Elbit Systems Ltd (ESLT) — chart, structure and Closelook read

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Company snapshot — Elbit Systems Ltd

ESLT in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Elbit Systems designs and supplies defence and security equipment across five segments: aerospace, command-and-control and cyber, intelligence and reconnaissance and electronic warfare, land systems, and its US subsidiary Elbit Systems of America. Its products include unmanned aircraft, guided-munition sensors, training simulators, communications and cyber tools, electro-optic and laser systems, naval sonar, and turrets and munitions for land vehicles. It sells mainly to governments, defence forces and homeland-security agencies worldwide, and is based in Haifa, Israel.
Where it sits in the stack
Elbit carries no seat in Closelook's index; it sits in the diary's industrials sector, within the aerospace-and-defence sleeve rather than the AI build-out stack proper. Its systems are a customer of chip and sensor supply chains rather than a constraint on any layer of that stack, since it integrates electronics into weapons and surveillance platforms.
Who it is priced against
Closelook's peer group draws on scored industrials names based in the US, including ZTO Express, Nordson, Sunbelt Rentals, Verisk Analytics, Allegheny Technologies, Applied Industrial Technologies, Cintas and LATAM Airlines; the market more often names Lockheed Martin as its closest defence-sector comparison.
Why Closelook tracks it
It carries a Closelook score, with quality the strongest module and momentum the weakest; it holds no seat in our index and the diary has not yet quoted it in an edition.
What the diary watches
Whether new government contracts and export orders sustain its backlog, and whether the momentum module recovers as sentiment around defence spending shifts.

Elbit Systems Ltd (ESLT) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for ESLT, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Aerospace & Defense · US · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Aerospace & Defense · US

This name carries no Closelook score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against ESLT on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 0.47%, quarterly · last 1.00 USD on 2026-06-23

Dividends and capital return

What ESLT pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 3.52 USD per share · a 0.47% yield on the 2026-09-18 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-18
  • Change on the year +193.6% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 1.20 USD per share
  • Last distribution 1.00 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-06-23
  • By calendar year 2025: 2.72 USD (partial) · 2026: 2.00 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2025-04-22

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 50/100 · S&P 500 fund at 49, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-18
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 97th percentile of the window, +4.9% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-18
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.07 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-18

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-19

Quick answers

What is Elbit Systems Ltd (ESLT)?

Elbit Systems Ltd trades as ESLT on the US exchange (US) in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-19.

Is ESLT in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Elbit Systems Ltd is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-19.

Where does ESLT trade against its moving averages?

Mixed moving-average stack: Trades -2.5% vs the 50-day and -2.4% vs the 200-day average, 26.7% below the 52-week high and +64.7% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-18 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does Elbit Systems Ltd do?

Elbit Systems designs and supplies defence and security equipment across five segments: aerospace, command-and-control and cyber, intelligence and reconnaissance and electronic warfare, land systems, and its US subsidiary Elbit Systems of America. Its products include unmanned aircraft, guided-munition sensors, training simulators, communications and cyber tools, electro-optic and laser systems, naval sonar, and turrets and munitions for land vehicles. It sells mainly to governments, defence forces and homeland-security agencies worldwide, and is based in Haifa, Israel. Closelook's peer group draws on scored industrials names based in the US, including ZTO Express, Nordson, Sunbelt Rentals, Verisk Analytics, Allegheny Technologies, Applied Industrial Technologies, Cintas and LATAM Airlines; the market more often names Lockheed Martin as its closest defence-sector comparison.

Where does Elbit Systems Ltd sit in the AI build-out?

Elbit carries no seat in Closelook's index; it sits in the diary's industrials sector, within the aerospace-and-defence sleeve rather than the AI build-out stack proper. Its systems are a customer of chip and sensor supply chains rather than a constraint on any layer of that stack, since it integrates electronics into weapons and surveillance platforms. It carries a Closelook score, with quality the strongest module and momentum the weakest; it holds no seat in our index and the diary has not yet quoted it in an edition.

Does Elbit Systems Ltd pay a dividend?

Elbit Systems Ltd has paid 3.52 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 0.47% on the 2026-09-18 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 1.00 USD on 2026-06-23. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for ESLT, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelook universe

then Aerospace & Defense. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.