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The Motley Fool January 30, 2004 Tim Beyers |
A New Space Race New exploration of the moon, Mars, and beyond may be decades away, but investors should seek to profit from it now.  |
The Motley Fool September 1, 2006 Jack Uldrich |
Lockheed Blasts Off A new NASA contract increases Lockheed Martin's advantage over rival Boeing. Investors, take note.  |
The Motley Fool October 6, 2006 Jack Uldrich |
Investors Win, Taxpayers Lose in Aerospace Merger The Boeing-Lockheed Martin monopoly could lead to higher prices and lower quality. Investors, take note.  |
The Motley Fool November 13, 2008 Rich Smith |
Popular Science, Popular Stocks Popular Science suggests four firms in the defense and aerospace sphere that just might be the next hot investments.  |
The Motley Fool April 21, 2008 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Lackadaisical Lockheed In advance of earnings, analysts expect a very slight rise in sales from Lockheed.  |
The Motley Fool July 25, 2007 Rich Smith |
Orders Slow Down at Northrop Northrop ups 2007 earnings guidance, but the prospects of peace might be affecting the defense contractor.  |
The Motley Fool January 23, 2009 Rich Smith |
Lockheed Martin Bobs and Weaves Lockheed shares shoot up on better-than-expected earnings, then tumbled right back down, giving up essentially all of the gains.  |
The Motley Fool October 21, 2008 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Northrop Grumman's Bad Omen In advance of earnings, analysts wonder if Northrop Grumman will miss estimates again, as it had last quarter.  |
Popular Mechanics September 14, 2009 Rand Simberg |
Launch System Skepticism Grows at Space 2009: Guest Analysis This week, at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics annual meeting on space in Pasadena, Calif., several technical papers have more to say on the subject of getting back to the moon with existing launch systems.  |
BusinessWeek May 5, 2011 McGarry & Capaccio |
The Air Force Kicks Off a New Space Race Lockheed Martin and Boeing may lose from the Air Force's plan to open the $9.9 billion satellite launch business to competition.  |
The Motley Fool October 25, 2007 Rich Smith |
Boeing Blasts Off Revenues grew 12% and net profits leapt 61% for defense contractor Boeing in the third quarter. The company also has an astounding $295 billion worth of future business lined up. Investors, take note.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2005 John McHale |
The Moon, Mars and beyond... The Space Shuttle program is due to be replaced by the Crew Exploration Vehicle.  |
The Motley Fool March 10, 2010 Rich Smith |
Is Boeing a $100 Stock? Yes. And that's just the start of the good news.  |
The Motley Fool April 25, 2008 Rich Smith |
Raytheon Falls to Pieces The sum of the parts belies the value of the whole.  |
The Motley Fool May 19, 2009 Rich Smith |
3 Top Defense Sector Stocks Raytheon, Lockheed, and General Dynamics carry strong balance sheets, while their valuations appear attractive relative to their growth prospects.  |
Popular Mechanics December 12, 2007 Alex Hutchinson |
NASA Will Tinker With Open-Source Rocket for Return to Moon The "brains" of the Ares I rocket that will be built by Boeing, but the specifications will be open-source and non-proprietary, so that other companies can bid on future contracts.  |
The Motley Fool June 12, 2009 Rich Smith |
Reagan's Death Star Destroyed ... Again Newsflash: Reagan rolls in grave as Star Wars explodes yet again.  |
The Motley Fool June 22, 2007 Rich Smith |
Star Wars Lite Two and a half years after they brought you the world's first airborne ray gun, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman still have a few kinks to work out. But how should investors view recent governmental funding cuts?  |
The Motley Fool October 28, 2008 Rich Smith |
Cosmic Wannabe Finds a Friend on Earth The race to win a $3.1 billion NASA-funded contract to supply the International Space Station (ISS) just took a turn for the surreal.  |
The Motley Fool July 25, 2007 Rich Smith |
Lockheed Martin Flying High Not the stock price, maybe. But the business is fine. The shares seem fairly valued today, and may even prove to be a bargain if Lockheed keeps showing the kind of improvement we saw yesterday.  |
The Motley Fool July 23, 2007 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Northrop Knocking at the Door The defense contractor is set to report its second-quarter earnings. Investors, here is what you can expect to see.  |
The Motley Fool December 3, 2008 Rich Smith |
Lockheed GOES Up Straight up, with a pair of weather satellites for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.  |
The Motley Fool July 23, 2007 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Looking for Lockheed The defense contractor is set to report second-quarter earnings. Investors, here is what you can expect to see.  |
The Motley Fool January 28, 2008 Rich Smith |
Lockheed Martin's Stellar Show The world's largest defense contractor reported its fiscal 2007 results last week, and they were superb in every respect.  |
National Defense April 2011 Stew Magnuson |
It's Not All Bad News When It Comes to the Health of the U.S. Space Industrial Base The health and welfare of the companies that produce spacecraft, payloads, rockets and ground stations for everyone from NASA to intelligence agencies has been the source of much hand-wringing during the past few years.  |
The Motley Fool April 29, 2008 Rich Smith |
Northrop Misses the Boat This defense contractor appears to be struggling in the first quarter.  |
The Motley Fool January 26, 2009 Rich Smith |
