MOOG INC. (MOG-A) Business

Item 1. Business.

Description of the Business. Moog is a worldwide designer, manufacturer and systems integrator of high performance precision motion and fluid controls and control systems for a broad range of applications in aerospace and defense and industrial markets. We have four operating segments: Space and Defense, Military Aircraft, Commercial Aircraft and Industrial.

Additional information describing the business and comparative segment revenues, operating profits and related financial information for 2025, 2024 and 2023 are provided in Note 22 - Segments, of Item 8, Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, of this report.

Distribution. Our 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 our engineering staff. Our 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.

Industry and Competitive Conditions. We experience considerable competition in our aerospace and defense and industrial markets across tier one and tier two suppliers as well as vertically integrated primes. We believe that the principal points of competition in our markets are product quality, reliability, price, design and engineering capabilities, product development, conformity to customer specifications, timeliness of delivery, effectiveness of the distribution organization and quality of support after the sale. We believe we compete effectively on all of these bases. Competitors to our Military and Commercial Aircraft segments specialize in precision flight control and control systems manufacturing. Competitors to our space market specialize in thrust vector controls and spacecraft engines, mechanisms, avionics and structure systems and components. Competitors in our defense market produce turreted weapons, missile steering actuation and power and data transfer systems and components. Competitors to our Industrial segment include other industrial precision controls and medical device manufacturers.

Backlog. Our twelve-month backlog represents confirmed orders we believe will be recognized as revenue within the next twelve months. Our twelve-month backlog as of September 27, 2025 was $3.0 billion, an increase of 20% compared to September 28, 2024. See Item 7, Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations of this report for a discussion on the various business drivers and conditions contributing to the twelve-month backlog change.

Raw Materials. Materials, supplies and components are purchased from numerous suppliers. We believe the loss of any one supplier, although potentially disruptive in the short-term, would not materially affect our operations in the long-term.

Working Capital. See the discussion on operating cycle in Note 1 - Summary of Significant Accounting Policies, of Item 8, Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, of this report.

Seasonality. Our business is generally not seasonal; however, certain products and systems, such as those in the energy market of our Industrial segment, do experience seasonal variations in sales levels.

Patents. We maintain 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. We do not consider any one or more of these patents or patent applications to be material in relation to our business as a whole. The patent portfolio related to certain medical devices is significant to our position in this market as several of these products work exclusively together, and provide us future revenue opportunities.

Research Activities. Internal research and development activity has been, and continues to be, significant for us. Research and development expense was $94 million and represented approximately 2.4% of sales in 2025.

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Human Capital Resources. Moog possesses a unique culture that fuels our business success. Our more than 13,500 employees in over 20 countries work closely together, driven by a shared sense of purpose and a desire to do the right thing. We value our ground-breaking, challenging work and what we stand for. We value the skill and commitment of our talented workforce above all else. Whether it’s enabling a Mars Rover to land safely or helping to support breakthrough advances in healthcare, together, we solve our customers’ most difficult challenges.

Although we are a successful, global business, our employees feel like they are amongst friends and are comfortable being themselves. We empower them to find innovative ways of accomplishing things, and the scale of our business means that careers can develop in exciting and unexpected directions. For prospective employees looking for inspiring and meaningful work in a warm, respectful, family-like environment, Moog will feel like home.

In order to ensure we live our values and our culture stays unique and strong, our Board of Directors and executive team put significant focus on our human capital resources. These are some of the key aspects of Moog’s human capital strategy:

Employee Recruitment

Moog actively seeks to attract the best talent from a diverse range of sources and industries in order to meet the current and future demands of our business. We have established relationships with trade schools, world-class universities, professional associations and industry groups to proactively attract talent. In 2025, we hired over 1,400 new employees and rehired over 70 employees throughout the world.

Compensation and Benefits

Moog works to maintain compensation, benefits and rewards programs that enable us to attract, retain, motivate and reward employees for their contributions to company performance. Our compensation and rewards programs are linked closely to our values of We Are All In This Together, We Try Harder, Competence Is King and Performance And Commitment Should Be Rewarded.

Moog is committed to providing comprehensive benefit options that reflect the differing priorities and needs of our sites globally, governed by an intent to offer plans that will allow our employees and their families to live healthier and more secure lives.

In addition to traditional employee benefits, Moog has a number of innovative initiatives to support the well-being of our employee base, including onsite wellness clinics and pharmacies at a number of locations, online tools that assist employees with their physical, financial and mental health, special events with outside vendors and participants focusing on employee well-being and much more.

