“The table below reconciles net cash used in operating activities to adjusted free cash flow: Six Months Ended June 30 % $ in millions 2026 2025 Change Net cash used in operating activities $ (376) $ (697) 46 % Capital expenditures (469) (487) (4) % Adjusted f…”10-Q · Jul 21, 2026 ↗
Northrop Grumman Corporation
NOC
You’ve read what changed. Here’s whether the market is confirming it.
Market read
Northrop Grumman Corporation's move is spreading beyond its market group.
NOC accounts for 2.9% of the group's measured movement across 4.3 effective names. raw member direction is mixed; 9 of 12 session-normalized paths align to the downside. Capital-flow agreement is 13%, so confirmation is not yet clean. No verified headline preceded the measured group move.
Is this move genuinely shared?
LHX moved materially before NOC. NOC crossed its material path threshold at 11:30 ET. HII, DRS, KRMN followed.
- Revenue increased 4.4% versus the comparable filing period.
- Operating cash flow covered only -1.89x net income.
5 of 12 members in Aerospace & Defense are active. 0 of 8 disclosed connections are confirming.
- At least 8 of 12 durable members become active together.
- Capital-flow agreement rises above 55%.
- SAIC remains aligned with the group in the next market snapshot.
Invalidation: The live read weakens if participation falls to 4 of 12 members or fewer.
Research brief
The story so far
NOC accounts for 2.9% of the group's measured movement across 4.3 effective names. raw member direction is mixed; 9 of 12 session-normalized paths align to the downside. Capital-flow agreement is 13%, so confirmation is not yet clean. No verified headline preceded the measured group move.
- Revenue increased 4.4% versus the comparable filing period.
- Operating margin improved 4.0 percentage points.
- Net income increased 81.9% versus the comparable filing period.
- Operating cash flow covered only -1.89x net income.
- At least 8 of 12 durable members become active together.
- Capital-flow agreement rises above 55%.
- SAIC remains aligned with the group in the next market snapshot.
Company research
Understand the business, not just the ticker
Use the company’s filings to identify the few operating, demand, cost, capital and regulatory variables that determine its earnings power.
- Which operating variable is changing?
- Is that change durable, cyclical or one-off?
- What evidence would disprove the current interpretation?
- Operating cash flow covered net income at 1.14x in the latest annual period.
- Capital investment and capacity has repeated adverse evidence across 5 filings.
- Credit and interest rates has repeated adverse evidence across 4 filings.
- P/E is 49% below the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
- EV/sales is 37% below the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
Price as of Sep 10, 2026
518.78Reported annual revenue and per-share history. This is accounting history, not a forecast.
What management says matters
Persistent and emerging business drivers
“Some of the Administration’s executive orders are subject to ongoing court challenges.”10-Q · Jul 21, 2026 ↗
“Financing Cash Flow Year to date 2026 net cash used in financing activities decreased $210 million, or 13 percent, as compared with the same period in 2025, primarily due to an $823 million decrease in share repurchases, partially offset by $566 million in ne…”10-Q · Jul 21, 2026 ↗
“Non-divestiture-related unallocated corporate expense increased primarily due to higher deferred state tax expense largely related to the repeal of mandatory capitalization of research and development expenditures under IRC Section 174.”10-K · Jan 27, 2026 ↗
Valuation discipline
Descriptive valuation snapshot
Price/sales 1.8× · EV/sales 2.0×. Comparisons use only industry-matched filing peers.
Mechanical 2.0-year scenarios are available as editable assumptions, not consensus.
Price action
How the market is pricing the story
Jodie does not have enough daily observations to draw a useful short-term chart for this asset. The latest quoted price was checked 11 Sept, 10:55 GMT-4; this is a coverage limitation, not a flat-price conclusion.
Developments
No sourced recent-development timeline yet
Jodie has not returned a relevant primary source or news item for NOC. This is an evidence-coverage gap, not a conclusion that nothing material happened.
Business and financial condition
Reported financial figures are not available yet
Jodie has not returned structured SEC XBRL fundamentals for this asset. This is a coverage limitation, not an assessment of the business or its financial health.
Latest filing assessment · baseline
The latest filing presents a mixed picture
10-Q filed 2026-04-21 against the comparable filing from 2025-04-22.
What improved
- Revenue increased 4.4% versus the comparable filing period.
- Operating margin improved 4.0 percentage points.
- Net income increased 81.9% versus the comparable filing period.
What weakened
- Operating cash flow covered only -1.89x net income.
Filing receipts
“DEFENSE SYSTEMS Three Months Ended March 31 % $ in millions 2026 2025 Change Sales $ 1,899 $ 1,805 5 % Less: Training services sales — (72) Organic sales $ 1,899 $ 1,733 10 % Operating income $ 184 $ 179 3 % Operating margin rate 9.7 % 9.9 % Sales First quarter 2026 sales increased $94 million, or 5 percent, primarily due to higher volume on Sentinel as that program continues to ramp, as well as higher volume on tactical solid rocket motor programs and across the Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS) portfolio.”
“MISSION SYSTEMS Three Months Ended March 31 % $ in millions 2026 2025 Change Sales $ 2,861 $ 2,807 2 % Operating income 433 361 20 % Operating margin rate 15.1 % 12.9 % Sales First quarter 2026 sales increased $54 million, or 2 percent, primarily due to ramp-up on restricted airborne radar programs and higher volume on marine systems programs, partially offset by lower volume on the Scalable Agile Beam Radar program and airborne electronic warfare programs.”
“SPACE SYSTEMS Three Months Ended March 31 % $ in millions 2026 2025 Change Sales $ 2,480 $ 2,568 (3) % Operating income 235 283 (17) % Operating margin rate 9.5 % 11.0 % Sales First quarter 2026 sales decreased $88 million, or 3 percent, primarily due to wind-down of work on the NGI program, which reduced sales by $98 million, as well as lower sales on the GEM 63XL program related to the unfavorable EAC adjustment described below.”
Retrospective baseline calibration. It was generated after the filing date and is not part of Jodie's live track record.
Business ecosystem
The relationships behind NOC
Customers, suppliers, partners and competitors named in company filings—not inferred from headlines.
Depends on
BAThe Boeing CompanycompetitorJan 27, 2026 ▾
“COMPETITIVE CONDITIONS We compete with many companies in the defense, intelligence and federal civil markets, including The Boeing Company, General Dynamics Corporation, L3Harris Technologies, Inc., Lockheed Martin Corporation, and RTX Corporation, as well as…”
GDGeneral Dynamics CorporationcompetitorJan 27, 2026 ▾
“COMPETITIVE CONDITIONS We compete with many companies in the defense, intelligence and federal civil markets, including The Boeing Company, General Dynamics Corporation, L3Harris Technologies, Inc., Lockheed Martin Corporation, and RTX Corporation, as well as…”
Depended on by
FLYFirefly Aerospace Inc.partnerMay 4, 2026 ▾
“Our collaborations with leading national security agencies and aerospace companies, such as Lockheed Martin Corporation, Northrop Grumman, L3Harris, the U.S.”
Filing peers
Companies whose filings use similar operating language.
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What is moving around it
Live connections
NOC is currently a Participant in the organic co-movement group Aerospace & Defense. This group is discovered from market behaviour rather than assigned from an industry taxonomy. 3 filing-linked names are in the relationship map; none is currently confirmed as moving with the group.
Context history
Theme membership history
No durable theme membership has been observed for this name yet.