April 25 – April 29 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson First quarter earnings season has given investors with keen interest in the aerospace, defense and government contracting sectors a smorgasboard of items to consider as they gauge the industry’s ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 28, 2016 ” The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has picked Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), Raytheon (NYSE: RTN), Honeywell (NYSE: HON), SRI International, QinetiQ, Pratt & Miller, Carnegie Mellon University and Southwest Research Institute for its Ground X-Vehicle Technology program, ExecutiveBiz reported We...
The GovCon Index soared 1.396 percent to 77.998 Wednesday on a series of pre-market earnings reports from several large defense prime contractors as Boeing (NYSE: BA) overcame an early morning decline to close in positive. GovCon Wire posted a summary of all six GovCon Index-related earnings figures plus that of United Techn...
The merger of Leidos Holdings (NYSE: LDOS) with Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) information systems and global solutions business involves “one or two” contracts for systems engineering and technical assistance service work that has largely been spun out of the latter company, Leidos CEO Roger Krone told investors Tuesday. ...
Six companies listed in Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index plus another large non-GCI government contractor reported their latest quarterly earnings statements before U.S. financial markets opened Wednesday. Of those seven total, six posted results for the first quarter of their respective fiscal years that run on a calendar basis, with one fo...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has one pending regulatory review remaining in the U.K. over the merger of its information systems and global solutions business with Leidos Holdings (NYSE: LDOS) ahead of the deal’s intended closure in either the third or fourth quarter, Lockheed CEO Marillyn Hewson told investors Tuesday. Both compa...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) — one of 30 companies listed in Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index and an S&P 500 stock — lifted its profit and revenue outlooks for 2016 despite a year-over-year decline in first quarter net income due to one-off charges for workforce reductions and other items. The Bethesda, Maryland-based ae...
The U.S. Navy has awarded positions to 12 companies on a five-year, $800 million contract to prototype radio frequency components for electronic warfare, communications, radar and information operations. The Defense Department said Monday contractors will vie for task orders to research, design, fabricate, integrate and test open...
The GovCon Index held against choppy trading activity in U.S. markets during the afternoon session Friday to close at a gain of 0.387 points to 76.369 and notch its second consecutive week in the positive. Friday also marks the Index’s seventh weekly gain over the last eight in a stretch that has seen it climb nea...
April 18 – April 22 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Corporate earnings season is underway for the first quarter and gives an opportunity for investors to gauge the financial health and performance of the world’s largest defense and government...
