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How is General Dynamics (GD) doing?

General Dynamics is a company in the aerospace & defense industry, based in Reston, VA, worth $89.6B. Here is how its shares and business compare with the rest of the market, and where it shows up on our dashboards.

Updated Oct 9, 2026

35
P3 score

Middling

General Dynamics shares are down 4% over the past year, 17 points behind the S&P 500. Its type is Show-Me Grower. Among large US stocks and funds it ranks in the 35th percentile on market beat, the 16th on staying power and the 78th on business growth. It appears on 1 of our dashboards.

$331.27−4% in a yearWorth $89.6B

Compare with LMT · RTX · NOC · BA · HII · TXT · GE · LHX

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Past year

The past year

Price against the S&P 500, each set to $100 a year ago. Score is its weekly rank against the market. Select a tile for that score month by month.

GD against the S&P 500, past year
$100 a year ago. General Dynamics −4%, the S&P 500 +16%.
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GDS&P 500

What kind of stock is it?

Its type on Stox Atlas, from its four scores: beating or lagging the market, a steady or erratic rank, a growing or slowing business, and whether buyers or sellers lead.

Show-Me Grower

LaggingErraticGrowingSold

A growing business, but the shares lag erratically and sellers lead. The market wants proof.

Show-Me Grower this month; Churning Winner before that.

Also Show-Me Grower (103 in all): WM · CI · HII · YUM · DPZ · SCHW

EmbracedToppingAccumulatingRejectedStable rankBellwetherDistribution TopCoiled SpringWallflowerHolding rankFaith TradeRolling OverBottom FishedSleepy StapleUnsteady rankHot HandChurning WinnerTurning UpShow-Me GrowerBouncy rankSpeculative PopExhausted RallyFalling KnifeBroken Year

How is it doing against its group?

Its group is Aerospace-defense, 41 large US stocks and funds whose prices tend to move together. Defense primes and steady-demand contractors.

GD, past year−4%23 of 41 in the group
Rest of the group0%equal-weighted
S&P 500+16%past year

General Dynamics is −4% over the past year, against flat for the rest of the group and +16% for the S&P 500. It ranks 23rd of 41 in Aerospace-defense.

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GDRest of the group

Aerospace-defense on Stox ›

How much does it move?

Its typical daily move, against its own past year, the market and other large stocks. Swings describe risk, not direction.

About usual General Dynamics typically moves 1.9% in a day, about usual for it, and it swings less than 91% of large US stocks.

Typical day1.9%about $6.34 a share
Its usual2.1%about usual, 0.9× its year’s average
Against the S&P 5001.9×the index’s typical day is 1.1%
Unusual day±3.8%twice its typical day
Deepest fall, past year−18%now 16% below its high
In the S&P’s down weeks28%of the index’s fall, three years; beta 0.5
1.50%2%2.50%NovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct
Typical daily move (ATR)Its year’s average 2.07%

GD on our dashboards

Every question where General Dynamics appears, in the order of the home page, with its reading and place in that table. Select a question to open it with GD highlighted. Select a column to sort.

QuestionReadingPlaceDetails
Which companies raise their dividend every year?
Dividends and buybacks
93Decades31 of 60Years raised 34 years · Growth, 5Y +7% a yr · Yield 1.9%

Go deeper on Stox

GD’s full profile: financial statements, earnings and analysts’ estimates, valuation against its sector, recent news with a summary, and its scores in detail.

How to read this page

How it’s measured. Scores from Stox rank the stock against about 1,200 S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000 stocks and popular funds, where 100 is best; market beat and staying power use prices, business growth uses revenue, margins and cash flow. Readings on other dashboards come from this site’s pages.

Sources. Daily prices and company financial statements from Financial Modeling Prep; scores and co-movement groups from Stox.

Scores are percentiles: 80 means the stock ranks above 80% of the others on that measure. They describe the recent past and are not advice or a forecast.

Its type follows Stox Atlas: each of the four scores is split at 50. “Steady” means its rank has held, high or low, so it says nothing on its own about direction.

Its group is the cluster of large US stocks whose prices have moved together over five years, with the market’s own moves taken out. The typical daily move is the average true range over 14 days, a measure of how far the price travels in a day including overnight gaps.

For financial statements, earnings and news, see GD’s full profile on Stox.

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