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Real estate development has a way of turning into one GD thing after another.
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The company is part of General Dynamics C4 Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD).
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At the closing bell, GD is up about 1%, while VIAB is off about 0.5% on the day Wednesday.
In a sector where engineers tend to dominate and functional synergies are highly valued, the GD model is unusual.
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General Dynamics Corporation (GD) maintained its quarterly dividend of 47 cents per share.
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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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.
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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More information about General Dynamics is available online at www.gd.com.
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The marine unit contains three shipyards focused on separate segments of the naval ship construction business, and in each of those segments GD is the dominant, most respected player.
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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).
So Chabraja, who sits on the board and has much of his wealth tied up in GD stock, appears to have played a key part in getting the succession process rolling.
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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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According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, GD and VIAB collectively make up 2.34% of the Buyback Achievers Portfolio ETF (PKW) which is up by about 0.3% on the day Wednesday.
Running GD according to strict financial standards, Chabraja did dozens of transactions that restored the company to the top ranks of Pentagon contractors, and made it the most profitable enterprise in the sector.
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So Linda Hudson ended up working for GD.
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The BAE solution will offer that high-capacity signal along with the standard signal for the handheld and manpack radios GD is already producing and an older signal used by 200, 000 fielded radios that Exelis built.
That hard-nosed, numbers-driven approach to deploying capital has consistently generated superior returns for GD shareholders over the past 15 years, which is why most of the other big players in the sector now emulate it.
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In that regard, the fact that GD shares have traded roughly in line with defense peers is surprising, because few of them have a commercial component offering the upside potential over coming years that Gulfstream does.
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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.
There will likely be a significant drop-off in demand for the munitions that the unit supplies to the Army and Marine Corps, but GD has built up a strong base of support in Congress for protecting its core vehicle franchises.
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That left his descendants with a dilemma because GD was heavily invested in developing the next generation of military technology, but the collapse of communism made the demand outlook weaker than at any time since Crown had taken control of the company.
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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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Once Phebe Novakovic takes the helm at GD and installs her own team, she will need to tackle the challenge of maintaining profitability in a company that derives three-quarters of its revenues from military sales during a period of declining defense outlays both at home and abroad.
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