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NOCNorthrop Grumman Corporation
Industrials · Aerospace & Defense · Large
$551.44−0.16%
As of 23 Oct 2026Mkt cap $74.4B
Stage 13
AVOID
Fundamentals
50.8/75
Technical
5.0/15
Independent
55.8/90
GCAE viewstructural technical damage is a hard non-actionable condition
Price
- 1M
- +8.3%
- 3M
- +0.7%
- 6M
- −4.1%
- 1Y
- −7.6%
Financials & valuation
Cached filing evidence · as of 2026-10-20
Valuation
- P/E
- 17.4xHist median 20.8x
- Forward P/E
- —No validated forward-estimate source
- Price / FCF
- 20.7x
- FCF yield
- 4.8%
Quality
- ROIC
- 12.5%
- Operating margin
- 10.6%
- FCF margin
- 7.9%
- Current ratio
- 1.1x
Growth
- Revenue growth
- +2.2%Latest FY YoY
- Revenue CAGR
- +4.1%
- EPS CAGR
- −9.6%
- FCF CAGR
- +11.3%
Capital
- Share-count trend
- −2.7%3Y annualised
- Net debt
- $13.5B2.8x OCF
Annual trend
- CAGR 2021–2025
- +4.1%
- Latest · 2025
- $42B
- YoY
- +2.2%
GCAE Research
- Quality Research
- PRE-AI
- Acceleration Radar
- NOT FLAGGED
- THE ONE
- NOT FLAGGED
- Final / Opportunity
- RECHECK BEFORE ACTION
Key takeaway
Q2 awards lifted backlog to a record $105bn and management raised sales/EPS guidance; program-execution risk remains, but current external demand evidence reinforces the long-duration defense thesis.
Unresolved question
No reliable unresolved question is available from the current committed evidence.
Watch next
- Next earnings · 2027-01-26
- Refresh the triggered Final Research evidence; only then reassess current opportunity state.
- New score-relevant filing/earnings evidence was detected after the prior check.
More details & evidence
Production decision
- Stage 13
- AVOID
- Technical state
- damaged
- Rotation
- headwind
- Evidence
- fresh
Presentation freshness
- Stage 11 market
- 2026-10-23 · Massive
- Financial cache
- 2026-10-20
- Quality Research
- CURRENT
- THE ONE
- NOT FLAGGED
Authority
- Company page
- Presentation only
- Scores
- Frozen GCAE production outputs
- Research
- Research-only lanes; no score override
- Private portfolio
- Not loaded