Promising Defense Stocks To Keep An Eye On - April 14th

Citigroup, Boeing, and General Electric are the three Defense stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Defense stocks are shares of companies involved in the production of military equipment, defense technologies, and related services. They are often influenced by government spending on national security and geopolitical events, making them a unique category within the equities market. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Defense stocks within the last several days.

Citigroup (C)

Citigroup Inc., a diversified financial service holding company, provides various financial product and services to consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions worldwide. It operates through five segments: Services, Markets, Banking, U.S. Personal Banking, and Wealth. The Services segment includes Treasury and Trade Solutions, which provides cash management, trade, and working capital solutions to multinational corporations, financial institutions, and public sector organizations; and Securities Services, such as cross-border support for clients, local market expertise, post-trade technologies, data solutions, and various securities services solutions.

Shares of C traded up $1.40 during trading hours on Monday, reaching $63.04. 8,391,047 shares of the company's stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 17,769,922. The business's fifty day simple moving average is $72.91 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $71.01. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.50, a current ratio of 0.96 and a quick ratio of 0.96. The firm has a market capitalization of $118.65 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 10.59, a P/E/G ratio of 0.64 and a beta of 1.29. Citigroup has a twelve month low of $53.51 and a twelve month high of $84.74.

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Boeing (BA)

The Boeing Company, together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, sells, services, and supports commercial jetliners, military aircraft, satellites, missile defense, human space flight and launch systems, and services worldwide. The company operates through Commercial Airplanes; Defense, Space & Security; and Global Services segments.

BA stock traded up $1.50 during trading hours on Monday, hitting $158.34. 2,991,649 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 8,705,069. Boeing has a one year low of $128.88 and a one year high of $196.95. The company has a market cap of $118.77 billion, a P/E ratio of -8.64 and a beta of 1.24. The stock has a 50-day simple moving average of $168.68 and a 200 day simple moving average of $164.00.

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General Electric (GE)

General Electric Company, doing business as GE Aerospace, designs and produces commercial and defense aircraft engines, integrated engine components, electric power, and mechanical aircraft systems. It also offers aftermarket services to support its products. The company operates in the United States, Europe, China, Asia, the Americas, the Middle East, and Africa.

Shares of General Electric stock traded up $2.98 on Monday, reaching $184.65. 2,140,375 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 5,887,202. General Electric has a fifty-two week low of $146.78 and a fifty-two week high of $214.21. The firm has a market capitalization of $198.18 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 30.83, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.59 and a beta of 1.04. The company has a current ratio of 1.09, a quick ratio of 0.81 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.88. The stock has a fifty day moving average price of $198.36 and a 200-day moving average price of $186.61.

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