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Defense Penny Stocks

US-listed defense and national security penny stocks priced $0.50 to $5, ranked by today's percentage change. Drone manufacturers, defense electronics, cyber-defense, military contractors, and homeland-security plays. Updated intraday.

Data as of 5/30/2026 11:37:26 PM · Intraday prices · 25 penny stocks in theme

#	Symbol	Company	Sector	Price	Day Chg	Volume
1	UIS	Unisys Corporation	Technology	$4.6522	+19.59%	2.4M
2	NEXR	Nexera Technologies Ltd Ordinary Shares	Technology	$1.3400	+15.52%	65.7M
3	KITT	Nauticus Robotics, Inc. Common stock	Industrials	$1.7800	+3.49%	414K
4	VUZI	Vuzix Corporation	Technology	$4.6050	+2.33%	4.4M
5	TPCS	Techprecision Corporation	Industrials	$3.9950	+1.14%	9K
6	GNSS	Genasys Inc. Common Stock	Technology	$2.1500	+0.94%	116K
7	AIRI	Air Industries Group	Industrials	$3.0601	+0.66%	47K
8	CNTN	Canton Strategic Holdings, Inc. Common Stock	Technology	$3.1100	0.00%	755K
9	TLS	Telos Corporation Common Stock	Technology	$4.8000	-0.21%	2.1M
10	MTEK	Maris-Tech Ltd. Ordinary Shares	Technology	$1.2400	-0.80%	118K
11	CTM	Castellum, Inc.	Technology	$0.8499	-1.16%	879K
12	MOBX	Mobix Labs, Inc. Class A Common Stock	Technology	$2.3950	-1.44%	674K
13	SIGA	SIGA Technologies Inc.	Healthcare	$4.6800	-1.68%	417K
14	GXAI	Gaxos.ai Inc. Common Stock	Technology	$1.1700	-1.68%	416K
15	EFOI	Energy Focus, Inc.	Industrials	$3.7300	-1.84%	47K
16	VTSI	VirTra, Inc. Common Stock	Technology	$3.4200	-2.29%	70K
17	SYNX	Silynxcom Ltd.	Industrials	$1.1500	-3.36%	62K
18	DHX	DHI Group, Inc.	Technology	$3.5300	-3.81%	223K
19	BOSC	B.O.S. Better On-Line Solutions Ltd.	Technology	$4.1200	-3.96%	239K
20	DFSC	DEFSEC Technologies Inc. Common Stock	Industrials	$4.6200	-4.55%	40K
21	SIDU	Sidus Space, Inc. Class A Common Stock	Industrials	$4.9050	-5.31%	35.6M
22	SYPR	Sypris Solutions Inc	Industrials	$3.3350	-6.32%	238K
23	AMPG	AMPLITECH GROUP INC. COM	Technology	$4.4300	-6.34%	4.4M
24	SNGX	Soligenix, Inc. Common Stock	Healthcare	$0.9057	-6.88%	13.2M
25	WRAP	Wrap Technologies, Inc. Common Stock	Technology	$1.3000	-7.14%	328K

How Defense Penny Stocks Trade

Defense penny stocks live at the intersection of government contracts and geopolitical cycles. The big primes (Lockheed, Northrop, RTX) get the headlines; sub-$5 names are specialists — drone subcomponents, software contractors, niche electronics. Their stock behavior is bimodal: long stretches of low volatility punctuated by sharp moves on contract wins, congressional appropriations news, or geopolitical events.

DoD contract wins: a sub-$5 defense contractor announcing a meaningful DoD or DHS contract can run 30-100% on the news. Contract awards are public via SAM.gov and DoD press releases.
Appropriations cycle: the annual defense budget process matters. Continuing resolutions stall new programs; final budgets release pending procurement.
Geopolitical correlation: conflict escalation (Russia/Ukraine, Middle East, Pacific) lifts the whole group together regardless of individual operations.
Drone subsector: low-cost unmanned systems are an outsized share of recent sub-$5 defense activity — small drone makers have outperformed.
FAR-CAS compliance: defense contracting requires specific accounting standards; sub-$5 contractors often struggle with cost-plus contract economics.
Export controls: ITAR and Commerce Department export-license decisions can open or close revenue lines suddenly.