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RTX Corporation Stock Outlook: Is Wall Street Bullish or Bearish?
Arlington, Virginia-based RTX Corporation (RTX) is an aerospace and defense company that provides systems and services for commercial, military, and government customers. Valued at a market cap of $210.3 billion, the company is known for its innovations in aviation, missile defense, space technologies, and cybersecurity. This defense giant has outpaced the broader market over the past 52 weeks. Shares of RTX have soared 37.3% over this time frame, while the broader S&P 500 Index ($SPX) has gained 16.6%. Moreover, on a YTD basis, the stock is up 35.8%, compared to SPX's 8.3% return. More News from Barchart Here's What Happened the Last Time Novo Nordisk Stock Was This Oversold As SoFi Raises 2025 Guidance, Should You Buy, Sell, or Hold SOFI Stock Here? Earnings Will Be 'Worse Than Expected' for UnitedHealth. How Should You Play UNH Stock Here? Tired of missing midday reversals? The FREE Barchart Brief newsletter keeps you in the know. Sign up now! However, narrowing the focus, RTX has lagged behind the SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense ETF's (XAR) 47% uptick over the past 52 weeks. Nonetheless, it has outperformed the ETF's 31.5% rise on a YTD basis. Despite delivering better-than-expected Q2 results on Jul. 22, shares of RTX plunged 1.6% after its earnings release. The company's revenue improved 9.4% year-over-year to $21.6 billion, topping consensus estimates by 5.1%. Moreover, its adjusted EPS of $1.56 advanced 10.6% from the same period last year, surpassing analyst expectations by 7.6%. Robust organic sales and profit growth across all three segments supported its results. However, RTX lowered its fiscal 2025 adjusted EPS guidance in the range of $5.80 to $5.95, which might have weighed on investor sentiment, leading to a fall in its stock price. For the current fiscal year, ending in December, analysts expect RTX's EPS to grow 3.7% year over year to $5.94. The company's earnings surprise history is promising. It exceeded the consensus estimates in each of the last four quarters. Among the 24 analysts covering the stock, the consensus rating is a 'Moderate Buy,' which is based on 15 'Strong Buy,' one "Moderate Buy,' and eight 'Hold' ratings. This configuration is slightly more bullish than three months ago, with 14 analysts suggesting a 'Strong Buy' rating. On Jul. 23, BofA Securities maintained a 'Buy' rating on RTX and raised its price target to $175, indicating an 11.4% potential upside from the current levels. While the company is trading above its mean price target of $156.87, its Street-high price target of $182 suggests an upside potential of 15.8%. On the date of publication, Neharika Jain did not have (either directly or indirectly) positions in any of the securities mentioned in this article. All information and data in this article is solely for informational purposes. This article was originally published on
Washington Post
2 hours ago
- Sport
- Washington Post
That time Washington went to Washington (state) for training camp
In 1937, its first year after relocating from Boston, Washington's NFL team introduced and endeared itself to the District by training at Anacostia Park. 'I want to invite everyone in town to drop over and watch the boys work out,' Coach Ray Flaherty said in August 1937. 'This is a great team, and I think we will compile a record that will make Washingtonians proud to claim us as a civic representative.' Washington, which backed up Flaherty's declaration and won the NFL championship that year, relocated its training camp to Ballston Stadium in Arlington the following summer. After six weeks of practice hampered by hot, humid and dusty conditions at the stadium, which was home to the semipro Ballston Skulls, a frustrated Flaherty declared his team would 'train up north next year.' Instead, the team headed 2,500 miles west. With Washington coming off a disappointing 6-3-2 season, General Manager Jack Espey announced in February 1939 that the team would hold training camp in Flaherty's hometown of Spokane, Washington. It was, The Washington Post reported, the 'longest training jaunt in either professional football or baseball history.' While NFL teams seeking isolation had begun holding training camp in secluded locations, most clubs remained in their home or neighboring states. 'The Athletic Round Table Club, a sports-minded group of Spokane businessmen promoting sports for charitable purposes, guaranteed the club a substantial sum for training at Spokane, topping a bid previously submitted by Duluth, Minn.,' The Post reported. 'It also is the first time on record, a hasty perusal of records reveals, that any city has sponsored the training program of a pro football club. Spokane, it is believed, will be more suitable for training than Washington and vicinity, which was abandoned because of the intense heat and humidity which handicapped the men last year. The Western city's climate is said to be ideal for football in the later part of August and early September and Flaherty is confident he will lead a well-conditioned group of athletes East.' Buck O'Neill of the Washington Times-Herald detailed how Spokane lured the team away from prospective training camp hosts in the Midwest. Duluth's chamber of commerce made an initial offer to Washington owner George Preston Marshall, after which the city of Superior, Wisconsin, made a $5,000 bid to host the team. Flaherty visited Superior and advised Marshall to accept the city's offer. Back home in Spokane, where he played football for Gonzaga during his college years, Flaherty mentioned his team's training camp plans and pending offers to friends. 'Why, we'll double that offer,' one of them said. 