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General Dynamics Corporation filings document the company's aerospace and defense operations, NYSE-listed common stock and recurring financial disclosures. Form 8-K reports furnish quarterly and annual operating results, cash generation, order activity and backlog across aerospace, marine, combat systems and technologies businesses.
Proxy materials describe board elections, shareholder voting matters, corporate governance practices, executive compensation and shareholder engagement. Other current reports record leadership appointments, officer retirements and related compensation arrangements, linking governance changes to the company's operating structure and financial reporting roles.
GENERAL DYNAMICS CORP chair and CEO Phebe N. Novakovic exercised 166,660 stock options at $165.47 on July 31, 2026, and 115,092 shares were delivered or withheld to pay the exercise price or tax obligations. She then sold 51,568 common shares on August 3 in reported sales, with sale prices disclosed in ranges from $380.575 to $384.07 per share. Indirect holdings reported include 5,926.943 shares in a 401(k) plan and 30,000 shares held by an LLC for trusts benefiting her children; the transactions were not reported as made under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.
General Dynamics executive Marguerite Amy Gilliland exercised stock options for 43,180 shares of Common Stock at an exercise price of $165.4700 per share on 2026-07-31, acquiring the same number of shares. She then sold 16,970 shares at $377.4420 and 26,210 shares at $378.4230 per share, with footnotes noting price ranges for each trade, and reports 822.027 shares held indirectly through a General Dynamics 401(k) plan.
General Dynamics Corporation describes a prospectus supplement dated August 4, 2026 filed with the SEC under Rule 424(b)(5) in connection with an offer to rescind the acquisition of up to 1,010,925 shares of its common stock, par value $1.00 per share. The prospectus supplement relates to the company’s automatic shelf Registration Statement on Form S-3, File No. 333-297821, filed on July 30, 2026.
The company provides a legal opinion from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP on the validity of the shares covered by the prospectus supplement as Exhibit 5.1, together with the firm’s consent as Exhibit 23.1. This opinion is incorporated by reference into the registration statement, supporting the rescission-related share treatment.
General Dynamics reported Q2 2026 revenue of $14.1 billion, up 8.1% year over year, with net earnings of $1.16 billion and diluted EPS of $4.24. For the first six months, revenue was $27.6 billion and net earnings $2.29 billion, as operating margin reached 10.4%.
Growth was led by Aerospace, where revenue rose to $3.53 billion and margin to 14.5%, and Marine Systems, with $4.66 billion of revenue and 7.3% margin. Combat Systems and Technologies delivered modest revenue increases with margins around 13.8% and 9.4%, respectively.
Operating cash flow was $4.04 billion and free cash flow $3,598 in the first half, while cash rose to $4.33 billion and debt principal declined to $7.57 billion. Total backlog reached $136.5 billion, with about half expected to convert to revenue by year-end 2027. The quarterly dividend increased to $1.59 per share, marking 29 consecutive annual increases.
General Dynamics Corporation reported higher second-quarter 2026 results, with revenue of $14.1 billion and diluted EPS of $4.24. Revenue grew 8.1%, operating earnings rose 11.9% to $1.5 billion, and the company-wide operating margin expanded to 10.4%.
Net cash provided by operating activities in the quarter was $1.9 billion, equal to 162% of net earnings. The company paid $429 million in dividends, invested $234 million in capital expenditures, and reduced total debt by $498 million, ending with total debt of $7.5 billion and cash of $4.3 billion.
Orders totaled $20 billion, producing a company-wide book-to-bill ratio of 1.4x and 1.5x in Aerospace. Backlog at quarter-end was $136.5 billion, with estimated potential contract value of $50.4 billion, for total estimated contract value of $186.9 billion.
BlackRock, Inc. reports beneficial ownership of common stock of General Dynamics Corporation. BlackRock and certain of its subsidiaries and affiliates collectively hold 17,250,237 General Dynamics shares, representing 6.4% of the outstanding common stock. This filing aggregates positions of designated reporting business units and excludes other disaggregated units.
BlackRock has sole voting power over 16,423,372 shares and sole dispositive power over the full 17,250,237 shares, with no shared voting or dispositive power. Various underlying clients and other persons have rights to dividends or sale proceeds, but no such person holds more than five percent of General Dynamics’ outstanding common shares.
GENERAL DYNAMICS CORP director Malcolm Mark exercised stock options and sold the resulting shares in the open market. He exercised options for 3,210 shares at $165.47 per share and 2,270 shares at $191.71 per share, then sold a total of 5,480 shares of common stock at $365.00 per share. Following these transactions, he directly holds 10,643 shares of General Dynamics common stock. The option grants had previously become exercisable in stages in 2019, 2020, 2022, and 2023 according to the vesting footnotes.