Northrop Grumman Corp (NYSE: NOC) kicked off on Thursday, up 0.54% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $537.51. Over the past 52 weeks, NOC has traded in a range of $418.60-$555.57.
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Annual sales at Industrials sector company grew by 4.01% over the past five years. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded 7.76%. With a float of $143.80 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $144.95 million.
Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 97000 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 20.38%, operating margin of 10.9%, and the pretax margin is 12.22%.
Northrop Grumman Corp (NOC) Insider Updates
Our next focus will be how large-scale investors are participating in this stock of the Aerospace & Defense Industry. The insider ownership of Northrop Grumman Corp is 0.23%, while institutional ownership is 83.16%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Apr 07 ’25, was worth 15,850. In this transaction Director of this company sold 33 shares at a rate of $480.30, taking the stock ownership to the 4,057 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Mar 06 ’25, when Company’s Chair, CEO and President sold 3,750 for $475.65, making the entire transaction worth $1,783,688. This insider now owns 212,852 shares in total.
Northrop Grumman Corp (NOC) Performance Highlights and Predictions
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 7.16 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 7.76% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 6.41% during the next five years compared to 16.47% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Northrop Grumman Corp (NYSE: NOC) Trading Performance Indicators
Take a look at Northrop Grumman Corp’s (NOC) current performance indicators. Last quarter, stock had a quick ratio of 0.89. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.90. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 29.72.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 28.41, a number that is poised to hit 6.24 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 28.94 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Northrop Grumman Corp (NOC)
Northrop Grumman Corp (NYSE: NOC) saw its 5-day average volume 1.06 million, a positive change from its year-to-date volume of 1.05 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 90.20%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 15.45.
During the past 100 days, Northrop Grumman Corp’s (NOC) raw stochastic average was set at 96.31%, which indicates a significant increase from 93.91% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 35.79% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 26.29% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $486.27, while its 200-day Moving Average is $492.21. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $546.74 in the near term. At $553.09, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $561.42. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $532.06, it is likely to go to the next support level at $523.73. Assuming the price breaks the second support level, the third support level stands at $517.38.
Northrop Grumman Corp (NYSE: NOC) Key Stats
The company with the Market Capitalisation of 77.89 billion has total of 144,139K Shares Outstanding. Its annual sales at the moment are 41,033 M in contrast with the sum of 4,174 M annual income. Company’s last quarter sales were recorded 10,686 M and last quarter income was 1,264 M.
