{"schemaVersion":1,"research":true,"symbol":"rtx","name":"RTX","topic":"moat","path":"/stock/rtx/moat","status":"published","version":10,"updatedAt":"2026-10-21T14:34:50.398Z","locked":false,"publicFairValue":false,"fairValue":null,"moat":{"verdict":"narrow","summary":"RTX has a narrow moat from embedded engine positions, specialized technology and contractual aircraft-platform rights. Installed fleets, follow-on F135 awards, long-term aftermarket agreements and multiyear munitions awards demonstrate current customer reliance. Protection is uneven across the portfolio, and undefinitized awards do not establish future profitability. Pricing power remains constrained by fixed-price terms and incomplete cost pass-through. Continued demand and production achievements coexist with realized quality costs, supply-chain disruption and compliance failures. The evidence supports persistence, but not exceptional durability or portfolio-wide competitive superiority.","advantages":[{"mechanism":"switching_costs","claim":"Embedded aircraft-engine positions and associated service agreements support recurring demand and make supplier replacement consequential. GTF deployment, F135 operating history and follow-on production awards demonstrate a current advantage; aftermarket growth provides indirect evidence of continuing customer reliance.","durability":"Existing fleets and long-term aftermarket agreements support persistence across production and maintenance cycles. New multiyear munitions awards reinforce established-program demand, although their undefinitized terms and optional portions limit certainty.","risks":"Alternative parts suppliers, competing financial incentives, government termination rights and engine-quality failures constrain customer dependence. Aftermarket volume can also reflect required inspections rather than voluntary customer preference.","invalidation":"Material replacement of RTX on established aircraft programs, sustained diversion of aftermarket work to other suppliers, or cancellations and persistent delivery failures that prevent follow-on awards from converting into repeat sales would undermine this advantage.","competitors":[],"evidenceIds":["e1","e2","e3","e4","e5","e6","e7","e8","e9"],"counterEvidenceIds":["e10","e11","e12","e13"]},{"mechanism":"intangible_assets","claim":"Specialized engine technology, accumulated operating experience and paid contractual rights on aircraft platforms create barriers to displacement. These rights and demonstrated deployments support an advantage beyond the accounting value assigned to intangible assets.","durability":"F135 operating experience and follow-on awards demonstrate established capability. Contractual platform rights extend protection over their underlying economic benefit, but the passages do not disclose sufficient exclusivity durations or comparative technology performance to establish exceptional durability.","risks":"Quality failures can impair the value of technical differentiation. Capable competitors, required technology transfers and costly platform commitments can reduce the economic benefit retained by RTX. Development projects remain potential advantages.","invalidation":"Loss or nonrenewal of material platform rights, demonstrated technological displacement on established programs, or recurring quality and maintenance costs that persistently overwhelm the economics of protected positions would invalidate this advantage.","competitors":[],"evidenceIds":["e2","e3","e14","e15","e16","e17"],"counterEvidenceIds":["e13","e18","e19","e20"]}],"evidence":[{"id":"e1","location":"2025 Form 10-K, filed 2026-02-06; Business—Pratt & Whitney installed fleet","sourceId":"filing-1","excerpt":"The GTF family now powers more than 2,600 aircraft for over 90 operators across three aircraft platforms: Airbus A320neo family, Airbus A220, and Embraer E-Jets E2."},{"id":"e2","location":"2025 Form 10-K, filed 2026-02-06; Business—F135 flight hours and production award","sourceId":"filing-1","excerpt":"In 2025, Pratt & Whitney’s F135 engine surpassed one million engine flight hours, and the company was awarded a $2.8 billion undefinitized contract action (UCA) for production of Lot 18 and Lot 19 long lead funding for the F135 engines to power all three variants of the F-35 Lightning II aircraft."},{"id":"e3","location":"2025 Form 10-K, filed 2026-02-06; Business—F135 international platform deployment","sourceId":"filing-1","excerpt":"F135 engines are also used on all F-35 aircraft purchased by Joint Strike Fighter partner countries and other countries through foreign military sales arrangements."},{"id":"e4","location":"2025 Form 10-K, filed 2026-02-06; Competition—original equipment selection and subsequent services","sourceId":"filing-1","excerpt":"Customer selections of aircraft engines, components, and systems can also have a significant impact on future sales of parts and services."