'If it is worth $5,000 for Miami to have the New York Giants train there, it is easily worth $10,000 to have one of our own boys train his team right here in town.' Beyond Flaherty's ties to Spokane, several of Washington's players hailed from the Pacific Northwest, including Turk Edwards, Ed Justice, Max Krause and George 'Automatic' Karamatic. Flaherty hired Roy 'Doc' Mauro, who served as a trainer at Gonzaga for the previous 10 years, to assist trainer Roy Baker. Mauro was a lightweight boxer during the 1920s who in 1935 walked more than 80 miles in freezing conditions from Pullman, Washington, to Spokane to fulfill a bet with the Gonzaga football team. In early August 1939, a group of 11 Washington players and team officials departed Union Station for Spokane via train. Other players joined the traveling party along the three-day journey. Star quarterback Sammy Baugh arranged his own transportation to camp. Washington arrived to a public reception at the Desert Hotel in Spokane before opening practice the next day in nearby Cheney, on the campus of what is now known as Eastern Washington University. And, yeah, everyone was in the best shape of their lives. 'The boys are big — so big that some are practically crowds in themselves,' the Spokane Chronicle's Herb Ashlock reported. 'And they're all in shape — in the fine fettle to warm the cockles of any coach's heart.' At the start of camp, Marshall predicted that the National Professional Football League would soon 'stretch from coast to coast.' 'Football of tomorrow will not be seriously concerned about long traveling distance,' Washington's owner told reporters. Over the next month, Washington debuted the use of blocking aprons, which 'give the wearers the appearance of being a combination hockey goalie and a baseball catcher,' according to the Associated Press, and were considered an upgrade over stationary blocking dummies. 'It works,' Flaherty said, 'because the apron wearers can move.' At one practice, players tested their strength against a pair of horses. The weather was as advertised. Training camp ended with an intrasquad scrimmage in front of roughly 10,000 fans at Gonzaga, with proceeds going to charity. Washington played exhibition games in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Boston before returning to D.C. and opening the season at Philadelphia in September. Washington went 8-2-1, with a loss to the Giants in the regular season finale deciding the Eastern Division title. They returned to Spokane the following summer before relocating to San Diego's Brown Military Academy. Washington trained at Occidental College in Los Angeles from 1946 to 1962 before moving camp to Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1963.
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2 days ago
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Liberty hold long team meeting after ‘embarrassing, frustrating' loss to Wings
Sandy Brondello and the New York Liberty sat in the visitors locker room at the College Park Center for nearly 40 minutes on Monday night. After a brutal loss to the Dallas Wings, which marked their second straight loss, they had some things to discuss. 'This has been going on for a few games,' Brondello said, via Winsider's Myles Ehrlich. 'We haven't started off well, so we had a team meeting.' The Wings, after building up a 30-point lead, held on to grab a 92-82 win over the Liberty in Arlington, Texas, on Monday night. It marked New York's second straight dropped game, following a loss at the buzzer to the Los Angeles Sparks on Saturday. The Liberty opened up Monday's game on the wrong side of a 21-4 run, and they never recovered. The Wings held New York to just 36 points in the first half and took a 27-point lead into the break. Though Dallas' offense slowed way down in the second half — the Wings only put up seven points in the fourth quarter as a group, and briefly allowed New York to make it a two possession game — their lead was far too big for the Liberty to overcome. They held on to pick up the 10-point win behind 20 points and 14 assists from star Arike Ogunbowle. That moved them to 8-19 on the season, which is just one win shy of matching last year's win total. Jonquel Jones led the Liberty with 18 points and seven assists, and Sabrina Ionescu added 17 points while shooting 5-of-13 from the field. Jones called the loss 'embarrassing' and 'frustrating' when they got out of their meeting. 'They were just exploiting us in post ups and we had no resistance … we weren't as connected as we wanted to be,' Brondello said of their slow start. 'It really just starts with the effort.' Now in the Liberty's defense, they are without star Breanna Stewart, who left early in the first quarter of their loss to the Sparks on Saturday with a lower-leg injury. She has avoided a significant injury, but specifics aren't known and it's unclear when she'll be back. This is, though, the third time this season that the Liberty have dropped back-to-back games. They have a battle with the Minnesota Lynx in Minneapolis on Wednesday night, too. The Lynx currently hold a league-best 22-5 record and now a four-game lead over the Liberty in the standings, thanks to their latest two losses. The Lynx have lost just one of their 15 games at the Target Center this season, too. If Monday's team meeting didn't work out and Stewart is still sidelined, that deficit in the standings could very easily grow. Ionescu, though, isn't trying to think about that. 'We've got to focus on ourselves,' she said. 'We shouldn't be playing any differently because of who we're matched up with, what their record is, how talented they are, there's no excuse for how we came out ... Any team can beat anyone in this league, and we were able to see that tonight."
