Northrop Grumman Corporation

NOC · Industrials

$480.90
-0.78% today

What a holder would want to know before buying NOC: where the price sits in its own history, how far it has fallen before and whether it recovered, and what the business behind it earns. All of it is arithmetic over free market data — no opinions, no recommendations.

Where the price sits
Low $473.46 · Oct 2026High $768.02 · Mar 2026

Today’s price is 2% above the lowest point of the past year and 37% below the highest.

Over the past year it was cheaper than today on 1% of days and more expensive on 99%. Over the last 10 years: cheaper on 77% of days.

19% below its average price of the last 200 trading days.

How bad does it get

Fell 20% or more 4 times in 10 years. The deepest fall was 38%; the longest took 2.7 years to get back to its peak. 3 of 4 have recovered so far.

It is in one now: 37% below the Mar 2026 peak.

Mar 2026
−38%not back yet
Oct 2022
−23%back in 2.7 years
Jan 2020
−30%back in 20 months
Apr 2018
−37%back in 16 months
What you own

Northrop Grumman Corporation · Industrials · Aerospace & Defense · a large company worth $68.29B

Northrop Grumman Corporation operates as an aerospace and defense technology company in the United States, Asia/Pacific, Europe, and internationally. It operates through four segments: Aeronautics Systems, Defense…

Is it making money?
2022
2023
2024
2025

revenue profit

Sales of $41.95B in 2025, with $4.18B of profit. Sales grew in 3 of the last 3 years.

Keeps about 10 cents of every dollar of sales as profit.

Is it healthy?
Cash
$2.31B
Debt
$17.05B
Free cash flow / yr
$2.48B

Would need about 6.9 years of free cash flow to repay all its debt.

Is it expensive?

You pay $15 for every $1 of last year’s profit, and $16 for every $1 of profit expected next year.

A high number means buyers expect growth; a low one means they expect little, or fear trouble. Large US companies have averaged roughly 15–20 over the decades.

Pays 2.04% a year in dividends at today’s price · next ex-dividend Aug 31.

What others are doing

26 analysts: 14 say buy, 11 hold, 1 sell. Their average 12-month target is $623.00 (range $419.00–$815.00).

Insiders made 0 purchases and 2 sales in the last 6 months. Executives routinely sell shares they were paid in; buying with their own money is the rarer signal.

Free data from Yahoo Finance, refreshed daily. This is evidence about the business and its price history, not a recommendation.

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