On Friday, General Dynamics Corp (NYSE: GD) was 0.02% up from the session before settling in for the closing price of $256.93. A 52-week range for GD has been $247.01 – $316.90.
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A company in the Industrials sector has jumped its sales by 4.08% annually for the last half of the decade. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 11.71%. With a float of $273.21 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $274.97 million.
In an organization with 111600 employees, it is important to assess its efficiency. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 39.02%, operating margin of 10.05%, and the pretax margin is 9.51%.
General Dynamics Corp (GD) Insider Updates
Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward General Dynamics Corp stocks. The insider ownership of General Dynamics Corp is 0.63%, while institutional ownership is 88.97%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Jan 31 ’25, was worth 459,205. Before that another transaction happened on Nov 22 ’24, when Company’s Vice President sold 5,540 for $280.91, making the entire transaction worth $1,556,252. This insider now owns 20,296 shares in total.
General Dynamics Corp (GD) Performance Highlights and Predictions
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 3.42 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 11.71% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 10.42% during the next five years compared to 2.62% growth over the previous five years of trading.
General Dynamics Corp (NYSE: GD) Trading Performance Indicators
You can see what General Dynamics Corp (GD) is doing with its current performance indicators. In the most recent quarter, the stock posted a quick ratio of 0.82. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.48. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 22.11.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 13.64, a number that is poised to hit 3.47 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 16.96 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of General Dynamics Corp (GD)
Let’s dig in a bit further. During the last 5-days, its volume was 2.29 million. That was better than the volume of 1.78 million it reported in year-ago period. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 29.88%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 5.55.
During the past 100 days, General Dynamics Corp’s (GD) raw stochastic average was set at 14.27%, which indicates a significant decrease from 36.74% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 27.60% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 22.00% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $268.47, while its 200-day Moving Average is $288.80. However, in the short run, General Dynamics Corp’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $258.89. Second resistance stands at $260.80. The third major resistance level sits at $262.85. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $254.93, it is likely to go to the next support level at $252.88. Assuming the price breaks the second support level, the third support level stands at $250.97.
General Dynamics Corp (NYSE: GD) Key Stats
There are 274,969K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 70.66 billion. As of now, sales total 42,272 M while income totals 3,315 M. Its latest quarter income was 11,671 M while its last quarter net income were 930,000 K.
