Top Federal Vendors’ Stocks Rise 23% on Average Since January

Nearly two-thirds of the one hundred largest publicly traded government vendors have seen their stock prices rise by an average of 23% since the start of the second Trump administration.

Closing prices listed for the 19 largest publicly traded aerospace and defense equities averaged 44% growth since President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, while a dozen computer market stocks are down 5.4% and four in the health-care services sector together have fallen 24%.

This analysis compares closing stock prices on Jan. 21 and Nov. 25 for the 100 largest identified publicly traded federal vendors with stock traded on both domestic ...