Best Defense Stocks To Follow Now – February 05th

BigBear.ai, Boeing, Celestica, Analog Devices, and Citigroup are the five Defense stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat’s stock screener tool. Defense stocks are publicly traded companies that primarily work in the production and supply of goods and services related to military and defense sectors. These companies typically provide equipment, technology, and services for military purposes, such as weapons systems, vehicles, communication systems, and other defense-related products. Investors often turn to defense stocks as a way to potentially capitalize on government contracts and defense spending. 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.

NYSE:BBAI traded up $2.25 during trading hours on Wednesday, hitting $7.16. 128,564,956 shares of the company’s stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 38,821,379. The firm has a market cap of $1.80 billion, a P/E ratio of -8.01 and a beta of 3.17. The company has a quick ratio of 2.06, a current ratio of 2.06 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.08. BigBear.ai has a 52 week low of $1.16 and a 52 week high of $7.11. The business’s fifty day simple moving average is $3.56 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $2.28.

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.

Boeing stock traded up $2.96 during mid-day trading on Wednesday, hitting $179.19. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 3,278,331 shares, compared to its average volume of 8,231,762. The business has a 50 day moving average price of $170.47 and a 200-day moving average price of $164.00. Boeing has a 12 month low of $137.03 and a 12 month high of $213.77. The stock has a market cap of $110.78 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -9.77 and a beta of 1.52.

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.

Shares of NYSE CLS traded up $6.92 during trading hours on Wednesday, hitting $138.90. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 4,021,477 shares, compared to its average volume of 4,896,811. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.49, a quick ratio of 0.87 and a current ratio of 1.47. Celestica has a 12 month low of $35.56 and a 12 month high of $140.76. The stock has a market cap of $16.16 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 37.44 and a beta of 2.27. The business has a 50-day simple moving average of $100.10 and a 200-day simple moving average of $73.34.

Analog Devices (ADI)

Analog Devices, Inc. designs, manufactures, tests, and markets integrated circuits (ICs), software, and subsystems products in the United States, rest of North and South America, Europe, Japan, China, and rest of Asia. The company provides data converter products, which translate real-world analog signals into digital data, as well as translates digital data into analog signals; power management and reference products for power conversion, driver monitoring, sequencing, and energy management applications in the automotive, communications, industrial, and consumer markets; and power ICs that include performance, integration, and software design simulation tools for accurate power supply designs.

Analog Devices stock traded up $2.30 on Wednesday, hitting $208.31. 1,403,863 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 3,326,923. The firm has a market cap of $103.34 billion, a P/E ratio of 63.35, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.43 and a beta of 1.04. The company has a current ratio of 1.84, a quick ratio of 1.35 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.19. Analog Devices has a 1 year low of $182.57 and a 1 year high of $244.14. The business’s fifty day simple moving average is $215.80 and its 200 day simple moving average is $220.76.

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 Citigroup stock traded down $0.10 during trading hours on Wednesday, reaching $78.38. 3,314,124 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 16,426,684. The company has a quick ratio of 0.96, a current ratio of 0.96 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.50. The company has a 50 day moving average price of $74.02 and a 200 day moving average price of $66.83. The firm has a market capitalization of $148.24 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 13.17, a P/E/G ratio of 0.64 and a beta of 1.44. Citigroup has a one year low of $52.24 and a one year high of $82.77.