Northrop Grumman: Bad News Is Good News Northrop stunned the investing world by announcing that it will report a loss in the next quarter, but the news isn't as bad as it seems.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2007 John McHale |
`Fly me to the moon...' and the Space Station, too Designers of Orion, the next manned space vehicle from NASA that will service the International Space Station and return man to the moon, are using open-architecture designs for the avionics and crew cockpit.  |
The Motley Fool October 1, 2009 Dave Mock |
A Big Upgrade for Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin gets a big upgrade from many top-performing Motley Fool analysts.  |
The Motley Fool December 9, 2008 Rich Smith |
Argon ST: Not Such a Gas Tiny defense contractor Argon turns in a fine quarter, and a fine year. If the price were a bit better it may justify buying the stock. But it isn't, so don't.  |
The Motley Fool January 16, 2004 Tim Beyers |
The Space Payoff Bush's plan to return America to the moon has investors on notice. What innovations will be required to explore the heavens, and who is likely to profit?  |
National Defense April 2011 Stew Magnuson |
As Aircraft Factories Shutter, Space Remains Bedrock Industry in Southern California The C-17 factory in Long Beach remains the last remaining conventional airplane plant in Southern California, and the Globemaster's days are probably numbered. Boeing announced plans to lay off 900 workers there in January.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2009 John McHale |
Human Space Flight Gets Increase in 2010 NASA Budget Request NASA human space exploration programs, such as the Constellation program to return to the moon, receive increases in the 2010 NASA budget request, while space shuttle funding dwindles as NASA officials plan to retire the fleet in 2010.  |
The Motley Fool October 26, 2010 Rich Smith |
Lockheed Loves Itself Can it afford $3 billion in share buybacks? Sure. But is it a good idea?  |
The Motley Fool June 2, 2010 Rich Smith |
This Just In: Upgrades and Downgrades Bernstein boards the Boeing bandwagon.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2007 John McHale |
Manned Space Missions, International Space Station, Get Increases in 2008 NASA Budget Request Officials at NASA are looking for increased funding for the International Space Station, manned space systems and other programs that fulfill President Bush's goal of reaching the Moon by the end of the decade.  |
The Motley Fool December 4, 2009 Rich Smith |
Boeing Defiantly Growls Reports of the airplane makers' demise are ... exaggerated.  |
The Motley Fool January 13, 2010 Rich Smith |
How Much Is Boeing Worth? Analysts at Stone Key Partners of Connecticut are hard at work right this moment, fixing a price on Argon ST, which will shed light on the true value of defense stocks.  |
The Motley Fool June 29, 2011 Eric Bleeker |
Can Foreign Sales Keep Boeing Growing? Where's Boeing generating its sales?  |
The Motley Fool April 24, 2008 Rich Smith |
Looking Closer at Lockheed What's up with the stagnant stock price?  |
Popular Mechanics October 28, 2009 Joe Pappalardo |
Rooting for NASA's Ares I Rockets: Analysis This week, all eyes were on NASA as it conducted the first flight of the Ares I, the first launch vehicle the agency designed since the Space Shuttle. October also witnessed progress in other space launches  |
Popular Mechanics September 25, 2007 Rand Simberg |
Space Gas Station Would Blast Huge Payloads to the Moon Boeing has unveiled a radical redesign of NASA's plan to return to the lunar surface: save weight by saving gas for an orbital fill-'er-up, then shoot 15 times more material to the moon.  |
The Motley Fool September 18, 2009 Rich Smith |
Wanna Bet on a Moonshot? If NASA doesn't decide to go to the moon, will Congress takes the Augustine Commission's advice to help subsidize private space-flight providers in hopes that will ultimately be the cheaper route for exploration?  |
Popular Mechanics April 2009 Michael Belfiore |
7 International Spacecraft that Could Replace NASA's Shuttle NASA's Orion won't be ready until at least 2015, but the current space shuttle is due to retire next year. Meet the seven international spacecraft from the world's space fleet that could inherit the job of ferrying supplies into space.  |
The Motley Fool August 2, 2011 Anand Chokkavelu |
8 Aerospace and Defense Stocks Near 52-Week Lows Trolling the bottom for upside potential. Here are the eight aerospace and defense companies that are within 20% of their 52-week lows and have market caps above $2 billion.  |
The Motley Fool March 11, 2009 Rich Smith |
Boeing: Wheels Up in 1 Year Boeing finally provided its investors with some good news. The 787 Dreamliner project is finally on track.  |
The Motley Fool October 24, 2007 Rich Smith |
Lockheed in Final Approach Assuming analysts are close to correct in predicting 12% annual profits growth over the next five years, and that Lockheed is right in predicting $4.2 billion in operating cash flow, that would give the stock a current price-to-free cash flow ratio of 12.  |
The Motley Fool March 26, 2010 Rich Smith |
6 Stocks That Will Never Surrender In a fight to the finish versus the S&P 500, no quarter will be asked, none given for defense stocks.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2009 |
In Brief Raytheon opens management office to support Warfighter FOCUS program... BAE Systems business honored with top engineering rating... Air traffic control modernization no longer on GAO high-risk list... etc.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2005 |
In Brief Successful first flights conducted using radar for F-35 Joint Strike Fighter... EADS joins Northrop Grumman on KC-30 tanker bid... French select Spectrum's flexComm SDR-3002 platform for homeland defense... etc.  |