Advertisement
UK markets open in 7 hours 11 minutes

  • NIKKEI 225

    37,552.16
    +113.55 (+0.30%)
     

  • HANG SENG

    16,828.93
    +317.24 (+1.92%)
     

  • CRUDE OIL

    83.50
    +0.14 (+0.17%)
     

  • GOLD FUTURES

    2,336.60
    -5.50 (-0.23%)
     

  • DOW

    38,503.69
    +263.71 (+0.69%)
     

  • Bitcoin GBP

    53,336.22
    -407.86 (-0.76%)
     

  • CMC Crypto 200

    1,429.09
    +14.33 (+1.01%)
     

  • NASDAQ Composite

    15,696.64
    +245.33 (+1.59%)
     

  • UK FTSE All Share

    4,378.75
    +16.15 (+0.37%)
     
Money:

What is the true cost of the UK state pension?

To get a sense of the true value of the state pension, you can look at how much you would need to save to match it yourself

Raytheon (RTX) Wins Deal to Support Kuwait's AN/APG-79 Radar

Zacks Equity Research
·4-min read

Raytheon Technologies Corp. RTX recently announced a contract involving AN/APG-79 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar. The award has been offered by the Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, MD.

Details of the Deal

Valued at $15.3 million, the contract is expected to be completed by February 2023. Per the terms of the deal, Raytheon will provide depot-level repair capability for the government of Kuwait’s inventory of AN/APG-79 AESA radar weapon replaceable assemblies.

The majority of work related to this deal will be executed in El Segundo, CA.

Significance of AN/APG-79 Radars

AN/APG-79 radars deliver increased air-to-air and air-to-surface targeting and tracking capabilities through the near speed of light beam steering. The APG-79 may be tailored to fit any platform's size, space and requirement, particularly for legacy aircraft.

ADVERTISEMENT

This radar’s solid demand can be gauged from the fact that it is currently in full-rate production for the U.S. Navy and Royal Australian Air Force, with Raytheon delivering more than 700 systems to F/A-18 Super Hornet and Growler squadrons.

Radars & Raytheon

With the rapid escalation of geopolitical tensions globally in recent times, developed and developing nations have been boosting their defense arsenal significantly. Radars constitute a vital part of their defense equipment. While radars have been in use since World War II for locating threats and targets, nowadays, they are being used for multiple purposes like ground surveillance, missile control, fire control, air traffic control, moving target indication, weapons location and vehicle search.

Demand for military radar systems has expanded manifold in recent times, driven by factors like a rise in defense spending of emerging economies, an increase in regional tensions and inter-country conflicts that have boosted threats from missiles and aircraft. These, in turn, have been benefiting radar manufacturing companies like Raytheon in the form of contract wins like the latest one.

Notably, Raytheon’s product portfolio consists of varied radars like integrated air and missile defense radars, ballistic missile radars, surveillance radars as well as air dominance radars. Radars like AN-SPY 6, AN-TPY-2, APG-79, APG-82 are some of its combat-proven products that enjoy solid demand in the global military radar market.

Growth Prospects

Per Fortune Business Insights firm, the global military radar market is expected to reach $22.1 billion by 2028 at a CAGR of 6.3% from 2021. Such growth projections for the aforementioned market should benefit prominent radar manufacturers like Raytheon Technologies, Lockheed Martin LMT, L3Harris Technologies LHX and Northrop Grumman NOC.

Notably, Northrop is a pioneer in Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radars and has been at the forefront of AESA innovations for more than 60 years. The company’s broad portfolio of products comprises radars like AN/APG-83 scalable, agile beam radar, AN/ASQ-236 Dragon’s eye radar pod as well as AN/APG-81 and AN/APG-71 for F-35 and F-22 jets, respectively.

Northrop boasts a long-term earnings growth rate of 2.2%. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for 2022 sales indicates an improvement of 1.9% from the 2021 reported figure.

Among Lockheed Martin’s notable radar portfolio, the significant ones include SPY-7, AN/TPQ-53 radar system and AN/APY-9 radar.

Lockheed boasts a long-term earnings growth rate of 5.4%. The stock has gained 13.5% in the past year.

Similarly, L3Harris is the manufacturing company for AN/SPS-48G naval radar, Symphony Airfield Radar Systems and Tactical Air Surveillance radars and a few more.

L3 Harris boasts a long-term earnings growth rate of 3.3%.

Price Performance

In the past year, Raytheon Technologies’ shares have lost 6.8% compared with the industry’s 11.3% decline.

Zacks Investment Research
Zacks Investment Research


Image Source: Zacks Investment Research

Zacks Rank

Raytheon Technologies carries a Zacks Rank #4 (Sell) at present.

You can see the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here.


Want the latest recommendations from Zacks Investment Research? Today, you can download 7 Best Stocks for the Next 30 Days. Click to get this free report
 
Lockheed Martin Corporation (LMT) : Free Stock Analysis Report
 
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NOC) : Free Stock Analysis Report
 
L3Harris Technologies Inc (LHX) : Free Stock Analysis Report
 
Raytheon Technologies Corporation (RTX) : Free Stock Analysis Report
 
To read this article on Zacks.com click here.
 
Zacks Investment Research