Raytheon Co. - 1997 dated Specimen Stock Certificate

Specimen Stock printed by American Bank Note Company. Incorporated in 1928. The Raytheon Company was a major U.S. defense contractor & industrial corporation w/ manufacturing concentrations in weapons & military & commercial electronics. It was previously involved in corporate & special-mission aircraft until early 2007. Raytheon was the world's largest producer of guided missiles. In April 2020, the company merged w/ United Technologies Corporation to form Raytheon Technologies, which, since July 2023, is known as RTX Corporation. Established in 1922, the company reincorporated in 1928 & adopted its present name in 1959. During 2018, the company had around 67,000 employees worldwide & annual revenues of approximately US$25.35 billion. More than 90% of Raytheon's revenues were obtained from military contracts &, as of 2012, it was the fifth-largest military contractor in the world. As of 2015, it was the third largest defense contractor in the United States by defense revenue. In 2003, Raytheon's headquarters moved from Lexington, Massachusetts, to Waltham, Massachusetts. The company had previously been headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from 1922 to 1928, Newton, Massachusetts, from 1928 to 1941, Waltham from 1941 to 1961 & Lexington from 1961 to 2003. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raytheon