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BWX Technologies, Inc.

Strong FundamentalsStrong FundamentalsRevenue growing 26% YoYStreet coverage with positive forward estimatesQuiet on X (28 mentions/wk)
$BWXT·$16B·Aerospace & Defense·Industrials
$152.85-1.9%YTD-1.2%1Y-7.8%
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2026-08-20: 8 posts2026-08-21: 6 posts2026-08-22: 3 posts2026-08-23: 1 posts28+4%
Price updated 1d ago·X counts updated 6d ago
BWBWXT
$BWXTBWX Technologies, Inc.
$152.85-1.92%28 posts+4%
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AI verdict & sentimentAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Top X posts

Today's AI verdict on what's driving $BWXT, plus how loud the X conversation is and which way it's leaning.

AI analysis

TickerTalks’ read on the fundamentals and what’s driving the move.

Proven numbersWinding up for a moveAI verdict · as of 2026-08-28

Trading in a tight range and building pressure — a move looks likely soon, but the direction isn't clear yet.

Four straight double-digit EPS beats and an Army microreactor win, yet the stock sits at 9% of its 52-week range.

BWXT is the rare case where operating results and share price have moved in opposite directions. Revenue grew 26% year over year in the latest quarter, and the last four earnings reports beat consensus by 2.9%, 21.7%, 21.2% and 17.2% respectively — a genuinely unusual run. Meanwhile the stock is down about 6% over twelve months and trades at roughly 9% of its 52-week range, below both its 50-day and 200-day moving averages.

The business is as close to a moat as defense manufacturing gets: BWXT is the sole supplier of naval nuclear reactors for US carriers and submarines, a position that is not contestable on any near-term horizon. The recent US Army selection of its BANR advanced reactor for the Janus program extends that franchise into microreactors, a genuinely new addressable market.

The counterweight is valuation and leverage. A trailing P/E near 49 and EV/EBITDA above 34 are rich even for a sole-source defense franchise, debt-to-equity sits above 1.5, and ROIC of 8% is modest against that multiple. A director also sold $1.7 million of stock in August. The drawdown may simply be the multiple compressing toward the fundamentals rather than the market missing something.

X sentiment is confidently bullish and focused on the Janus award and the Navy franchise, framing the drawdown as an entry. That framing is coherent but leans on the story rather than the multiple.

Agrees with X sentimentX is bullish and the operating results support it — four consecutive beats and 26% revenue growth are real. The gap is that X does not engage with the 49x multiple, which is the likelier explanation for the drawdown.

What to watch: Whether the Janus/BANR award converts into booked revenue rather than a ceiling figure, and the November 2 earnings report against a $1.21 estimate. Any further insider selling would matter more after a fifth beat fails to move the stock.

On the calendar: Q3 earnings, 2026-11-02

X sentiment

What the X crowd is saying right now — descriptive, summarised from the day’s posts.

Bullish sentiment7 posts analyzed · as of 2026-08-29

BWX Technologies chatter is decisively bullish on nuclear tailwinds. US Army selected BWXT Advanced Technologies for the $2.2B Janus program at Fort Campbell (BANR high-temp gas-cooled microreactor), Wells Fargo upgraded from Underweight to Equal-Weight (PT cut to $170 from $200), and nuclear-fuel fabrication basket +3.4% morning trade. Tone is 'defense-nuclear inflection is here.'

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What it does

Plain-English summary of the business — what they sell and how they make money.

Manufactures nuclear reactor components for US Navy submarines and carriers and provides DOE nuclear operations support.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Where Aerospace & Defense sits in its cycle right now — and what that implies for $BWXT.

Aerospace & Defense · Industrials

No material change from last week — institutions now mark RKLB, LUNR, and RDW against SPCX's $1.

What this means for $BWXT

Neutral — Manufactures nuclear reactor components for US Navy submarines and carriers and provides DOE nuclear operations support; limited read-through from aerospace & defense macro dynamics to this specific revenue mix.

Top industry ETF

$ITAiShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF
+16.3%YTD
+16.3%1Y

Fundamentals & catalyst

Profitability, valuation, and the next earnings event — at a glance, with rule-of-thumb signals.

