Better Buy: Boeing vs. Northrop Grumman
Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) are among the handful of defense contractors that soak up large shares of the Pentagon's hundreds of billions of dollars in annual spending. But their stocks have charted opposite courses this year: Northrop is beating the S&P 500 by more than 20 percentage points so far in 2019, while Boeing trails the index by about 15 percentage points.
NOC and BA data by YCharts
Source Fool.com



