In last trading session, Northrop Grumman Corp (NYSE:NOC) saw 0.87 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 0.15. Company’s recent per share price level of $494.0 trading at $0.34 or 0.07% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $71.10B. That closing price of NOC’s stock is at a discount of -12.46% from its 52-week high price of $555.57 and is indicating a premium of 14.44% from its 52-week low price of $422.69. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 0.99 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 1.10 million if we extend that period to 3-months.
For Northrop Grumman Corp (NOC), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Hold while assigning it a mean rating of 2.04. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 9 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 5 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 4 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight.
Northrop Grumman Corp (NYSE:NOC) trade information
Upright in the green during last session for gaining 0.07%, in the last five days NOC remained trading in the red while hitting it’s week-highest on Monday, 06/23/25 when the stock touched $494.0 price level, adding 2.82% to its value on the day. Northrop Grumman Corp’s shares saw a change of 15.29% in year-to-date performance and have moved -0.74% in past 5-day. Northrop Grumman Corp (NYSE:NOC) showed a performance of 3.93% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 2.4 million shares which calculate 2.69 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 553.5 to the stock, which implies a rise of 10.75% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 525 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 575. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -6.28% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -6.28% for stock’s current value.
Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of 16.47% during past 5 years. In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around -3.33% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 5.91%.
NOC Dividends
Northrop Grumman Corp is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Apr-22 and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt. With an annual yield of 1.72%, the share has a forward dividend of 8.49 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 1.6%.
Northrop Grumman Corp (NYSE:NOC)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 0.22% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 84.77 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 84.96%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 84.77% institutions for Northrop Grumman Corp that are currently holding shares of the company. STATE STREET CORP is the top institutional holder at NOC for having 14.02 million shares of worth $6.11 billion. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 9.5072 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC, which was holding about 12.02 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 8.1475 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $5.24 billion.
