median 15% — gross profit as a share of total assets, each member's median across its readable years; read on 43 of 54 members
Capital intensity
median 3.2% — capital expenditure as a share of revenue, each member's median across its readable years; read on 52 of 54 members
Net cash
21 of the 51 members with a readable debt line hold more cash and short-term investments than total debt
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From the latest filings · data as of July 9, 2026.
Boeing makes large aircraft: commercial jetliners it sells to airlines and aircraft-leasing companies, and defense and space systems it sells to the U.S. government and allied governments. It also runs a services arm that supports the fleet already flying, with parts, maintenance and support over the planes' long lives. Most of the money comes from selling the hardware, with a smaller slice from servicing the installed fleet.
Technology company that delivers real-time imagery, analytics and high-frequency monitoring of the world's most critical and strategic locations, economic assets, and events.
BWX Technologies, Inc. is a specialty manufacturer of nuclear components, a developer of nuclear technologies and a service provider with an operating history of more than 100 years.
Ducommun Incorporated is a leading designer and manufacturer of and provider of manufacturing solutions for high-performance products often used in high-cost-of failure applications primarily in the aerospace and defense, industrial, medical and other industries.
Firefly is a market-leading space and defense technology company with an established track record of success providing comprehensive mission solutions to national security, government, and commercial customers.
General Dynamics builds things that are hard to build and slow to replace. It makes business jets sold to companies and individuals, and it makes weapons and systems for governments — warships and submarines, land combat vehicles, weapon systems and munitions, and defense technology products and services. Most of the revenue comes from the defense work, and the single largest buyer of that work is the U.S. government.
GE Aerospace designs and builds the jet engines that power commercial airliners and military aircraft, selling them to airframe makers, airlines, and governments. The engine itself is mostly the entry ticket: the larger share of the money comes from servicing those engines over service lives that run for decades — spare parts, overhauls, and long-term maintenance on the fleet already in the air.
Garmin Ltd. have pioneered new products, many of which feature location technology such as Global Positioning System, services and applications that are designed for people who live an active lifestyle.
HEICO Corporation through its subsidiaries believes it is the world's largest manufacturer of Federal Aviation Administration-approved jet engine and aircraft component replacement parts, other than the original equipment manufacturers and their subcontractors.
Huntington Ingalls is a global, all-domain defense partner, building and delivering the world's most powerful, survivable naval ships and technologies that safeguard America's seas, sky, land, space, and cyber.
Honeywell is a diversified industrial company that sells both equipment and the work to keep it running. Its products include aircraft engines, cockpit avionics and auxiliary power units sold to plane makers and airlines; control systems and software that run buildings and factories; specialty chemicals and materials; and safety and automation gear such as sensors and scanners for manufacturers and warehouses. It makes money twice: once on the original sale, and again servicing the installed base — parts, repairs and upgrades — over the long life of the gear.
We have also begun working with regulators in other countries, including the United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea, Australia, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates to pursue commercialization opportunities in those markets.
L3Harris is a defense and government contractor. It builds communications equipment, electronics, and other mission systems — the gear and hardware that armed forces and government agencies depend on — and backs that equipment with services and support. Most of its money comes from selling products, with the rest from services, and most of its customers are governments, the U.S. defense buyer largest by far.
Lockheed Martin designs, builds, and sustains military hardware and the technology that ties it together, organized across four business areas: Aeronautics, Missiles and Fire Control, Rotary and Mission Systems, and Space — combat aircraft, missiles, helicopters, satellites, and the mission systems behind them. The buyer is overwhelmingly a government: the U.S. armed forces above all, and allied nations, who purchase directly or through U.S.-brokered foreign military sales. Most of the money comes from delivering the equipment itself, with a smaller slice from sustaining and servicing it over the long lives of these platforms.
We specialize in the design, manufacture, and sale of niche aerospace and defense components that are essential for today's aircraft and aerospace and defense systems.
We build spacecraft, connect space-based networks, and operate infrastructure as-a-service that support operations across low Earth orbit, geostationary orbit, cislunar space, and deep-space.
We are a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of a diverse range of recreational powerboats, including performance sport boats, sterndrive and outboard boats under eight brands—Malibu, Axis, Pursuit, Maverick, Cobia, Pathfinder, Hewes and Cobalt.
We are a provider of software and cybersecurity solutions and hardware products that we design, develop and manufacture and that are embedded into small-sized drones or small-sized unmanned aerial vehicles, or SUAVs, and into robotic systems, or robotics.
We are a provider of software and cybersecurity solutions and hardware products that we design, develop and manufacture and that are embedded into small-sized drones or small-sized unmanned aerial vehicles, or SUAVs, and into robotic systems, or robotics.
Mercury Systems is a technology company that delivers mission-critical processing to the edge - where signals and data are collected - to solve the most pressing aerospace and defense challenges.
We are the market leader in delivering resilient, next generation, complementary positioning, navigation and timing solutions designed to overcome the limitations and vulnerabilities of existing space-based Global Navigation Satellite Systems, including the Global Positioning System.
We are the market leader in delivering resilient, next generation, complementary positioning, navigation and timing solutions designed to overcome the limitations and vulnerabilities of existing space-based Global Navigation Satellite Systems, including the Global Positioning System.
Northrop Grumman builds aircraft, space systems, missile and weapons systems, and the electronics, sensors, and software that go inside them, along with the services to sustain them. It sells these principally to the U.S. government — the Pentagon and other agencies — with the rest going to allied governments abroad. It earns its money by winning and delivering on long-cycle contracts to design, produce, and support this equipment.
Aerospace company which develops and manufactures solution and hot-melt advanced composite materials used to produce composite structures for the global aerospace markets.
RTX builds and services the hardware of flight and defense. It sells jet engines through Pratt and Whitney, aircraft systems and components through Collins Aerospace, and missiles, radars and related defense systems through Raytheon, and the three carry the load in broadly comparable measure. Its customers are the commercial planemakers and airlines and the governments and militaries that buy weapons, and it earns money twice: once when it sells the original equipment, and again, over the long service life of that equipment, on the spare parts, repairs and services it needs to keep running.
We are the world's largest independent, pure-play provider of aerospace engine aftermarket services for fixed and rotary wing aircraft, serving the commercial, military and business aviation end markets.
Owner earnings 2022–2025($14M)$13M($27M)$234M
Retained capitalRetained $232M of earnings over 2022–2025; annual owner earnings grew $83M, $0.36 per $1 retained.
TAT is a leading provider of solutions and services to the commercial and military aerospace and ground defense industries focused mainly on three product areas and services: Thermal Management, Power and Actuation and Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul.
TransDigm Inc., is a leading global designer, producer and supplier of highly engineered aircraft components that are critical to the safe and effective operation of nearly all commercial and military aircraft worldwide.
We Are Teledyne Technologies Incorporated is a Delaware corporation that provides enabling technologies to sense, analyze and distribute information for industrial growth markets that require advanced technology and high reliability.
Textron Inc. is a multi-industry company that leverages its global network of aircraft, defense, industrial and finance businesses to provide customers with innovative products and services around the world.
We are a purpose-built, innovation-driven defense technology and space solutions company focused on delivering mission-critical solutions across national security, space exploration and infrastructure and commercial space markets.
Owner earnings 2023–2025($26M)($39M)($74M)
Retained capitalnot read
Balance sheetNet cash, +$44M
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