Growth Metrics

Northrop Grumman (NOC) Operating Margin (2016 - 2025)

Northrop Grumman has reported Operating Margin over the past 17 years, most recently at 10.85% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Operating Margin at 10.85% for Q4 2025, up 66.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 3.91% (down 410.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 10.75%, up 10.0%.
  • Operating Margin for Q4 2025 was 10.85% at Northrop Grumman, up from 0.65% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Operating Margin for NOC hit a ceiling of 30.82% in Q1 2021 and a floor of 1.34% in Q4 2023.
  • Median Operating Margin over the past 5 years was 9.79% (2022), compared with a mean of 7.0%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Operating Margin: skyrocketed 1998bps in 2021 and later crashed -3006bps in 2022.
  • Northrop Grumman's Operating Margin stood at 1.08% in 2021, then surged by 161bps to 0.66% in 2022, then plummeted by -304bps to 1.34% in 2023, then skyrocketed by 858bps to 10.19% in 2024, then rose by 6bps to 10.85% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Operating Margin were 10.85% (Q4 2025), 0.65% (Q3 2025), and 0.73% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.