The Bid & Ask

Quotations, Dispatches, and the Daily Tape

Thursday, August 13, 2026

Subject of the day

GD

Concerning the House

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.

United States · www.gd.com

The Long Run

FY 2009–2025 · 17 years

LineLatestCAGRTrend
Revenue$52.55B+4.2%
Operating income$4.25B+2.0%
Net income$3.31B+2.0%
Cash from ops$5.12B+4.3%
Quotation

$392.96

-1.25 (-0.3%)

52w hi$395.97
52w lo$308.14
Vol412.59K
As ofAug 13
The Verdict

Hold

Our score +0.32

Short+0.18
Medium+0.43
Long+0.38

computed 2026-08-12

By the Numbers

General Dynamics Corporation

Industrials · Aerospace & Defense

Market cap$106.32B
Enterprise value$111.64B
Trailing P/E23.96x
Forward P/E21.19x
EV / EBITDA16.83x
P / S (ttm)1.94x
Profit margin8.2%
Return on equity17.8%
Revenue growth+8.1%
Earnings growth+13.4%
Debt / equity35.34
Risk Metrics
Beta vs SPX0.51
Corr SPX0.38
Annual vol22.2%
Annual ret+17.5%
Sharpe0.79
Max DD-23.0%

Window: 504 trading days (504 obs)

Layer Breakdown
LayerRawContribution
Fundamental+0.25
Sector+0.11
Technical+0.17
Earnings+0.00
Sentiment+0.00

macro × 1.00 · 2026-08-12

Recent Sessions
DateOpenHighLowCloseVol
Aug 13$396.00$396.71$390.23$392.96412.59K
Aug 12$390.42$396.05$389.01$394.21715.80K
Aug 11$396.15$396.96$391.25$391.89569.90K
Aug 10$393.00$397.20$392.05$395.97779.70K
Aug 7$386.97$392.14$383.26$392.051.05M