General Dynamics Corporation GD
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At close · Oct 30
After hours · Oct 30, 6:17 PM ET
- YTD
- +10.67%
- 1 year
- +8.10%
- Open
- 376.44
- Prev close
- 370.82
- Mkt cap
- 100.68B
- Vol
- 2.50M
- Avg vol
- 1.15M
- EPS
- 16.99
- P/E
- 21.93
- Div yield
- 1.72%
More statistics
- Low
- 370.67
- High
- 386.60
- Forward P/E
- 20.02
- Beta
- 0.33
- Short ratio
- 1.43
- Inst. own
- 86.58%
- Dividend
- 6.36
- Ex-div date
- Oct 8, 2026
- Earnings
- Jan 27, 2027
- 50-d avg
- 351.67
- 200-d avg
- 354.83
- 1y target
- 406.78
5Y chart
Events in this range
- Jan 13, 2022Dividend: 1.19
- Apr 7, 2022Dividend: 1.26
- Jun 30, 2022Dividend: 1.26
- Oct 6, 2022Dividend: 1.26
- Jan 19, 2023Dividend: 1.26
- Apr 13, 2023Dividend: 1.32
- Jul 6, 2023Dividend: 1.32
- Oct 5, 2023Dividend: 1.32
- Jan 18, 2024Dividend: 1.32
- Jan 19, 2024Dividend: 1.32
- Apr 11, 2024Dividend: 1.42
- Apr 12, 2024Dividend: 1.42
- Jul 5, 2024Dividend: 1.42
- Oct 11, 2024Dividend: 1.42
- Jan 17, 2025Dividend: 1.42
- Apr 11, 2025Dividend: 1.5
- Jul 3, 2025Dividend: 1.5
- Oct 10, 2025Dividend: 1.5
- Oct 24, 2025Earnings: 3.88; estimate 3.7; surprise 4.86%
- Jan 16, 2026Dividend: 1.5
- Jan 28, 2026Earnings: 4.17; estimate 4.11; surprise 1.46%
- Apr 10, 2026Dividend: 1.59
- Apr 29, 2026Earnings: 4.1; estimate 3.67; surprise 11.72%
- Jul 2, 2026Dividend: 1.59
- Jul 29, 2026Earnings: 4.24; estimate 3.96; surprise 7.07%
- Sep 8, 2026Rating: UBS · Neutral → Neutral
- Sep 23, 2026Rating: Bernstein · Market Perform → Market Perform
- Oct 7, 2026Rating: Citigroup · Neutral → Neutral
- Oct 9, 2026Dividend: 1.59
- Oct 9, 2026Rating: TD Cowen · Buy → Buy
- Oct 14, 2026Rating: Bernstein · Market Perform → Market Perform
- Oct 15, 2026Rating: RBC Capital · Sector Perform → Sector Perform
- Oct 30, 2026Earnings: 4.49; estimate 4.12; surprise 8.98%
Signals (91)
| Name | Date | Ago |
|---|---|---|
| SMA: Bullish | Oct 26, 2026 | 1 week ago |
| SMA: Bullish | Oct 26, 2026 | 1 week ago |
| SMA: Bearish | Sep 7, 2026 | 1 month ago |
| MACD: Sell Signal | Sep 7, 2026 | 1 month ago |
| SMA: Bearish | Aug 31, 2026 | 2 months ago |
| SMA: Bullish | Jun 29, 2026 | 4 months ago |
| SMA: Bearish | Jun 22, 2026 | 4 months ago |
| MACD: Buy Signal | Jun 8, 2026 | 4 months ago |
| SMA: Bullish | May 25, 2026 | 5 months ago |
| SMA: Bullish | May 18, 2026 | 5 months ago |
| SMA: Bearish | May 11, 2026 | 5 months ago |
| SMA: Bearish | May 11, 2026 | 5 months ago |
| SMA: Bullish | Apr 27, 2026 | 6 months ago |
| SMA: Bullish | Apr 27, 2026 | 6 months ago |
| SMA: Bearish | Apr 6, 2026 | 7 months ago |
| SMA: Bearish | Mar 9, 2026 | 7 months ago |
| SMA: Bullish | Feb 23, 2026 | 8 months ago |
| SMA: Bearish | Feb 9, 2026 | 8 months ago |
| MACD: Sell Signal | Jan 26, 2026 | 9 months ago |
| MACD: Buy Signal | Jan 12, 2026 | 9 months ago |
| RSI: Overbought | Jan 12, 2026 | 9 months ago |
| SMA: Bullish | Dec 29, 2025 | 10 months ago |
| SMA: Bearish | Dec 1, 2025 | 11 months ago |
| MACD: Sell Signal | Nov 24, 2025 | 11 months ago |
| RSI: Overbought | Oct 20, 2025 | 1 year ago |
| RSI: Overbought | Sep 22, 2025 | 1 year ago |
| RSI: Overbought | Sep 8, 2025 | 1 year ago |
| RSI: Overbought | Aug 25, 2025 | 1 year ago |
| SMA: Bullish | Apr 28, 2025 | 1 year ago |
| SMA: Bearish | Apr 21, 2025 | 1 year ago |
| SMA: Bullish | Apr 7, 2025 | 1 year ago |
| SMA: Bullish | Apr 7, 2025 | 1 year ago |
| SMA: Bearish | Mar 31, 2025 | 1 year ago |
