Stock · GD · Industrials
United States · Large Cap · listed since 1977 · Revenue 12 mo. $54.9B
Price as of 11/06/2026
General Dynamics Corporation operates as an aerospace and defense company worldwide.
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.
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Summary
55.1 of 100
Mean of the six area values. Each area value is the mean of the stock's ranks among the companies in its sector. 50 is the middle of the sector, not a share of companies beaten.
Analysis
What the price requires
If free cash flow stays at €3.6B (2025), it supports €39.5B. The remaining €46.2B of the market value assume it grows 10.8% a year for 10 years and not at all afterwards.
Required FCF growth per year
10.8%
no growth afterwards
Price to operating cash flow 12.6×, below its usual range.
Middle half of 20 quarters: 12.7× to 17.5×, median 15.1×.
Measures only against its own past, not against what the company is worth. Price as of 11/06/2026.
with respect to the priced-in expectation
with respect to the priced-in expectation
Since the last quarter
Q1 → Q2 2026
7 more unchanged: Revenue, 12 mo., FCF, 12 mo., Gross margin, EBIT margin, FCF margin, Shares outstanding, Return on equity
Derivation
Each area value is the average of its metrics' ranks within the sector (0 to 100, 50 is the middle). For metrics where lower is better, the rank is mirrored. The overall value is the average of the area values.
Price as of 11/06/2026.
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on equity | 16.43% | 13.10% | Rank 62 |
| Return on capital (Greenblatt) | 35.76% | 19.33% | Rank 69 |
| EBIT margin | 10.19% | 11.28% | Rank 44 |
| FCF margin | 7.53% | 8.50% | Rank 47 |
| Gross margin | 15.13% | 28.98% | Rank 18 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth, 1 year | 10.13% | 5.15% | Rank 78 |
| Earnings growth, 3 years per year | 8.04% | 8.01% | Rank 50 |
| Earnings growth, 5 years per year | 6.92% | 12.89% | Rank 27 |
| Sustainable growth (ROE × retained earnings) | 2.21% | 4.02% | Rank 26 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earnings yield | 4.34% | 4.42% | Rank 49 |
| FCF yield | 4.15% | 3.98% | Rank 52 |
| EV/saleslower is better | 1.96 | 2.08 | Rank 54 |
| EV/EBITlower is better | 19.21 | 19.47 | Rank 52 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share price, 1 year | −5.56% | −0.01% | Rank 40 |
| Share price, 6 months | 2.66% | −1.43% | Rank 57 |
| Share price, 3 months | −4.56% | 0.53% | Rank 39 |
| Distance from 52-week high | −10.58% | −16.36% | Rank 70 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accruals (Sloan)lower is better | 0.68% | 1.39% | Rank 56 |
| Change in share countlower is better | −1.29% | −0.44% | Rank 63 |
| Dividend streak in years | 9 | 5 | Rank 77 |
| Price reaction to results, market-adjusted | 2.08% | 0.27% | Rank 69 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equity ratio | 44.76% | 39.65% | Rank 60 |
| Net debt/EBITDAlower is better | 1.18 | 1.38 | Rank 55 |
| Debt to equitylower is better | 0.38 | 0.61 | Rank 69 |
| Volatility, 1 yearlower is better | 22.63% | 32.95% | Rank 88 |
Ten years in figures
| Year | Revenue, $B | EBIT margin | FCF, $B | Shares | Net debt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 30.6 | 12.3% | 1.8 | 310M | $1.6B |
| 2017 | 31.0 | 13.7% | 3.5 | 305M | $999.0M |
| 2018 | 36.2 | 12.1% | 2.5 | 299M | $11.5B |
| 2019 | 39.4 | 11.6% | 2.0 | 291M | $12.5B |
| 2020 | 37.9 | 10.9% | 2.9 | 288M | $11.9B |
| 2021 | 38.5 | 10.8% | 3.4 | 282M | $11.6B |
| 2022 | 39.4 | 10.7% | 3.5 | 278M | $10.9B |
| 2023 | 42.3 | 10.0% | 3.8 | 276M | $9.2B |
| 2024 | 47.7 | 10.1% | 3.2 | 277M | $9.0B |
| 2025 | 52.6 | 10.2% | 4.0 | 274M | $7.5B |
3 of 7 StockScorer Score rules met · How the score is built
General Dynamics Corporation mainly meets criteria in the Valuation category. Result from 18 strategies checked.
General Dynamics Corporation is rated here with the StockScorer Score strategy, the flagship rule set. It compares return and cash-flow metrics with the median of the company's own sector and checks growth and price trend.
3 of 7 rules met
5 of 11 points
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Selected fundamental metrics for General Dynamics Corporation.
| Metric | Stock | Sector |
|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio | 23.0 | 22.5 |
| P/B ratio | 3.8 | 2.9 |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 16.4% | 13.1% |
| Equity ratio | 44.8% | 39.7% |
| Debt-to-equity (D/E) | 0.38 | 0.61 |
| Dividend yield | 1.8% | 2.0% |
How comparable stocks in the same sector score in the StockScorer model.
| Symbol | Company | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| GD | General Dynamics Corporationthis page | |
| HWM | Howmet Aerospace Inc | Medium5.5 |
| NOC | Northrop Grumman Corporation | Low4.5 |
| TDG | Transdigm Group Incorporated | Low4.5 |
| LMT | Lockheed Martin Corporation | locked |
| BA | The Boeing Company | locked |
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