Curtiss-Wright Shares Slide 0.45% Amid 34% Volume Drop but Q2 Earnings Surge Propels 476th-Ranked Stock

Curtiss-Wright (CW) closed on August 6, 2025, with a 0.45% decline, trading at $XX.XX as of market close. The stock saw a trading volume of 0.25 billion, ranking 476th in market activity, a 34.24% drop from the previous day’s volume. The company released its Q2 2025 earnings report, highlighting robust financial performance that underpinned raised full-year guidance.

Curtiss-Wright reported Q2 2025 sales of $877 million, a 12% year-over-year increase, driven by double-digit growth in both Aerospace & Defense (A&D) and Commercial markets. Adjusted operating income rose 20% to $160 million, with an operating margin expansion of 130 basis points to 18.3%. Free cash flow reached $117 million, reflecting improved working capital and higher cash earnings, though partially offset by increased capital expenditures across segments.

Segment performance underscored the company’s momentum. The Naval & Power segment saw a 19% sales increase to $384 million, fueled by strong order execution in submarine programs and commercial nuclear projects. Defense Electronics reported 11% growth to $253 million, supported by demand for embedded computing and battlefield communications. Meanwhile, the Aerospace & Industrial segment posted 3% sales growth, with commercial aerospace benefiting from higher OEM sensor and surface treatment sales.

The company raised its full-year 2025 guidance, now projecting sales growth of 9-10% and adjusted diluted EPS of $12.70-$13.00, up 16-19% year-over-year. Operating margin guidance was increased to 18.5-18.7%, reflecting ongoing restructuring initiatives and operational efficiency. Curtiss-Wright also noted a 1.14 book-to-bill ratio in Q2, with $1.0 billion in new orders and a $3.9 billion backlog, signaling sustained demand across its end markets.

A strategy of purchasing the top 500 stocks by daily trading volume and holding them for one day generated a 166.71% return from 2022 to the present, outperforming the benchmark’s 29.18% by 137.53%. This highlights the potential of liquidity concentration in high-volume stocks to drive short-term gains, though such strategies carry elevated risk due to market volatility and rapid sentiment shifts.