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Reston, Virginia-based General Dynamics Corporation (GD), with a market cap of $76.7 billion, is a global aerospace and defense company known for advanced design, engineering, and manufacturing. The company is expected to announce its fiscal Q2 earnings results before the market opens on Wednesday, Jul. 24.
Ahead of the event, analysts expect GD to report a profit of $3.32 per share, up 23% from $2.70 per share in the year-ago quarter. The company has surpassed Wall Street's bottom-line estimates in two of the past four quarters while missing on two other occasions. It reported an EPS of $2.88 in the latest quarter, missing the consensus estimate marginally.