Best High Growth Companies in Aerospace & Defense for 2026

Stocks with strong revenue and earnings growth momentum, ranked by the Growth pillar score.

Aerospace and Defense names earn revenue on multi-decade platform programmes plus aftermarket support, which produces unusually long earnings visibility for an industrial cohort. Composite scoring weights the Quality pillar (margin durability) and the Health pillar (programme-cost discipline); Valuation is the tiebreaker between the prime contractors and the supplier base.

Data as of (updated daily)

Top 20 Aerospace & Defense stocks by growth score

#TickerNameGrowth
1600150.SHGChina CSSC Holdings Ltd95.6
2600685.SHGCSSC Offshore & Marine Engineering Group Co Ltd91.3
3CSG.ASCSG N.V.90.8
4VSEC.USVSE Corporation90.7
5APOLLO.NSEApollo Micro Systems Limited90.1
6GRSE.NSEGarden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Limited87.6
7HWM.USHowmet Aerospace Inc86.7
8SAF.PASafran SA86.5
9HEI.USHeico Corporation85.0
10HEI-A.USHEICO Corporation85.0
11ESLT.USElbit Systems Ltd83.5
12ZENTEC.NSEZen Technologies Limited83.0
13THEON.ASTheon International Plc82.3
14WWD.USWoodward Inc82.1
15AM.PADassault Aviation SA81.7
16042660.KOHanwha Ocean Co., Ltd81.2
17329180.KOHyundai Heavy Industries Co Ltd79.8
18300900.SHEGuanglian Aviation Industry Co Ltd78.9
19KTOS.USKratos Defense & Security Solutions78.8
20PL.USPlanet Labs PBC78.0

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Methodology: How we score stocks. Data refreshed nightly around 03:30 ET. This page lists the top 20 by growth score within the Aerospace & Defense industry; use the screener for the full ranked list.

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