Lockheed Martin stock slips 1% but outperforms rivals
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Updated · MarketWatch · May 1
Lockheed Martin stock slips 1% but outperforms rivals
11 articles · Updated · MarketWatch · May 1
Shares closed at $512.77 as the S&P 500 rose 0.29% to 7,230.12 and the Dow fell 0.31% to 49,499.27.
RTX dropped 1.18% to $173.99, Boeing lost 0.72% to $227.38 and Northrop Grumman fell 1.96% to $568.14, leaving Lockheed the strongest performer among those peers.
The stock remains 25.90% below its 52-week high of $692 reached on 2 March, while trading volume of 1.4 million was below its 50-day average of 1.6 million.
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