Investors may buy stocks in defense contractors because of their record of dividend payments and share repurchases. But are these stocks overbought or do they still have some room to run?
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Wednesday morning include Eldorado Gold, SLM, SunPower, Disney, Yelp and Myriad Genetics.
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In a new Deutsche Bank report notes that while commercial aerospace is underperforming due to cycle concerns, defense stocks continue to gain Wall Street and investor attention.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen Thursday morning include Altria, Exelon, General Dynamics, Mattel, Philip Morris International, SanDisk and Wells Fargo.
These defense stocks are all solid additions to conservative growth and income portfolios. They all have long track records of success.
A report in Defense News cites a source who said that Raytheon will announce on Monday, February 22, that it is joining Alenia in a bid for the training jet program.
Lockheed Martin and its partner, Korean Aerospace, have been considering a clean-sheet design for a new U.S. Air Force training jet, the T-X.
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When the stock market becomes uncertain, investors often tend to flock toward defensive stocks or stocks that have very high-quality earnings. That generally means that their dividends are deemed safe as well.
Since the conclusion of World War II, the United States and a number of Western European nations have maintained extremely costly military industrial complexes — both in peacetime and during the numerous…
Congress agreed early Friday on a $1.15 trillion federal budget for 2016, and about half the total spending was marked for the Department of Defense.
Thursday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations include Keurig Green Mountain, ON Semiconductor, Salesforce.com, Sunoco, Walt Disney and Wendy's.
