General Dynamics (GD) concluded the recent trading session at $264.55, signifying a +0.6% move from its prior day's close.
President Trump delivered a stemwinder of a speech to a joint session of Congress last night.
The European Union committed to ramp up security spending just hours after President Donald Trump froze military aid to Ukraine.
Trump wants to decrease defense spending, but the conflict in Ukraine may still lead to contracts. European rivals are surging.
General Dynamics (GD) closed the most recent trading day at $251.62, moving +0.95% from the previous trading session.
Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, MCC Global Enterprises CEO and Frederick Kempe, Atlantic Council CEO, join 'Power Lunch' to discuss the global market-moving news.
Investors expect European countries to ramp up spending on fighter jets, tanks, and other equipment, bolstering the shares of the companies that can build it.
Martijn Rozemuller, CEO of Europe at VanEck — which manages a defense-focused ETF — discusses investing in the sector after European defense stocks hit a record high.
“NATO is dead,” wrote Vertical Research Partners analyst in a Tuesday report summarizing recent news for his clients.
Defense shares surge on expectations of higher NATO spending as Trump seeks deal with Putin
President Trump issued an executive order for the United States to deploy an Iron Dome defense system similar to the one that Israel has successfully implemented and used to protect their homeland from rocket attacks from Hamas, Iran, and other hostile entities.
While the top- and bottom-line numbers for General Dynamics (GD) give a sense of how the business performed in the quarter ended December 2024, it could be worth looking at how some of its key metrics compare to Wall Street estimates and year-ago values.