General Dynamics Corporation (GD): Price and Financial Metrics

General Dynamics Corporation (GD): $277.60

2.39 (+0.87%)

POWR Rating

Component Grades

Momentum

B

Stability

B

Sentiment

Quality

C

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Industry: Air/Defense Services

Industry

C

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GD Price/Volume Stats

Current price $277.60 52-week high $277.72
Prev. close $275.21 52-week low $202.35
Day low $274.67 Volume 865,300
Day high $277.72 Avg. volume 1,096,632
50-day MA $265.93 Dividend yield 1.92%
200-day MA $239.22 Market Cap 76.06B

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GD POWR Grades

  • GD scores best on the Momentum dimension, with a Momentum rank ahead of 81.12% of US stocks.
  • GD's strongest trending metric is Value; it's been moving down over the last 26 weeks.
  • GD ranks lowest in Growth; there it ranks in the 47th percentile.

GD Stock Summary

  • GD has a higher market value than 96.4% of US stocks; more precisely, its current market capitalization is $70,008,960,464.
  • GENERAL DYNAMICS CORP's stock had its IPO on January 1, 1986, making it an older stock than 92.92% of US equities in our set.
  • Of note is the ratio of GENERAL DYNAMICS CORP's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; 87.34% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
  • If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to GENERAL DYNAMICS CORP, a group of peers worth examining would be MKTX, ELV, WAT, EVRI, and GTX.
  • To dig deeper into the stock's financial statements, go to GD's page on browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0000040533.

GD Valuation Summary

  • GD's price/sales ratio is 1.7; this is 19.05% lower than that of the median Industrials stock.
  • Over the past 243 months, GD's price/earnings ratio has gone up 1.5.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for GD.

Stock Date P/S P/B P/E EV/EBIT
GD 2023-12-29 1.7 3.6 21.5 18.2
GD 2023-12-28 1.7 3.5 21.3 18.1
GD 2023-12-27 1.7 3.5 21.3 18.1
GD 2023-12-26 1.7 3.5 21.2 18.0
GD 2023-12-22 1.7 3.5 21.0 17.9
GD 2023-12-21 1.7 3.5 20.9 17.8

GD Growth Metrics

    The 2 year price growth rate now stands at 75.62%.
  • Its 3 year revenue growth rate is now at 1.46%.
  • Its 4 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 145.85%.
GD's revenue has moved up $327,000,000 over the prior 15 months.

The table below shows GD's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date Revenue Operating Cash Flow Net Income to Common Stock
2022-09-30 38,848 5,592 3,350
2022-06-30 38,441 5,780 3,308
2022-03-31 38,472 6,236 3,279
2021-12-31 38,469 4,271 3,257
2021-09-30 38,658 5,151 3,307
2021-06-30 38,521 4,799 3,281

GD's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.
  • GD has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 69.1% of graded US stocks.
  • GD's asset turnover comes in at 0.759 -- ranking 7th of 10 Shipbuilding Railroad Equipment stocks.
  • RAIL, TRN, and WAB are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with GD.

The table below shows GD's key quality metrics over time.

Period Asset Turnover Gross Margin ROIC
2021-10-03 0.759 0.167 0.178
2021-07-04 0.760 0.167 0.180
2021-04-04 0.765 0.164 0.177
2020-12-31 0.738 0.167 0.173
2020-09-27 0.753 0.169 0.178
2020-06-28 0.765 0.172 0.188

GD Price Target

For more insight on analysts targets of GD, see our GD price target page. And for a list of of all stocks sorted by upside potential based on analyst target price, see our Top Price Target page.

Average Price Target $215.56 Average Broker Recommendation 1.69 (Moderate Buy)

General Dynamics Corporation (GD) Company Bio


General Dynamics operates as aerospace and defense company worldwide. It operates through four business groups: Aerospace; Combat Systems; Information Systems and Technology; and Marine Systems. The company was founded in 1899 and is based in Falls Church, Virginia.


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General Dynamics Mission Systems-Canada Awarded four Land C4ISR Contracts for the Canadian Army valued at up to CA$1.7 Billion

General Dynamics Mission Systems–Canada announced today that it was awarded four contracts cumulatively valued at up to CA$1.68 billion (US$1.3 billion) by the Government of Canada to support the Land Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) system for the Canadian Army.

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GD Price Returns

1-mo 3.03%
3-mo 11.83%
6-mo 26.54%
1-year 29.20%
3-year 67.55%
5-year 84.87%
YTD 7.47%
2023 7.13%
2022 21.69%
2021 43.78%
2020 -13.14%
2019 14.80%

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