General Dynamics (GD)

• Market cap: $74.4B
• 1 day: 1.10%
• 5 days: 2.45%
• 1 month: 3.66%
• 3 months: 8.36%
• 6 months: 7.56%
• Year to date: 8.42%
• 1 year: -3.25%
• 5 years: 84.86%
• 10 years: 99.27%
• Sector: Industrials
• Industry: Aerospace & Defense

About: General Dynamics is a defense contractor and business jet manufacturer. The firm's segments are aerospace, marine, combat systems, and technologies. General Dynamics' aerospace segment manufactures Gulfstream business jets and operates a global aircraft servicing operation. Combat systems produces land-based combat vehicles such as the M1 Abrams tank and Stryker armored personnel carrier, as well as munitions. The marine segment builds and services nuclear-powered submarines, destroyers, and other ships. The technologies segment contains two main units: an IT business that primarily serves the government market and a mission systems business that focuses on products that provide command, control, computing, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities to the military.

Employees: 117,000

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2025 Q1 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

80% more call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $565M | Put options by funds: $313M

21% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 14 [Q4 2024] → 17 (+3) [Q1 2025]

11% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 713 | Existing positions reduced: 645

8% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 148 | Existing positions closed: 137

1% more capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $62.6B [Q4 2024] → $63.1B (+$508M) [Q1 2025]

0.49% more ownership

Funds ownership: 85.15% [Q4 2024] → 85.64% (+0.49%) [Q1 2025]

1% less funds holding

Funds holding: 1,810 [Q4 2024] → 1,788 (-22) [Q1 2025]

Research analyst outlook

6 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

• Low target: $236 17% downside
• Avg. target: $292 3% upside
• High target: $330 17% upside

6 analyst ratings

• positive: 3 50%
• neutral: 3 50%
• negative: 0 0%

UBS Gavin Parsons	1% downside $279	Neutral Maintained	24 Apr 2025
Morgan Stanley Kristine Liwag	6% upside $300	Equal-Weight Maintained	24 Apr 2025
TD Securities Gautam Khanna	2% upside $290	Buy Maintained	24 Apr 2025
Citigroup Jason Gursky	17% upside $330	Buy Maintained	10 Apr 2025
Wells Fargo Matthew Akers	17% downside $236	Equal-Weight Maintained	8 Apr 2025