Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc.
Industrials · Aerospace & Defense
Structural: monopoly/duopoly franchise inside US Navy 30-year shipbuilding plan. Sole CVN builder (Ford-class carriers at Newport News), 50/50 Virginia-class SSN builder with $GD Electric Boat, and Columbia-class SSBN module supplier. Backlog ~$48B covers ~3 years of revenue, contracts run 10-30 years.
- AUKUS pact + Columbia ramp force multi-decade SSN throughput from ~1.2 to 2+ boats/yr - capacity, not demand, is the bottleneck
- Mission Technologies adds higher-margin recurring services revenue ($GD/$LDOS-style mix shift)
- Defense supplemental + Navy SCN budget growth structurally above DoD topline
- Irreplaceable industrial base - no new entrants possible (security clearance + capex)
- Workforce expansion + automation capex starting to convert backlog faster
- Fixed-price legacy contracts squeezed margins through 2024-2025 (inflation + labor)
- Newport News labor productivity gap vs Electric Boat is the live operational risk
- Single-customer concentration (US Navy ~85% of revenue) - appropriations risk
- Free cash flow lumpy, dividend coverage thin in down years
- AUKUS political risk if administration changes priorities
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