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CARR vs GD: Dividend Comparison 2026

CARR yields 1.68% · GD yields 1.76%● Live data

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After 10 years · $10,000 invested · DRIP enabled
🏆 CARR wins by $31.13M in total portfolio value
10 years
CARR
CARR
● Live price
1.68%
Share price
$54.36
Annual div
$0.92
5Y div CAGR
100%
Payout ratio
50%
After 10 yrs · $10,000 · DRIP
Portfolio value
$31.17M
Annual income
$27,977,126.68
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GD
GD
● Live price
1.76%
Share price
$340.79
Annual div
$6.00
5Y div CAGR
36.6%
Payout ratio
50%
After 10 yrs · $10,000 · DRIP
Portfolio value
$44.0K
Annual income
$7,409.33
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Portfolio growth — CARR vs GD

📍 CARR pulled ahead of the other in Year 1

Annual dividend income

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Recession Test — Did They Cut Dividends?

How each stock treated shareholders during the 3 biggest crises of the last 20 years

Crisis PeriodCARRGD
2008–2009
GFC
— No data— No data
2020 Q1–Q2
COVID
— No data— No data
2022 Q4
Rate Hike
— No data— No data
Based on dividend payment history. "Increased" = dividend grew during crisis. "Maintained" = held within 3%. "Cut" = reduced by more than 3%.
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Dividend Calendar Overlap

Combined, CARR + GD cover 0 of 12 monthsgood coverage

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CARR pays
GD pays
Both pay
Neither
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Tax Bracket Optimizer

Which stock is actually better after tax? Adjust your rate to find out.

CARR
Annual income on $10K today (after 15% tax)
$143.07/yr
After 10yr DRIP, annual income (after tax)
$23,780,557.68/yr
GD
Annual income on $10K today (after 15% tax)
$149.65/yr
After 10yr DRIP, annual income (after tax)
$6,297.93/yr
At 15% tax rate, CARR beats the other by $23,774,259.75/year in after-tax income after 10 years on $10,000
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Lazy Portfolio Split Optimizer

What's the optimal mix of CARR + GD for your $10,000?

CARR: 50%GD: 50%
100% GD50/50100% CARR
Portfolio after 10yr
$15.61M
Annual income
$13,992,268.00/yr
Blended yield
89.65%
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Analyst Conviction Gap

Where Wall Street is most bullish on GD right now

CARR
Analyst Ratings
13
Buy
11
Hold
1
Sell
Consensus: Buy
Price Target
$67.88
+24.9% upside vs current
Range: $55.00 — $74.00
Altman Z
2.4
Piotroski
6/9
GD
Analyst Ratings
17
Buy
16
Hold
1
Sell
Consensus: Buy
Price Target
$404.22
+18.6% upside vs current
Range: $385.00 — $444.00
Altman Z
4.2
Piotroski
8/9
Analyst ratings via FMP. Altman Z-Score: >3.0 safe, 1.81–3.0 grey zone, <1.81 distress. Piotroski: 7–9 strong, 0–3 weak.
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Copy Congress — What Are Politicians Buying?

Senate & House STOCK Act disclosures (last 90 days)

CARR buys
5
GD buys
0
PoliticianChamberTickerTypeAmountDate
Julie Johnson🏢 House$CARR▼ Sell$1,001 - $15,0002025-12-18
Julie Johnson🏢 House$CARR▼ Sell$1,001 - $15,0002025-11-13
Jared Moskowitz🏢 House$CARR▼ Sell$1,001 - $15,0002025-10-10
Jared Moskowitz🏢 House$CARR▼ Sell$1,001 - $15,0002025-10-10
Jared Moskowitz🏢 House$CARR▼ Sell$1,001 - $15,0002025-10-10
Julie Johnson🏢 House$CARR▲ Buy$1,001 - $15,0002025-10-07
Julie Johnson🏢 House$CARR▼ Sell$1,001 - $15,0002025-10-06
Ro Khanna🏢 House$CARR▲ Buy$1,001 - $15,0002025-09-29
Lisa McClain🏢 House$CARR▼ Sell$1,001 - $15,0002025-09-11
Ro Khanna🏢 House$CARR▼ Sell$1,001 - $15,0002025-08-26
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MetricCARRGD
Forward yield1.68%1.76%
Annual dividend / share$0.92$6.00
Payout ratio50%50%
1-year div growth0%0%
5-year div CAGR100%36.6%
Portfolio after 10y$31.17M$44.0K
Annual income after 10y$27,977,126.68$7,409.33
Total dividends collected$30.90M$21.2K
Payment frequencyquarterlyquarterly
SectorIndustrialsIndustrials
Analyst consensusBuyBuy
Analyst price target$67.88$404.22

