Lockheed Martin Corporation (LMT): Today's Featured Aerospace/Defense Winner
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) pushed the Aerospace/Defense industry higher today making it today's featured aerospace/defense winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.9%. By the end of trading, Lockheed Martin Corporation rose $1.95 (1.8%) to $111.52 on light volume. Throughout the day, 1,394,136 shares of Lockheed Martin Corporation exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 1,869,800 shares. The stock ranged in a price between $109.48-$111.68 after having opened the day at $109.62 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $109.57. Other companies within the Aerospace/Defense industry that increased today were:
Innovative Solutions and Support
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), up 10.4%,
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), up 4.7%,
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), up 4.1% and
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), up 2.8%.
Lockheed Martin Corporation, a security and aerospace company, engages in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration, and sustainment of advanced technology systems and products for defense, civil, and commercial applications in the United States and internationally. Lockheed Martin Corporation has a market cap of $35.0 billion and is part of the industrial goods sector. Shares are up 18.3% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are 4 analysts that rate Lockheed Martin Corporation a buy, 1 analyst rates it a sell, and 12 rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates
Lockheed Martin Corporation
as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, growth in earnings per share, notable return on equity, good cash flow from operations and increase in net income. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally high debt management risk by most measures that we evaluated.
- You can view the full Lockheed Martin Corporation Ratings Report.
On the negative front,
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), down 1.7% and
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), down 1.6% , were all laggards within the aerospace/defense industry with
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) being today's aerospace/defense industry laggard.
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