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
| # | Ticker | Name | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 600150.SHG | China CSSC Holdings Ltd | 97.5 |
| 2 | 600685.SHG | CSSC Offshore & Marine Engineering Group Co Ltd | 91.0 |
| 3 | APOLLO.NSE | Apollo Micro Systems Limited | 89.8 |
| 4 | GRSE.NSE | Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Limited | 87.5 |
| 5 | 300008.SHE | Bestway Marine & Energy Technology Co Ltd | 86.5 |
| 6 | HEI.US | Heico Corporation | 86.0 |
| 7 | HEI-A.US | HEICO Corporation | 86.0 |
| 8 | VSEC.US | VSE Corporation | 85.0 |
| 9 | HWM.US | Howmet Aerospace Inc | 84.6 |
| 10 | THEON.AS | Theon International Plc | 84.6 |
| 11 | ZENTEC.NSE | Zen Technologies Limited | 83.3 |
| 12 | AM.PA | Dassault Aviation SA | 82.9 |
| 13 | WWD.US | Woodward Inc | 82.6 |
| 14 | CSG.AS | CSG N.V. | 81.9 |
| 15 | ESLT.US | Elbit Systems Ltd | 81.8 |
| 16 | 329180.KO | Hyundai Heavy Industries Co Ltd | 79.6 |
| 17 | 079550.KO | LIG Nex1 Co Ltd | 78.8 |
| 18 | PL.US | Planet Labs PBC | 78.6 |
| 19 | KTOS.US | Kratos Defense & Security Solutions | 78.3 |
| 20 | HAG.XETRA | Hensoldt AG | 77.7 |
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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.