RTX Corporation (RTX) Earnings: Q3 2026 Results and Next Report Date

The quarter ended September 30, 2026 and RTX published the results on October 20, 2026. Revenue and diluted EPS are shown against Q3 2025, the same quarter a year earlier, which takes seasonal swings out of the comparison. RTX reports EPS two ways: GAAP, under the accounting rules every US filer follows, and adjusted, which leaves out items the company considers outside its operating results. The release reconciles the two, and when they diverge, the reconciliation says why.

• RTX sold Collins Aerospace's actuation and flight control business in Q3 2025, so Collins sales grew 10 percent as reported and 12 percent organically.
• Q3 2026 includes recoveries of IEEPA tariffs after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled them unauthorized in February 2026. RTX says they added $0.25 to adjusted EPS.
• Pratt & Whitney's reported operating profit includes a $363 million charge related to a customer bankruptcy, which adjusted figures exclude.

Source: RTX Q3 2026 results, October 20, 2026. Also in the Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2026. Figures as reported; checked against the release on November 10, 2026.

How RTX splits revenue in its own release, under its own labels, for Q3 2026 against Q3 2025. Indented lines are parts of the line above them.

• RTX's Collins Aerospace revenue was $8.4 billion in Q3 2026, up 10% from $7.6 billion in Q3 2025, 34% of total revenue.
• RTX's Pratt & Whitney revenue was $9.2 billion in Q3 2026, up 10% from $8.4 billion in Q3 2025, 37% of total revenue.
• RTX's Raytheon revenue was $8.0 billion in Q3 2026, up 14% from $7.0 billion in Q3 2025, 32% of total revenue.

Segment lines are the figures writers cite most often, because they show where the growth in a quarter came from. Companies redraw their segments from time to time and restate the prior year to match, so a year-ago figure here can differ from the one printed a year ago. When that has happened, the note above says so.

From the earnings release

RTX gives its outlook on an adjusted basis and says a reconciliation to GAAP EPS is not available without unreasonable effort.

In its Q3 2026 release, RTX said:

“Adjusted sales* of $97.0 - $97.5 billion, up from $95.0 - $96.0 billion”

“Organic sales growth* of 10 to 11 percent, up from 8 to 9 percent”

“Adjusted EPS* of $7.65 - $7.75, up from $7.10 - $7.25”

“Free cash flow* of $9.0 - $9.2 billion, up from $8.50 - $8.75 billion”

Source: RTX Q3 2026 release, Oct 20, 2026.

This is the company's own guidance as of Oct 20, 2026, quoted as given. Walnut does not make forecasts of its own. Analyst estimates for the coming quarters are on the RTX forecast page.

Revenue and diluted EPS for the last 5 quarters. Each date links to that quarter's release.

Net sales and GAAP diluted EPS, each as first reported in that quarter's release.

RTX's next report is expected around January 26, 2027, a date estimated from its reporting history that the company has not yet confirmed. This page will show Q3 2026 until those results are out and have been checked against the release.

Each quarter keeps its own page with the figures as reported, so a link to one stays pointed at the same numbers after the next report.

• Q3 2026 (this page), reported Oct 20, 2026

RTX reported Q3 2026 net sales of $24,965 million from three segments: Pratt & Whitney $9,231 million, Collins Aerospace $8,382 million and Raytheon $8,031 million, less $679 million of eliminations and other. Sales grew 11 percent as reported and 12 percent organically, with organic growth of 14 percent at Raytheon, 12 percent at Collins Aerospace and 10 percent at Pratt & Whitney. (RTX Q3 2026 release, Oct 20, 2026)

By customer, commercial aerospace and other commercial sales were $12,217 million, against $10,725 million a year earlier. Sales to the U.S. government were $8,875 million, foreign military sales through the U.S. government $2,135 million and foreign government direct commercial sales $1,738 million. (RTX Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Oct 20, 2026)

