Best Defense Stocks Worth Watching – April 15th

Boeing, Citigroup, and Rocket Lab USA are the three Defense stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat’s stock screener tool. Defense stocks are shares of companies that manufacture products and provide services primarily for military and security applications. These companies typically specialize in areas like arms production, aerospace technology, and cybersecurity, making their stocks particularly sensitive to government defense spending and geopolitical tensions. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Defense stocks within the last several days.

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.

BA stock traded down $0.77 during midday trading on Tuesday, reaching $158.51. 6,458,902 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 9,010,059. The stock has a market capitalization of $118.89 billion, a PE ratio of -8.65 and a beta of 1.24. Boeing has a 52 week low of $128.88 and a 52 week high of $196.95. The company has a fifty day moving average price of $168.23 and a 200 day moving average price of $164.02.

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.

Shares of C stock traded up $2.54 during mid-day trading on Tuesday, reaching $65.76. 10,441,809 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 14,387,376. The stock’s fifty day simple moving average is $72.58 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $71.02. Citigroup has a 1-year low of $53.51 and a 1-year high of $84.74. The company has a quick ratio of 0.96, a current ratio of 0.96 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.50. The company has a market cap of $123.77 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 11.05, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.64 and a beta of 1.29.

Rocket Lab USA (RKLB)

Rocket Lab USA, Inc., a space company, provides launch services and space systems solutions for the space and defense industries. The company provides launch services, spacecraft design services, spacecraft components, spacecraft manufacturing, and other spacecraft and on-orbit management solutions; and constellation management services, as well as designs and manufactures small and medium-class rockets.

NASDAQ:RKLB traded up $1.60 during mid-day trading on Tuesday, hitting $20.73. 19,772,901 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 15,188,734. Rocket Lab USA has a fifty-two week low of $3.47 and a fifty-two week high of $33.34. The company has a current ratio of 2.58, a quick ratio of 2.16 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.97. The firm has a market capitalization of $9.40 billion, a P/E ratio of -56.04 and a beta of 2.08. The company has a 50 day simple moving average of $20.99 and a 200-day simple moving average of $20.64.