NOC Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Northrop Grumman | NYSE:NOC)

Northrop Grumman is a diversified defense contractor providing aeronautics, defense, and space systems. The company's aerospace segment produces autonomous and piloted aircraft such as Global Hawk drones and the B-21 bomber, creates the fuselage for the massive F-35 program, and maintains and upgrades numerous other military aircraft. Defense systems makes artillery and missile ammunition and guidance systems, long-range missiles, and missile defense systems. Mission systems creates and integrates a variety of radar, navigation, and communication systems for avionics, weapons control, and countermeasures on a range of platforms from helicopters to destroyers. Space systems produces satellites, sensors, space structures, and rocket motors.

Northrop Grumman trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol NOC.

As of October 23, 2026, NOC stock price declined to $551.44 with 654,985 million shares trading.

NOC has a beta of 0.22, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. NOC has a correlation of 0.01 to the broad based SPY ETF.

NOC has a market cap of $78.30 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Northrop Grumman reported $11 billion in Revenue and $7.89 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $11 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.70.

In the last 3 years, NOC traded as high as $774.00 and as low as $418.60.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that NOC belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VOO, IVV, SPY, VTV.

NOC has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of -7.4%, while SPY returned +14.3%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in NOC shares. However, NOC has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +3.8% and +14.7%, while SPY returned +3.2% and -2.4%, respectively. This indicates NOC has been having a stronger performance recently.

NOC support price is $541.56 and resistance is $563.14 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that NOC shares will trade within this expected range on the day.