Similar Articles

Browse Main Topics:

Business
Computers & Electronics
Education & Reference
Entertainment & Leisure
Family & Home
Finance & Investment
Health
Internet
Pets & Animals
Science & Technology
Society, Politics & Culture
Sports & Recreation

Similar Articles

The Motley Fool October 21, 2008 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Northrop Grumman's Bad Omen In advance of earnings, analysts wonder if Northrop Grumman will miss estimates again, as it had last quarter.
The Motley Fool July 28, 2008 Rich Smith	No Love for L-3 Funded orders in the second quarter should be plenty good enough to keep L-3 on the growth path for some time to come.
The Motley Fool July 23, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Looking for Lockheed The defense contractor is set to report second-quarter earnings. Investors, here is what you can expect to see.
The Motley Fool January 23, 2008 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Northrop Is Shipshape In advance of earnings, analysts expect defense contractor Northrop Grumman to show a small increase in sales and an even smaller increase in profits.
The Motley Fool January 26, 2009 Rich Smith	Northrop Grumman: Bad News Is Good News Northrop stunned the investing world by announcing that it will report a loss in the next quarter, but the news isn't as bad as it seems.
The Motley Fool July 23, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Northrop Knocking at the Door The defense contractor is set to report its second-quarter earnings. Investors, here is what you can expect to see.
The Motley Fool December 26, 2007 Rich Smith	Northrop's $2.5 Billion Buyback Northrop Grumman announces a buyback authorization of truly mammoth proportions. At $2.5 billion in size, this buyback could potentially reduce Northrop's share count by approximately 9% if implemented in full.
The Motley Fool March 13, 2008 Rich Smith	Northrop's Shocking Sale Northrop Grumman decides to sell off its "Electro-Optical Systems" unit to fellow contractor L-3 Communications for $175 million.
The Motley Fool December 24, 2008 Rich Smith	Boatloads of Profit for General Dynamics and Northrop The U.S. Navy delivers a veritable boatload of certainty to both companies -- and that is meant literally.
The Motley Fool April 23, 2008 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Looking Closer at L-3 In advance of earnings, analysts wonder if 2008 will be as good as 2007 was for the defense contractor.
The Motley Fool July 26, 2011 Andrew Tonner	Investor Roundtable: The Best Stocks in the Defense Industry Fools muster their financial forces to battle over the best potential picks.
The Motley Fool April 23, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: General Dynamics Tries Again The defense contractor is set to report its most recent quarterly report. Investors, here is what you can expect to see.
The Motley Fool January 29, 2008 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: L-3's Q4 Through much of last year, and all of this year to date, defense contractor L-3 Communications has reported earnings in excess of expectations. Will they do it again when they report fourth-quarter and full-year 2007 results?
The Motley Fool March 16, 2011 Andrew Tonner	Does This Defense Contractor Have the Makings of a Great Investment? Should you buy this stock?
The Motley Fool July 28, 2011 Katie Spence	Despite Budget Cuts, This Is Still My Favorite Stock Budget cuts may have hurt Northrop Grumman's profits, but it's more than capable of surviving this budget storm.
The Motley Fool October 23, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: L-3's Q3 In advance of third-quarter earnings results, analysts expect defense contractor L-3 Communications to post a rise in revenues and profits.
The Motley Fool July 28, 2008 Rich Smith	FLIR's Hot This high-tech optics specialist did all the things Wall Street usually likes to see in a company reporting earnings news: It grew sales. It expanded profit margins. It beat estimates. It raised guidance. And investors still weren't pleased.
The Motley Fool June 21, 2010 Rich Smith	Northrop Drops a $2 Billion Bombshell 11% of its shares could soon be vaporized.
The Motley Fool January 30, 2009 Rich Smith	L-3 Goes to 60 The Q4 results underwhelmed in some respects, but in the big-picture viewpoint L-3 is looking pretty good.
The Motley Fool January 5, 2011 Anand Chokkavelu	Rising Star Buy: Cheap Defense Stocks It's time to buy these beaten down defense stocks.
The Motley Fool July 25, 2007 Rich Smith	Orders Slow Down at Northrop Northrop ups 2007 earnings guidance, but the prospects of peace might be affecting the defense contractor.
The Motley Fool January 21, 2011 Roger Friedman	5 Cheap Stocks to Buy Now When the defense industry is battered, deals await the heady investor.
CIO October 28, 2009 Kim S. Nash	How Northrop Grumman Minimized Spending on Contract Labor By centralizing IT labor contract management, Northrop Grumman saved millions.
The Motley Fool May 19, 2009 Rich Smith	3 Top Defense Sector Stocks Raytheon, Lockheed, and General Dynamics carry strong balance sheets, while their valuations appear attractive relative to their growth prospects.
The Motley Fool September 14, 2011 Katie Spence	Budget Woes Are No Match for These Titans Defense companies may suffer from pressure on Capitol Hill to cut defense spending, but that's no reason to back out of defense investing. If anything, now is the time to get in at rock-bottom prices.
