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August 10 Morning Report: GovCon Index Down on Friday’s Close


GovConIndexDOWNThe GovCon Index closed Friday with a loss of 0.258 points to 76.239.

Engility Corp. (NYSE: EGL) led gainers with a jump of 37.92 percent following a positive second quarter earnings report to close the week at 30.44.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 46.37 points to 17, 373.38, the Standard & Poor’s 500 composite index fell 5.99 points to 2, 077.57 and the Nasdaq composite index went down 12.90 points to 5, 043.54.

Top Percentage Gainers

Company$ Current Price$ Change% Change
Engility Holdings30.44+8.37+37.92%
Leidos Holdings44.45+1.22+2.82%
Computer Sciences Corp.64.96+1.42+2.23%
Booz Allen Hamilton26.76+0.48+1.83%
Orbital ATK77.77+0.95+1.24%

Market Summary

  Advancing Issues     9 (30.00%)
  Declining Issues   21 (70.00%)
  Unchanged Issues     0

Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index is a composite index that tracks 30 of the largest publicly-traded Government Contracting (GovCon) firms.

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