It may seem that Elon Musk owns the space business, with SpaceX’s current monopoly on flying U.S. astronauts into orbit and its near-dominance of the satellite launch industry.
To develop a list of stocks to screen, we looked at the holdings of five exchange-traded funds that hold shares aerospace and defense companies:For our screen on expected revenue growth, we narrowed the list to 68 companies covered by at least five analysts polled by FactSet. Then we looked at consensus estimates for calendar years, because many companies have fiscal years that don’t match the calendar.
All of these companies are based in the U.S., except for Airbus, which is headquartered in the Netherlands and JD Logistics Inc. 2618, +1.36%, which is based in Beijing.Click here for Tomi Kilgore’s detailed guide to the wealth of information available for free on the MarketWatch quote page.