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2 days ago
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Upcoming Liberty-Lynx WNBA Finals rematch potentially ruined by injuries
ARLINGTON, Texas — We waited nine months to get the highly-anticipated WNBA Finals rematch. And we'll have to wait a bit longer to relive those theatrics — possibly till October with the New York Liberty continually getting bit by the injury bug. In the spring, the WNBA world groaned at the league scheduling the 2024 WNBA Finals rematch between the Minnesota Lynx and Liberty more than two months after Opening Day. And not only did we have to wait till summer, the league scheduled the 2024 finalists to face off three times within nine days in August. Now the anticipation is ruined with the Liberty slated to enter the matchups shorthanded as Breanna Stewart (leg) and Nyara Sabally (rest) are sidelined with injuries. Stewart exited in the first quarter of Saturday's loss with a leg injury and Liberty head coach Sandy Brondello declined to give a timeline for her return before Monday's road matchup against the Dallas Wings. 'No, not at this stage,' Brondello said when asked if there's a timeline for Stewart's return. Sabally, who is dealing with knee discomfort, is getting some 'time off to get her body right,' per Brondello. 'We'll assess her down the track,' the coach said. That makes two unclear timelines as the Liberty approach the first matchup against the Lynx Wednesday at Target Center. Both teams were slated to face off again on Aug. 16 and Aug, 19. Kennedy Burke is also dealing with lower-body cramping, but she could return to the court sooner than Stewart and Sabally. Burke, who exited Saturday's matchup and missed Monday's game against the Wings, is day-to-day. The injury developments put a dark cloud over the matchups against two teams that are favorites to face of in WNBA Finals once again. The Liberty and Lynx fought to the end in a thrilling five-game WNBA Finals series that ended with New York securing the first title in franchise history after a 67-62 overtime victory. The game wouldn't have been won without Sabally, who was relied on heavily in the second half of Game 5 as Brondello opted to deploy a bigger lineup to wear down Cheryl Reeve's team. And Stewart's 18.6 points per game in the series helped lift the Liberty to a title. Now, we may never get a real regular-season look a the two teams without both contributors. On the bright side, we could get another Finals rematch between the two. Minnesota (22-5) entered Monday with the best record and No. 1 overall seed. The Liberty are 3.5 games behind them in the No. 2 seed. If the season ended tonight, the two teams would only meet each other in the WNBA Finals — now a best-of-seven series for the first time in 2025. The Liberty would have to get past the Las Vegas Aces in a 2-7 matchup and face off against the winner of No. 3 seed Phoenix Mercury and No. 6 seed Indiana Fever for a chance at a third consecutive WNBA Finals berth. The Lynx's path is much easier: a first-round matchup against the No. 8 seed Washington Mystics and a second-round series against the fourth-seeded Atlanta Dream or fifth-seeded Seattle Storm. Another uncertainty for the upcoming matchups against Minnesota is whether Emma Meesseman will be available. Meesseman, who reportedly considered Minnesota as a potential landing spot before committing to New York, is expected to arrive in Brooklyn some time in August after receiving a visa. ____
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2 days ago
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Wyatt Langford's bases-clearing double
Wyatt Langford clears the bases with a three-run double to left, giving the Rangers a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the 1st inning