Health and Safety

Maintaining a safe and healthy work environment is a key priority and a responsibility for all of our employees. At Moog, we embrace a continuous improvement approach with regard to our global Environment, Health & Safety ("EHS") culture. All Moog businesses strive to operate in a responsible manner that demonstrates our commitment to the health and safety of our employees, customers, suppliers, communities and the environment. Our commitment will not be compromised. We expect our employees, visitors and service providers to follow our EHS standards and practices. We regularly conduct training for all of our employees and work hard to learn lessons from every incident. Additionally, we measure and review our EHS results continuously in each location.

Employee Engagement and Retention

Moog is deeply committed to continuously evolving into an even better place to work. We're built on a strong foundation of mutual trust and the premise that we must engage with employees at different levels to empower our people, enable progress and align efforts.

Moog employs a variety of mechanisms to collect and respond to feedback from our employees. We conduct a regular employee engagement survey. We also leverage focus groups and listening sessions to solicit feedback. In response to employee feedback, Moog offers a variety of flexible working arrangements, including remote work and hybrid working schedules. This allows our employees to collaborate and innovate in a successful way.

We see our positive employee engagement coming through in high levels of employee retention. For the last five years, the average of voluntary attrition has been approximately 7% of our workforce. That is a competitive attrition figure and a testament to Moog being a great place to work.

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Leadership Development and Training

At Moog, we believe that the best leaders are the ones who come from within. These leaders learn with us, grow with us and reach their potential through challenging on-the-job and deliberate learning experiences we provide. Moog's leadership development strategy focuses on the growth of its leaders at the various stages of leadership. At the foundation is our Moog Values, Moog Leadership Qualities and our Business Strategy.

Moog has carefully designed the global, enterprise-wide leadership development programs to improve the effectiveness of our leaders. Our Moog Leadership Program is an 18-month program designed to expand, develop, support and engage senior executive leadership talent. Our Emerging Leadership Program is a nine-month program designed to accelerate the development of senior leadership talent in order to help meet the demand for important leadership roles throughout our Company. Our LEAD program supports mid-level, high performing leaders excel and accelerate their careers through focused skill development in line with our key leadership qualities. In addition to these cohort-based programs and to establish the foundations of leadership across Moog, we have our Leading and Coaching People program. This is a two-day course open to all leaders that provides the foundational framework for engaging, empowering, and coaching employees for optimal performance.

In addition to our leadership development programs, Moog has many other valuable development resources available for employees in order to ensure our people have everything they need to succeed both personally and professionally. These resources include a Global Mentoring Program, Moog Gigs, access to an on-demand learning library and a suite of resources to support development of our Moog Leadership Qualities. Moog facilitates training opportunities and development programs through state-of-the-art learning and talent management systems. Our employees are encouraged to take responsibility for their own development and create learning plans that fit their needs and development goals best.

Succession Planning

Each year, Moog conducts an extensive talent review across our global enterprise that includes, among other important topics, a review of succession plans for many of our roles. To ensure the long-term continuity of our business, we actively manage the development of talent to fill the roles that are most critical to our on-going success of our Company.

Sustainability

Our values, rooted in trust, integrity and collaboration, lay the foundation for Moog's commitment to grow as a sustainable corporation. As a developer of advanced motion control products, we believe in momentum and our shared responsibility to protect people and the planet now and for generations to come. Our commitment to sustainability includes:

•Protecting our planet by minimizing our environmental impact.

•Strengthening our communities by contributing our time, talent, and resources.

•Engaging in ethical practices across all operations.

We are committed to a more inclusive, equitable world which is reflected in our corporate culture, work environment, supply chain and community support around the globe.

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We're all in this together. Moog and its employees live this mantra with countless initiatives focused on supporting our sustainability strategy and communities. Some recent examples in 2024 of Moog’s “responsibility in action” include:

•Sustainability Reporting: See our Sustainability Report and Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) disclosure at Moog Sustainability. The content of the Sustainability Report and the Company’s website are not, and should not, be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Form 10-K or otherwise filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”).

•Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Inventory: We compiled our first global inventory of greenhouse gas emissions starting with 2022 baseline and developed a global Data Collection Procedure and an Inventory Management Plan. We have set an ambition to reduce our combined Scope 1 and 2 emissions in company operations by 40% from our 2022 baseline by 2030, supported by a strategy and governance control. Baselines for water consumption and hazardous waste produced from 2022 data have been established, with improvement goals set.

•We have conducted our first Double Materiality Assessment for future regulatory disclosures.

•We continue to expand our community giving, employee giving and volunteering platform, now available across all UK, US and Canada sites.

