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Lockheed Martin is the world's largest defense contractor and has dominated the Western market for high-end fighter aircraft since it won the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program in 2001. Aeronautics is Lockheed's largest segment, which derives upward of two-thirds of its revenue from the F-35. Lockheed's remaining segments are rotary and mission systems, mainly encompassing the Sikorsky helicopter business; missiles and fire control, which creates missiles and missile defense systems; and space systems, which produces satellites and receives equity income from the United Launch Alliance joint venture.
Lockheed Martin trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol LMT.
As of December 29, 2025, LMT stock price climbed to $488.87 with 864,390 million shares trading.
LMT has a beta of 0.26, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. LMT has a correlation of 0.03 to the broad based SPY ETF.
LMT has a market cap of $113.12 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.
Last quarter Lockheed Martin reported $19 billion in Revenue and $6.95 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $72 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.61.
In the last 3 years, LMT traded as high as $618.95 and as low as $393.77.
The top ETF exchange traded funds that LMT belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, SCHD, VOO, IVV, SPY.
LMT has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +2.5%, while the SPY ETF gained +15.6%. In the last 3 month period, LMT fell short of the market, returning +1.0%, while SPY returned +4.2%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks LMT has outperformed the stock market by returning +1.8%, while SPY returned +1.2%.
LMT support price is $475.63 and resistance is $490.43 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that LMT shares will trade within this expected range on the day.