GD — GENERAL DYNAMICS CORP
Price · 2024-08-26 → 2026-08-21
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Performance
Technicals
Dividends
Measured signals that fired on GD
| date | signal | measured base rate |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-10 | Breakout to a 52-week high price | -1.00% over 21 days · t = -8.58 · n = 24,386 statistically distinguishable from its control group |
| 2026-08-06 | Cluster sale: three or more insiders insider | -0.37% over 21 days · t = -3.38 · n = 21,542 statistically distinguishable from its control group |
| 2026-07-30 | Fair value gap, bearish structure | -0.45% over 21 days · t = -3.29 · n = 108,591 statistically distinguishable from its control group |
| 2026-07-08 | Bollinger bandwidth breaks out of its own compression structure | -0.63% over 21 days · t = -2.80 · n = 7,196 statistically distinguishable from its control group |
| 2026-07-02 | Breakout to a 52-week high price | -1.00% over 21 days · t = -8.58 · n = 24,386 statistically distinguishable from its control group |
| 2026-06-17 | Equal highs taken out structure | -0.70% over 21 days · t = -8.28 · n = 68,636 statistically distinguishable from its control group |
Excess return against a matched control group, on a point-in-time universe that includes delisted companies. Most families do not survive that. How the measurement works →
Insider transactions (Form 4)
| date | insider | what | shares | price | value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-14 | Deep Danny President | Shares withheld for tax | 17.1K | 395.06 | 6.7M |
| 2026-08-14 | Deep Danny President | Option exercise | 25.1K | 165.47 | 4.1M |
| 2026-08-14 | Deep Danny President | Shares withheld for tax | 5.8K | 395.05 | 2.3M |
| 2026-08-14 | Deep Danny President | Option exercise | 8.5K | 167.61 | 1.4M |
| 2026-08-13 | Smith Robert Edward Executive Vice President | Shares withheld for tax | 23.9K | 390.66 | 9.3M |
| 2026-08-13 | Smith Robert Edward Executive Vice President | Option exercise | 35.0K | 165.47 | 5.8M |
| 2026-08-13 | Smith Robert Edward Executive Vice President | Shares withheld for tax | 6.8K | 390.99 | 2.6M |
| 2026-08-13 | Smith Robert Edward Executive Vice President | Option exercise | 9.4K | 189.00 | 1.8M |
| 2026-08-11 | DE LEON RUDY F Director | Gift | 128 | 0.00 | 0 |
| 2026-08-10 | Kuryea Kimberly A Senior Vice President & CFO | Shares withheld for tax | 21.6K | 395.59 | 8.5M |
Open-market purchases (code P) are the informative ones. Grants, option exercises and tax withholding are compensation mechanics, not decisions. How to read a Form 4 →
Largest institutional holders
| manager | value | shares |
|---|---|---|
| LONGVIEW ASSET MANAGEMENT, LLC | 9.3B | 27.1M |
| BlackRock, Inc. | 6.4B | 18.6M |
| VANGUARD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC | 5.5B | 16.1M |
| Newport Trust Company, LLC | 4.7B | 13.6M |
| STATE STREET CORP | 3.9B | 11.4M |
| BANK OF AMERICA CORP /DE/ | 2.8B | 8.1M |
| VANGUARD PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT LLC | 2.2B | 6.3M |
| GEODE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC | 2.1B | 6.3M |
| MASSACHUSETTS FINANCIAL SERVICES CO /MA/ | 2.0B | 5.7M |
| JPMORGAN CHASE & CO | 1.8B | 5.4M |
13F positions as of 2026-03-31, filed up to 45 days after quarter end. Long-only US equity — shorts and derivatives never appear. What 13F does and does not show →
Latest SEC filings
| form | filed | period | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 2026-08-17 | 2026-08-13 | on EDGAR ↗ |
| 4 | 2026-08-17 | 2026-08-14 | on EDGAR ↗ |
| 4 | 2026-08-13 | 2026-08-11 | on EDGAR ↗ |
| 4 | 2026-08-12 | 2026-08-10 | on EDGAR ↗ |
| 4 | 2026-08-12 | 2026-08-10 | on EDGAR ↗ |
| 4 | 2026-08-11 | 2026-08-07 | on EDGAR ↗ |
| 144 | 2026-08-10 | — | on EDGAR ↗ |
| 8-K | 2026-08-07 | 2026-08-05 | on EDGAR ↗ |
Short selling
This is off-exchange short volume, not short interest: it is flow, not position, and 40–50% is normal because market makers short to fill your buy. Why that number misleads →
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