General Dynamics Corporation (GD) Stock

About General Dynamics Corporation

General Dynamics Corporation is a global leader in the aerospace and defense industry, with its operations structured across four key divisions: Aerospace, Marine Systems, Combat Systems, and Technologies. The Aerospace segment focuses on the design, production, and sale of business jets, alongside offering a full suite of aviation services including aircraft maintenance, repair, management, charter services, and ground support. Marine Systems specializes in shipbuilding for the U.S. Navy, constructing nuclear-powered submarines, surface warships, and auxiliary vessels. This division also builds various commercial ships, such as tankers and cargo carriers. Furthermore, it provides extensive maintenance, modernization, and lifecycle support, along with engineering and design services for both naval and commercial fleets. Combat Systems is dedicated to creating land-based defense solutions, manufacturing a diverse range of products including wheeled and tracked combat vehicles (like the Stryker and Piranha), main battle tanks, armored vehicles, weapon systems, munitions, and mobile bridge systems. This segment also delivers modernization programs, engineering expertise, and ongoing sustainment services. The Technologies division offers sophisticated information technology and mission support services, catering primarily to military, intelligence, and federal civilian clients. Its offerings span mobile communication, computing, command-and-control systems, and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities. Additionally, this segment is deeply involved in cutting-edge areas such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data analytics, DevOps, software-defined networks, "everything-as-a-service" models, defense enterprise office systems, and the assembly of unmanned undersea vehicles. Established in 1899, General Dynamics Corporation is headquartered in Reston, Virginia.

General Dynamics Corporation is led by CEO Phebe N. Novakovic, employs 110,000 people, headquartered in Reston, US, publicly traded since 1978.

General Dynamics Corporation (GD) stock trades at $380.96 with a market capitalization of $103.02B. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 22.14, price-to-book of 3.65, price-to-sales of 1.77. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $289.40 and $393.62, and currently trades 3.2% below its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 1.73%.

On profitability, General Dynamics Corporation generates a return on equity (ROE) of 17.97%, above the typical market average, return on capital employed of 20.90%, an operating margin of 10.19%, a net profit margin of 8.07%.

In its most recent fiscal year, General Dynamics Corporation reported annual revenue of $52.5B, net profit of $4.2B, revenue has compounded at 6.7% a year over the last five years, profit at 5.9% a year.

The balance sheet shows a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.31 — a conservative balance sheet with little leverage risk, a current ratio of 1.38, total assets of $57.2B, $2.3B in cash and equivalents.

GD has an average daily trading volume of 1,249,965 shares, a beta of 0.34 (less volatile than the overall market).

Official website: www.gd.com