Mercury Systems Inc. MRCY

Mercury Systems Inc is a commercial technology company serving the aerospace and defense industry. The company envisions, creates, and delivers secure open architecture solutions powering a broad range of mission-critical applications in challenging and demanding environments. Its Mercury Processing Platform spans the full breadth of signal processing from radio frequency front end to the human-machine interface to convert meaningful data, gathered in remote and hostile environments, into critical decisions. The company manufactures components, products, modules, and subsystems and sells to defense prime contractors, the U.S. government, original equipment manufacturers, and commercial aerospace companies. Geographically, it derives maximum revenue from the United States.

• Zacks Investment Research 2 oct

  TTMI Targets Defense Growth With Epiq Acquisition to Stay Ahead

  TTM Technologies has completed its $1.1 billion acquisition of Epiq Solutions, expanding its defense, intelligence, and space technology capabilities. The deal adds software-defined radios, RF systems, and radiation-tolerant computing to TTMI's portfolio, enabling more integrated solutions across land, air, sea, and space applications. While the acquisition is expected to immediately strengthen adjusted EBITDA, it will be moderately dilutive to EPS in 2027 before becoming accretive in 2028.

  

• The Motley Fool 2 sept

  Insider Waves Goodbye to More Than 48,000 Shares of Defense Stock Worth $4.8 Million

  Mercury Systems CEO William L. Ballhaus sold 48,812 shares worth $4.8 million in a non-discretionary tax withholding transaction. The CEO retains 236,666 total shares valued at $22.3 million. While the company shows strong revenue growth and backlog, concerns include margin compression, valuation stretched at 5.0x price-to-sales ratio, and inflation pressures from legacy fixed-price contracts.

  

• GlobeNewswire Inc. 6 ago

  Hypersonic Testing Is Moving From Wind Tunnels to the Sky

  Starfighters Space CEO Tim Franta described the company's dual business strategy: using a fleet of F-104 aircraft for high-speed research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) services focused on hypersonic component testing, and developing STARLAUNCH vehicles for small-payload suborbital and orbital launch services. The company targets underserved small-satellite and experimental markets while emphasizing safety and regulatory compliance.