Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) – Research Analysts’ Recent Ratings Updates

Several analysts have recently updated their ratings and price targets for Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII):

• 11/3/2026 – Huntington Ingalls Industries had its price target raised by JPMorgan Chase & Co. from $370.00 to $375.00. They now have a “neutral” rating on the stock.
• 11/3/2026 – Huntington Ingalls Industries had its price target raised by Sanford C. Bernstein from $304.00 to $352.00. They now have a “market perform” rating on the stock.
• 10/31/2026 – Huntington Ingalls Industries was upgraded by Wall Street Zen from “hold” to “buy”.
• 10/30/2026 – Huntington Ingalls Industries had its “conviction-buy” rating reaffirmed by The Goldman Sachs Group. They now have a $406.00 price target on the stock.
• 10/14/2026 – Huntington Ingalls Industries had its price target lowered by Sanford C. Bernstein from $327.00 to $304.00. They now have a “market perform” rating on the stock.
• 10/9/2026 – Huntington Ingalls Industries had its price target lowered by TD Cowen from $360.00 to $340.00. They now have a “buy” rating on the stock.
• 9/23/2026 – Huntington Ingalls Industries had its price target lowered by Sanford C. Bernstein from $341.00 to $327.00. They now have a “market perform” rating on the stock.

Huntington Ingalls Industries Price Performance

HII traded down $13.18 during trading on Wednesday, reaching $303.75. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 787,355 shares, compared to its average volume of 534,936. The company has a quick ratio of 1.18, a current ratio of 1.26 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.49. The firm has a fifty day simple moving average of $278.77 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $335.13. Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. has a 1 year low of $255.35 and a 1 year high of $460.00. The company has a market cap of $11.97 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 16.35, a PEG ratio of 1.16 and a beta of 0.17.

Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, October 29th. The aerospace company reported $5.48 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $4.36 by $1.12. Huntington Ingalls Industries had a net margin of 5.42% and a return on equity of 13.95%. The firm had revenue of $3.54 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $3.38 billion. During the same quarter last year, the company posted $3.68 EPS. The firm’s quarterly revenue was up 10.8% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, analysts anticipate that Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. will post 18.60 EPS for the current year.

Huntington Ingalls Industries Increases Dividend

The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, December 11th. Stockholders of record on Friday, November 27th will be given a dividend of $1.41 per share. This is a boost from Huntington Ingalls Industries’s previous quarterly dividend of $1.38. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, November 27th. This represents a $5.64 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.9%. Huntington Ingalls Industries’s dividend payout ratio is 29.71%.

Insider Buying and Selling at Huntington Ingalls Industries

In related news, CEO Christopher Kastner sold 13,070 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Monday, August 10th. The shares were sold at an average price of $324.92, for a total value of $4,246,704.40. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer directly owned 11,224 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $3,646,902.08. The trade was a 53.80% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this hyperlink. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Corporate insiders own 0.80% of the company’s stock.

Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc (NYSE:HII) is an American defense company that designs, builds, maintains and modernizes ships for the U.S. Navy and other government customers. Its shipbuilding activities include nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, submarines, amphibious assault ships, destroyers and other surface vessels, along with fleet sustainment and modernization services.

HII operates through its Newport News Shipbuilding and Ingalls Shipbuilding divisions. Newport News Shipbuilding is involved in the construction and maintenance of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines, while Ingalls Shipbuilding builds surface combatants and amphibious ships.