Moog Stock

MOOG Inc. operates as a worldwide designer, manufacturer and systems integrator of high performance precision motion and fluid controls and controls systems for a broad range of applications in aerospace and defense and industrial markets.

Segments

The company operates through three operating segments: Aircraft Controls, Space and Defense Controls, and Industrial Systems.

Aircraft Controls

The company designs, manufactures and integrates primary and secondary flight controls and avionics for military and commercial aircraft and provide aftermarket support. The company's systems are used on both development and production programs in large commercial transports, supersonic fighters, multi-role military aircraft, business jets and rotorcraft. Typically development programs require concentrated periods of research and development by the company's engineering teams, while production programs are generally long-term manufacturing efforts that extend for as long as the aircraft builder receives new orders.

The company's military production programs include the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor and the Black Hawk UH-60/Seahawk SH-60 helicopter, while its large commercial production programs include the full line of Boeing 787 and 737-MAX, the Airbus A320, A330 and A350XWB programs, the Embraer E195-E2 and a variety of business jets.

The company is working on the development of the Textron Bell V-280 Valor, the MQ-25 aerial refueling drone and other classified funded development military programs.

Aftermarket sales, which represented 30% of 2023 sales, for this segment consist of the maintenance, repair, overhaul and parts supply for both military and commercial aircraft. Further, the company sells spare parts and line replaceable units to both military and commercial customers that they store throughout the world in order to minimize down time.

Space and Defense Controls

The company provides solutions for a wide array of space and defense applications, including space vehicles, launch vehicles, military vehicles, air defense platforms, naval vessels, as well as tactical, hypersonic, and strategic missiles.

The company designs, manufactures, and integrates steering and propulsion controls for space launch vehicles, hypersonic missiles, and Missile Defense Agency (MDA) vehicles. Launch programs of note include NASA's new Space Launch System for the Artemis program, as well as legacy launch vehicles Atlas and Vulcan. The company has also developed modular space vehicle products, which have their own avionics, power, propulsion, and communications systems and are configurable for short durations up through multiyear missions in a wide range of orbits and transfer capabilities. The company's spacecraft avionics are used for a variety of purposes and missions, including a complete flight control computer, payload data processing, and processing of discrete elements onboard a spacecraft. Mission specific actuation mechanisms control solar array panels, antenna and thrusters. The company also provides discrete isolation systems for the entire spacecraft during launch and for vibration sensitive systems during spacecraft operation. The company's propulsion and fluid control solutions accelerate the spacecraft for orbit-insertion, station keeping, and attitude control. The company's fluid control systems are also used in Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) for crewed missions, such as the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle that is part of NASA's Artemis program and the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO), both of which will support humans working on the moon.

The company produces an innovative turreted weapon system, the Reconfigurable Integrated-weapons Platform (RIwP), for several military vehicle programs. In addition, the company designs controls for gun aiming, stabilization and automatic ammunition loading. Its coordinated multi-axis control systems support military vehicles, radars and launchers. The company also manufactures controls for steering tactical and strategic missiles, including Lockheed Martin's HELLFIRE and PAC-3 interceptor, the U.S. National Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) Layered Missile Defense initiatives, multiple hypersonic missiles, as well as Raytheon's TOW missiles. Further, the company designs, builds, and integrates weapons Stores Management Systems (SMS) for light attack aerial reconnaissance, ground, and sea platforms. The company also produces high-power, quiet controls designed and built for many naval vessels, including surface ships, Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (UUVs) and submarines, such as the Ohio and Columbia classes.

Also, the company designs and manufactures various component products that serve both the space and defense segments by providing mission critical power, data and motion control capabilities. Slip rings allow unimpeded rotation while delivering power and data through a rotating interface. The company's motion control products include high-performance motors, position feedback devices and actuators. The military electronics include a range of transceiver and Ethernet-based devices. These capabilities can be vertically integrated to support a broad range of applications which include military vehicles, aircraft, missiles, radar, and satellites.

Industrial Systems

The company provides customized machine performance components and systems utilizing electrohydraulic, electromechanical and control technologies in applications involving motion control, fluid control and power and data management across a variety of markets.

In the industrial automation market, the company designs, manufactures and integrates components and systems for applications in injection and blow molding machinery, metal forming presses and heavy industry for steel and aluminum production. The company's components and systems allow for precise controls of critical parameters in the industrial manufacturing processes, using both hydraulic and electric technologies. The company's components product categories include hydraulics, slip rings, rotary unions and fiber optic rotary joints, motors and infusion and enteral pumps and associated sets across similar markets. The company has also developed control components and systems for construction vehicles to run as zero-emission, autonomous machines with improved performance and safety capabilities.

In the simulation and test market, the company supplies electromechanical motion simulation bases for the flight simulation and training applications. It also supplies custom test systems and controls for automotive, structural and fatigue testing.

In the energy market, the company supplies solutions for power generation applications which allow for precise control and greater safety of fuel metering and guide vane positioning on steam and gas turbines. It also designs and manufactures high reliability systems and components for applications in oil and gas exploration and production, including downhole drilling, topside and subsea environments.

In the medical market, the company supplies components and systems for diagnostic imaging CT scan medical equipment, sleep apnea equipment, oxygen concentrators, infusion therapy and enteral clinical nutrition. It also manufactures medical devices, including infusion therapy pumps and associated administration sets and enteral clinical nutrition pumps along with disposable sets. Medical device customers use the company's enteral feeding products in the delivery of enteral nutrition for patients in their own homes, hospitals and long-term care facilities.

Distribution

The company's sales and marketing organization consists of individuals possessing highly specialized technical expertise. This expertise is required in order to effectively evaluate a customer's precision control requirements and to facilitate communication between the customer and its engineering staff. The company's sales staff is the primary contact with customers. Manufacturers' representatives are used to cover certain domestic aerospace markets. Distributors are used selectively to cover certain industrial and medical markets.

Seasonality

The company's business is generally not seasonal; however, certain products and systems, such as those in the energy market of its Industrial Systems segment, do experience seasonal variations in sales levels.

Patents

The company maintains a patent portfolio of issued or pending patents and patent applications worldwide that generally includes the United States (U.S.), Europe, China, Japan and India. The portfolio includes patents that relate to electrohydraulic, electromechanical, electronics, hydraulics, components and methods of operation and manufacture as related to motion control and actuation systems. The portfolio also includes patents related to wind turbines, robotics, vibration control and medical devices.

Customers

The company's principal customers are Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and end users for whom it provides aftermarket support. Aerospace and defense OEM customers collectively represented 58% of 2023 sales. The majority of these sales are to a small number of large companies. The company also provides aftermarket support, consisting of spare and replacement parts and repair and overhaul services, for all of its products. The company's major aftermarket customers are the U.S. Government and commercial airlines.

The company's significant customers include tier one, large U.S. Government contractors and system integrators and are primarily within its Aircraft Controls and Space and Defense Controls segments. Net sales to the company's five largest customers represented approximately 32% of its 2023 sales.

The company provides Boeing with controls for both military and commercial applications, as well as controls for space and defense applications, which totaled 11% of its 2023 sales. Sales to Boeing's commercial airplane group are generally made under long-term supply agreements.

International Operations

The company's operations outside the U.S. are conducted primarily through wholly-owned foreign subsidiaries and are located predominantly in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.

History

Moog Inc., a New York corporation, was founded in 1951. The company was incorporated in 1951.