How are aerospace and defense stocks doing?
Defense contractors, aircraft and engine makers, and aerospace suppliers. Here is how they have done as a group against the S&P 500, and which of them are leading and lagging.
Updated Oct 9, 2026
Lagging
Aerospace and defense stocks are down 7% over the past year as an equal-weighted group, against +16% for the S&P 500. 3 of 25 beat the index. Woodward (WWD) leads at +33% and Karman (KRMN) trails at −57%. Over the past month the group is −4%, against +3% for the S&P.
The past year
The group against the S&P 500, each set to $100 a year ago. Select a stock in the table to chart it against the group.
All 25 aerospace and defense stocks
Sorted by the past year’s return. Select a row to chart the stock against the group, or its ticker to open its page. Select a column to sort.
| Stock | P3 | 1M | 3M | YTD | 1Y | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WWD Woodward | 36Middling | +0.8% | −15% | +11% | +33% | Churning Winner |
| HXL Hexcel | 51Middling | −5.4% | −14% | +15% | +30% | Exhausted Rally |
| HWM Howmet Aerospace | 35Middling | −1.2% | −17% | +10% | +18% | Churning Winner |
| RTX RTX | 41Middling | −6.1% | −5% | +1% | +10% | Hot Hand |
| RKLB Rocket Lab | 83Strong | +10.1% | −11% | −2% | +4% | Bellwether |
| GE GE Aerospace | 41Middling | −4.9% | −13% | 0% | +2% | Turning Up |
| FTAI FTAI Aviation | 56Middling | −5.6% | −19% | −14% | 0% | Wallflower |
| LMT Lockheed Martin | 18Weak | −3.9% | −2% | +5% | −1% | Falling Knife |
| GD General Dynamics | 35Middling | −6.5% | −11% | −2% | −4% | Show-Me Grower |
| HEI HEICO (Common) | 51Middling | −4.5% | −13% | −8% | −7% | Wallflower |
| CW Curtiss-Wright | 25Weak | −8.4% | −31% | −7% | −8% | Show-Me Grower |
| HII Huntington Ingalls Industries | 39Middling | −6.0% | −7% | −22% | −9% | Show-Me Grower |
| HEI.A HEICO | 46Middling | −4.0% | −11% | −12% | −12% | Show-Me Grower |
| TXT Textron | 41Middling | −6.4% | −17% | −15% | −14% | Show-Me Grower |
| TDG TransDigm | 43Middling | −1.7% | −10% | −17% | −14% | Wallflower |
| BA Boeing | 44Middling | −7.0% | −12% | −12% | −16% | Show-Me Grower |
| DRS Leonardo DRS | 31Weak | −0.2% | −16% | +6% | −20% | Falling Knife |
| LOAR Loar | 44Middling | −4.2% | −14% | −9% | −21% | Wallflower |
| LHX L3Harris | 25Weak | −4.6% | −18% | −19% | −23% | Broken Year |
| AMTM Amentum | 37Middling | −1.4% | −6% | −33% | −24% | Coiled Spring |
| NOC Northrop Grumman | 36Middling | −7.4% | −11% | −16% | −25% | Turning Up |
| SARO StandardAero | 40Middling | −14.7% | −27% | −30% | −26% | Wallflower |
| BWXT BWX Technologies | 32Weak | −5.7% | −19% | −17% | −27% | Wallflower |
| AXON Axon Enterprise | 26Weak | −11.7% | −23% | −26% | −42% | Bottom Fished |
| KRMN Karman | 20Weak | −5.2% | −28% | −55% | −57% | Wallflower |
How to read this page
How it’s measured. Every stock in the Aerospace & Defense industry among the S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000 companies with a page here, The group is equal-weighted, so each company counts the same whatever its size, and returns are share-price changes from daily closes.
Sources. Daily prices from Financial Modeling Prep; scores from Stox.
An equal-weighted group can read quite differently from a sector fund, which gives the biggest companies the most weight.
P3 is Stox’s combined score of market beat, staying power and business growth, from 0 to 100. Type is the stock’s Stox Atlas type. Both describe the past year, not what comes next.
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