Year-by-year: CARR vs GD ($10,000, DRIP)

YearCARR PortfolioCARR Income/yrGD PortfolioGD Income/yrGap
1← crossover$11,037$336.64$10,941$240.50+$96.00CARR
2$12,504$694.47$12,042$335.91+$462.00CARR
3$14,850$1,470.63$13,357$472.02+$1.5KCARR
4$19,154$3,264.56$14,961$668.39+$4.2KCARR
5$28,365$7,870.58$16,964$955.72+$11.4KCARR
6$52,137$21,786.34$19,534$1,383.46+$32.6KCARR
7$130,637$74,850.27$22,936$2,033.85+$107.7KCARR
8$490,339$350,558.26$27,590$3,048.57+$462.7KCARR
9$2,984,115$2,459,451.41$34,203$4,681.66+$2.95MCARR
10$31,170,129$27,977,126.68$44,006$7,409.33+$31.13MCARR

CARR vs GD: Complete Analysis 2026

CARRIndustrials

Carrier Global Corporation provides heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC), refrigeration, fire, security, and building automation technologies worldwide. It operates through three segments: HVAC, Refrigeration, and Fire & Security. The HVAC segment provides products, controls, services, and solutions to meet the heating, cooling, and ventilation needs of residential and commercial customers. Its products include air conditioners, heating systems, controls, and aftermarket components, as well as aftermarket repair and maintenance services and building automation solutions. The Refrigeration segment offers transport refrigeration and monitoring products and services, as well as digital solutions for trucks, trailers, shipping containers, intermodal applications, food retail, and warehouse cooling; and commercial refrigeration solutions, such as refrigerated cabinets, freezers, systems, and controls. The Fire & Security segment provides various residential, commercial, and industrial technologies, including fire, flame, gas, smoke, and carbon monoxide detection; portable fire extinguishers; fire suppression systems; intruder alarms; access control systems; video management systems; and electronic controls. Its other fire and security service offerings comprise audit, design, installation, and system integration, as well as aftermarket maintenance and repair and monitoring services. The company offers its products under the Autronica, Det-Tronics, Edwards, Fireye, GST, Kidde, LenelS2, Marioff, Onity, and Supra; Carrier, Automated Logic, Bryant, CIAT, Day & Night, Heil, NORESCO, and Riello; and Carrier Commercial Refrigeration, Carrier Transicold, and Sensitech brands. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

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GDIndustrials

General Dynamics Corporation operates as an aerospace and defense company worldwide. It operates through four segments: Aerospace, Marine Systems, Combat Systems, and Technologies. The Aerospace segment designs, manufactures, and sells business jets; and offers aircraft maintenance and repair, management, charter, aircraft-on-ground support and completion, staffing, and fixed-base operator services. The Marine Systems segment designs and builds nuclear-powered submarines, surface combatants, and auxiliary ships for the United States Navy and Jones Act ships for commercial customers, as well as builds crude oil and product tankers, and container and cargo ships. This segment also provides navy ships maintenance and modernization services; lifecycle support and repair services for navy surface ships; and program management, planning, engineering, and design support services for submarines and surface ships. The Combat Systems segment manufactures land combat solutions, such as wheeled and tracked combat vehicles, Stryker wheeled combat vehicles, piranha vehicles, weapons systems, munitions, mobile bridge systems with payloads, tactical vehicles, main battle tanks, armored vehicles, and armaments. This segment also offers modernization programs, engineering, support, and sustainment services. The Technologies segment provides information technology solutions and mission support services; mobile communication, computers, and command-and-control mission systems; and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance solutions to military, intelligence, and federal civilian customers. This segment also offers cloud computing, artificial intelligence; machine learning; big data analytics; development, security, and operations; software-defined networks; everything-as-a-service; defense enterprise office system solutions; and unmanned undersea vehicle manufacturing and assembly services. General Dynamics Corporation was founded in 1899 and is headquartered in Reston, Virginia.

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