•We launched a pilot of paid Volunteer Time Off in Western New York and the UK, allowing employees one paid shift of time per year to volunteer for nonprofit community organizations, with a goal to expand to more of our footprint in 2025.

•We have refined our corporate charitable giving guidelines to prioritize twelve key United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and developed toolkits to empower Moog sites around the world create local impact at a global scale.

Business Ethics

Moog is fully dedicated to conducting ourselves by the letter and in the spirit of the many laws and standards that apply to our business. Ethics are deeply embedded in our values and business processes. We regularly re-enforce our commitment to ethics and integrity in employee communications, in our everyday actions and in processes and controls. As a part of our on-going efforts to ensure our employees conduct business with the highest levels of ethics and integrity, Moog has compliance training programs in multiple languages. We also maintain the Moog TrustLine, where individuals can anonymously raise concerns they have about business behavior they do not feel comfortable discussing with business operations managers or human resources personnel. The Company's general confidential ethics hotline is administered by internal company counsel designated as Moog's ethics advocate. In addition, we maintain a separate hotline for cases wherein an employee believes that the Company's financial statements are materially misstated as a result of intentional acts or material weaknesses in the systems of internal control. This hotline is administered by the Company's Corporate Secretary.

Customers. Our principal customers are Original Equipment Manufacturers ("OEMs") and end users for whom we provide aftermarket support. Aerospace and defense OEM customers collectively represented 61% of 2025 sales. The majority of these sales are to a small number of large companies. Due to the long-term nature of many of the programs, many of our relationships with aerospace and defense OEM customers are based on long-term agreements. Our industrial market sales, which represented 25% of 2025 sales, are to a wide range of global customers and are normally based on lead times of 90 days or less. We also provide aftermarket support, consisting of spare and replacement parts and repair and overhaul services, for all of our products. Our major aftermarket customers are the U.S. Government and commercial airlines. In 2025, aftermarket sales accounted for 14% of total sales.

Our significant customers include tier one, large U.S. Government contractors and system integrators and are primarily within our Space and Defense, Military Aircraft and Commercial Aircraft segments. Net sales to our five largest customers represented approximately 31% of our 2025 sales.

All U.S. Government contracts are subject to termination by the U.S. Government. In 2025, sales under U.S. Government contracts represented 38% of total sales and were primarily within our Space and Defense and Military Aircraft segments.

See Item 1A, Risk Factors and Note 22 – Segments, of Item 8, Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, of this report for additional information on U.S. Government contracts and customers accounting for more than 10% of our net sales.

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International Operations. Our operations outside the U.S. are conducted primarily through wholly-owned foreign subsidiaries and are located predominantly in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. See Note 22 - Segments, of Item 8, Financial Statements and Supplementary Data of this report for information regarding sales by geographic area and Exhibit 21 of Item 15, Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules of this report for a list of subsidiaries. Our international operations are subject to the usual risks inherent in international trade, including currency fluctuations, local government contracting regulations, local governmental restrictions on foreign investment and repatriation of profits, exchange controls, regulation of the import and distribution of foreign goods, as well as changing economic and social conditions in countries in which our operations are conducted.

Environmental Matters. See the discussion in Note 24 - Commitments and Contingencies, of Item 8, Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, of this report.

Website Access to Information. Our internet address is www.moog.com. The information contained on or connected to our website is not incorporated by reference into this Annual Report on Form 10-K and should not be considered part of this or any other report filed with the SEC. We make our annual reports on Form 10‑K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and, if applicable, amendments to those reports, available on the investor relations portion of our website. The reports are free of charge and are available as soon as reasonably practicable after they are filed with the SEC. The SEC maintains a website at www.sec.gov that contains reports, proxy statements and other information regarding SEC registrants, including Moog.

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Information about our Executive Officers. Other than the prior positions noted in the table below, the principal occupations of our executive officers for the past five years is the current positions they hold.

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Disclosure Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

Information included or incorporated by reference in this report that does not consist of historical facts, including statements accompanied by or containing words such as “may,” “will,” “should,” “believes,” “expects,” “expected,” “intends,” “plans,” “projects,” “approximate,” “estimates,” “predicts,” “potential,” “outlook,” “forecast,” “anticipates,” “presume” and “assume,” are forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to several factors, risks and uncertainties, the impact or occurrence of which could cause actual results to differ materially from the expected results described in the forward-looking statements. Certain of these factors, risks and uncertainties are discussed in the sections of this report entitled “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.” New factors, risks and uncertainties may emerge from time to time that may affect the forward-looking statements made herein. Given these factors, risks and uncertainties, investors should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements as predictive of future results. We disclaim any obligation to update the forward-looking statements made in this report, except as required by law.