RTX (RTX) reported $24.24 billion in revenue for the quarter ended December 2025, representing a year-over-year increase of 12.1%. EPS of $1.55 for the same period compares to $1.54 a year ago.
The reported revenue represents a surprise of +6.58% over the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $22.74 billion. With the consensus EPS estimate being $1.46, the EPS surprise was +5.94%.
While investors scrutinize revenue and earnings changes year-over-year and how they compare with Wall Street expectations to determine their next move, some key metrics always offer a more accurate picture of a company's financial health.
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: $7.74 billion versus $7.48 billion estimated by two analysts on average. Compared to the year-ago quarter, this number represents a +2.6% change.
- Adjusted Net Sales- Pratt & Whitney: $9.5 billion versus $8.53 billion estimated by two analysts on average. Compared to the year-ago quarter, this number represents a +25.5% change.
- Net Sales- Raytheon: $7.66 billion compared to the $7.32 billion average estimate based on two analysts. The reported number represents a change of +7% year over year.
- Operating Profit- Collins Aerospace- Adjusted: $1.22 billion versus $1.19 billion estimated by two analysts on average.
- Operating Profit- Raytheon- Adjusted: $885 million versus $822.25 million estimated by two analysts on average.
- Operating Profit- Pratt & Whitney- Adjusted: $776 million versus $707.12 million estimated by two analysts on average.
- Operating Profit- Corporate expenses and other unallocated items- Adjusted: $-132 million compared to the $-83 million average estimate based on two analysts.
- Operating Profit- Eliminations and Other- Adjusted: $32 million versus $-65.5 million estimated by two analysts on average.
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Shares of RTX have returned +5.3% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite's +0.4% 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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