General Dynamics Corporation (GD)

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General Dynamics Corporation's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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General Dynamics Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $31 billion in fiscal 2016 to $53 billion in fiscal 2025, up 6.2% a year; it rose in 8 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 4% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, General Dynamics Corporation's diluted share count shrank about 0.7% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 51% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 35 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-09 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, General Dynamics Corporation earned about 16 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 55 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 1.8% over the year (the filed statements).

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General Dynamics Corporation's standing among 30 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $53 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 2% by size; a net margin of 8% ranks in the top 15%; revenue growth of 10.1% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 35% (its annual reports).

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General Dynamics Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Novakovic, Phebe N (Chairman and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2013-01-04, 13.9 years (top 2% of its family); the 26 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 9 years (top 21%); 9 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 26 people in charge now (top 39%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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General Dynamics Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $2.3 billion against debt of $7.0 billion leaves -8.2% of its assets as net cash, bottom 42% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 7.5% of revenue (top 25%) (its annual report).

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General Dynamics Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 10.1% a year over the last three filed years against 6.2% over all 10, speeding up (top 23% of its family); the newest year grew 10.1% (top 26%); research spending grew 20.2% a year (top 37%); capital spending grew 1.4% a year (top 36%) (its annual reports). General Dynamics Corporation reported 4 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Marine Systems at $17 billion (32%), Technologies at $13 billion (26%), Aerospace at $13 billion (25%), and 1 more; 4 of 4 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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General Dynamics Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $53 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 0.1% above the $53 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 45% of its family); net income of $4.2 billion against a prior three-year average of $3.5 billion (top 30%); a net margin of 8% against 8.1% before (top 34%) (its annual reports).