},{"id":"e5","location":"September 2026 Form 10-Q, filed 2026-10-20; Industry Considerations—long-term aftermarket agreements","sourceId":"filing-6","excerpt":"Many of our aerospace customers are covered under long-term aftermarket service agreements at both Collins and Pratt & Whitney, which are inclusive of both spare parts and services."},{"id":"e6","location":"2025 Form 10-K, filed 2026-02-06; Business—Collins long-term maintenance and spare-parts agreements","sourceId":"filing-1","excerpt":"Collins secured over $4 billion in combined long-term agreements to provide new maintenance, repair and overhaul services, and long-term contracts to provide spare parts, for several airlines."},{"id":"e7","location":"June 2026 Form 10-Q, filed 2026-07-23; segment review—six-month commercial aftermarket sales growth","sourceId":"filing-2","excerpt":"The organic net sales increase of $2.0 billion in the six months ended June 30, 2026 compared to the six months ended June 30, 2025, was driven by higher commercial aftermarket sales of $1.6 billion, primarily reflecting higher volume."},{"id":"e8","location":"September 2026 Form 10-Q, filed 2026-10-20; Critical Munitions Agreements—award timing and undefinitized status","sourceId":"filing-6","excerpt":"Critical Munitions Agreements. In the third quarter and early fourth quarter of 2026, the DoW awarded Raytheon four undefinitized contract actions (UCA) to substantially increase production of certain critical munitions."},{"id":"e9","location":"September 2026 Form 10-Q, filed 2026-10-20; Critical Munitions Agreements—durations, maximum values and options","sourceId":"filing-6","excerpt":"Specifically, the DoW awarded Raytheon a seven-year UCA valued at up to approximately $23 billion for Tomahawk cruise missiles and the following five-year UCAs, each with two one-year options: Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM) with a total value of up to $20.7 billion, Standard Missile 6 (SM-6) with a total value of up to $24.4 billion, and Standard Missile-3 Block IB interceptors (SM-3 IB) with a total value of up to $6.3 billion."},{"id":"e10","location":"2025 Form 10-K, filed 2026-02-06; Competition—government and other customer sourcing of non-OEM parts","sourceId":"filing-1","excerpt":"government and other governments) may purchase parts from suppliers other than the original equipment manufacturer, which affects spare parts sales."},{"id":"e11","location":"2025 Form 10-K, filed 2026-02-06; Competition—aftermarket discounts, guarantees and financing","sourceId":"filing-1","excerpt":"Some competitors may offer substantial discounts and other financial incentives, performance and operating cost guarantees, and participation in financing arrangements in an effort to compete for the aftermarket associated with these products."},{"id":"e12","location":"2024 Form 10-K, filed 2025-02-03; government contracts—termination rights","sourceId":"filing-4","excerpt":"U.S. government contracts are subject to termination by the government, either for convenience or for default in the event of our failure to perform under the applicable contract."},{"id":"e13","location":"September 2026 Form 10-Q, filed 2026-10-20; Powder Metal Matter—accelerated GTF inspections","sourceId":"filing-6","excerpt":"As described further in “Note 16: Commitments and Contingencies,” within Item 1 of this Form 10-Q, in 2023, Pratt & Whitney determined that a rare condition in powder metal used to manufacture certain engine parts requires accelerated inspection of the PW1100G-JM (PW1100) Geared Turbofan (GTF) fleet, which powers the A320neo family of aircraft (A320neo) (herein referred to as the “Powder Metal Matter”)."},{"id":"e14","location":"2025 Form 10-K, filed 2026-02-06; product risk—specialization and systems integration","sourceId":"filing-1","excerpt":"Our products and services are highly sophisticated and specialized, involve complex advanced technologies, are often integrated with third-party products and services, and are utilized for specific purposes that require precision, reliability, and durability."},{"id":"e15","location":"2025 Form 10-K, filed 2026-02-06; Business—GTF performance versus prior-generation engines","sourceId":"filing-1","excerpt":"GTF engine models have demonstrated a significant reduction in fuel burn and noise levels and lower environmental emissions compared to prior-generation engines."},{"id":"e16","location":"September 2026 Form 10-Q, filed 2026-10-20; Commitments—contractual aircraft-platform rights","sourceId":"filing-6","excerpt":"We also have other contractual commitments to make payments to secure certain contractual rights to provide product on new aircraft platforms."},{"id":"e17","location":"September 2026 Form 10-Q, filed 2026-10-20; Commitments—exclusivity assets and economic-benefit term","sourceId":"filing-6","excerpt":"Payments made on these contractual commitments are included within intangible assets as exclusivity assets and are amortized over the term of underlying economic benefit."