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The Motley Fool October 25, 2005 W.D. Crotty |
Lockheed's Peculiar Spin The defense contractor announces positive third quarter results but downplays a few troubling numbers. Skepticism aside, the company's stock seems reasonably priced when compared with its peers.  |
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Reagan's Death Star Destroyed ... Again Newsflash: Reagan rolls in grave as Star Wars explodes yet again.  |
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The Motley Fool February 2, 2010 Rich Smith |
Did the Pentagon Just Fumble the Nuclear Football? Yes, $9.9 billion is earmarked for Raytheon and the gang that couldn't shoot straight.  |
The Motley Fool March 2, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson |
Orbital Liftoff Delayed Will a recovery in commercial satellites come soon enough to boost Orbital's earnings?  |
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 April 20, 2007 Rich Smith |
Say What, SAIC? For the second time in its history, the government contractor reported earnings as a public company last week. With the stock up 7% in the days since, it appears that investors liked what they saw.  |
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Orbital Earnings Preview Orbital will unveil its latest earnings on Thursday, July 21. Analysts are very bullish on this stock.  |
The Motley Fool February 1, 2008 Rich Smith |
Boeing Keeps Climbing The plane maker once again obliterates estimates.  |
The Motley Fool January 23, 2008 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Northrop Is Shipshape In advance of earnings, analysts expect defense contractor Northrop Grumman to show a small increase in sales and an even smaller increase in profits.  |
The Motley Fool September 3, 2010 John Keeling |
Buy or Short These Defense Technology Stocks? This earnings quality screen (and decade of corroborating evidence!) suggests that GenCorp and Ceradyne are buy candidates and Orbital Sciences and Alliant TechSystems might potentially be shorting opportunities.  |
The Motley Fool January 28, 2008 Rich Smith |
Northrop Becomes a Guinea Pig Backlog refers to orders that have been booked and are expected to become revenue but haven't yet. Let's take a deeper look at backlog, using Northrop Grumman's fourth-quarter and full-year reports as an example.  |
The Motley Fool September 15, 2011 John Grgurich |
7 Dirt Cheap Defense Stocks Take a closer look at seven stocks nearing their 52-week lows.  |
The Motley Fool January 30, 2008 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Raytheon Rules In advance of earnings, analysts expect defense contractor Raytheon to see profits soar.  |
The Motley Fool August 31, 2010 Rich Smith |
This Just In: Upgrades and Downgrades Wells Fargo took Lockheed Martin down a notch to "market perform," on fears that pension costs will eat away at the firm's reported profits.  |
The Motley Fool March 29, 2004 Brian Gorman |
Orbital Sciences Up, Up, and Away The successful test of NASA's X-43A scramjet is good news for the company.  |
The Motley Fool January 23, 2008 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Lockheed As Death Star In advance of earnings, analysts expect defense contractor Lockheed Martin to report flat quarterly sales and profits.  |
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.  |
The Motley Fool November 20, 2009 Rich Smith |
Boeing Wins! Over in the nation's capital, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has just overturned a lower court's ruling that stripped Boeing of its contract to service KC-135 refueling tankers.  |
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 May 24, 2011 Brian Stoffel |
Space Travel, Anyone? This could be the future of the aerospace industry.  |
Inc. September 18, 2002 Carole Matthews |
Developing an R&D Relationship John Lisy, vice president and chief operating officer of Orbital Research, offers his top tips for developing solid research and development relationships with large companies.  |
The Motley Fool August 3, 2009 Rich Smith |
6 Stocks That Never Surrender While I'm certainly not rooting against a broad-based economic recovery, I'm convinced that my six star defense companies will perform just fine in any economy.  |
The Motley Fool December 24, 2010 Rich Smith |
Boeing Is Building a Star Fleet Boeing has just proved the concept the interplanetary space travel. Unmanned, admittedly. Accidentally, perhaps. But proved it nonetheless.  |
The Motley Fool February 2, 2010 Tim Beyers |
This Rule Breaker Is Otherworldly Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is one of five companies that will share $50 million in stimulus funds designed to create commercial space vehicles that NASA will use to ferry astronauts to and from low-Earth orbit.  |
The Motley Fool March 10, 2010 Rich Smith |
Is Boeing a $100 Stock? Yes. And that's just the start of the good news.  |
BusinessWeek July 4, 2005 Stan Crock |
The Little Contractor That Could Alliant Techsystems Inc., a no-frills weapons maker is beating out some top guns to supply the military.  |