Huntington Ingalls Industries Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:HII)

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

Huntington Ingalls Industries declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, July 30th. Stockholders of record on Friday, August 30th will be given a dividend of $0.86 per share on Friday, September 13th. This represents a $3.44 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.58%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, August 29th. View Huntington Ingalls Industries' Dividend History.

Huntington Ingalls Industries announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a share buyback plan on Wednesday, November 8th 2017, which permits the company to repurchase $1,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to buy shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are usually an indication that the company's board believes its stock is undervalued.

Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc (NYSE:HII) posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, August, 1st. The aerospace company reported $3.07 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $3.56 by $0.49. The aerospace company had revenue of $2.19 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.13 billion. Huntington Ingalls Industries had a net margin of 8.04% and a return on equity of 42.07%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 8.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business posted $5.40 EPS. View Huntington Ingalls Industries' Earnings History.

Huntington Ingalls Industries is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, November 7th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Huntington Ingalls Industries.

Huntington Ingalls Industries will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, November 7th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

8 equities research analysts have issued 1-year price targets for Huntington Ingalls Industries' stock. Their forecasts range from $215.00 to $275.00. On average, they expect Huntington Ingalls Industries' share price to reach $246.63 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 13.6% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Huntington Ingalls Industries.

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

Media headlines about HII stock have trended somewhat positive this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Huntington Ingalls Industries earned a media sentiment score of 1.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media headlines about the aerospace company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Huntington Ingalls Industries.

Huntington Ingalls Industries saw a drop in short interest in September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 908,500 shares, a drop of 6.3% from the August 30th total of 969,700 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 273,300 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.3 days. Currently, 2.3% of the company's shares are short sold. View Huntington Ingalls Industries' Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Huntington Ingalls Industries include Boeing (BA), Honeywell International (HON), United Technologies (UTX), Lockheed Martin (LMT), Northrop Grumman (NOC), Raytheon (RTN), General Dynamics (GD), TransDigm Group (TDG), Heico (HEI), Teledyne Technologies (TDY), Textron (TXT), Rockwell Collins (COL), 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), Boeing (BA), Raytheon (RTN), Micron Technology (MU), Alibaba Group (BABA), General Dynamics (GD), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) and Intel (INTC).

Huntington Ingalls Industries' stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Artemis Investment Management LLP (0.83%), Scout Investments Inc. (0.22%), Rhumbline Advisers (0.20%), Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.14%), State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D (0.09%) and Bailard Inc. (0.06%). 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, State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D, Virginia Retirement Systems ET AL, Gateway Investment Advisers LLC, Rhumbline Advisers, Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., First Hawaiian Bank and Bailard Inc.. 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 bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Cambiar Investors LLC, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Winmill & CO. Inc., Envestnet Asset Management Inc., Denali Advisors LLC, Scout Investments Inc., Delphi Management Inc. MA and Oakbrook Investments LLC. 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 $217.16.

Huntington Ingalls Industries has a market capitalization of $9.02 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]