},{"id":"e18","location":"2025 Form 10-K, filed 2026-02-06; Competition—competitor resources and technological capabilities","sourceId":"filing-1","excerpt":"Many of our competitors have substantial financial resources and significant technological capabilities."},{"id":"e19","location":"2025 Form 10-K, filed 2026-02-06; procurement risk—contractor risk allocation and technology disclosure","sourceId":"filing-1","excerpt":"For example, an increase in the use of contract structures that shift risk to the contractor (such as fixed-price development contracts and incentive-based fee arrangements), use of novel award fee criteria, evaluation of a bidder’s willingness to provide detailed competitively sensitive intellectual property (such as detailed RTX design, manufacturing and process information that would risk loss of competitively sensitive information), or requirements to transfer technology to domestic sources in connection with offset obligations, could adversely affect our profit rates, ability to preserve differentiated product offerings, maintain lower tier suppliers, or make it more difficult to win new 17 Table of Contents contracts."},{"id":"e20","location":"September 2026 Form 10-Q, filed 2026-10-20; Commitments—gross aerospace financing and other contractual commitments","sourceId":"filing-6","excerpt":"We had commercial aerospace financing commitments and other contractual commitments of approximately $12 billion and $13 billion as of September 30, 2026 and December 31, 2025, respectively, on a gross basis before reduction for our collaboration partners’ share."},{"id":"e21","location":"September 2026 Form 10-Q, filed 2026-10-20; Economic Environment—realized inflation pressure","sourceId":"filing-6","excerpt":"Economic Environment. The inflationary environment has increased material and component prices, labor rates, and supplier costs and has negatively impacted our performance, including our productivity expectations."},{"id":"e22","location":"September 2026 Form 10-Q, filed 2026-10-20; Economic Environment—limits on cost pass-through","sourceId":"filing-6","excerpt":"Due to the nature of our government and commercial aerospace businesses, and their respective customer and supplier contracts, we are not always able to offset cost increases by increasing our contract value or pricing, in particular on our fixed-price contracts."},{"id":"e23","location":"2025 Form 10-K, filed 2026-02-06; contract risk—firm fixed-price cost-overrun burden","sourceId":"filing-1","excerpt":"Under FFP contracts, we receive a fixed price irrespective of the actual costs we incur, and we therefore carry the burden of any cost overruns."},{"id":"e24","location":"June 2026 Form 10-Q, filed 2026-07-23; segment review—aftermarket profit contribution and OEM production costs","sourceId":"filing-2","excerpt":"The increase was primarily driven by higher commercial aftermarket volume as discussed above, partially offset by lower commercial OEM operating profit contribution driven by the higher volume and mix, including higher production costs, as discussed above."},{"id":"e25","location":"2026 proxy, filed 2026-03-09; 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compensation—2025 PSU performance period and vesting conditions","sourceId":"filing-3","excerpt":"2025 PSUs will vest following the end of a three-year performance period, subject to Company performance relative to preestablished financial performance goals."},{"id":"e31","location":"2025 Form 10-K, filed 2026-02-06; equity compensation—actual-performance adjustment to 2022 PSU award","sourceId":"filing-1","excerpt":"(3) Performance Share Units includes an adjustment for actual performance achieved on the 2022 award of 86 thousand units."},{"id":"e32","location":"2026 proxy, filed 2026-03-09; Corporate Governance—committees, shareholder rights and compensation safeguards","sourceId":"filing-3","excerpt":"Effective Board oversight\n \n Board independence\n ●\n Highly qualified Board with diverse mix of perspectives, experience and tenures\n ●\n Regular Board review of strategic plans and priorities\n ●\n Regular Board and Committee review of significant risks, including product safety and cybersecurity risks\n ●\n Annual Board evaluation of CEO performance\n ●\n Regular CEO and senior management succession planning\n \n ●\n 9 out of 10 director nominees are independent\n ●\n Robust Independent Lead Director role, a position of authority with clearly defined responsibilities\n ●\n Independent directors meet regularly without management\n ●\n Fully independent Audit, Human Capital & Compensation and Governance Committees\n ●\n All directors are empowered to suggest additional agenda topics for the Board to consider\n \n \n \n Commitment to shareowner rights\n \n Board accountability\n ●\n Active and ongoing shareowner engagement\n ●\n Proxy access with customary terms\n ●\n Shareowners can act by written consent\n ●\n 15% of voting stock can call special meetings\n ●\n No charter provisions requiring more than a simple majority vote of shares\n ●\n Robust clawback policies\n ●\n No hedging, short sales or pledging