War aerospace and defence

Screening Filters

1. Market Cap ≥ $2,000,000,000

   • Purpose: Focus on mid- to large-cap companies.
   • Rationale: When analyzing the impact of war on aerospace and defense, larger firms are often the primary beneficiaries of increased government defense spending and long-term contracts (fighters, missiles, defense systems). These companies tend to be more directly and meaningfully affected by shifts in geopolitical risk and military budgets, so they are good “proxies” for sector-wide impact.

2. Industry: Aerospace & Defense

   • Purpose: Restrict the universe to companies whose core business is directly tied to military, defense, and aerospace activities.
   • Rationale: To understand the impact of war, you want firms whose revenues and profits are closely linked to defense spending, weapons systems, aircraft, and related services. This filter ensures you're not mixing in unrelated industries where war has only indirect or marginal effects.

3. Themes: Aerospace & Defense; National Defense

   • Purpose: Further refine the list to companies explicitly classified under these strategic themes.
   • Rationale: Not all industrial or aerospace companies are equally exposed to war-related spending. Thematic tagging helps emphasize those whose business models and product lines are more explicitly tied to defense priorities (e.g., combat systems, surveillance, missiles, cyber defense), which tend to see clearer demand changes as conflicts emerge or escalate.

4. Region: United States

   • Purpose: Focus on U.S.-based companies.
   • Rationale: The impact of war on defense stocks is heavily driven by national defense budgets and policy. The U.S. is one of the largest defense spenders globally, and its listed defense contractors are among the most influential. Limiting to U.S. companies helps you analyze the effect of U.S. military and foreign policy decisions on the sector, which is central to many global conflict scenarios.

5. Exchange Listing: XNYS, XNAS, XASE (NYSE, NASDAQ, NYSE American)

   • Purpose: Include major U.S. exchanges where most sizable, liquid defense stocks trade.
   • Rationale: Stocks on these exchanges tend to have better liquidity, disclosure, and analyst coverage. This makes it easier to see how the market is pricing in war-related risks and opportunities through trading volumes, analyst revisions, and price movements.

6. Quarterly Revenue YoY Growth ≥ 10%

   • Purpose: Capture companies already showing strong top-line growth.
   • Rationale: One of the clearest quantitative ways to see the impact of rising geopolitical tension or conflict is through accelerating revenue, often driven by new contracts, higher order backlogs, or increased demand for equipment and services. This filter highlights firms where war-related or defense-driven demand might already be showing up in the numbers.

7. Quarterly EPS YoY Growth ≥ 10%

   • Purpose: Focus on firms translating revenue growth into earnings growth.
   • Rationale: War-related demand is more meaningful when it improves profitability, not just sales. Companies that are growing earnings faster are likely benefiting from scale, better contract terms, or higher utilization of defense assets—concrete signs of how conflict and increased defense spending are affecting the bottom line.

8. Analyst Consensus: Strong Buy or Moderate Buy

   • Purpose: Include only companies that professional analysts currently view favorably.
   • Rationale: Analysts factor in geopolitical risk, government budgets, and contract pipelines when rating defense stocks. A “Buy” consensus suggests the Street believes current or expected conflict dynamics and defense policies are supportive for these companies’ future earnings and cash flows. This helps narrow the list to names where the perceived impact of war (or heightened tensions) is positive and material.

Why Results Match the User’s Query

• The industry and theme filters ensure all results are directly tied to aerospace and national defense, where the economic impact of war is most immediate and visible.
• The U.S. region and major exchange filters center the analysis on the world’s largest, most influential defense market with high data quality and transparency.
• The growth filters (revenue and EPS) focus on companies where any war- or tension-driven increase in demand is already showing in recent financial performance.
• The analyst consensus filter incorporates expert expectations about how current and potential conflicts will affect these firms going forward.
• The market cap filter keeps the focus on established, systemically important defense contractors that are typically on the front line of changes in defense spending during wartime or heightened geopolitical tensions.

Together, these filters give you a focused list of U.S. aerospace and defense stocks that are both central to the sector and already exhibiting financial and analyst signals consistent with the impact of war or increased geopolitical risk.