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The Motley Fool January 30, 2008 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Raytheon Rules In advance of earnings, analysts expect defense contractor Raytheon to see profits soar.
The Motley Fool January 23, 2008 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Lockheed As Death Star In advance of earnings, analysts expect defense contractor Lockheed Martin to report flat quarterly sales and profits.
The Motley Fool January 23, 2008 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Northrop Is Shipshape In advance of earnings, analysts expect defense contractor Northrop Grumman to show a small increase in sales and an even smaller increase in profits.
The Motley Fool January 29, 2008 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: L-3's Q4 Through much of last year, and all of this year to date, defense contractor L-3 Communications has reported earnings in excess of expectations. Will they do it again when they report fourth-quarter and full-year 2007 results?
The Motley Fool January 29, 2008 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Boeing's da Bomb In advance of earnings, analysts and investors wonder if Boeing will make it twenty straight quarters of beating estimates.
The Motley Fool October 21, 2008 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Northrop Grumman's Bad Omen In advance of earnings, analysts wonder if Northrop Grumman will miss estimates again, as it had last quarter.
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The Motley Fool October 19, 2011 Brendan Byrnes	What to Expect From the Big Aerospace and Defense Companies This Earnings Season With defense cuts looming, how will these companies perform in Q3?
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The Motley Fool May 19, 2009 Rich Smith	3 Top Defense Sector Stocks Raytheon, Lockheed, and General Dynamics carry strong balance sheets, while their valuations appear attractive relative to their growth prospects.
The Motley Fool January 20, 2009 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Lockheed Still a Step Ahead Views you can use to get clues on the news.
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The Motley Fool January 30, 2009 Rich Smith	L-3 Goes to 60 The Q4 results underwhelmed in some respects, but in the big-picture viewpoint L-3 is looking pretty good.
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The Motley Fool January 29, 2009 Rich Smith	General Dynamics Relives History The more you study GD's stock, the more you notice that investors consistently underestimate the General's profit-making prowess.
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The Motley Fool July 28, 2008 Rich Smith	Raytheon's Risks Revealed Raytheon not only repeated last quarter's feat, but bested it. And twice in a row, investors ignore the news.
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The Motley Fool February 2, 2009 Rich Smith	Textron: The Original Bad Bank If only they'd stick to what they do well.
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The Motley Fool January 24, 2008 Rich Smith	United Tech Pulls It Off The end of fiscal 2007 marks three straight years of beating every estimate Wall Street has set for the company.
The Motley Fool April 29, 2010 Rich Smith	Does General Dynamics Deserve a Promotion? Sorry, General. That's as high as you go.
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The Motley Fool October 23, 2008 Rich Smith	General Dynamics Advances, Shares Retreat After an initial surge in response to Q3 earnings, shares of defense contractor General Dynamics are today executing a phased withdrawal back to their pre-earnings positions.
The Motley Fool July 23, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: General Dynamics Dodges a Bullet When it reports earnings on Wednesday will defense industry giant General Dynamics surprise again by beating expectations?
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The Motley Fool March 16, 2011 Andrew Tonner	Does This Defense Contractor Have the Makings of a Great Investment? Should you buy this stock?
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The Motley Fool October 18, 2007 Rich Smith	United Tech's Troubling Text The industrial and aerospace conglomerate's CEO changes his tune on future prospects. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool February 1, 2010 Rich Smith	6 Stocks That Never Surrender One analyst's real-money investment in six defense stocks. How is he doing compared to the S&P 500?
The Motley Fool July 25, 2007 Rich Smith	Orders Slow Down at Northrop Northrop ups 2007 earnings guidance, but the prospects of peace might be affecting the defense contractor.
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The Motley Fool January 24, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Locking In on Lockheed The aerospace superstar reports its fourth-quarter and full-year 2006 earnings results shortly. Investors, do you want to know what Wall Street expects to see? Do you want to know what really matters?
The Motley Fool October 14, 2008 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: United Tech's as Good as It Gets For 14 straight quarters, through boom and now bust, industrial conglomerate United Technologies has consistently stumped the Street with an uninterrupted string of "earnings beats." Will they be able to do it again in the middle of this market meltdown?
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