RTX Q3 adjusted sales $24.97B beat $24.08B estimate; raises full-year EPS guidance

RTX's beat on both sales and adjusted EPS, paired with a guidance raise of roughly half a dollar at the midpoint, points to demand strength rather than cost-cutting alone — a distinction that matters for defense and aerospace suppliers broadly. The premarket move suggests the market had positioned for something closer to the consensus, so the reaction is about the guidance revision more than the quarter itself. Whether the raised range holds through the rest of the year, and whether peers read through similarly, is the open question.