Best Defense Stocks To Research – July 18th

GE Aerospace, Rocket Lab, and BigBear.ai are the three Defense stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat’s stock screener tool. Defense stocks are shares of companies that design, manufacture and supply military equipment, weapons systems, and related services to governments and allied partners. Their performance often hinges on defense budgets, geopolitical tensions and government procurement cycles. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Defense stocks within the last several days.

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.

GE traded up $6.47 during trading hours on Friday, hitting $266.75. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 3,678,274 shares, compared to its average volume of 5,627,512. GE Aerospace has a fifty-two week low of $150.20 and a fifty-two week high of $272.80. The company has a current ratio of 1.08, a quick ratio of 0.77 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.90. The firm has a market capitalization of $284.46 billion, a PE ratio of 41.69, a PEG ratio of 3.19 and a beta of 1.37. The company has a 50-day simple moving average of $243.40 and a 200 day simple moving average of $211.08.

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.

RKLB traded down $1.15 during trading hours on Friday, hitting $50.18. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 19,140,924 shares, compared to its average volume of 18,746,392. Rocket Lab has a fifty-two week low of $4.20 and a fifty-two week high of $53.44. The firm has a market capitalization of $22.76 billion, a PE ratio of -125.10 and a beta of 2.15. The company has a 50-day simple moving average of $30.86 and a 200 day simple moving average of $25.65. The company has a current ratio of 2.08, a quick ratio of 1.72 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.97.

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 during mid-day trading on Friday, reaching $8.24. The company had a trading volume of 68,130,258 shares, compared to its average volume of 55,159,075. 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 stock has a market cap of $2.40 billion, a PE ratio of -10.62 and a beta of 3.46. The company has a 50-day moving average price of $4.93 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $4.46. BigBear.ai has a 1-year low of $1.17 and a 1-year high of $10.36.