RTX gave segment detail for the growth. At Collins Aerospace, commercial OE sales rose 23 percent on narrowbody and widebody volume, commercial aftermarket 9 percent and defense 7 percent. At Pratt & Whitney, commercial aftermarket rose 21 percent on higher volume, primarily GTF, military rose 2 percent and commercial OE fell 5 percent on large commercial engine mix. Raytheon's 14 percent rise came from naval programs and land and air defense systems, including Patriot, Standard Missile and Tomahawk. (RTX Q3 2026 release, Oct 20, 2026)

RTX's backlog was $340 billion at September 30, 2026, against $268 billion at December 31, 2025: $176 billion commercial and $164 billion defense. Raytheon recorded $52 billion of defense bookings in the quarter, including $23 billion for Tomahawk for the U.S. Navy and $14.3 billion for AMRAAM for the U.S. Air Force. (RTX Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Oct 20, 2026)

Airbus is RTX's largest commercial customer. Sales to Airbus, mainly Pratt & Whitney and Collins products, were approximately 14 percent of total net sales in 2025 before discounts and incentives. (RTX Form 10-K, 2025, Feb 6, 2026)

RTX's GAAP diluted EPS of $1.89 in Q3 2026 included $0.26 of acquisition accounting adjustments and $0.11 of restructuring and other net significant and/or non-recurring items, which its adjusted EPS of $2.26 excludes. The largest non-recurring item was a $363 million charge at Pratt & Whitney related to a customer bankruptcy, partly offset by a $159 million pre-tax gain on investments. (RTX Q3 2026 release, Oct 20, 2026)

Adjusted EPS rose 33 percent from $1.70 and included $0.25 from IEEPA cost recovery. RTX paid approximately $0.5 billion of IEEPA tariffs before the U.S. Supreme Court ruled them unauthorized in February 2026, and it has recognized approximately $0.4 billion of approved refunds. In Q3 2026 segment profit, IEEPA recovery was about $250 million at Collins Aerospace and about $160 million at Pratt & Whitney. (RTX Q3 2026 release, Oct 20, 2026; RTX Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Oct 20, 2026)

Diluted shares rose to 1,368.1 million from 1,358.4 million a year earlier, and RTX's cash flow statement shows no share repurchases in the first nine months of 2026, against $50 million a year earlier. Dividends paid were $984 million in the quarter. The effective tax rate was 18.0%, and 18.7% on an adjusted basis against 16.7%. (RTX Q3 2026 release, Oct 20, 2026)

Diluted EPS divides net income by the weighted average number of shares outstanding in the quarter, plus the shares that options and other equity awards could add. Buybacks shrink that count and lift EPS for the same profit; share issuance and stock awards enlarge it.

RTX publishes a full-year outlook in its release and raised it in Q3 2026: adjusted sales of $97.0 to $97.5 billion, up from $95.0 to $96.0 billion; organic sales growth of 10 to 11 percent, up from 8 to 9 percent; adjusted EPS of $7.65 to $7.75, up from $7.10 to $7.25; and free cash flow of $9.0 to $9.2 billion, up from $8.50 to $8.75 billion. (RTX Q3 2026 release, Oct 20, 2026)

RTX gives the outlook on an adjusted basis only and says a reconciliation to expected GAAP diluted EPS and cash flow from operations is not available without unreasonable effort, citing items such as litigation outcomes, currency moves and acquisitions or divestitures. (RTX Q3 2026 release, Oct 20, 2026)

A consensus figure is the average of the models published by the analysts who cover RTX, collected by a data provider and revised up to the day of the report. A quarter that lands above it says how expectations were set as much as how the business did, and the share price on the day also reflects the guidance and the lines no consensus covers.

The consensus figures on this page are Yahoo Finance's, as pulled on the date shown. Each comes with the number of analysts behind it; the smaller that number, the more one revised estimate can move the average.

The figures below are the ones RTX's own release and filings put weight on for Q3 2026, with the latest reported value for each.

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