XNYS · Aerospace & Defense
Last stored close · Nov 10, 2026
Close · Nov 10, 2026
$548.61+1.77%
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Implied upside
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Valuation methods
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TickerWhale Score
52/100
Moderate
Score components
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Northrop Grumman scores 52 out of 100 overall, which we rate moderate. Valuation is its strongest area and Risk its weakest.
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- Valuation
- Sentiment Signal
What to watch
- Technical
- Quality & growth
- Risk
Quality & growth
30%41Weak
- Revenue growth 5.9%
- EPS growth 16.0%
Valuation
25%87Strong
- P/E 17.4
- EV/Sales 2.1
Northrop Grumman is a diversified defense contractor providing aeronautics, defense, and space systems. The company's aerospace segment produces autonomous and piloted aircraft such as Global Hawk drones and the new B-21 bomber, creates the fuselage for the massive F-35 program, and maintains and upgrades numerous other military aircraft. Defense systems makes artillery and missile ammunition and guidance systems, long-range missiles, and missile defense systems. Mission systems creates and integrates a variety of radar, navigation, and communication systems for avionics, weapons control, and countermeasures on a range of platforms from helicopters to destroyers. Space systems produces satellites, sensors, space structures, and rocket motors.
#174 by market cap in our coverage · ~95,000 employees · Listed 1972-06-01 · www.northropgrumman.com
Price history
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Market intelligence
Peer position
#85 / 202sector rank by TickerWhale Score
TickerWhale Score 52 vs sector average 50.1 (+1.9)
Revenue growth (industry)Top 96%
Gross margin (industry)Top 72%
Return on equity (industry)Top 21%
P/E (industry)Cheaper than 96%
Technical analysis
our read · what classic indicators sayTickerWhale technical read
40/100Weak vs universe
Ranks 40th of 100 covered names on our technical composite — the composite itself scores 50/100 · 25% of the TickerWhale Score
Classic chart indicators
Buy
3 buy · 2 sell · 3 neutral of 8 votes
TickerWhale rates NOC's technical setup weak — 40th percentile of the covered universe. Classic chart indicators lean buy — they read this stock on its own over days, where our score ranks it against every covered name over months, so the two often part company.
Moving averages
7 / 9constructive
- vs 200-day-6.5%
- vs 50-day+5.7%
Momentum
Mixed
- RSI (14)58 · neutral
- Stochasticbuy
- CCIneutral
- Williams %Rneutral
Trend
Mixed
- ADX (14) trend strength33· trending
- MACD (12,26,9)sell(histogram -1.338)
How the classic verdict is reached
Moving averages (9) agree on buy — 7 buy vs 2 sell — and carry one vote between them.
Oscillators (7) vote individually: 2 buy · 2 sell · 3 neutral.
Result — 3 buy vs 2 sell of 8 votes = Buy. Neutral votes never decide the verdict.
Fundamentals & valuation
2026-11-10 · revised_latestValuation multiples
- P/E (TTM)17.4
- P/S (TTM)1.8
- P/B4.4
- EV/EBITDA—
- EV/Sales2.1
- PEG1.09
Profitability & returns
- Gross margin20.1%
- Net margin10.5%
- ROE25.7%
- Debt/Equity0.81
Growth
- Revenue growth (YoY)5.9%
- EPS growth (YoY)16.0%
Green favourable · red stretched — multiples and D/E vs industry peers, margins and growth vs absolute thresholds.
Market capitalisation — $78.1B
Fundamentals history
Reported statement totals across recent periods.
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Peers
| Company | Score | Pulse | P/E | P/E fwd | P/B | EV/Sales | Price | Chg | Estimate | Upside | Rev. gr. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NOCCurrentNorthrop Grumman | 52 | 50 | 17.4 | — | 4.4 | 2.1 | $548.61 | +1.77% | +5.9% | ||
| AERAercap Holdings | 81 | 90 | 8.2 | — | 1.5 | 7.7 | $175.85 | +0.24% | +12.2% | ||
| DALDelta Air Lines | 79 | 81 | 18.5 | — | 2.7 | 1.0 | $92.20 | +0.44% | +14.1% | ||
| GEOGeo Group | 77 | 71 | 14.5 | — | 2.8 | 2.0 | $31.94 | +5.97% | +15.3% | ||
| KFYKorn Ferry | 75 | 54 | 14.1 | — | 2.0 | 1.2 | $75.98 | +1.17% | +6.9% | ||
| LUVSouthwest Airlines Company | 71 | 74 | 27.3 | — | 3.2 | 0.8 | $46.32 | +0.04% | +9.5% |
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