Curtiss-Wright, Other Top Aerospace Plays Among 24 New To Best Stock Lists

Keeping your watchlist up to date is key to making money in the stock market. IBD helps you do that by regularly updating stock screens like the IBD 50, IBD Big Cap 20, IPO Leaders and Stock Spotlight. In the tables below, you can see which stocks like aerospace play Curtiss-Wright (CW) have just been added to or removed from these lists.

Aerospace and defense stocks are outperforming the market amid the U.S.-Iran-Israel war. Companies like Curtiss-Wright, BWX Technologies (BWXT), MDA Space (MDA), and Karmen Holdings (KRMN) are seeing sales and profits climb as the U.S. and other countries rush to resupply military gear. Meanwhile the pace of space exploration is picking up, giving the sector an added boost.

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Another company on that list is Kratos Defense and Security Solutions (KTOS). It is among aerospace and defense companies developing next-generation hypersonic systems. These five are among a group of 24 outstanding stocks that rose onto various IBD top stock watchlists Monday.

Each list helps identify the best stocks to buy and watch by using The IBD Methodology, which looks for stocks displaying the same common traits typically shared by the best-performing stocks in the early stages of their big price moves.

Check this column daily to help build and maintain your watchlist with alerts to the most recent changes.

Keep in mind that you should never buy a stock just because it’s on an IBD list. Always do your own research and run all your stock ideas through a buying checklist. You can also streamline your investing process with IBD’s simple three-step routine to quickly track general market trends, find stocks to watch, and pinpoint the best time to buy and sell.

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Aerospace and defense firm Karmen says on its website that the “impossible ends here.” Like Kratos, Karmen is involved in developing hypersonic rockets for the military. Karmen went public a little more than year ago, in February 2025. Recent IPO stocks are where you often find some of the market’s best stocks. New IPOs are typically in their early stages of growth, and it’s big earnings growth that generally fuels a stock’s price performance. IPO Leaders has special screening criteria to find up-and-coming stocks with strong fundamental and technical traits.

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