of RTX securities by officers or directors\n ●\n Rigorous share ownership requirements for directors and senior management\n \n ●\n Annual Board, Committee and individual director evaluations\n ●\n Annual election of all directors\n ●\n Majority voting for directors in uncontested elections\n ●\n Ongoing attention to Board composition and refreshment\n ●\n No re-nomination of a director who has served for 15 years or reached age 75, unless waived by the Board\n ●\n Regular review of Committee assignments and leadership; objective to rotate chairs, members at least every five years\n ●\n Limits on outside public company board service\n ●\n Process for considering and approving new outside directorships and paid consulting/advisory engagements\n \n CODE OF CONDUCT\n \n Our Code of Conduct reinforces our values and high governance\nstandards by:\n \n ●\n Explaining how our values of Safety, Trust, Respect, Accountability, Collaboration and Innovation must inform our actions \n ●\n Guiding the conduct of our employees, officers and directors with each other, our business partners and our communities \n ●\n Emphasizing the responsibility to conduct our business with integrity, to respect and protect human rights and to report violations of the Code without fear of retaliation\n \n We encourage you to visit the Corporate Governance section of our website"},{"id":"e33","location":"2026 proxy, filed 2026-03-09; compensation—financial-only annual incentive funding from 2025","sourceId":"filing-3","excerpt":"HOW ANNUAL INCENTIVE AWARDS ARE DETERMINED To align with the Company’s focus on achieving the financial commitments we make to our investors, the HCC Committee determined that, beginning in 2025, the funding formula for the AIP would be solely based on the financial performance of the Company and our business units, and would no longer consider non-financial performance measures (see page 6 for details on the HCC Committee’s decision)."},{"id":"e34","location":"2026 proxy, filed 2026-03-09; 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RTX has a written policy that requires the Governance Committee to review and determine whether to approve or ratify transactions exceeding $120,000 in which RTX or a subsidiary is a participant and in which a related person has a direct or indirect material interest."},{"id":"e40","location":"September 2026 Form 10-Q, filed 2026-10-20; Global Supply Chain—realized delays, costs and performance effects","sourceId":"filing-6","excerpt":"Global Supply Chain. We are dependent on a global supply chain and have experienced supply chain disruptions that resulted in delays and increased costs and adversely affected our performance."},{"id":"e41","location":"September 2026 Form 10-Q, filed 2026-10-20; Backlog and Bookings—September 2026 and December 2025 backlog","sourceId":"filing-6","excerpt":"Backlog and Bookings. Total backlog was $340 billion and $268 billion as of September 30, 2026 and December 31, 2025, respectively."},{"id":"e42","location":"September 2026 Form 10-Q, filed 2026-10-20; Backlog and Bookings—award timing and demand qualifications","sourceId":"filing-6","excerpt":"Bookings are impacted by the timing and amounts of awards in a given period, which are subject to numerous factors, including: the desired capability by the customer and urgency of customer needs, customer budgets and other fiscal constraints, political and economic and other environmental factors, the timing of customer negotiations, and the timing of customer and governmental approvals and notifications."}],"changes":["Retain the previous narrow verdict and criterion grades after reassessing them against the supplied catalog.","Incorporate the Form 10-Q filed 2026-10-20: backlog reached $340 billion at September 30, 2026, versus $268 billion at December 31, 2025. Newly disclosed multiyear munitions UCAs strengthen evidence of continuing demand, but maximum award values, options and undefinitized terms do not establish realized revenue or profitability.","Update gross aerospace financing and other contractual commitments to approximately $12 billion at September 30, 2026, from $13 billion at December 31, 2025; this alone does not establish improved investment returns.","Retain explicit limitations on pricing, alternative parts sourcing, quality execution and compliance oversight. No new evidence establishes exceptional durability or warrants a grade upgrade."],"limitations":["The evidence consists of RTX disclosures. Operating results, awarded contracts and actual payments support numerical assessments, but management descriptions of leadership and technological benefits do not independently establish superiority.","Competition passages identify generic competitor categories without naming product-market rivals. Compensation peers, aircraft customers and collaboration counterparties are not treated as established competitors; competitor arrays are therefore empty.","No quantified aftermarket price contribution, retention rate, switching