| MACD: Buy Signal | Mar 10, 2025 | 1 year ago |
| SMA: Bullish | Mar 3, 2025 | 1 year ago |
| RSI: Oversold | Feb 10, 2025 | 1 year ago |
| SMA: Bearish | Nov 11, 2024 | 1 year ago |
| SMA: Bearish | Nov 11, 2024 | 1 year ago |
| SMA: Bullish | Nov 4, 2024 | 1 year ago |
| SMA: Bullish | Nov 4, 2024 | 1 year ago |
| SMA: Bearish | Oct 28, 2024 | 2 years ago |
| SMA: Bearish | Oct 28, 2024 | 2 years ago |
| SMA: Bullish | Jul 29, 2024 | 2 years ago |
| SMA: Bearish | Jun 24, 2024 | 2 years ago |
| SMA: Bullish | Jun 17, 2024 | 2 years ago |
| SMA: Bearish | Jun 10, 2024 | 2 years ago |
| MACD: Sell Signal | Jun 10, 2024 | 2 years ago |
| RSI: Overbought | May 6, 2024 | 2 years ago |
| RSI: Overbought | Feb 5, 2024 | 2 years ago |
| SMA: Bullish | Jan 22, 2024 | 2 years ago |
| SMA: Bearish | Jan 15, 2024 | 2 years ago |
| RSI: Overbought | Dec 25, 2023 | 2 years ago |
| SMA: Bullish | Oct 9, 2023 | 3 years ago |
| SMA: Bullish | Sep 25, 2023 | 3 years ago |
| SMA: Bearish | Sep 18, 2023 | 3 years ago |
| SMA: Bearish | Sep 18, 2023 | 3 years ago |
| SMA: Bullish | Sep 11, 2023 | 3 years ago |
| SMA: Bullish | Sep 11, 2023 | 3 years ago |
| SMA: Bearish | Sep 4, 2023 | 3 years ago |
| SMA: Bearish | Sep 4, 2023 | 3 years ago |
| SMA: Bullish | Jul 24, 2023 | 3 years ago |
| MACD: Buy Signal | Jul 3, 2023 | 3 years ago |
| SMA: Bullish | Jun 26, 2023 | 3 years ago |
| SMA: Bearish | Jun 19, 2023 | 3 years ago |
| SMA: Bullish | Jun 12, 2023 | 3 years ago |
| SMA: Bearish | Apr 3, 2023 | 3 years ago |
| SMA: Bullish | Mar 27, 2023 | 3 years ago |
| SMA: Bearish | Jan 16, 2023 | 3 years ago |
| MACD: Sell Signal | Jan 9, 2023 | 3 years ago |
| SMA: Bearish | Dec 19, 2022 | 3 years ago |
| MACD: Buy Signal | Oct 24, 2022 | 4 years ago |
| SMA: Bullish | Oct 17, 2022 | 4 years ago |
| SMA: Bullish | Oct 17, 2022 | 4 years ago |
| SMA: Bearish | Sep 12, 2022 | 4 years ago |
| SMA: Bearish | Sep 12, 2022 | 4 years ago |
| SMA: Bullish | Sep 5, 2022 | 4 years ago |
| SMA: Bullish | Sep 5, 2022 | 4 years ago |
| SMA: Bearish | Aug 29, 2022 | 4 years ago |
| SMA: Bearish | Aug 29, 2022 | 4 years ago |
| MACD: Sell Signal | Aug 29, 2022 | 4 years ago |
| MACD: Buy Signal | Aug 15, 2022 | 4 years ago |
| SMA: Bullish | Jul 25, 2022 | 4 years ago |
| SMA: Bullish | Jul 25, 2022 | 4 years ago |
| SMA: Bearish | Jul 4, 2022 | 4 years ago |
| SMA: Bullish | Jun 27, 2022 | 4 years ago |
| SMA: Bearish | Jun 13, 2022 | 4 years ago |
| SMA: Bearish | May 9, 2022 | 4 years ago |
| SMA: Bullish | May 2, 2022 | 4 years ago |
| SMA: Bearish | Apr 25, 2022 | 4 years ago |
| RSI: Overbought | Mar 21, 2022 | 4 years ago |
| RSI: Overbought | Feb 21, 2022 | 4 years ago |
Key statistics
- Market cap
- 100.88B
- Enterprise value
- 105.32B
- Trailing P/E
- 22.75
- Forward P/E
- 20.02
- PEG ratio
- 2.28
- Price / sales
- 1.84
- Price / book
- 3.75
- EPS (TTM)
- 16.39
- Beta
- 0.33
- Dividend yield
- 1.72%
- Payout ratio
- 37.71%
- Profit margin
- 8.18%
- Revenue (TTM)
- 54.86B
- Revenue growth
- 8.10%
- Free cash flow
- 4.40B
- Total cash
- 4.33B
- Total debt
- 9.48B
- Return on equity
- 17.80%
- Shares outstanding
- 270.56M
- Short % of float
- 0.82%
- 50-day average
- 351.67
- 200-day average
- 354.83
Analyst view
Consensus: buy
- Target (low)
- 309.00
- Target (mean)
- 406.78
- Target (high)
- 465.00
- Strong buy4
- Buy10
- Hold9
- Sell1
- Strong sell0
Next earnings
Jan 27, 2027
Expected Jan 27, 2027. Consensus EPS estimate 4.55.
