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Appointment · 8 October 2026

GENERAL DYNAMICS CORP

GD · Listed

Key facts

How the CEO left
No departure described
Planned or abrupt
Planned
Successor
Internal (a current executive)
Signs it was forced
None stated
Other news alongside
None
Effective
1 January 2027
Reason given
transition to executive chairman

Read from the filing and press release by a language model (Google Gemini), told to use only that text. It can make mistakes; the quotes below are the source.

The announcement

On October 7, 2026, General Dynamics Corporation (the “Company”) announced that the board of directors has elected Danny Deep as Chief Executive Officer, effective January 1, 2027.

Sentences matched by our CEO change rules, from the first filing. Read the 8-K on SEC EDGAR ↗

Share price reaction

The filing reached SEC EDGAR on 8 October 2026 at 00:00 New York time, before the market opened, so day 0 is that same day. Day 0 is marked by the vertical line.

GD S&P 500 (SPY)
100110120−60−45−30−15Day 0Trading days before (−) and after (+) the announcementDay 0 · 8 Oct 2026GDS&P
Both lines start from 100 on the trading day before the announcement (day −1), so the gap between them shows how the stock did relative to the market. Prices adjusted for splits and dividends. Drag across the chart to zoom in.
WindowGDS&P 500Abnormal
Days 0 to +1+1.9%+0.2%+1.8%
Days 0 to +3+2.3%+0.1%+2.1%
1 month (days 0 to +21)so far, 14 of 22 days+9.2%−1.0%+9.0%
3 months (days 0 to +63)so far, 14 of 64 days+9.2%−1.0%+9.0%

The abnormal return is the stock's return beyond what its usual relationship with the market (beta 0.42) predicts. A single stock's move can reflect other news on the same days, so it describes what happened rather than measuring the effect of the CEO change; averages across many events are on the Research design page as they are completed.

News coverage

Headlines from the day before the filing to three days after, found in the GDELT news index by company name, so an occasional match may be about something else. Tone is FinBERT's reading of the headline alone, a language model trained on financial news; it is not our view of the change.