Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

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Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

COMMON STOCK

We have 800,000,000 shares authorized at a $1 par value per share, of which 170,607,336 shares and 174,085,619 shares were issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2018 and 2017, respectively.

PREFERRED STOCK

We have 10,000,000 shares authorized at a $1 par value per share, of which no shares were issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2018 and 2017.

MARKET INFORMATION

Our common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and trades under the symbol NOC.

HOLDERS

The approximate number of common stockholders was 22,385 as of January 28, 2019.

PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES BY THE ISSUER AND AFFILIATED PURCHASERS

The table below summarizes our repurchases of common stock during the three months ended December 31, 2018:



Period	Total Number of Shares Purchased	Average Price Paid per Share(1)		Total Number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Plans or Programs	Approximate Dollar Value of Shares that May Yet Be Purchased under the Plans or Programs ($ in millions)(2)
September 29, 2018 - October 26, 2018	163,268	$	302.39	163,268		$	2,084
October 27, 2018 - November 23, 2018(3)	2,964,720	269.84		2,964,720		1,284
November 24, 2018 - December 31, 2018	—	—		—		4,284
Total	3,127,988	$	271.54	3,127,988		$	4,284


(1)	Includes commissions paid.


(2)	The value remaining on December 31, 2018 includes an additional $3.0 billion share repurchase authorization approved by the company’s board of directors on December 4, 2018.


(3)	The company entered into an accelerated share repurchase agreement with Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC to repurchase $1.0 billion of the company’s common stock and received an initial delivery of shares representing approximately 80 percent of the share repurchase agreement.

Share repurchases take place from time to time, subject to market conditions and management’s discretion, in the open market or in privately negotiated transactions. The company retires its common stock upon repurchase and, in the periods presented, has not made any purchases of common stock other than in connection with these publicly announced repurchase programs.

See Note 3 to the consolidated financial statements for further information on our share repurchase programs.

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STOCK PERFORMANCE GRAPH

Comparison of Cumulative Five Year Total Return

Among Northrop Grumman, the S&P 500 Index and the S&P Aerospace & Defense (A&D) Index


•	Assumes $100 invested at the close of business on December 31, 2013, in Northrop Grumman Corporation common stock, Standard & Poor’s (S&P) 500 Index and the S&P Aerospace & Defense Index.


•	The cumulative total return assumes reinvestment of dividends.


•	The S&P Aerospace & Defense Index is comprised of Arconic, Inc., The Boeing Company, General Dynamics Corporation, Harris Corporation, Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc., L3 Technologies, Inc., Lockheed Martin Corporation, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Raytheon Company, Textron, Inc., TransDigm Group and United Technologies Corporation.


•	The total return is weighted according to market capitalization of each company at the beginning of each year.


•	This graph is not deemed to be “filed” with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) or subject to the liabilities of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the Exchange Act), and should not be deemed to be incorporated by reference into any of our prior or subsequent filings under the Securities Act of 1933 or the Exchange Act.

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