If you're an investor, you likely consider return on investment, or ROI, as a key metric in your assessment of a stock. Certainly, it's an important number.
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April 29 - News
Sequestration's in full swing, and it's putting a kink in the Navy's ship-buying plans.
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April 29 - News
While I may not be convinced of Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC)'s superiority in the realm of robotics, I have to admit the defense giant deserves a small round of applause...
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April 26 - News
If there's one thing a company doesn't want to be known for, it's failure. Arguably, next in line to failure would be asininely expensive.
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April 24 - News
Esterline Technologies Corporation (NYSE:ESL) is a leading world-wide supplier to the aerospace and defense industry, specializing in three core areas: Avionics & Controls, Sensors...
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April 23 - Insider Trading
By now you've probably heard the news; The Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency thinks "with moderate confidence" that North Korea has developed a nuclear weapon capable of ...
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April 20 - News
It's true that The Boeing Company (NYSE:BA) has had some problems recently.
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April 19 - News
This series, brought to you by Yahoo! Finance, looks at which upgrades and downgrades make sense, and which ones investors should act on.
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April 11 - News
What the video shows is the new, unimaginatively named Laser Weapon System, or LaWS, that the Naval Sea Systems Command has developed to shoot down enemy drones and disable small...
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April 10 - News
It might not be obvious to the casual observer, but right now, The Boeing Company (NYSE:BA) stock offers one of the best values available in the entire aerospace and defense ...
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April 10 - News
It's no surprise that defense contractors like Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE:LMT) are desperately trying to diversify their business mix.
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April 8 - News
Raytheon Company (NYSE:RTN)'s Patriot missile system blasted onto the world stage in 1991, when the missiles famously sheltered U.S.
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April 2 - News
The United States is pressing China to stop hacking U.S. computer systems. China denies it's doing anything.
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April 1 - News
Peter Lynch used to say that you should know enough about a company to tell its “story” in just a minute or two.
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April 1 - News
The markets continue to perform well, shrugging off the ever-present stream of worries of persistent financial calamity in Europe.
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March 27 - News
To be sure, while the country has undoubtedly developed a reputation for unleashing threatening rhetoric, it seems to have achieved an entirely new level of vitriol over the past...
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March 26 - News
In trying to chart your own course to invest for your retirement, it's useful to look at what major companies are doing with their pension-fund money to try to achieve the same...
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March 21 - News
Among the largest global aircraft manufacturers, The Boeing Company (NYSE:BA) has been in the news recently owing to its latest, highly innovative, and complex product, the ...
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March 21 - News
Recently, I read an article about some defense firms and their CEOS. The hook of the story was that all the CEOs were women. It's interesting to think about how times change.
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March 20 - News
In this series, we'll highlight four companies in an industry and compare their "cash king margins" over time, trying to determine which has the greatest likelihood of putting...
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March 20 - News
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) recently disclosed that its computers had been hacked.
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March 20 - News
Dividend investing is one of the most popular investing strategies, and for good reasons: academic studies have proven that dividend stocks tend to outperform the markets in the...
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March 18 - Dividend Stocks
For a while now, I've written about how the threats coming from North Korea are a benefit for missile defense, and defense companies.
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March 18 - News
The nationwide banking holiday declared by incoming President Franklin D. Roosevelt could have ended in disaster.
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March 15 - News
Great news, America! Dennis Rodman met North Korea's Communist dictator, Kim Jong-un and said, "He's a really good guy." Well, that's a relief.
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March 11 - News
The sequester is certainly a big deal for defense stocks, as evidenced by former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta calling the sequester a "disaster" for the Defense Department.
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March 8 - News
Most economies around the globe are recovering, which in turn has bolstered air travel.
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March 6 - News
So, sequestration happened.
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March 5 - News
The United States Postal Service just announced that it is cutting Saturday delivery in August, moving to a five-day schedule as part of a multiyear effort to reduce costs and...
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March 5 - News
J.P. Morgan is hosting its annual Transportation & Defense conference in New York City from Monday, March 4 through Wednesday, March 6.
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March 4 - News
You've probably heard the news: Sequestration is the new reality and the world as we know it is ending. OK, that's a little dramatic.
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March 4 - News
It seems the political battle over government spending is about to heat up again.
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February 22 - News
The defense sector has been under attack for the last few years as federal government budget cuts pressure the major companies in the sector.
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February 22 - News
Investors who love to receive income from their investments may be understandably frustrated by the current market environment. The Federal Reserve’s monetary policy has short...
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February 21 - News
The next selection for the Inflation-Protected Income Growth Portfolio is defense contracting giant Raytheon Company (NYSE:RTN).
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February 20 - News
This article will focus on how sequestration could affect the defense sector.
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February 19 - News
Boeing reported 4Q 2012 earnings per share of $1.28, while analysts had estimated earnings per share of $1.19. Revenues were up 14% to $22.3 billion.
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February 13 - News
With sequestration looming on the horizon and Washington’s failure to pass a working budget, it is difficult to anticipate where the axe will fall in March.
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February 12 - News
We’ve come a long way since the Wright Brothers developed the first successful aircraft, some 110 years in fact.
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February 11 - News
So we're a little more than a month away from yet another round of Capitol Hill-induced economic chaos. I'm speaking of course, about the reappearing sequestration.
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February 5 - News
