General Dynamics Corporation (GD): Price and Financial Metrics

GD POWR Grades

• Stability is the dimension where GD ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 86.91% of US stocks.
• GD's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving up over the last 160 days.
• GD's current lowest rank is in the Growth metric (where it is better than 15.69% of US stocks).

GD Stock Summary

• General Dynamics Corp's market capitalization of $58,960,692,783 is ahead of 95.39% of US-listed equities.
• GD's one year PEG ratio, measuring expected growth in earnings next year relative to current common stock price is 527.89 -- higher than 94.94% of US-listed equities with positive expected earnings growth.
• The volatility of General Dynamics Corp's share price is greater than that of only 4.34% US stocks with at least 200 days of trading history.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to GD, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are APD, MCO, EMR, ROP, and FISV.
• 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 1.4; this is 57.58% lower than that of the median Industrials stock.
• GD's price/earnings ratio has moved up 1 over the prior 243 months.
• Over the past 243 months, GD's price/earnings ratio has gone up 1.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for GD.

GD Growth Metrics

The 3 year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at 29.91%.
• Its 3 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -64.71%.
• Its 3 year revenue growth rate is now at 20.73%.

GD's revenue has moved up $2,465,000,000 over the prior 33 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
2021-09-30	38,658	5,151	3,307
2021-06-30	38,521	4,799	3,281
2021-03-31	38,565	4,527	3,169
2020-12-31	37,925	3,858	3,167
2020-09-30	38,217	3,690	3,185
2020-06-30	38,547	3,662	3,264

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.