XNYS · Aerospace & Defense
Last stored close · Sep 18, 2026
Close · Sep 18, 2026
$527.39+0.65%
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TickerWhale Score
49/100
Moderate
Score components
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Northrop Grumman scores 49 out of 100 overall, which we rate moderate. Valuation is its strongest area and Risk its weakest.
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- Valuation
What to watch
- Technical
- Quality & growth
- Risk
Quality & growth
30%37Weak
- Revenue growth 5.9%
- EPS growth 16.0%
Valuation
25%86Strong
- P/E 16.7
- EV/Sales 2.0
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
#103 / 203sector rank by TickerWhale Score
TickerWhale Score 49 vs sector average 49.1 (-0.1)
Revenue growth (industry)Top 96%
Gross margin (industry)Top 72%
Return on equity (industry)Top 21%
P/E (industry)Cheaper than 92%
Technical analysis
our read · what classic indicators sayTickerWhale technical read
34/100Weak vs universe
Ranks 34th of 100 covered names on our technical composite — the composite itself scores 39/100 · 25% of the TickerWhale Score
Classic chart indicators
Sell
1 buy · 2 sell · 5 neutral of 8 votes
TickerWhale rates NOC's technical setup weak — 34th percentile of the covered universe. Classic chart indicators lean sell, pointing the same way.
Moving averages
1 / 9constructive
- vs 200-day-12.3%
- vs 50-day-2.9%
Momentum
Mixed
- RSI (14)44 · neutral
- Stochasticneutral
- CCIneutral
- Williams %Rneutral
Trend
Mixed
- ADX (14) trend strength13· weak trend
- MACD (12,26,9)buy(histogram 0.221)
How the classic verdict is reached
Moving averages (9) agree on sell — 1 buy vs 7 sell — and carry one vote between them.
Oscillators (7) vote individually: 1 buy · 1 sell · 5 neutral.
Result — 1 buy vs 2 sell of 8 votes = Sell. Neutral votes never decide the verdict.
Fundamentals & valuation
2026-09-18 · revised_latestValuation multiples
- P/E (TTM)16.7
- P/S (TTM)1.8
- P/B4.2
- EV/EBITDA—
- EV/Sales2.0
- PEG1.05
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 — $75.1B
Fundamentals history
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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 | 49 | 39 | 16.7 | — | 4.2 | 2.0 | $527.39 | +0.65% | +5.9% | ||
| ACAArcosa | 79 | 78 | 14.6 | — | 2.4 | 3.0 | $145.84 | +0.27% | +9.7% | ||
| IESCIES Holdings | 79 | 46 | 14.3 | — | 5.3 | 1.6 | $322.16 | +1.58% | +22.7% | ||
| KFYKorn Ferry | 79 | 55 | 14.3 | — | 2.0 | 1.2 | $76.78 | -0.44% | +6.9% | ||
| GEOGeo Group | 76 | 70 | 14.4 | — | 2.8 | 2.0 | $31.76 | -1.18% | +15.3% | ||
| DALDelta Air Lines | 74 | 54 | 13.3 | — | 2.4 | 0.9 | $79.62 | +0.24% | +10.3% |
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