The Motley Fool November 21, 2011	A Brief History of Northup Grumman's Returns Northrop's normalized earnings per share grew at an average rate of 8.9% per year from 2001 until today.
The Motley Fool January 28, 2008 Rich Smith	Northrop Becomes a Guinea Pig Backlog refers to orders that have been booked and are expected to become revenue but haven't yet. Let's take a deeper look at backlog, using Northrop Grumman's fourth-quarter and full-year reports as an example.
The Motley Fool January 22, 2008 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Generally Less Dynamic? In advance of earnings, analysts expect defense contractor General Dynamics to show a quarterly sales increase of 16% and a big rise in profits too.
The Motley Fool January 29, 2009 Rich Smith	General Dynamics Relives History The more you study GD's stock, the more you notice that investors consistently underestimate the General's profit-making prowess.
The Motley Fool October 21, 2008 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: General Dynamics Marches On In advance of earnings, analysts expect General Dynamics to show an increase in both sales and profits.
The Motley Fool January 31, 2005 Rich Smith	The Best Offense All the talk of defense spending cuts has taken its toll on General Dynamics' stock over the past few weeks, knocking it down about 4% since the beginning of the year, and another percent or so on Friday.
The Motley Fool August 16, 2010 Rich Smith	FLIR Detects a Red-Hot Buy This acquisition is well worth the price.
The Motley Fool April 21, 2008 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Lackadaisical Lockheed In advance of earnings, analysts expect a very slight rise in sales from Lockheed.
The Motley Fool January 23, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Maybe a Bull Case for Merrill Lynch This large broker-dealer is doing well, but further operating improvements could make it a bargain for investors.
The Motley Fool October 8, 2007 Matt Koppenheffer	Quick Take: Merrill Lynch's Lapse Merrill Lynch announces that its third-quarter numbers will be very, very disappointing.
The Motley Fool April 29, 2008 Rich Smith	Northrop Misses the Boat This defense contractor appears to be struggling in the first quarter.
The Motley Fool October 26, 2010 Rich Smith	Lockheed Loves Itself Can it afford $3 billion in share buybacks? Sure. But is it a good idea?
The Motley Fool February 29, 2008 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: AeroVironment's Pre-Flight Reality Check In its first year as a public company, AeroVironment turned in results that beat expectations in every single quarter. But can this high-tech model-airplane maker repeat the feat in year two?
The Motley Fool October 26, 2004 Seth Jayson	Lockheed Martin Gains Altitude Healthy profits and free cash flow propel the stock, but has it reached a ceiling?
The Motley Fool June 23, 2011 Katie Spence	This Company's CEO Is Creating Value for Investors Incentives are the name of the game for the CEO of Northrop Grumman, Wesley Bush.
The Motley Fool January 24, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: General Dynamics Musters Last year was good to defense contractor General Dynamics, the shares of which bucked the market's overall stagnant trend to rise as much as 20% toward year's end. Will 2006 be similarly kind?
The Motley Fool January 22, 2008 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: United Tech's Missing Data In advance of earnings, investors hope United Technologies will close out its third straight fiscal year with another analyst beat.
The Motley Fool June 6, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Divining DynCorp The government contractor is set to report its fiscal year 2007 and fourth-quarter earnings. Investors, here is what you can expect to see.
The Motley Fool February 29, 2008 Rich Smith	Stay Tuned: Boeing vs. Northrop One company, either Northrop Grumman or Boeing, will win big, while the other will lose big, when the U.S. Air Force decides to whom it will award a $40 billion contract to build KC-X Tankers.
The Motley Fool December 8, 2004 Brian Gorman	Global Hawk Costs Soar Cost overruns won't endanger Northrop Grumman's latest surveillance aircraft program, but federal budget cuts will likely hamper future defense contracts.
The Motley Fool January 24, 2008 Rich Smith	Slow Motion for General Dynamics Investors fear that decreasing sales in the coming year may threaten the defense contractor's stock price.
The Motley Fool October 19, 2011 Brendan Byrnes	What to Expect From the Big Aerospace and Defense Companies This Earnings Season With defense cuts looming, how will these companies perform in Q3?
The Motley Fool September 14, 2011 Seth Jayson	1 Reason Northrop Grumman's Earnings Aren't So Hot With both 12-month and quarterly CCC running worse than average, Northrop Grumman gets low marks in this cash-conversion checkup.
The Motley Fool September 17, 2008 Rich Smith	This Just In: Upgrades and Downgrades Upgrades and Downgrades: Northrop...
The Motley Fool January 28, 2008 Rich Smith	Lockheed Martin's Stellar Show The world's largest defense contractor reported its fiscal 2007 results last week, and they were superb in every respect.