Defense Stocks To Follow Today – March 5th

Citigroup, Boeing, Moderna, General Dynamics, and AeroVironment are the five Defense stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat’s stock screener tool. Defense stocks are shares of companies that produce or provide services and products for national security and military operations, such as advanced technology, aerospace, cybersecurity, and weaponry. These companies often benefit from government contracts and increased defense spending, making their performance closely tied to geopolitical trends and defense budgets. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Defense stocks within the last several days.

Citigroup (C)

Citigroup Inc., a diversified financial service holding company, provides various financial product and services to consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions worldwide. It operates through five segments: Services, Markets, Banking, U.S. Personal Banking, and Wealth. The Services segment includes Treasury and Trade Solutions, which provides cash management, trade, and working capital solutions to multinational corporations, financial institutions, and public sector organizations; and Securities Services, such as cross-border support for clients, local market expertise, post-trade technologies, data solutions, and various securities services solutions.

C traded down $0.11 on Wednesday, reaching $72.24. 7,475,017 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 15,764,660. Citigroup has a one year low of $53.51 and a one year high of $84.74. The company has a market cap of $136.13 billion, a P/E ratio of 12.13, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.64 and a beta of 1.44. The firm has a fifty day simple moving average of $77.89 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $69.57. The company has a quick ratio of 0.96, a current ratio of 0.96 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.50.

Boeing (BA)

The Boeing Company, together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, sells, services, and supports commercial jetliners, military aircraft, satellites, missile defense, human space flight and launch systems, and services worldwide. The company operates through Commercial Airplanes; Defense, Space & Security; and Global Services segments.

Shares of BA stock traded up $2.42 on Wednesday, hitting $161.32. The stock had a trading volume of 2,487,797 shares, compared to its average volume of 7,636,077. Boeing has a one year low of $137.03 and a one year high of $203.80. The business has a 50 day moving average price of $176.32 and a 200 day moving average price of $164.50. The company has a market cap of $121.00 billion, a PE ratio of -8.80 and a beta of 1.52.

Moderna (MRNA)

Moderna, Inc., a biotechnology company, discovers, develops, and commercializes messenger RNA therapeutics and vaccines for the treatment of infectious diseases, immuno-oncology, rare diseases, autoimmune, and cardiovascular diseases in the United States, Europe, and internationally. Its respiratory vaccines include COVID-19, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus, spikevax, and hMPV/PIV3 vaccines; latent vaccines comprise cytomegalovirus, epstein-barr virus, herpes simplex virus, varicella zoster virus, and human immunodeficiency virus vaccines; public health vaccines consists of Zika, Nipah, Mpox vaccines; and infectious diseases vaccines, such as lyme and norovirus vaccines.

MRNA stock traded up $2.42 during trading on Wednesday, hitting $32.79. 11,899,698 shares of the company’s stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 12,366,437. Moderna has a 1 year low of $29.25 and a 1 year high of $170.47. The business has a fifty day simple moving average of $36.92 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $49.88. The firm has a market capitalization of $12.65 billion, a P/E ratio of -3.55 and a beta of 1.86.

General Dynamics (GD)

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 and completion, charter, staffing, and fixed-base operator services.

GD stock traded up $10.57 during trading on Wednesday, reaching $261.37. 1,208,881 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 1,711,101. The company has a market capitalization of $70.66 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 19.13, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.69 and a beta of 0.59. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.33, a quick ratio of 0.82 and a current ratio of 1.37. The business has a 50 day simple moving average of $257.79 and a 200 day simple moving average of $280.39. General Dynamics has a 12 month low of $239.87 and a 12 month high of $316.90.

AeroVironment (AVAV)

AeroVironment, Inc. designs, develops, produces, delivers, and supports a portfolio of robotic systems and related services for government agencies and businesses in the United States and internationally. It operates through Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (SUAS), Tactical Missile System (TMS), Medium Unmanned Aircraft Systems (MUAS), and High Altitude Pseudo-Satellite Systems (HAPS) segments.

NASDAQ AVAV traded down $7.29 on Wednesday, hitting $134.61. The stock had a trading volume of 2,047,201 shares, compared to its average volume of 403,755. The business’s fifty day moving average price is $164.89 and its 200 day moving average price is $184.37. AeroVironment has a 52-week low of $108.40 and a 52-week high of $236.60. The stock has a market cap of $3.80 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 77.37 and a beta of 0.52. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.02, a current ratio of 4.61 and a quick ratio of 3.36.