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AnalysisMartin-Baker blasts clear in operating margin ranking among aerospace firms
Familiar names lead the way in 2021, with only four new names featuring among the 20 biggest businesses by operating margin
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Dassault Aviation tops sales growth list among aerospace firms in 2021
FlightGlobal’s top 20 ranking of aerospace companies by sales growth is headed by Rafale manufacturer Dassault Aviation.
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Defence companies continue to buck business downturn
Lockheed Martin again heads annual top 10 listing of defence aerospace sales in 2021
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Pandemic recovery boosts commercial aviation financials
Improved outlook see manufacturer revenues climb in 2021 from crisis lows
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Top 100 aerospace companies ranked by revenue
The latest ranking of the biggest 100 aerospace businesses by revenue reflects a 12-month period of fragmented recovery – for the commercial sector at least.
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Top 100 aerospace companies ranked by revenue
This year’s Top 100 reflects an aviation industry hit by nine months or more of crisis – but also one where fortunes differ hugely depending on whether a business’s focus is defence or commercial.
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Operating margins table highlights industry squeeze
We may have been through the worst crisis in aviation history, but this year’s table of best performers in operating margin has a familiar ring to it. The companies that are the best at squeezing profits from their revenues pretty much stay consistent year after year. TransDigm may have become ...
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Raytheon Technologies tops sales growth list
Raytheon Technologies’ year-on-year sales growth of over 121% is a result of the merger with the Collins Aerospace and Pratt & Whitney units of United Technologies.
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How defence companies rose to the top during pandemic
Further evidence of how far behind the defence aviation market commercial aviation fell during the worst of the Covid-19 crisis comes from the sales totals of the biggest 10 players in each segment.
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Commercial downturn marks Boeing’s nadir
It was another awful year for Boeing’s commercial sales fortunes, with an almost 50% drop in revenues to just $16.2 billion. To put it in context, the company made just twice as much revenue from its range of single- and twin-aisle airliners as Gulfstream did in 2020 with a family of specialist business jets.
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Longview sees the biggest sales rise
Canadian company’s acquisition of the Dash 8 programme from Bombardier saw it surge up the rankings
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Acquisitive TransDigm again tops the operating margins table
Fresh from its acquisition of Esterline Technologies, the fast growing aerospace and defence holding group has managed to retain its impressive profitability performance
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Defence market unscathed as big players enjoy sales hike
While the coronavirus may have devastated the commercial aviation sector, the defence market has remained relatively unscathed. The cost to governments of furloughing workers combined with an economic downturn that could last for years will exert fiscal pressure on military budgets. At the same time, defence spending is driven by ...
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Airbus increases the gap in commercial revenues over Boeing
How did the Top 100 companies rank when it came to sales in the airliner and business aircraft segments? As in the main table, Boeing descended sharply
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Airbus displaces Boeing as aerospace’s biggest company
Seattle’s tumultuous 2019 has seen it slip behind its European rival in our latest annual Top 100 rankings
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Top 100 aerospace companies ranked by revenue
Our latest annual industry league table, based on financial figures from before the coronavirus pandemic struck, reflects Boeing’s existing 737 Max troubles, the impact of mergers and acquisitions, and some signs that growth was flattening ahead of the latest crisis
