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General Dynamics Corporation

Ticker: GD ISIN: US3695501086
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Stock Large-cap Dividend payer Trading above 200-day average Near 52-week high
Market cap
$93.53B
P/E
21.79
Forward P/E
21.23
Profit margin
8.07%
Revenue growth QoQ
10.30%
Div. yield
1.77%
Beta
0.39
$376.58 -1.87%
Price as of 2026-08-25 · NYSE

Performance by timeframe

Rolling returns
1 Month -3.23%
6 Months +10.74%
1 Year +18.95%
5 Years +15.94% p.a.+109.42%
10 Years +11.84% p.a.+206.04%
Since inception +11.84% p.a.+1,535.90%
Calendar year returns
YTD +13.33%
2025 +30.39%
2024 +3.52%
2023 +7.13%
2022 +21.69%
2021 +43.77%

Key stats

Market cap
93.53B
P/E
21.79
Dividend yield
1.77%
Beta
0.39
52-week range
262.56 - 367.99
50-day MA
345.53
200-day MA
338.67
Section 1

Business overview

Company profile data from fundamentals.

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 produces and sells business jets; and offers aircraft maintenance and repair, management, aircraft-on-ground support, customer support and custom completion services, modifications, upgrades, and lifecycle sustainment support 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 provides maintenance, modernization, and lifecycle support services for navy ships; offers and program management, planning, engineering, and design support services for submarine construction programs. The Combat Systems segment manufactures land combat solutions, such as wheeled and tracked combat vehicles, Stryker wheeled combat vehicles, piranha vehicles, weapons systems, energetics and munitions, mobile bridge systems with payloads, tactical vehicles, main battle tanks, and armored vehicles; and offers modernization programs, support and sustainment services, and development programs. The Technologies segment provides information technology solutions and mission support services; mobile communication, computers, and command-and-control mission systems; intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance solutions to military, intelligence, and federal civilian customers; cloud services, cybersecurity, network modernization, artificial intelligence; machine learning; application development, high-performance computing, and 5G and advanced communications services; and unmanned undersea vehicle manufacturing and assembly services. The company was founded in 1899 and is headquartered in Reston, Virginia.

Sector Industrials
Industry Aerospace & Defense
Country United States
Exchange NYSE
Section 2

Financial quality

Profitability and balance-sheet quality indicators from reported fundamentals.

Profitability

ROE 17.97%
ROA 6.01%
Profit margin 8.07%
Operating margin 10.54%
PEG ratio 2.58
Revenue/share TTM 199.76
Revenue TTM 53.81B
EBITDA 6.49B
Gross profit TTM 8.20B
Beta 0.39

Valuation

Trailing P/E 21.79
Forward P/E 21.23
P/B 3.59
P/S 1.74
EV/EBITDA 15.13
EV/Revenue 1.85

ESG Scores

Total ESG 35.9
Environment 9.9
Social 18.7
Governance 8.3
Section 3

Earnings

Earnings metrics from company highlights and earnings datasets.

EPS estimate (current year) 16.99
Quarterly earnings growth 12.00%
Revenue TTM 53.81B
Reported quarters 123
Section 4

Dividends & corporate actions

Dividend and split fields from fundamentals.

Dividend yield 1.77%
Forward annual div. yield 1.91%
Dividend per share 6.0900
Payout ratio 39.19%
Ex-dividend date 2025-10-10
Next dividend date 2026-05-08
Split factor 2:1
Last split date 2006-03-27
Section 5

Ownership / analyst view

Institutional ownership and analyst estimate fields when available.

Analyst

Analyst target price $293.48
Analyst rating 3.6

Ownership & short interest

Shares outstanding 268.99M
Shares float 251.75M
Institutional ownership 86.31%
Insider ownership 50.80%
Short ratio 1.96
Short % of float 1.11%

Details

Instrument metadata and source update timestamps.

Symbol GD
Name General Dynamics Corporation
Asset type STOCK
Exchange NYSE
Currency USD
ISIN US3695501086
Country USA
Code + exchange GD.NYSE
Last price date 2026-05-01
Fundamentals updated 2026-05-03

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