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General Dynamics Corp.
Rule-based classification of fundamentals against the sector. Not a price forecast and not investment advice.
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2 of 5 met · composite in line with peers
Business quality, valuation against the sector, and position in the 52-week range — whether they line up or not.
Strong fundamentals
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Profitability
4/4
Debt & liquidity
3/3
Efficiency
1/2
Debt/EBITDA at 1.1× sits -51% below the sector median 2.3×, and FCF yield of 5.8% runs well above the sector median 2.7% — the balance sheet and cash generation both read cleanly. An F-Score of 8/9 reinforces that picture: leverage is falling and profitability signals are intact across the board. Where the profile gets complicated is margins and returns: operating margin of 10.2% trails the sector median 16.5% by -38%, and ROE of 17.7% lags the median 33.8% by -48%, which is the tension the archetype label captures. On the forward axis, consensus and the realized three-year EPS CAGR of {{value:eps_cagr_3y}} are broadly aligned — an unusual condition given the systematic optimism that tends to inflate analyst forecasts — and the beat rate over the last eight quarters has been strong, with the most recent quarter printing EPS 13.4% above the prior year.
| Ticker | Name | F-Score | ROE | Revenue YoY | Op. margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BA | Boeing | 6/9 | 289% | +34% |
Quarter-by-quarter classification · a retrospective read by the current logic · not a price forecast
Rule-based classification of fundamentals against the sector. Not a price forecast and not investment advice. The method did not see these quarters in real time; this is the current logic applied to past reports.
When GD reports on 2026-10-22, track operating margin against the current 16.5% figure, which sits 38% below the sector median. A move toward that median, alongside year-over-year revenue growth, would address the main gap in an otherwise strong F-Score profile.
GD's 10-K risk factors and management's discussion will clarify how backlog composition and defense contract structures affect the operating margin. Pay particular attention to the Aerospace and Combat Systems segment disclosures, which bear directly on the ROE reading of 33.8%, currently 48% below the sector median.
From the alphabetical table in section 06, pick two or three companies and line up one metric — Debt/EBITDA or FCF yield are useful starting points given GD's 2.29× leverage and 2.69% yield. No company in that table is ranked; the exercise is to see where GD's figures sit within the range you observe.
Steps you can check yourself, based on the figures in this brief.
Piotroski F-Score: nine binary tests of financial strength from the annual report. A ✓ marks a test passed, a dot (·) a test failed.
Over 4 years: +2%+10%-16%+24%
Over 4 years: 1.811.711.281.12
Over 4 years: +2%+7%+13%+10%
The context on the right shows how each figure compares with the sector median. The trend below tracks the change over recent fiscal years.
Beat consensus in 7 of 8 recent quarters — the company clears estimates regularly (consensus is often set conservatively).
Last quarter's EPS against consensus, plus the estimated date of the next report.
| 5% |
| CAT | Caterpillar | 6/9 | 44% | +4% | 16% |
| CSX | CSX | 4/9 | 23% | -3% | 32% |
| DE | Deere | 5/9 | 21% | -12% | — |
| EMR | Emerson Electric | 7/9 | 11% | +3% | — |
| ETN | Eaton | 6/9 | 22% | +10% | — |
| GD | General Dynamics Corp. | 8/9 | 18% | +10% | 10% |
| GE | GE Aerospace | 5/9 | 46% | +18% | — |
| HON | Honeywell | 6/9 | 29% | +8% | 22% |
| ITW | Illinois Tool Works | 6/9 | 94% | +1% | 26% |
| LMT | Lockheed Martin | 6/9 | 77% | +6% | 10% |
| MMM | 3M | 5/9 | 76% | +2% | 19% |
| RTX | RTX | 7/9 | 11% | +10% | 10% |
| UNP | Union Pacific | 7/9 | 40% | +1% | 40% |
| UPS | UPS | 4/9 | 34% | -3% | 9% |
A sample of 15 companies in the sector including the target, alphabetical, unranked. Data from the latest SEC annual reports.
Rule-based classification of fundamentals against the sector. Not a price forecast and not investment advice.
A simplified retrospective read: no analyst forecast (not available historically); the source is the annual report as of the date, so neighbouring quarters can rest on the same data. Quarters with the same classification in a row are merged into one row — each row is one change in the read, not a separate quarter. One ticker is an illustration of the classification logic, not statistics. How we calculate →