Why Are People Talking About Investing in GD?

By Emilio Sanchez • Tuesday, November 14 10:21 • Permanent Link

Join us for a quick overview of General Dynamics, a Marine Shipping company whose shares moved 0.3% today. Here are some facts about the stock that should help you see the bigger picture:

General Dynamics has moved 1.0% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 13.0%
GD has an average analyst rating of buy and is -9.08% away from its mean target price of $272.0 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $11.96
General Dynamics has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 20.7 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $14.88 and its forward P/E ratio is 16.6
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 3.38 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
General Dynamics is part of the Industrials sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 20.49 and an average P/B of 3.78
GD has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of -6.7% and gross profit margins of 0.2%
The company has a free cash flow of $1.79 Billion, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
General Dynamics Corporation operates as an aerospace and defense company worldwide. It operates through four segments: Aerospace, Marine Systems, Combat Systems, and Technologies. The Aerospace segment produces and sells business jets; and offers aircraft maintenance and repair, management, aircraft-on-ground support and completion, charter, staffing, and fixed-base operator services. The Marine Systems segment designs and builds nuclear-powered submarines, surface combatants, and auxiliary ships for the United States Navy and Jones Act ships for commercial customers, as well as builds crude oil and product tankers, and container and cargo ships; provides maintenance, modernization, and lifecycle support services for navy ships; offers and program management, planning, engineering, and design support services for submarine construction programs. The Combat Systems segment manufactures land combat solutions, such as wheeled and tracked combat vehicles, Stryker wheeled combat vehicles, piranha vehicles, weapons systems, munitions, mobile bridge systems with payloads, tactical vehicles, main battle tanks, armored vehicles, and armaments; and offers modernization programs, engineering, support, and sustainment services. The Technologies segment provides information technology solutions and mission support services; mobile communication, computers, and command-and-control mission systems; intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance solutions to military, intelligence, and federal civilian customers; cloud computing, artificial intelligence; machine learning; big data analytics; development, security, and operations; and unmanned undersea vehicle manufacturing and assembly services. The company was founded in 1899 and is headquartered in Reston, Virginia.

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