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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001133421-25-000052"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NOC"
cik: "0001133421"
company_name: "NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORP /DE/"
filed_at: "2025-10-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T02:57:51.743630+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Northrop Grumman Q3 2025 EPS $7.67 (+10%), sales $10.4B (+4%), raises FY guidance $25.65-$26.05

## Summary
- Net earnings $1.1B; diluted EPS $7.67, up 10% YoY from $7.00.
- Sales $10.4B (+4%), organic sales +5%; net awards $12.2B (book-to-bill 1.17).
- Segment margin rate 12.3% (up 80bps); total operating margin 11.9% (up 70bps).
- Free cash flow $1.256B, up 72% YoY; FY 2025 EPS guidance raised $0.65 to $25.65-$26.05.
- Defense Systems sales +14%, Mission Systems +10%, Aeronautics +6%, Space Systems -6%.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001133421-25-000052
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NOC
- cik: 0001133421
- company_name: NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORP /DE/
- filed_at: 2025-10-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1133421/000113342125000052/0001133421-25-000052-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1133421/000113342125000052/noc-20251021.htm

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