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TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 17, 2016 ” Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) has transferred custody of the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock USS John P. Murtha to the U.S. Navy, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The company said Friday it is set to deliver the last two San Antonio-class vessels to the Navy to...
The GovCon Index posted its second gain of more than a full point in three weeks Monday to close up 1.052 points — or 1.366 percent — to 78.090. Contractor stocks rode the wave of positivity in U.S. markets after Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway investment arm disclosed its now-$1 billion ...
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 stayed clear of choppy activity in U.S. financial markets with a gain of 0.705 points — or 0.929 percent — to 76.572 on a first quarter earnings beat by shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) and a sharp spike in McKesson Corp. (NYSE: MCK) shares. Huntington Ingalls rose 4.13 perce...
Three companies listed in Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index reported quarterly financial results before U.S. financial markets opened Thursday with one in-line against analyst expectations for earnings per share and below on revenue and the other two contractors above Wall Street’s outlook for both figures. Dulles, Virginia-based spaceÃ...
The GovCon Index started the first week of May with a gain of 0.493 points to 76.854 in an attempt at a recovery from two days of sharp losses incurred Thursday and Friday for the final days of April trade. Cubic Corp. (NYSE: CUB) closed up 6 cents to $41.63 with 309, 200 shares traded versus the 10-day average...
The GovCon Index deepened its slide Friday with a loss of 0.481 points to 76.361 that puts the GCI at a weekly decline but a sharp gain for the month of April as earnings reports for large government contractors dominated trading activity Monday through Friday. April represents the Index’s third consecutive month with positive moveme...
The GovCon Index soared 1.396 percent to 77.998 Wednesday on a series of pre-market earnings reports from several large defense prime contractors as Boeing (NYSE: BA) overcame an early morning decline to close in positive. GovCon Wire posted a summary of all six GovCon Index-related earnings figures plus that of United Techn...
The GovCon Index erased two days of losses with a gain of 1.183 percent to a one-month high close of 74.769 Wednesday as U.S. markets reacted to the Federal Reserve‘s April meeting minutes that showed some hesitance by policymakers over whether to raise interest rates in April. Healthcare stocks in the S&P 500 composite inde...
