A new trading day began on Tuesday, with General Dynamics Corp (NYSE: GD) stock price down -2.88% from the previous day of trading, before settling in for the closing price of $271.94. GD’s price has ranged from $239.87 to $316.90 over the past 52 weeks.
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Industrials Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 4.08% over the last five years. Meanwhile, its annual earnings per share averaged 9.24%. With a float of $268.58 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $270.34 million.
The firm has a total of 117000 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 15.43%, operating margin of 10.05%, and the pretax margin is 9.51%.
General Dynamics Corp (GD) Insider Activity
As we move forward, let’s examine how large-scale investors are investing in this stock of the Aerospace & Defense Industry. The insider ownership of General Dynamics Corp is 0.65%, while institutional ownership is 86.99%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Mar 10 ’25, was worth 7,499,899. Before that another transaction happened on Mar 05 ’25, when Company’s Chairman and CEO sold 32,695 for $263.48, making the entire transaction worth $8,614,609. This insider now owns 769,607 shares in total.
General Dynamics Corp (GD) Earnings and Forecasts
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 3.4 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 9.24% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 10.14% during the next five years compared to 2.61% growth over the previous five years of trading.
General Dynamics Corp (NYSE: GD) Trading Performance Indicators
Here are General Dynamics Corp’s current performance indicators. According to the last quarter’s results, the stock had a quick ratio of 0.82. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.50. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 22.34.
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 16.76 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of General Dynamics Corp (GD)
Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [General Dynamics Corp, GD], we can find that recorded value of 2.46 million was better than the volume posted last year of 1.81 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 74.02%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 6.49.
During the past 100 days, General Dynamics Corp’s (GD) raw stochastic average was set at 31.48%, which indicates a significant decrease from 59.77% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 27.61% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 23.99% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $258.55, while its 200-day Moving Average is $284.01. Now, the first resistance to watch is $270.14. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $276.16. The third major resistance level sits at $280.10. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $260.18, it is likely to go to the next support level at $256.24. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $250.22.
General Dynamics Corp (NYSE: GD) Key Stats
With a market capitalization of 71.41 billion, the company has a total of 270,351K Shares Outstanding. Currently, annual sales are 47,716 M while annual income is 3,782 M. The company’s previous quarter sales were 13,338 M while its latest quarter income was 1,148 M.