Key ratios

P/E
49.5How much investors are paying per dollar of profit the company actually earned in the last 12 months. Lower means the stock looks cheaper relative to earnings.~15–25 is typical for the S&P 500; high-growth names trade 30+; hyper-growth or speculative can be 100+ or negative.
ROIC
8.1%What percentage return the business earns on every dollar of capital (equity + debt) deployed in operations. The cleanest measure of business quality.Above ~15% is high-quality; consistently above 25% suggests a real moat. Below the company's cost of capital is value-destroying.
Op margin
10.4%Operating profit (after sales, marketing, R&D, and overhead but before interest and taxes) as a percentage of revenue. The clearest view of how well the underlying business is run.Mature business above 20% is healthy; software businesses can run 30%+; commodity / retail businesses operate in single digits.
FCF yield
1.9%Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capex) divided by the company's market cap. The cash-on-cash return you'd get owning the whole business at today's price.Above ~5% is attractive; below ~2% means you're paying up for growth. Capital-light businesses (software) run higher than capital-heavy ones (utilities).
P/S
5.0Same idea as P/E but per dollar of revenue. Useful for companies that aren't profitable yet, where P/E is meaningless.Under ~2 is cheap; software / SaaS often runs 8–15; well above 20 implies the market is pricing in very high future growth.
ROE
27.9%Net income as a percentage of shareholders' equity. Similar to ROIC but counts only the equity side.Above 20% is strong, but can be inflated by leverage — a heavily indebted company can show high ROE with weak underlying ROIC.
Gross margin
22.6%Revenue minus the direct cost of producing what was sold, as a percentage of revenue. The first read on whether the product is structurally profitable.Software / SaaS is typically 70%+; consumer goods 30–50%; commodity / hardware businesses can be under 20%.
D/E
1.6Total debt divided by shareholders' equity. Measures how much the business runs on borrowed money versus owner capital.Under 1 is conservative; 1–2 is typical for mature businesses; over 2 is leveraged and more sensitive to interest rates.

Past earnings

QuarterReportedActualEstimateSurprise
Q2 2026Aug 3, 2026$1.07$1.04+2.9%
Q1 2026May 4, 2026$1.12$0.92+21.7%
Q4 2025Feb 23, 2026$1.08$0.89+21.2%
Q3 2025Nov 3, 2025$1.00$0.85+17.2%
Next earningsMon, Nov 2·consensus EPS $1.21

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q1 FY26$861.1M+26.2%23.0%10.0%$0.99$50.1M
Q4 FY25$885.8M+18.7%21.0%8.1%$1.02$56.8M
Q3 FY25$866.3M+28.9%21.8%10.6%$0.90$94.9M
Q2 FY25$764.0M+12.1%25.1%13.4%$0.86$126.3M

Forward consensus

5-year forecast · up to 12 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$3.8B$3.8B – $3.8B$4.71$4.02 – $4.8512
FY27$4.1B$4.0B – $4.2B$5.23$5.10 – $5.4212
FY28$4.4B$4.2B – $5.2B$5.82$5.46 – $6.2910
FY29$4.7B$4.6B – $5.0B$6.28$6.04 – $6.905
FY30$5.1B$4.9B – $5.5B$6.88$6.63 – $7.575

Setup & momentum

Volume, range, and moving-average position — the technical setup driving short-term moves.

Right now

Vol vs 30dToday's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.0.9×Today's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.
52w rangeWhere the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.5%Where the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.
vs 50d MALatest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.-13.2%Latest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.
vs 200d MALatest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.-21.0%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatMid float · 90.9M shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today1.0% of floatToday's volume as a percent of the free float. Above 5% on a single day is unusually high turnover for the available share count.β0.765-year weekly beta vs the S&P 500. Above 1.5 means the stock typically moves more than the index; below 0.8 moves less.

Insider activity

Recent open-market buys and sells by officers and directors — flagged when multiple insiders cluster.

Recent transactions

SellAug 12Rex D GevedenCEO10.0K sh$1.7MSellMay 12Rex D GevedenCEO10.0K sh$2.0MSellMay 11Fitzgerald Michael ThomasCFO2.4K sh$506K
+ 34 other (25 awards · 6 exempts · 3 inkinds) in window

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SEC filings

Material 8-K, 13D, S-3, and 424B5 events from the last 180 days — the filings that actually move the price.

Recent material filings

8-KShareholder voteMay 58-K — Item 5.07: Shareholder vote
AI summary

BWXT held its Annual Meeting of stockholders around 2026-05-05 (8-K Item 5.07). Stockholders elected 11 directors to the board. A non-binding say-on-pay vote on executive compensation was conducted. Independent auditor ratification was approved. Routine governance event — monitor for unusually high withhold votes as an activist signal.

3New insider — initial holdingsMar 43
+ 12 other (3 10-Qs · 3 13Gs · 2 earnings 8-Ks · 2 proxys) in window

Recent news

Latest headlines from major outlets, sourced and timestamped — context for whatever just moved.

BWX Technologies' Army Reactor Win Could Redraw Its Nuclear Growth Storymarketbeat.com·2d agoU.S. Army Chooses BWXT Advanced Nuclear Reactor (BANR) for Janus Programbusinesswire.com·4d agoCan BWXT's National Laboratory Role Expand Its Government Services?zacks.com·5d agoWhy the Nuclear Sector Still Has Room to Growetftrends.com·6d agoDanske Bank A S Buys Shares of 5,891 BWX Technologies, Inc. $BWXTdefenseworld.net·7d ago

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