DJ Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. Stock Underperforms Wednesday When Compared To Competitors
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Shares of Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. $(HII)$ slipped 2.02% to $319.54 Wednesday, on what proved to be an all-around positive trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index rising 1.46% to 7,365.12 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising 1.24% to 49,910.59.
This was the stock's second consecutive day of losses.
Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. closed 30.53% short of its 52-week high of $460.00, which the company reached on March 2nd.
The stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors Wednesday, as Lockheed Martin Corp. (LMT) rose 1.05% to $514.26, Northrop Grumman Corp. $(NOC)$ rose 0.18% to $559.60, and General Dynamics Corp. (GD) fell 0.54% to $347.27.
Trading volume (937,748) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 494,978.
Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet. Data compiled May 6, 2026.
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