General Dynamics News

The firm currently has a "market perform" rating on the stock. General Dynamics traded up 0.40% on Monday, hitting $78.60. General Dynamics has a 52-week low of $61.09 and a 52-week high of $78.29. The stock's 50-day moving average is currently $71.65. The company's market cap is $27.657 billion.

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The Pentagon is being urged by a group of 71 lawmakers to fund General Dynamics Corp.'s battlefield communications network instead of shifting the funds to more urgent needs, according to DOD Buzz.

Pentagon contracts tumbled 52 percent in April from a month earlier as across-the-board federal budget cuts took hold.

Only $19 billion in contracts were awarded by the Defense Department last month, which is a 52 percent drop from the $39.4 billion awarded in March.

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The U.S. Army plans to conduct a key test of the next installment of a battlefield communications network made by General Dynamics Corp.

Falls Church-based General Dynamics Corp. received a contract modification to the Range Radar Replacement Program to develop a new radar system for the Army, GovCon Wire reports.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has awarded a contract worth a potential $19.9 million to General Dynamics Corp., GovCon Wire reports .

There is a bipartisan push to spend an extra $436 million on the Abrams tank, made by Falls Church-based General Dynamics Corp., even though senior Army officials have repeatedly said, "No thanks," The Associated Press reports.

's stock had its "buy" rating reiterated by investment analysts at Deutsche Bank in a note issued to investors on Thursday, StocKRatingsNetwork.com reports.

's stock had its "underperform" rating restated by Zacks in a research report issued to clients and investors on Thursday, AnalystRatingsNetwork reports.

With the budget cuts that began March 1, I would think stocks that are most dependent upon government contracts would be affected the most.

GD has been the subject of a number of other recent research reports. Analysts at Sanford C. Bernstein raised their price target on shares of General Dynamics from $73.00 to $78.00 in a research note to investors on Thursday.

The firm currently has a "market perform" rating on the stock. General Dynamics traded up 2.51% on Thursday, hitting $73.53. General Dynamics has a 52-week low of $61.09 and a 52-week high of $73.96. The stock's 50-day moving average is currently $69.07. The company's market cap is $25.831 billion.

The firm currently has an "outperform" rating on the stock. Shares of General Dynamics traded up 2.51% during mid-day trading on Thursday, hitting $73.53. General Dynamics has a one year low of $61.09 and a one year high of $73.96. The stock's 50-day moving average is currently $69.07. The company's market cap is $25.831 billion.

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U.S. weapons makers reported higher-than-expected profit and improved margins for the first quarter, even as revenue began to taper off after more than a decade of sharp growth in U.S. military spending.

Company-wide operating margins for the first quarter of 2013 were 11.4 percent, compared to 11.3 percent in first-quarter 2012.

General Dynamics Corp. said Wednesday its first-quarter net income edged up about 1 percent, as lower operating costs offset a slight decrease in revenue.