RTX CORPORATION
At today's price, RTX CORPORATION (RTX) is priced for +22.8% growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
• RTX is three franchises in one, Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon, and its order backlog reached a record $271 billion, up 25%, split about $162 billion commercial and $109 billion defense [Source: RTX Q1 2026 earnings release, April 2026]. • The counterintuitive read: the trailing operating margin near 11% understates the business, because it still carries the cost of the Pratt GTF powder-metal engine inspection that runs through the end of 2026. • The watch item is the GTF rem
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3,364 institutional managers reported holding RTX in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 65% of the company; the top 10 hold 32%. 230 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, State Street, Dodge & Cox, among others. On the short side, 18.9M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 1% of shares outstanding (3.5 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
RTX has cut its share count 10.5% over the past five years, spending $17.49B on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (18 and counting), raised 4 years straight; the current rate is $2.67 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $9.31B in dividends and $12.21B in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at RTX over the trailing three years: 2023: 1 buy totaling $9k; 2025: 1 buy totaling $24k. 12 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
RTX's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-07-26 | -11.0% | -15.6% |
| 2023-10-25 | +7.2% | +7.3% |
| 2024-02-06 | +5.3% | +10.1% |
| 2024-04-24 | -0.5% | +0.2% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
RTX's latest 8-K filings: 2026-05-04 (items 5.07); 2026-04-21 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-03-05 (items 5.02); 2026-01-27 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2025-11-13 (items 8.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 28, 2026
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