Financials — quick view
Earnings
| Report date | Quarter ending | EPS estimate | EPS reported | Surprise | Surprise % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 27, 2027 | Jan 4, 2027 | 4.51 | — | — | — |
| Oct 30, 2026 | Oct 4, 2026 | 4.12 | 4.49 | +0.37 | +8.98% |
| Jul 29, 2026 | Jul 5, 2026 | 3.96 | 4.24 | +0.28 | +7.07% |
| Apr 29, 2026 | Apr 5, 2026 | 3.67 | 4.10 | +0.43 | +11.72% |
| Jan 28, 2026 | Dec 31, 2025 | 4.11 | 4.17 | +0.06 | +1.46% |
| Oct 24, 2025 | Sep 28, 2025 | 3.70 | 3.88 | +0.18 | +4.86% |
Upgrades / downgrades
| Date | Firm | Action | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 15, 2026 | RBC Capital | main | Sector Perform | Sector Perform |
| Oct 14, 2026 | Bernstein | main | Market Perform | Market Perform |
| Oct 9, 2026 | TD Cowen | main | Buy | Buy |
| Oct 7, 2026 | Citigroup | main | Neutral | Neutral |
| Sep 23, 2026 | Bernstein | main | Market Perform | Market Perform |
| Sep 8, 2026 | UBS | main | Neutral | Neutral |
About General Dynamics Corporation
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.
- Sector
- Industrials
- Industry
- Aerospace & Defense
- Country
- United States
- Website
- gd.com
News
- Defense Stocks Rebound Into Midterms As Drone Makers Lag
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- What General Dynamics (GD) Said on Its Q3 Earnings Call
- General Dynamics Corporation (GD) Q3 2026 Earnings Call Transcript
- General Dynamics CEO Signs Off After 14 Years With Record $220 Billion Backlog
- General Dynamics' Q3 Earnings Surpass Estimates, Revenues Improve Y/Y
- General Dynamics (GD) Q3 Earnings: How Key Metrics Compare to Wall Street Estimates
- General Dynamics Q3 2026 Earnings Call Transcript
- Conference call: General Dynamics Raises FY2026 GAAP EPS Guidance from $16.80-$16.90 to $17.20-$17.30 vs $17.00 Est; Raises FY2026 Sales Guidance from $55.700B to $56.500B-$56.800B vs $55.940B Est
- General Dynamics (GD) Q3 Earnings and Revenues Beat Estimates
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Insider holders
| Insider | Relation | Latest transaction | Date | Shares held |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AIKEN JASON W. | Officer | Stock Award(Grant) | Mar 3, 2026 | 186,871 |
| BRADY CHRISTOPHER J. | Officer | Sale | Aug 4, 2026 | 30,831 |
| BURNS MARK LAGRAND | Officer | Sale | May 11, 2026 | 73,893 |
| DEEP DANNY | President | Conversion of Exercise of derivative security | Aug 13, 2026 | 48,244 |
| GALLOPOULOS GREGORY S | General Counsel | Stock Gift | Aug 6, 2026 | 139,264 |
| GILLILAND MARGUERITE AMY | Officer | Sale | Jul 30, 2026 | 45,589 |
Institution ownership
| Holder | % held | Shares | Value | Reported |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Longview Asset Management, LLC | 10.00% | 27,060,944 | 10.09B | Jun 29, 2026 |
| Blackrock Inc. | 7.14% | 19,310,609 | 7.20B | Jun 29, 2026 |
| Vanguard Capital Management LLC | 6.16% | 16,670,477 | 6.22B | Jun 29, 2026 |
| Newport Trust Company, LLC | 4.95% | 13,398,261 | 5.00B | Jun 29, 2026 |
| State Street Corporation | 4.37% | 11,811,099 | 4.40B | Jun 29, 2026 |
| Bank of America Corporation | 2.72% | 7,349,613 | 2.74B | Jun 29, 2026 |
Fund ownership
| Holder | % held | Shares | Value | Reported |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund | 3.01% | 8,154,332 | 3.04B | Jun 29, 2026 |
| VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund | 2.43% | 6,577,003 | 2.45B | Jun 29, 2026 |
| iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P 500 ETF | 1.25% | 3,383,531 | 1.26B | Sep 29, 2026 |
| Fidelity Concord Street Trust-Fidelity 500 Index Fund | 1.22% | 3,294,833 | 1.23B | Aug 30, 2026 |
| SPDR S&P 500 ETF TRUST-State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust | 1.16% | 3,149,120 | 1.17B | Sep 29, 2026 |
| VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Value Index Fund | 0.90% | 2,445,746 | 911.90M | Jun 29, 2026 |