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Highest ROIC Defense & Aerospace Companies

Ranked by peer-relative quality score as a proxy for capital efficiency. Defense & Aerospace companies.

In the Industrials segment, this ranking covers 30 companies, with visible quality scores ranging from 95 at the top to 0 at the lower end of the displayed cohort. The middle of the ranking sits around 48, so names materially above that level stand out on quality.

30 companies · Updated 2026-04-05
# Company Quality score
#1
GE · Industrials
95
#2
HEI · Industrials
89
#3
HWM · Industrials
87
#4
KOG.OL · Industrials
85
#5
TDG · Industrials
84
#6
SAF.PA · Industrials
80
#7
CW · Industrials
79
#8
AIR.PA · Industrials
79
#9
HO.PA · Industrials
79
#10
WWD · Industrials
72
#11
RHM.DE · Industrials
69
#12
LDO.MI · Industrials
69
#13
LMT · Industrials
65
#14
NOC · Industrials
62
#15
GD · Industrials
52
#16
AIR.DE · Industrials
48
#17
DRS · Industrials
42
#18
BA · Industrials
41
#19
TXT · Industrials
41
#20
BWXT · Industrials
41
#21
MTX.DE · Industrials
40
#22
R3NK.DE · Industrials
37
#23
HII · Industrials
33
#24
RTX · Industrials
29
#25
HAG.DE · Industrials
29
#26
LHX · Industrials
28
#27
KRMN · Industrials
26
#28
SARO · Industrials
16
#29
AXON · Industrials
3
#30
RKLB · Industrials
0
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Rankings based on peer-relative quality scores. Descriptive only — not investment advice. Scores reflect structural position within each company's functional peer group.

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AssetNext scores reflect each company's structural position within its functional peer group — not a ranking against all stocks simultaneously. Peers are identified by similarity across eight financial dimensions, including revenue growth trajectory, margin structure, capital intensity, and earnings stability. A score of 75 means the company ranks in the top quartile within its own peer group, not the entire market.

Four dimension scores drive the overall peer score: Growth (revenue trajectory and expansion dynamics), Quality (margin structure and capital efficiency), Valuation (peer-relative pricing on standard multiples), and Stability (earnings consistency and financial predictability). Each dimension is scored 0–100 relative to the peer group, then combined into an overall peer score using equal weighting.

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