Opinion: Is A&D Too Beholden to Wall Street?
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Credit: U.S. Navy
Short-term thinking seems to have become the strategy of choice for many publicly traded companies—including most of the larger aerospace concerns—as they fixate on share buybacks, above market-average dividends and free cash flow as the principal metrics of overall performance. Northrop Grumman...
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