DJ Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. Stock Outperforms Competitors On Strong Trading Day
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Shares of Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. $(HII)$ rose 2.86% to $267.07 Wednesday, on what proved to be an all-around rough trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index falling 0.25% to 7,651.54 and Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 0.86% to 50,906.05.
This was the stock's second consecutive day of gains.
Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. closed 41.94% below its 52-week high of $460.00, which the company reached on March 2nd.
The stock outperformed some of its competitors Wednesday, as Lockheed Martin Corp. (LMT) fell 0.58% to $509.25, Northrop Grumman Corp. $(NOC)$ fell 4.19% to $483.48, and General Dynamics Corp. (GD) fell 0.15% to $331.83.
Trading volume (769,394) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 490,723.
Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet. Data compiled September 30, 2026.