Aerospace & Defense Stocks in the S&P 500
Every S&P 500 company classed as Aerospace & Defense: 13 of the 76 stocks in the Industrials sector. Highest fundamentals score first.
Quick answer
S&P 500 Aerospace & Defense stocks: 13 (13 scored). Median score 64/100, above the S&P 500 median of 54. Strong (80+): 0. Weak (under 40): 1. Highest scores: Howmet Aerospace (73), RTX (72) and Northrop Grumman (70).
All 13 Aerospace & Defense stocks, ranked by score
13 stocks
| Howmet Aerospace Inc. Common StockHowmet Aerospace HWM | 73 | US$ 79.5b | 100 | 83 | 63 | 33 | 83 |
| RTX Corporation Common StockRTX RTX | 72 | US$ 269.6b | 80 | 67 | 75 | 33 | 100 |
| Northrop Grumman Corporation Common StockNorthrop Grumman NOC | 70 | US$ 79.2b | 80 | 67 | 75 | 50 | 75 |
| General Dynamics Corporation Common StockGeneral Dynamics GD | 68 | US$ 100.9b | 88 | 83 | 75 | 0 | 100 |
| L3Harris Technologies, Inc. Common StockL3Harris LHX | 64 | US$ 51.7b | 63 | 67 | 75 | 17 | 100 |
| Transdigm Group Incorporated Common StockTransDigm Group TDG | 64 | US$ 63.4b | 80 | 83 | 63 | 17 | 75 |
| Textron Inc. Common StockTextron TXT | 64 | US$ 14.5b | 60 | 100 | 50 | 33 | 75 |
| GE Aerospace Common StockGE Aerospace GE | 53 | US$ 313.3b | 80 | 33 | 63 | 0 | 83 |
| Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. Common StockHuntington Ingalls Industries HII | 52 | US$ 12.5b | 60 | 67 | 38 | 17 | 75 |
| Axon Enterprise, Inc.Axon Enterprise AXON | 50 | US$ 34.6b | 50 | 67 | 75 | 0 | 60 |
| Honeywell Aerospace Inc.Honeywell Aerospace HONA | 50 | US$ 49.0b | 63 | 67 | 63 | 0 | 60 |
| Lockheed Martin Corporation Common StockLockheed Martin LMT | 47 | US$ 147.2b | 60 | 50 | 75 | 0 | 50 |
| Boeing Company (The) Common StockBoeing BA | 36 | US$ 135.6b | 50 | 33 | 38 | 17 | 42 |
Common questions
This site lists 13 S&P 500 stocks in the Aerospace & Defense sub-sector, part of the Industrials sector. 13 of them have enough data for a score.
As of this site's latest data, Howmet Aerospace Inc. Common Stock (HWM) has the highest fundamentals score in Aerospace & Defense, at 73/100. Top three: Howmet Aerospace (73), RTX (72) and Northrop Grumman (70).
The median Aerospace & Defense stock scores 64/100, above the S&P 500 median of 54. Split: 0 strong, 12 okay, 1 weak. Its biggest lead over the market is Risk: 75 vs 63 for the whole S&P 500. Its biggest shortfall is Price Fairness: 17 vs 21 for the whole S&P 500.
Boeing Company (The) Common Stock (BA), at 36/100, the lowest of the 13 scored Aerospace & Defense stocks. Its stock page shows which measures pull it down. A score reads the latest published numbers, not a forecast.
Each stock gets 0-100 from five pillars: Business Strength, Financial Safety, Cash & Dividends, Price Fairness and Risk, built from its published financial statements and share price. Banks and REITs use their own cutoffs where normal rules would misjudge them. Full rules: https://scoreyourstock.com/how.