Best Defense Stocks To Add to Your Watchlist – February 07th

BigBear.ai, Boeing, Citigroup, Celestica, and Rocket Lab USA are the five Defense stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat’s stock screener tool. Defense stocks are stocks of companies involved in the production, manufacturing, and distribution of military and defense-related equipment and services. These companies typically provide goods and services to governments and defense organizations around the world to support national security and military operations. Investing in defense stocks can be influenced by changes in defense budgets, geopolitical events, and military conflicts. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Defense stocks within the last several days.

BigBear.ai (BBAI)

BigBear.ai Holdings, Inc. provides artificial intelligence-powered decision intelligence solutions. It offers national security, supply chain management, and digital identity and biometrics solutions. The company also provides data ingestion, data enrichment, data processing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, predictive analytics, and predictive visualization solutions and services.

Shares of BBAI traded up $1.83 during mid-day trading on Friday, reaching $8.60. The company had a trading volume of 119,975,816 shares, compared to its average volume of 52,934,691. BigBear.ai has a twelve month low of $1.16 and a twelve month high of $8.73. The company’s 50-day moving average is $3.75 and its 200-day moving average is $2.35. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.08, a current ratio of 2.06 and a quick ratio of 2.06. The company has a market capitalization of $2.16 billion, a P/E ratio of -9.45 and a beta of 3.17.

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 traded down $2.06 during trading on Friday, reaching $182.74. 2,183,829 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 8,097,902. The firm has a market capitalization of $112.97 billion, a PE ratio of -9.97 and a beta of 1.52. The company’s fifty day moving average price is $171.70 and its 200-day moving average price is $164.27. Boeing has a fifty-two week low of $137.03 and a fifty-two week high of $213.10.

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 traded down $0.11 during midday trading on Friday, hitting $82.22. The stock had a trading volume of 4,388,578 shares, compared to its average volume of 16,365,967. The company has a 50 day simple moving average of $74.45 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $67.02. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.50, a current ratio of 0.96 and a quick ratio of 0.96. The firm has a market cap of $155.49 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 13.81, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.64 and a beta of 1.44. Citigroup has a twelve month low of $52.24 and a twelve month high of $82.91.

Celestica (CLS)

Celestica Inc. provides supply chain solutions in North America, Europe, and Asia. It operates through two segments: Advanced Technology Solutions, and Connectivity & Cloud Solutions. The company offers a range of product manufacturing and related supply chain services, including design and development, new product introduction, engineering services, component sourcing, electronics manufacturing and assembly, testing, complex mechanical assembly, systems integration, precision machining, order fulfillment, logistics, asset management, product licensing, and after-market repair and return services.

CLS stock traded down $1.62 during midday trading on Friday, reaching $131.60. 2,721,696 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 5,171,179. The firm has a market capitalization of $15.31 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 35.13 and a beta of 2.27. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.49, a current ratio of 1.47 and a quick ratio of 0.87. Celestica has a one year low of $36.00 and a one year high of $144.27. The business has a 50-day moving average price of $101.31 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $73.83.

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 $0.36 during mid-day trading on Friday, reaching $28.04. The stock had a trading volume of 12,416,935 shares, compared to its average volume of 19,451,898. The stock has a 50-day simple moving average of $26.32 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $15.57. The stock has a market capitalization of $14.02 billion, a PE ratio of -75.59 and a beta of 1.99. Rocket Lab USA has a 12 month low of $3.47 and a 12 month high of $33.34. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.97, a current ratio of 2.58 and a quick ratio of 2.16.