Industrials
General Dynamics Corporation(GD)
Live Price
Offline$360.22
+0.38% today
1Y Change
+20.43%
Window
Jun 25, 2025 โ Jun 24, 2026
- Market Cap
- $92.57B
- Revenue Growth
- +10.1%
- EPS Growth
- +13.3%
- Dividend Yield
- 1.8%
Coverage: 250 bars ยท Jun 25, 2025 โ Jun 24, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
General Dynamics Corporation (GD) is a Industrials stock with a market cap of $92.57B and listed on NYSE. The stock last traded around $360.22 and up 20.4% across the available one-year price window (Jun 25, 2025 โ Jun 24, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +10.1%, EPS growth of +13.3%, a dividend yield of 1.8%. What stands out right now is revenue +10.1%, EPS +13.3%, free cash flow +23.9% with operating margin 10.2% and ROIC 10.8%. The dividend is present but secondary, with a yield around 1.8%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at P/E 21.3 and price/sales 1.7. Stock Foundry combines GD price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Industrials peers on this page.
Sector Context
How this name stacks up against nearby peers on first-pass metrics.
Revenue Growth
Above sector median
+10.1% vs +3.6% peer median
Operating Margin
Below sector median
+10.2% vs +16.9% peer median
P/E
Below sector median
21.3 vs 36.7 peer median
What Changed This Quarter
Latest report context and the signals most likely to have changed the story.
Latest report is on the board
2026 was reported on Apr 22, 2026, but the surprise data is still limited.
The operating story is still moving forward
Revenue is running at +10.1% and EPS at +13.3%, with operating margin around 10.2%.
Shareholder return is still part of the story
The stock is still offering a dividend yield around 1.8%, which matters if the thesis depends on income as much as growth.
Earnings Reaction Memory
How the stock has tended to move after recent reports.
Across the last 3 reported quarters, the stock averaged +1.0% over the next 5 trading days and finished higher after 1 of those reports.
View quarter-by-quarter reaction table
| Quarter | EPS ฮ | 1D | 5D | 20D |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2026 Apr 22, 2026 | โ | -0.6% | +5.6% | +5.9% |
2026 Jan 28, 2026 | +1.5% | -1.9% | -0.9% | -1.7% |
2025 Oct 24, 2025 | +4.9% | +0.9% | -1.7% | -3.0% |
Benchmark Edge
GD vs SPY, QQQ, and Sector ETFs
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
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Normalized return
SPY
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S&P 500
Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
GD Max Drawdown
-15.23%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
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Trailing 1Y
Calendar-Year Returns
Uses the longest available daily history for GD and SPY.
Company Overview
General Dynamics Corporation
New York Stock Exchange
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 designs, manufactures, and sells business jets; and offers aircraft maintenance and repair, management, charter, aircraft-on-ground support and completion, staffing, and fixed-base operator 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 builds crude oil and product tankers, and container and cargo ships. This segment also provides navy ships maintenance and modernization services; lifecycle support and repair services for navy surface ships; and program management, planning, engineering, and design support services for submarines and surface ships. The Combat Systems segment manufactures land combat solutions, such as wheeled and tracked combat vehicles, Stryker wheeled combat vehicles, piranha vehicles, weapons systems, munitions, mobile bridge systems with payloads, tactical vehicles, main battle tanks, armored vehicles, and armaments. This segment also offers modernization programs, engineering, support, and sustainment services. The Technologies segment provides information technology solutions and mission support services; mobile communication, computers, and command-and-control mission systems; and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance solutions to military, intelligence, and federal civilian customers. This segment also offers cloud computing, artificial intelligence; machine learning; big data analytics; development, security, and operations; software-defined networks; everything-as-a-service; defense enterprise office system solutions; and unmanned undersea vehicle manufacturing and assembly services. General Dynamics Corporation was founded in 1899 and is headquartered in Reston, Virginia.
- Leadership
- Phebe N. Novakovic
- IPO Date
- Jan 13, 1978
- Employees
- 110.0k
- Street Address
- 11011 Sunset Hills Road
- Mailing
- Reston, VA, 20190
- Region
- Reston, VA, US
- Reporting Currency
- USD
- Investor Line
- 703 876 3000
- Last Updated
- Apr 29, 2026
Key Fundamentals
Valuation, growth, profitability, and balance sheet signals.
Valuation
- P/E
- 21.3
- EV/EBITDA
- 15.5
- Price/Sales
- 1.7
- Price/Book
- 3.5
Growth
- Revenue
- +10.1%
- EPS
- +13.3%
- Free Cash Flow
- +23.9%
Profitability
- Gross Margin
- 13.9%
- Operating Margin
- 10.2%
- Net Margin
- 8.1%
- ROE
- 17.4%
- ROIC
- 10.8%
Balance Sheet
- Debt/Equity
- 0.31
- Current Ratio
- 1.38
Earnings Reports
Latest News
Official Releases
Company announcements and filings-style updates.
Next Step
Keep the research moving
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