GD · General Dynamics Corp
Price
Snapshot
50 fields · last close| Market Cap | $93.13B |
| P/E | 20.76 |
| Float | 268.9M |
| Beta | 0.32 |
| Volatility | 7.9% |
| Exchange | NYSE |
| Sector | Aerospace & Defense |
| Cap tier | Large cap |
| Macro sensitivity | Low |
| Clavix score | 84.2 |
| Price | 342.21 |
| Change | −0.59% |
| Prev Close | 344.23 |
| Open | 340.00 |
| Day Low | 339.25 |
| Day High | 344.95 |
| Avg Vol | 1 |
| Avg $ Vol | $465.6M |
| 52W High | 400.00 |
| 52W Low | 306.77 |
| 52W Pos | 38.0% |
| From High | −14.45% |
| From Low | +11.55% |
| Max DD 1Y | −17.51% |
| Spread | 0.10% |
| Liquidity | Normal |
| SMA 20 | +2.01% |
| SMA 50 | −4.70% |
| SMA 200 | −3.56% |
| RSI (14) | 52.6 |
| Vol 30D | 16.9% |
| Vol 90D | 21.0% |
| 1Y Range | 307–400 |
| Daily bars | 536 |
| Perf Week | +3.91% |
| Perf Month | −3.29% |
| Perf Quarter | −7.12% |
| Perf Half Y | +2.36% |
| Perf Year | +3.67% |
| Perf YTD | −0.35% |
| Prev Day | −0.59% |
| Clavix | A- |
| Debt / Eq | 0.32 |
| Curr Ratio | 1.44 |
| Int Cover | 22.4× |
| FCF Margin | 7.5% |
| Rev Growth | +10.1% |
| Profit | Profitable |
| Leverage | Low |
| Sector rank | 1 / 30 |
What GD does
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, customer support and custom completion services, modifications, upgrades, and lifecycle sustainment support 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 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, energetics and munitions, mobile bridge systems with payloads, tactical vehicles, main battle tanks, and armored vehicles; and offers modernization programs, support and sustainment services, and development programs.
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 services, cybersecurity, network modernization, artificial intelligence; machine learning; application development, high-performance computing, and 5G and advanced communications services; and unmanned undersea vehicle manufacturing and assembly services.
The company was founded in 1899 and is headquartered in Reston, Virginia.
Clavix risk grade
regraded every trading dayGD grades A-, 84.2 of 100. Steadiest on Price Stability (70), most exposed on News Sentiment (64, mixed). 4 of the 4 weighted dimensions sit above the Aerospace & Defense median. Ranks 1 of 30 in Aerospace & Defense by Clavix score.
How rough the ride is
| GD | Aerospace & Defense median | |
|---|---|---|
| Betavs the overall market · lower is steadier | 0.32 | 1.18 |
| Volatilityannualized | 7.9% | 29.4% |
| Max drawdown, past yearworst peak-to-trough fall | −17.5% | — |
| Typical daily movemedian absolute daily change | 0.79% | — |
| Days beyond ±3%of the last 252 sessions | 7 (3%) | — |
How its days are spread
Daily returns over the last 252 sessions in 1% bins. Moves beyond ±6% land in the end bins.
52-week range
The bar runs from the lowest to the highest close of the last 252 sessions; the marker is the latest close.
Drawdown from the 1-year peak
Percent below the running high over the last 12 months. Zero is a fresh high.
Market sensitivity
| GD | Aerospace & Defense median | |
|---|---|---|
| Beta to the markethow much it swings with the S&P 500 · lower is safer | 0.32 | 1.18 |
| Macro sensitivityrate, dollar and credit exposure bucket | Low | Moderate 29% of 31 |
Where it sits on the macro scale
Low means rates, the dollar and credit spreads barely move it. Very High means they drive a large share of its swings. The counts are how many Aerospace & Defense names sit in each bucket.
Where it ranks in its sector
Rank by Clavix score within the sector. Right is the top of the sector.
Price performance
| GD | |
|---|---|
| 1 week | +3.9% |
| 1 month | −3.3% |
| Year to date | −0.3% |
| 1 year | +3.7% |
Context for the rank, not itself a risk measure.
Recent coverage, scored
| GD | |
|---|---|
| Articles scoredthe most recent scored coverage, up to 30 | 30 since 23 Sep |
| Average score0 most bearish, 100 most bullish | 62 |
| Bullish · bearisharticles above 60 · below 40 | 22 · 4 |
| Directionarticles whose tone is improving vs worsening | 22 ↑ 4 ↓ |
Where the article scores land
Each bar is a 10-point band of article scores. Below 40 reads bearish, above 60 bullish.
Balance sheet, against the sector
The shaded band is the middle half of the 29 Aerospace & Defense names Clavix covers; the tick is the sector median.
Growth
| GD | |
|---|---|
| Revenue growthyear over year | +10.1% |
Financial Health is shown but does not count toward the grade. Why
0–100, higher is safer. The tick on each bar is the Aerospace & Defense median. Click a dimension for the evidence behind it. Financial Health is shown but does not count toward the grade.
Recent news
most recent scored articles · the chip is the article’s score · click to openGeneral Dynamics Land Systems announced a partnership with Primordial Labs to add natural language voice command and control systems to its combat vehicles, letting operators speak directly to Main Battle Tanks instead of using manual controls.
The Pentagon approved the Navy to build a second Arleigh Burke-class destroyer at Bath Iron Works in Maine this fiscal year. The full article is truncated and does not provide further details.
General Dynamics was awarded two U.S. defense contracts worth a combined $138 million, covering work in space architecture and advanced naval research and development.
General Dynamics announced that Danny Deep, currently president since December 2025, will become CEO on January 1, 2027, succeeding Phebe Novakovic. Novakovic, CEO and chairman since January 2013, will move to the role of executive chair. Deep is a 25-year company veteran who previously ran the Combat Systems and Land Systems segments.
General Dynamics announced that Danny Deep will take over as CEO from Phebe Novakovic, effective January 1, 2027. The article's headline argues this leadership change alone won't resolve broader challenges facing defense stocks.
Nearest peers by size
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HWM | Howmet Aerospace Inc | B | $88.12B | 47.10 | 1.30 | Compare |
| NOC | Northrop Grumman Corp | A- | $73.85B | 16.43 | -0.11 | Compare |
| LMT | Lockheed Martin Corp | B+ | $127.4B | 20.27 | 0.12 | Compare |
| HONA | Honeywell Aerospace Inc | — | $67.06B | — | 5.88 | Compare |
| TDG | TransDigm Group Inc | B+ | $62.98B | 29.58 | 0.97 | Compare |
| BA | Boeing Co | B- | $150.3B | 61.74 | 1.34 | Compare |
| LHX | L3Harris Technologies Inc | B+ | $46.28B | 24.69 | 0.49 | Compare |
| HEI | HEICO Corp | B | $36.75B | 43.35 | 1.11 | Compare |
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