The defense contractor said the award is one of the first major procurement contracts executed under the Defense Department’s effort to stockpile weapons in the next few years.
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Investing.com -- Investors are closely watching Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh’s first FOMC meeting and the outlook for crypto legislation in Congress, according to Wolfe Research.
GM’s stock, however, is up more than 40% over the past five years even as its market cap clocks in around $75 billion today. The magic is share repurchases: GM has spent roughly $30 billion retiring 500 million shares over that span. Since 2021, GM has generated about $53 billion in free cash flow, despite Covid, inflating prices, tariffs, and ever-changing EV policies.
Investing.com-- General Motors (NYSE:GM) is in talks with Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) to manufacture components for the defense contractor’s weapons systems, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
The automaker seeks to grow its defense subsidiary as the U.S. aims to replenish munitions supplies.
Yahoo Finance Senior Reporter Brooke DiPalma joins Market Domination to tackle today's top trending tickers, including the momentum driving SpaceX (SPCX) shares in Friday's session after the company's IPO, the impact it is having on other space stocks Virgin Galactic (SPCE) and Rocket Lab (RKLB), and how semiconductor stocks such as Micron Technology (MU) and Nvidia (NVDA) are moving on the historic public offering.
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which is likely to get a $1.8 trillion price tag when it debuts on the Nasdaq next week, carries a host of superlatives. Part of the problem is SpaceX itself. The company combines Musk’s space, satellite, social media, and artificial intelligence divisions, and is expected to float 555 million shares next week with a share price of around $135.
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SpaceX’s S-1 just handed legacy defense investors a number they cannot ignore. And you can bet they won’t. In 2025, roughly one-fifth of SpaceX revenue came from U.S. federal agencies, primarily NASA, the Department of War, the General Services Administration, and certain Intelligence Community agencies, focused on launch services, spacecraft development, satellite deployment, and artificial ... One-Fifth of SpaceX Revenue Comes From Uncle Sam: The Defense Contractors That Should Worry
SpaceX said it employed "over 22,000" people as of March 31, putting it well down the ranks of publicly traded aerospace and defense companies. It said none of them are unionized and doesn't break out how many are in the U.
Recent presidents have stayed away from trading stocks in companies whose fortunes they could lift or scuttle with the stroke of a pen, but Donald Trump smashed that precedent in the first quarter of this year with more than 3,600 buy and sell orders, many of them involving companies whose profits have been directly impacted by his decisions as head of the government. Among the Trump trades in a recent report filed with a federal ethics agency was as much as $6 million in Nvidia, whose advanced chips Trump approved for sale to China last year. “If he were defense secretary, he would be committing a crime,” said Richard Painter, the chief White House ethics adviser in the George W. Bush administration and a big critic of congressional trading, too.
Back in late April, Apr 25, 2026, I wrote about Lockheed Martin CEO Jim Taiclet calling the current defense environment a "golden opportunity." These are two words that don't often come up in earnings calls, and two words that were starting to be backed up by serious contract momentum. The ...
The U-2 stopped flying over Russia after one was shot down in 1960. But the plane remained an asset for U.S. intelligence.
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Camden, Ark.—When the Pentagon put out an urgent call for rocket launchers and ammunition to send to Ukraine and replenish supplies at home in 2022, an answer came from an unlikely place: this remote southern pine-belt town, population around 10,000. Lockheed Martin one of the defense contractors clustered in the east part of Camden and already one of the town’s biggest employers, was reeling in government orders to produce more mobile rocket launchers. Other big defense contractors in the area also soon landed contracts to produce ammunition and expand their rocket facilities in Camden.
The defence industry, long considered a value trade, has in the past few years become a growth play. Global conflict is on the rise, and technology...
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There are a bunch of space-themed ETFs, a mix of actively managed and index funds. But just one has access to SpaceX ahead of its eagerly awaited debut.
Record revenue, upbeat guidance, and a swelling defense-backed backlog put this space contractor in sharp focus, today, May 8, 2026.
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IPG Photonics (NASDAQ:IPGP) reported first-quarter 2026 results that exceeded management’s expectations, with revenue rising 17% year over year to $265 million, as improved demand—particularly tied to battery manufacturing and medical applications—supported growth, executives said on the company’s e
The U.S. Army is pushing defense contractors to open up weapons’ software to new tools, including AI.
Lockheed’s earnings miss sent the stock to fresh lows, but with guidance intact and the stock deeply oversold, the setup is starting to look attractive.