Lockheed Martin (LMT 0.30%) stock fell 4.2% through 11:30 a.m. ET Thursday -- and it's no mystery why.
President Trump announced yesterday that the U.S. and Iran have signed an "interim agreement" to end their conflict. While it may be hard to answer the age-old question "war, huh, what is it good for?," investors today seem to think ending the Iran war will be bad news for Lockheed Martin stock.
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Details on the agreement
Details are in flux, and the interim agreement may not resolve much, as it merely starts a 60-day period of more intense negotiations surrounding the status of the Strait of Hormuz and the fate of Iran's nuclear weapons program. Still, the broad outlines look like this:
- The U.S. naval blockade on Iran will end.
- Iran may resume foreign sales of oil.
- Other countries' ships have 60 days' free passage through the Strait of Hormuz.
- S. sanctions on Iran will lift.
- Previously frozen Iranian bank accounts will unfreeze.
- And Iran will set up a $300 billion reconstruction fund.
Not much of this is immediately relevant to Lockheed Martin stock, but knowing the details is important for context, so investors can gauge the chances that both sides will believe they're getting enough out of this peace deal for it to hold together permanently.
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What this means for Lockheed Martin stock
So, how is the peace deal relevant to Lockheed investors? Well, if peace holds and fighting doesn't resume, this might depress demand for new weapons from Lockheed. There is still the matter of replacing other weapons already used and restocking U.S. arsenals, however, and this is already yielding billions of dollars in sales for Lockheed.
If you ask me, this peace deal won't be as bad news for Lockheed as investors seem to think.
