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Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc.

$HII·$13B·Aerospace & Defense·Industrials
$294.21-1.0%YTD-5.9%1Y+6.9%
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HIHII
$HIIHuntington Ingalls Industries, Inc.
$294.21-1.04%27 posts+4%
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AI verdict & sentimentAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Today's AI verdict on what's driving $HII, 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 2026-08-21

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

Only-public-shipbuilder for the US Navy, running blowout numbers with a stock stuck near lows — the setup is loading.

Huntington Ingalls is the biggest US military shipbuilder — Newport News (nuclear carriers, submarines) and Ingalls (surface combatants) — and effectively the only pure-play way to own the naval buildout in the public market. What's unusual right now is how bad the tape looks against how good the numbers are.

  • Q2 EPS blew out at $5.27 vs $3.79 consensus — a 39% surprise, the biggest of the last four quarters and driven by shipyard productivity finally converting the backlog, so operating leverage is showing up in the actual cash flow.
  • Revenue grew 13% year-on-year and the company just booked a $2.2B Western-Hemisphere surveillance contract — the political backdrop (a Trump directive for the first new public US Navy shipyard in 80+ years, sustained submarine demand) points to a multi-year contract flow, not one big year.
  • On Aug 10, three days after the Q2 print, CEO Chris Kastner sold $4.2M of stock — a real signal at a real moment, and one to weigh even though it's a single insider rather than a cluster.
  • Stock sits at the 20th percentile of its 52-week range and -14% below its 200-day trend despite the blowout quarter — a tape this compressed against news this positive is textbook coiling.

What breaks it upward is another large contract award or the Oct 29 Q3 print confirming Q2's productivity gains are structural — the setup right now is the fundamentals and the tape moving in opposite directions, which usually resolves in favour of the fundamentals. What invalidates it is Kastner's Aug 10 sale becoming a pattern from other named officers, or productivity giving back in Q3.

Agrees with X sentimentThe uniformly bullish X read on the fifth-shipyard directive, the $2.2B contract, and the pre-Anduril defense-tech grouping matches the fundamentals. The piece missing from the crowd's version is the compressed tape (20th percentile of the range) — that's the reason the setup is interesting, not a reason to be cautious.

What to watch: Oct 29 Q3 earnings — a repeat of Q2's shipyard productivity is the confirmation that the operating leverage is structural. Any additional Form 4 selling clustered with CEO Kastner would soften the setup.

On the calendar: 2026-10-29 — Q3 earnings

X sentiment

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

Bullish sentiment6 posts analyzed · as of 2026-08-17

Huntington Ingalls chatter is uniformly bullish - President Trump ordered the Secretary of War to build a fifth public US Navy shipyard (first new one in over 80 years), and HII is described as the only pure-play tied to the naval shipbuilding buildout. HII was awarded a $2.2B Western-Hemisphere surveillance/intelligence contract, and SRNS (the JV with FLR) is $2.3B through Sept 2027 covering tritium/plutonium/HEU handling. Technicals show a first-leg trend setup with 8/20/50 EMAs stacked and CML flagged. HII is grouped with KTOS, AVAV, and ACHR as pre-Anduril-IPO defense-tech.

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What it does

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

Builds nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines as the primary supplier to the US Navy's largest shipbuilding programs.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

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

Aerospace & Defense · Industrials

Defense budget tailwinds — NATO spending commitments and Pentagon procurement acceleration — support backlogs at prime contractors. Commercial space is a separate driver: launch cadence and satellite constellations are pulling RKLB and LUNR on their own momentum, independent of traditional defense spending.

What this means for $HII

Partial — software subscription economics provide some insulation from macro cycles; AI integration is the growth catalyst for this segment; Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc.

Top industry ETF

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

Fundamentals & catalyst

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

Key ratios

P/E
19.0How 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
5.0%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
4.9%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
9.2%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
0.9Same 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
12.0%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
12.4%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
0.6Total 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 2026Jul 30, 2026$5.27$3.79+39.1%
Q1 2026May 5, 2026$3.79$3.70+2.4%
Q4 2025Feb 5, 2026$4.04$3.72+8.6%
Q3 2025Oct 30, 2025$3.68$3.30+11.5%
Next earningsThu, Oct 29·consensus EPS $4.44

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q1 FY26$3.1B+13.4%13.2%5.0%$3.79$-464.0M
Q4 FY25$3.5B+15.7%11.6%4.5%$4.05$516.0M
Q3 FY25$3.2B+16.1%12.3%5.0%$3.69$281.0M
Q2 FY25$3.1B+3.5%12.8%5.0%$3.86$727.0M

Forward consensus

5-year forecast · up to 10 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$13.0B$12.9B – $13.3B$17.42$16.81 – $18.223
FY27$13.9B$13.4B – $14.3B$20.18$18.36 – $21.7410
FY28$14.8B$14.3B – $15.4B$23.58$20.18 – $28.4610
FY29$15.2B$14.9B – $15.5B$24.18$23.59 – $24.915
FY30$16.1B$15.8B – $16.5B$27.39$26.73 – $28.225

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.0.8×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.16%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.-0.8%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.-15.6%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatLow float · 39.1M shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today1.1% 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.β0.245-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 10Christopher D KastnerCEO13.1K sh$4.2MSellAug 7Victoria D HarkerDirector723 sh$241KSellMay 28Edmond E. HughesEx VP & Chief HR Officer3.5K sh$1.1MSellMar 6Thomas E. StiehleCFO4.5K sh$1.9MSellMar 5Chad N. BoudreauxEx VP & Chief Legal Officer4.4K sh$1.9MSellMar 4Eric D. ChewningEVP, Maritime Sys & Corp STR1.7K sh$737K
+ 64 other (64 awards) 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 18-K — Item 5.07: Shareholder vote
AI summary

HII held its Annual Meeting of stockholders around 2026-05-01 (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.

+ 14 other (4 13Gs · 2 10-Qs · 2 earnings 8-Ks · 2 11-Ks) in window

Recent news

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

Diamond Hill Small-Mid Cap Strategy Q2 2026 Portfolio Reviewseekingalpha.com·6d agoBank of Nova Scotia Has $12.31 Million Stake in Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. $HIIdefenseworld.net·6d agoCan HII Benefit From Growing Demand for Submarine Construction?zacks.com·12d agoWhy Huntington Ingalls (HII) is a Top Stock for the Long-Termzacks.com·14d agoHII's Newport News Shipbuilding Completes Successful Acceptance Sea Trials of John F. Kennedy (CVN 79)globenewswire.com·16d ago

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