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What does L3Harris Technologies' price assume?
The margin the price assumes
Revenue grows as its record suggests; the operating margin is solved at today's price.
At $276.59 on November 11, 2026, with growth of 3.7% a year, the price assumes an operating margin of 22.1% by year 5.
The price assumes
22.1%
Operating margin by year 5, solved at the price
Its 6-year median
10.0%
Fiscal 2020–2025, adjusted for R&D and leases
Its industry
8.8%
Aerospace/Defense, Damodaran Online, January 2026
The price assumes a margin above the company's own median and above its industry's.
The numbers behind the chart
| Fiscal year | Adjusted operating margin |
|---|---|
| 2020 | 14.6% |
| 2021 | 14.3% |
| 2022 | 8.3% |
| 2023 | 8.0% |
| 2024 | 9.7% |
| 2025 | 10.3% |
- Revenue growth, years 1 to 5
- 3.7% a yearFrom its own revenue growth, the lower of its 5- and 10-year rates (here the 5-year).SEC filings, revenue to fiscal 2025
- Margin path
- From today's margin to 22.1% by year 5Solved at the price. After that, the margin holds.
The growth the price assumes
The operating margin moves to its own median; revenue growth is solved at today's price.
At $276.59 on November 11, 2026, with an operating margin moving to its 6-year median of 10.0% by year 5, the price assumes revenue growth of 21.8% a year for 5 years, slowing to the riskfree rate by year 10.
The price assumes
21.8%
Revenue growth a year, years 1 to 5, solved at the price
Its 10-year growth
18.9%
Revenue, a year on average, from its SEC filings
Its industry
11.1%
Aerospace/Defense, five years, Damodaran Online, January 2026
The price assumes revenue growth above the company's own record and above its industry's.
The numbers behind the chart
| Fiscal year | Revenue growth |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 54.2% |
| 2017 | −1.5% |
| 2018 | 4.8% |
| 2019 | 108.0% |
| 2020 | 41.5% |
| 2021 | −2.1% |
| 2022 | −4.2% |
| 2023 | 13.8% |
| 2024 | 9.8% |
| 2025 | 2.5% |
- Operating margin
- From today's margin to 10.0% by year 5Its own 6-year median, held. After that, the margin holds.SEC filings, fiscal 2020-2025, the median operating margin adjusted for R&D and leases
- Revenue growth, years 1 to 5
- 21.8% a yearSolved at the price. From year 6, it slows each year to the riskfree rate by year 10.
The assumptions both views share
These are neutral settings, the same for every company. Each view holds them and solves for one driver at today's price.
- Reinvestment
- $2.74 of revenue for each $1 investedThe industry's sales-to-capital ratio: how much new capital growth needs.Damodaran Online, January 2026 industry data, Aerospace/Defense
- Cost of capital
- 7.77%The return investors need for the risk: the industry's beta, the market's risk premium, and debt rated A3/A- from its median margin, with a stated 5-year debt maturity. Built by the engine from the parts listed under Sources, each with its date.
- After year 10
- Growth at the riskfree rate, foreverNew investment earns its cost of capital and no more, so growth after year 10 adds no value, and the cost of capital moves to a mature company's.
Worth knowing
- Its adjusted record has 6 complete years, not ten.
- Revenue grew 3.7% a year over five years and grew 18.9% over ten: the record points two ways.
This is a mechanical starting point with neutral assumptions, not a valuation. The story decides.
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- Price: Qualuation's records, close of November 11, 2026.
- 10-K for the period ended January 2, 2026, filed February 12, 2026 (SEC EDGAR, accession 0000202058-26-000015).
- 10-Q for the period ended October 2, 2026, filed October 29, 2026 (SEC EDGAR, accession 0000202058-26-000087).
- Margin record: SEC filings, fiscal 2020-2025, operating margin adjusted for R&D and leases.
- Industry margin: Damodaran Online, January 2026 industry data, Aerospace/Defense, adjusted for R&D and leases.
- Revenue growth record: SEC filings, revenue, fiscal 2015-2025, the average yearly growth.
- Industry growth: Damodaran Online, January 2026 industry data, Aerospace/Defense, revenue growth over five years.
- Sales to capital: Damodaran Online, January 2026 industry data, Aerospace/Defense.
- US 10-year Treasury yield (FRED), October 29, 2026.
- Less the US default spread (Damodaran Online, July 2026).
- Industry beta, Aerospace/Defense (Damodaran Online, January 2026).
- Equity risk premium (Damodaran Online, October 2026).
- Debt rated A3/A- at its median margin (rating table, Damodaran Online, January 2026).
- The margin the price assumes: solved by the engine at the price on November 12, 2026, with the assumptions above.
- The growth the price assumes: solved by the engine at the price on November 12, 2026, with the margin at its median and the assumptions above.