The GovCon Index nudged out a gain of 0.081 points to 78.273 Wednesday on contributions from Boeing (NYSE: BA) and armored truck manufacturer Navistar International (NYSE: NAV). Boeing surged 1.07 percent and Navistar rose 9.09 percent, while shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) rebounded by one-ha...
The GovCon Index consistently traded lower for the entirety of Monday trade and closed at a decline of 0.509 points to 77.267 with U.S. financial markets choppy in light of a sharp gain by Apple and speculation among investors about potential interest rate hikes this year. Boeing (NYSE: BA) nudged out a gain of 24 cents and CAE...
The GovCon Index felt the pressure from U.S. investor worries about a potential interest rate hike in June and closed at a decline of 0.520 points to 77.071. CAE (NYSE: CAE) was one of the GovCon Index’s lone bright spots with a gain of 2.65 percent after the Montreal-based aerospace and defense contractor posted full-year and f...
The GovCon Index received a boost from large defense primes on a rebound in commodity prices Tuesday to close at a surge of 1.245 percent to a new three-month high of 78.322, which also extends the GCI’s current streak of gains to four sessions. Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Huntin...
The GovCon Index closed Friday with a 0.634-point increase to 7.206 amid buying activity in U.S. financial markets. The GCI also posted a weekly gain of 0.845 points as earnings reports from contractors over the past week — including Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII), Engility Holdings (NYS...
The GovCon Index rode the wave of buying activity in U.S. financial markets Friday and closed up 0.634 points to 7.206, which put the GCI at a weekly gain of 0.845 points to start May after a series of earnings reports from contractors that exceeded analyst expectations. Shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: ...
The GovCon Index had all of its Wednesday gains wiped out in Thursday trade with a sharp decline of 1.482 percent to 76.842 after a third-quarter revenue miss and guidance cut from government services contractor CACI International (NYSE: CACI). Arlington, Virginia-based CACI brought down the high ends of both its full-year earnings and revenue ...
The GovCon Index closed Friday with a 0.386-point increase to 75.69, capping GCI’s third week in positive territory over the past four weeks. Energy shares saw a decline of at least 1 percent ahead of a meeting between the world’s largest oil producers Sunday to discuss measures to address a potent...
The GovCon Index held against larger trends in U.S. financial markets Friday with a gain of 0.386 points to 75.692 as declines by energy and technology shares weighed on the bellwether S&P 500 composite index. Nine of the GCI’s 11 S&P 500-listed companies posted gains with McKesson (NYSE: MCK) as that group’s largest po...
The GovCon Index mirrored the larger U.S. stock indices’ reversal into negative territory in the last hour of trade Monday and closed at a loss of 0.222 points to 74.005 with no clear driver of news on activity in markets. The GCI opened up nearly a half-percent in the first 45 minutes with the S&P 500...
