Northrop Grumman Corp. (NOC)

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Northrop Grumman Corp.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Northrop Grumman Corp.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $25 billion in fiscal 2016 to $42 billion in fiscal 2025, up 6.1% a year; it rose in 8 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 3% from fiscal 2020 to fiscal 2021; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Northrop Grumman Corp.'s diluted share count shrank about 2.6% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 71% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 66 sales (54 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-04 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Northrop Grumman Corp. earned about 25 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 68 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 2.4% over the year (the filed statements).

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Northrop Grumman Corp.'s standing among 9 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $42 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 6% by size; a net margin of 10% ranks in the top 44%; revenue growth of 4.7% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 17% (its annual reports).

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Northrop Grumman Corp.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Warden, Kathy J (Chair, CEO and President, as filed), filing under that title since 2019-02-15, 7.7 years (top 36% of its family); the 18 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5 years (top 50%); 8 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 18 people in charge now (top 39%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Northrop Grumman Corp.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $4.4 billion against debt of $15 billion leaves -20.9% of its assets as net cash, bottom 28% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 7.9% of revenue (top 44%); research spending of 2.6% of revenue (bottom 7%) (its annual report).

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Northrop Grumman Corp.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 4.7% a year over the last three filed years against 6.1% over all 10, slowing (bottom 44% of its family); the newest year grew 2.2% (bottom 39%); research spending grew -2.9% a year (bottom 21%); capital spending grew 0.3% a year (bottom 17%) (its annual reports). Northrop Grumman Corp. reported 2 product lines in fiscal 2025: Product at $34 billion (80%), Service at $8.2 billion (20%); 1 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Northrop Grumman Corp.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $42 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 3.4% below the $43 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 39% of its family); net income of $4.2 billion against a prior three-year average of $3.7 billion (top 31%); a net margin of 10% against 9.6% before (top 31%) (its annual reports).