating and 5 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Huntington Ingalls Industries.

News stories about HII stock have trended positive on Friday, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Huntington Ingalls Industries earned a media sentiment score of 3.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the aerospace company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near term. View News Stories for Huntington Ingalls Industries.

Huntington Ingalls Industries saw a increase in short interest in December. As of December 13th, there was short interest totalling 912,600 shares, an increase of 21.3% from the November 28th total of 752,600 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 272,300 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 3.4 days. Currently, 2.3% of the shares of the company are short sold. View Huntington Ingalls Industries' Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Huntington Ingalls Industries include Boeing (BA), United Technologies (UTX), Honeywell International (HON), Lockheed Martin (LMT), Raytheon (RTN), Northrop Grumman (NOC), General Dynamics (GD), TransDigm Group (TDG), Rockwell Collins (COL), Heico (HEI), Teledyne Technologies (TDY), Textron (TXT), Spirit AeroSystems (SPR), Hexcel (HXL) and Curtiss-Wright (CW).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Huntington Ingalls Industries investors own include Northrop Grumman (NOC), NVIDIA (NVDA), Lockheed Martin (LMT), Raytheon (RTN), Boeing (BA), Alibaba Group (BABA), General Dynamics (GD), Intel (INTC), Micron Technology (MU) and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ).

Huntington Ingalls Industries' stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Wedge Capital Management L L P NC (0.46%), Artemis Investment Management LLP (0.39%), Scout Investments Inc. (0.27%), Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.12%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.05%) and Private Trust Co. NA (0.02%). Company insiders that own Huntington Ingalls Industries stock include Brian J Cuccias, Christopher D Kastner, D R Wyatt, Edgar A Green III, Jennifer R Boykin, Jerri F Dickseski, Nicolas G Schuck, Philip M Bilden, Stephen R Wilson, Thomas B Fargo and William R Ermatinger. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Huntington Ingalls Industries.

HII stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Artemis Investment Management LLP, Gateway Investment Advisers LLC, Fluent Financial LLC, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, IFP Advisors Inc, First Hawaiian Bank, Louisiana State Employees Retirement System and IFM Investors Pty Ltd. Company insiders that have sold Huntington Ingalls Industries company stock in the last year include Brian J Cuccias, Christopher D Kastner, D R Wyatt, Edgar A Green III, Jennifer R Boykin, Jerri F Dickseski, Nicolas G Schuck, Thomas B Fargo and William R Ermatinger. View Insider Buying and Selling for Huntington Ingalls Industries.

HII stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Wedge Capital Management L L P NC, Scout Investments Inc., FormulaFolio Investments LLC, HBW Advisory Services LLC, First Command Bank and Private Trust Co. NA. Company insiders that have bought Huntington Ingalls Industries stock in the last two years include Edgar A Green III, Philip M Bilden and Stephen R Wilson. View Insider Buying and Selling for Huntington Ingalls Industries.

Shares of HII can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of HII stock can currently be purchased for approximately $277.13.

Huntington Ingalls Industries has a market capitalization of $11.33 billion and generates $8.18 billion in revenue each year. The aerospace company earns $836 million in net income (profit) each year or $19.09 on an earnings per share basis. Huntington Ingalls Industries employs 40,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Huntington Ingalls Industries.

The official website for Huntington Ingalls Industries is http://www.huntingtoningalls.com/.

Huntington Ingalls Industries' mailing address is 4101 WASHINGTON AVENUE, NEWPORT NEWS VA, 23607. The aerospace company can be reached via phone at 757-380-2000 or via email at [email protected]