cost, comprehensive market-share comparison or platform-exclusivity duration is supplied. Customer dependency and retention are assessed indirectly from deployment, contracts and repeat demand.","The latest passages provide backlog and award information but not a complete September 2026 segment pricing or margin bridge. Margin assessment therefore also uses disclosed 2025 and first-half 2026 results.","Proxy disclosures establish incentive arrangements and formal safeguards, but do not establish individual ownership compliance or eventual vesting of the 2025–2027 awards. Governance policies do not demonstrate that remediation has achieved durable effectiveness.","All cited source dates are filing dates, with dateKind retained as filed; they are not treated as publication or retrieval dates. No material outside the supplied passages is used."],"qualityAssessments":[{"category":"moat","checks":[{"criterion":"structural_advantage","grade":3,"rationale":"GTF deployment, F135 operating history and follow-on awards demonstrate embedded positions with specialized capabilities. Contractual aircraft-platform rights and long-term aftermarket agreements reinforce barriers to displacement. These are demonstrated program-level advantages, while portfolio-wide superiority and protection from alternative parts suppliers remain unestablished.","evidenceIds":["e1","e2","e3","e5","e16","e17","e10"]},{"criterion":"durability","grade":2,"rationale":"Installed fleets, long-term aftermarket agreements and five- to seven-year munitions UCAs support persistence. However, optional portions and undefinitized terms qualify the awards, while government termination rights and undisclosed platform-right durations limit confidence in sustained economic protection. Demand visibility exceeds demonstrated durability of returns.","evidenceIds":["e1","e5","e8","e9","e12","e17"]},{"criterion":"customer_dependency","grade":3,"rationale":"F135 deployment, follow-on production and extensive GTF use demonstrate strong dependence on established engine positions. Long-term service agreements and realized aftermarket volume provide indirect operating confirmation. This does not establish exclusive aftermarket capture or a retention rate, and customers can source some parts elsewhere.","evidenceIds":["e1","e2","e3","e5","e7","e10"]},{"criterion":"erosion_resilience","grade":2,"rationale":"Aftermarket growth, production achievements and additional multiyear awards show that established positions persist. Actual customer payments and credits, accelerated engine inspections and supply-chain disruption establish meaningful vulnerabilities. The evidence demonstrates resilience alongside erosion risks, rather than either immunity or realized loss of the overall franchise.","evidenceIds":["e7","e8","e9","e13","e29","e34","e35","e40"]}]},{"category":"pricing_power","checks":[{"criterion":"realized_pricing","grade":1,"rationale":"RTX reports actual inflation pressure and an inability always to offset higher costs through contract value or pricing. That supports weak demonstrated pricing power rather than an unassessable criterion. First-half 2026 aftermarket growth primarily reflects volume; the passages do not quantify a realized price contribution.","evidenceIds":["e21","e22","e7"]},{"criterion":"retention","grade":3,"rationale":"Follow-on F135 awards, long-term aftermarket agreements, growing aftermarket volume and new multiyear munitions awards demonstrate repeat demand and program continuity indirectly. No retention rate is inferred. Backlog corroborates demand but remains sensitive to award timing, and mandatory inspections can contribute to service activity.","evidenceIds":["e2","e5","e6","e7","e8","e9","e13","e41","e42"]},{"criterion":"margin_resilience","grade":2,"rationale":"Reported 2025 adjusted operating-profit growth and segment margin expansion, followed by higher aftermarket profit contribution in first-half 2026, demonstrate resilience. OEM production costs, inflation pressure and customer obligations offset that evidence. The results support a mixed assessment and do not establish that pricing protected margins.","evidenceIds":["e25","e24","e21","e22","e29"]},{"criterion":"contractual_freedom","grade":1,"rationale":"Firm fixed-price contracts leave RTX bearing cost overruns, and current disclosures confirm limits on repricing to recover inflation. Government termination rights further constrain bargaining freedom. Long-term platform positions support demand but do not establish unilateral control over contract terms or unrestricted aftermarket pricing.","evidenceIds":["e23","e22","e12","e5"]}]},{"category":"strong_management","checks":[{"criterion":"capital_discipline","grade":2,"rationale":"Actual 2025 operating cash generation, capital investment and debt repayment support discipline. The debt-financed $10 billion repurchase, realized customer obligations and substantial financing and contractual commitments make the record mixed. 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