RTX (RTX) reported $22.48 billion in revenue for the quarter ended September 2025, representing a year-over-year increase of 11.9%. EPS of $1.70 for the same period compares to $1.45 a year ago.
The reported revenue represents a surprise of +4.64% over the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $21.48 billion. With the consensus EPS estimate being $1.42, the EPS surprise was +19.72%.
While investors closely watch year-over-year changes in headline numbers -- revenue and earnings -- and how they compare to Wall Street expectations to determine their next course of action, some key metrics always provide a better insight into a company's underlying performance.
Since these metrics play a crucial role in driving the top- and bottom-line numbers, comparing them with the year-ago numbers and what analysts estimated about them helps investors better project a stock's price performance.
Here is how RTX performed in the just reported quarter in terms of the metrics most widely monitored and projected by Wall Street analysts:
- Adjusted Net Sales- Collins Aerospace: $7.62 billion versus $7.28 billion estimated by two analysts on average. Compared to the year-ago quarter, this number represents a +7.7% change.
- Adjusted Net Sales- Pratt & Whitney: $8.42 billion versus $8.04 billion estimated by two analysts on average. Compared to the year-ago quarter, this number represents a +16.4% change.
- Net Sales- Raytheon: $7.05 billion versus $6.83 billion estimated by two analysts on average. Compared to the year-ago quarter, this number represents a +10.3% change.
- Operating Profit- Collins Aerospace- Adjusted: $1.19 billion versus the two-analyst average estimate of $1.14 billion.
- Operating Profit- Raytheon- Adjusted: $859 million compared to the $737.71 million average estimate based on two analysts.
- Operating Profit- Pratt & Whitney- Adjusted: $751 million compared to the $655.33 million average estimate based on two analysts.
- Operating Profit- Corporate expenses and other unallocated items- Adjusted: $-23 million versus the two-analyst average estimate of $-53.75 million.
- Operating Profit- Eliminations and Other- Adjusted: $-14 million versus the two-analyst average estimate of $-37.5 million.
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Shares of RTX have returned +0.8% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite's +1.2% change. The stock currently has a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold), indicating that it could perform in line with the broader market in the near term.
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