Northrop Grumman (NOC) Receives a Rating Update from a Top Analyst
RBC Capital analyst Kenneth Herbert maintained a Buy rating on Northrop Grumman yesterday and set a price target of $750.00.
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According to TipRanks, Herbert is a top 100 analyst with an average return of 25.5% and a 65.65% success rate. Herbert covers the Industrials sector, focusing on stocks such as Airbus Group SE, Boeing, and L3Harris Technologies.
In addition to RBC Capital, Northrop Grumman also received a Buy from Bank of America Securities’s Ronald Epstein in a report issued on April 14. However, on April 13, Bernstein maintained a Hold rating on Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC).
Based on Northrop Grumman’s latest earnings release for the quarter ending December 31, the company reported a quarterly revenue of $11.71 billion and a net profit of $1.43 billion. In comparison, last year the company earned a revenue of $10.69 billion and had a net profit of $1.26 billion
Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 56 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is negative on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders selling their shares of NOC in relation to earlier this year. Most recently, in February 2026, Michael Hardesty, the Corp VP, Controller & CAO of NOC sold 147.00 shares for a total of $107,748.06.
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