NOCNorthrop Grumman
Is it safe?
Strong, no red flags: a safe balance sheet.
Financially healthy, low distress risk Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Insiders were net sellers (-$52K, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -38% · now 37% below its 52-week high.
Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Dec 31, 2025.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. Altman sits structurally low for utilities and pipelines; Beneish runs high for fast growers, since sales growth alone lifts it; banks and REITs are excluded.
Can NOC take a bad year?
Northrop Grumman carries $12.5B of net debt at 2.04× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 2.04×
Net debt / EBITDA · 2.38× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 2.83
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Interest cover
- 6.98×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $15.2B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $2.73B
- Net debt
- $12.5B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $6.12B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $4.60B
- Debt / equity
- 0.85×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 2.48×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 27%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −38%
- Below its 52-week high
- 37%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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