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What NOC's price assumes
Northrop Grumman trades at 17.5× earnings against 41.8× for the median Aerospace & Defense name, cheaper than its own group.
17.5
Trailing P/E · Aerospace & Defense median 41.8 · cheaper than the typical name in its group
- Price / sales
- 2.28
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q1
- Free cash flow yield
- 4.9%
Free cash flow yield · Aerospace & Defense median 2.5%
- Growth the price implies
- +5.9%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +5.9% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +17% a year over the last three.
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- Price / book2026-Q1
- 5.66
- EV / EBIT2026-Q1
- 22.1
- EV / sales2026-Q1
- 2.58
- Industrials median P/E346 names
- 29.9
- Aerospace & Defense median P/E50 names
- 41.8
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $3.65B
- Market capitalisation
- $74.1B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +4.2%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +17%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $450.78 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $506.81 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $620.40 |
| 52-week range | $503.01 – $764.65 |
| Today | $550.16 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Aerospace & Defense
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