NOC vs. BA, GD, HII, LDOS, LHX, LMT, RTX, TDY, TXT, and GE
Should you be buying Northrop Grumman stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Northrop Grumman include Boeing (BA), General Dynamics (GD), Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), Leidos (LDOS), L3Harris Technologies (LHX), Lockheed Martin (LMT), RTX (RTX), Teledyne Technologies (TDY), Textron (TXT), and GE Aerospace (GE).
Northrop Grumman vs. Its Competitors
Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC) and Boeing (NYSE:BA) are both large-cap aerospace companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and institutional ownership.
Northrop Grumman has a net margin of 9.19% compared to Boeing's net margin of -16.58%. Northrop Grumman's return on equity of 25.46% beat Boeing's return on equity.
Northrop Grumman has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Boeing. Boeing is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Northrop Grumman, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
83.4% of Northrop Grumman shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.8% of Boeing shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Northrop Grumman shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Boeing shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Northrop Grumman has a beta of 0.15, suggesting that its stock price is 85% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Boeing has a beta of 1.41, suggesting that its stock price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Northrop Grumman presently has a consensus price target of $552.54, indicating a potential upside of 9.76%. Boeing has a consensus price target of $215.77, indicating a potential upside of 0.01%. Given Northrop Grumman's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Northrop Grumman is more favorable than Boeing.
In the previous week, Boeing had 87 more articles in the media than Northrop Grumman. MarketBeat recorded 112 mentions for Boeing and 25 mentions for Northrop Grumman. Northrop Grumman's average media sentiment score of 1.25 beat Boeing's score of 0.84 indicating that Northrop Grumman is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Northrop Grumman beats Boeing on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:NOC) was last updated on 7/4/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff