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 composite score
| # | Ticker | Name | Composite |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 600150.SHG | China CSSC Holdings Ltd | 77.7 |
| 2 | 600685.SHG | CSSC Offshore & Marine Engineering Group Co Ltd | 67.9 |
| 3 | APOLLO.NSE | Apollo Micro Systems Limited | 54.8 |
| 4 | GRSE.NSE | Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Limited | 57.7 |
| 5 | WWD.US | Woodward Inc | 60.5 |
| 6 | 001316.SHE | Zhejiang XiaSha Precision | 77.0 |
| 7 | VSEC.US | VSE Corporation | 53.4 |
| 8 | 300008.SHE | Bestway Marine & Energy Technology Co Ltd | 72.2 |
| 9 | HEI.US | Heico Corporation | 51.8 |
| 10 | HEI-A.US | HEICO Corporation | 54.8 |
| 11 | HWM.US | Howmet Aerospace Inc | 64.3 |
| 12 | THEON.AS | Theon International Plc | 62.4 |
| 13 | ZENTEC.NSE | Zen Technologies Limited | 56.7 |
| 14 | ESLT.US | Elbit Systems Ltd | 50.0 |
| 15 | CSG.AS | CSG N.V. | 60.5 |
| 16 | 0317.HK | CSSC Offshore & Marine Engineering Group Co Ltd | 61.8 |
| 17 | 079550.KO | LIG Nex1 Co Ltd | 54.9 |
| 18 | RSEL.TA | RSL Electronics Ltd | 71.6 |
| 19 | 329180.KO | Hyundai Heavy Industries Co Ltd | 66.4 |
| 20 | LOAR.US | Loar Holdings Inc. | 45.7 |
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Methodology: How we score stocks. Data refreshed nightly around 03:30 ET. This page lists the top 20 by composite score within the Aerospace & Defense industry; use the screener for the full ranked list.