Lockheed Martin Corporation
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What the filing actually says.
The financial data available for Lockheed Martin is limited to eight fiscal years of total revenue, and that is the basis for this verdict. Revenue rose from $53.76 billion in 2018-FY to $75.05 billion in 2025-FY, an increase of roughly 40% over seven years, with the largest single-year gains in 2019-FY (about 11.3%) and 2020-FY (about 9.3%). Growth since then has been more modest: about 2.5% in 2021-FY, a decline of about 1.6% in 2022-FY, about 2.4% in 2023-FY, about 5.1% in 2024-FY, and about 5.6% in 2025-FY. The recent acceleration is consistent with a business expanding its top line, but revenue alone does not show margins, cash generation, backlog, or whether growth came from core operations. No forensic scores are on file, so this synthesis does not assign a value or label to any of them. For orientation only, the Beneish M-Score screens for possible earnings manipulation using changes in receivables, margins, and other accounts. The Piotroski F-Score counts profitability, leverage, and efficiency signals. The Altman Z-Score estimates financial distress risk and is designed for non-financial firms. The Fog Index estimates how hard a filing is to read. Each would need to be computed from the filings and read against its own label before drawing a conclusion, and their absence here is a gap in the record, not a clean result. Readers may want to look at the MD&A for segment-level commentary, the risk-factor section for disclosed contract and government-spending exposures, and the cash flow statement to see whether reported revenue converts to cash. Taken together, the revenue trend supports a description of steady expansion with one down year, but it does not by itself establish the quality of those earnings or the company's risk profile.
Catalyst.The only financial data on file for Lockheed Martin is annual revenue, which rose from $53.76 billion in 2018-FY to $75.05 billion in 2025-FY. The most recent year grew about 5.6% over 2024-FY's $71.04 billion, following growth of about 5.1% in 2024-FY and about 2.4% in 2023-FY. Because no MD&A text is on file, this dataset cannot attribute those results to specific programs, segments, or demand drivers, so the business drivers behind the revenue trend are not described here.
Hidden risk.The most material gap for a careful reader is what is missing: no risk-factor text, MD&A, forensic scores, or news are on file, so this synthesis cannot identify the company's disclosed risks or run manipulation or distress screens. The revenue series also shows growth is not uninterrupted. 2022-FY revenue of $65.98 billion was about 1.6% below 2021-FY's $67.04 billion, a reminder that a multi-year upward trend can hide a down year. Readers may want to look at the risk-factor section of the company's annual filing directly.
What traders are betting.
The metric
Shares that traders have borrowed and sold, betting the price will fall, and not yet bought back. Brokers report the total to FINRA twice a month. Days to cover divides it by the shares that change hands on a typical day.
- Shares sold short
- 2.7M
- Change since Aug 31
- +1.8%
- Days to cover
- 2.3
What it tells us
Few traders are betting against LMT. Levels this low are common for large, widely held companies.
Little changed since the Aug 31 report (+1.8%).
At normal trading volume, short sellers would need about 2.3 days to buy back every borrowed share.
How investors use it
- Squeeze watching. Some aggressive traders seek out heavily shorted stocks, betting that good news will force short sellers to buy back shares and push the price higher.
- Hedging. Funds short one company to offset risk in another, often owning a stronger business and shorting a weaker one in the same industry.
- Timing. Chart-based traders pair rising short interest with price patterns, such as a break below a level where buyers used to step in, to decide when to enter or exit.
- Warning sign. Some owners treat a sharp rise in short interest as a red flag and respond by tightening stop-loss orders or holding smaller positions.
Quarterly report
The quarterly report (10-Q) and current reports (8-K) Lockheed Martin filed in the last 12 months, each linked to the original document on SEC EDGAR.
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