The company is part of General Dynamics C4 Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD).
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General Dynamics (GD) announced that third quarter profit fell by 8 percent due to higher costs offsetting an increase in revenue.
Other competitors in the capital goods sector include: Boeing (BA), General Dynamics (GD), and Elbit Systems Ltd. (ADR) (ESLT).
Defense contractors Northrop ( NOC), General Dynamics ( GD) and Raytheon ( RTN) face a future without the government spending for two wars.
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And, keep an eye on shares of General Dynamics (GD) today.
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Among the largest underlying components of ITA, in trading today Precision Castparts ( PCP) is off about 0.3%, and General Dynamics ( GD) is lower by about 1%.
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Its PE ratio is greater than those of General Dynamics ( GD), Boeing ( BA), Illinois Tool Works ( ITW) or even conglomerate United Technologies Corp. ( UTX).
General Dynamics Corporation (GD) maintained its quarterly dividend of 47 cents per share.
Hanson spent 2 years persuading General Dynamics (nyse: GD - news - people ) to sell one near Chicago and 15 years of patient waiting before a smaller competitor in California agreed to sell another.
General Dynamics (nyse: GD - news - people ), which built GeoEye-1, has had no problem with its last 10 satellites, while Boeing 's (nyse: BA - news - people ) Delta 2 Rocket, set to carry GeoEye-1 into orbit, has a track record of 70 successful launches.
More information about General Dynamics is available online at www.gd.com.
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During the balance of her tenure there as the first female president of a major operating unit in General Dynamics history, she quadrupled the size of GD Armaments while sustaining steady profitability.
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On the military front, Medis is supplying General Dynamics with experimental Power Packs to power battlefield PDAs, although GD has yet to place an order.
However, there are already examples of defense contractors like General Dynamics that have thrived while having a foot in both worlds (GD owns bizjet giant Gulfstream), and investors have become worried enough about where military demand is headed so that they no longer reflexively criticize any move that sector players make out of defense.
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It was at that point that the powerful Henry Crown of Chicago became the biggest shareholder in General Dynamics, merging it with his sprawling construction supply business and beginning a six-decade relationship between GD and the wealthy Crown family that persists to this day.
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