General Dynamics (GD)

• Market cap: $86.9B
• 1 day: -0.7%
• 5 days: -2.12%
• 1 month: 3%
• 3 months: 15.97%
• 6 months: 20.74%
• Year to date: 23.75%
• 1 year: 6.82%
• 5 years: 125.89%
• 10 years: 131.97%
• 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 Navy support 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 Q2 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

130% more call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $628M | Put options by funds: $273M

93% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 185 | Existing positions closed: 96

27% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 777 | Existing positions reduced: 613

6% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 17 [Q1] → 18 (+1) [Q2]

6% more capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $63.1B [Q1] → $66.9B (+$3.71B) [Q2]

3% more funds holding

Funds holding: 1,805 [Q1] → 1,863 (+58) [Q2]

0.29% less ownership

Funds ownership: 85.7% [Q1] → 85.41% (-0.29%) [Q2]

Research analyst outlook

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

• Low target: $300
• Avg. target: $346
• High target: $368

9 analyst ratings

• positive: 7 78%
• neutral: 2 22%
• negative: 0 0%

Barclays David Strauss	$350	Overweight Maintained	29 Jul 2025
UBS Gavin Parsons	$333	Neutral Maintained	24 Jul 2025
Citigroup Jason Gursky	$368	Buy Maintained	24 Jul 2025
JP Morgan Seth Seifman	$345	Overweight Maintained	24 Jul 2025
Susquehanna Charles Minervino	$365	Positive Maintained	24 Jul 2025