Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. HII

Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) received a US$5.1b contract to refuel and overhaul the USS Harry S. Truman carrier. The USS Harry S. Truman refueling and complex overhaul will be executed at HII's Newport News Shipbuilding division in Virginia. HII reached preliminary acceptance of the future USS John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier with the U.S. Navy, ahead of formal delivery. The Truman overhaul win and John F. Kennedy acceptance milestone sit alongside other factors our research has...

Shares of aerospace and defense company Huntington Ingalls (NYSE:HII) jumped 3.1% in the afternoon session after the stock extended gains from the previous session as the U.S. Department of War awarded the shipbuilder a $5.1 billion contract to refuel and overhaul the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman, a company press report revealed.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Sept. 30, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) arrived at HII’s (NYSE: HII) Newport News Shipbuilding division today to start its refueling and complex overhaul (RCOH) after years of advance planning. “We’ve taken a proactive approach, from ordering long lead-time materials to conducting thousands of inspections and preliminary work, to ensure the RCOH of USS Harry S. Truman is successful,” said Bryan Caccavale, NNS vice president of program m

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MCLEAN, Va., Sept. 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HII (NYSE: HII), America’s largest military shipbuilder and the global leader in autonomous seapower, was awarded a contract by the U.S. Navy to build 10 ROMULUS unmanned surface vessels (USVs) for the Medium Unmanned Surface Vessel (MUSV) program. The award marks a major advancement in the U.S. Navy’s transition from experimentation to fleet-scale deployment of trusted, operational autonomy across the maritime domain. “HII has made deliberate, ear

NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Sept. 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HII (NYSE: HII) announced today that its Newport News Shipbuilding division has been awarded a $5,099,973,132 contract for the refueling and complex overhaul (RCOH) of nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). The contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $5,183,380,744. “Our team has been diligently working to get ahead on this critical engineering and constructio

NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Sept. 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HII (NYSE: HII) announced today that its Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division has achieved preliminary acceptance of John F. Kennedy (CVN 79), the second Gerald R. Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. Preliminary acceptance, the final step before formal delivery to the U.S. Navy, allows the Navy to begin underway test and evaluation of Kennedy’s unique systems and for the crew to gain operational proficiency. CVN 79 successfully c

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PASCAGOULA, Miss., Sept. 25, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HII (NYSE: HII) welcomed members of the National Commission on the Future of the Navy (FNC) to its Ingalls Shipbuilding division Thursday as part of the commission’s nationwide review to develop recommendations for strengthening American seapower. The visit provided commission members with a firsthand look at the shipbuilding capabilities, workforce training and industrial investments that support the Navy’s future fleet requirements. As part

Huntington Ingalls has lagged behind the Dow over the past year, and analysts remain moderately bullish about the stock’s outlook.

U.S. Rep. Bill Keating joins ribbon-cutting celebrating expanded production capacity, advanced autonomous maritime technology and continued investment in the regionPOCASSET, Mass., Sept. 22, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HII (NYSE: HII), a global leader in autonomous and unmanned maritime systems, celebrated the expansion of its unmanned systems production campus in Pocasset, Massachusetts, underscoring growing global demand for autonomous maritime platforms and the company’s continued investment in

The end of an earnings season can be a great time to discover new stocks and assess how companies are handling the current business environment. Let’s take a look at how Huntington Ingalls (NYSE:HII) and the rest of the defense contractors stocks fared in Q2.