Woodward, Inc. (WWD)
Aircraft and engine control systems, 70% U.S. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending September 30, 2025, filed November 25, 2025. Ranked 132 of the 175 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
17%
End of 2028
43%
Employees, annual report
10,200
Leading staffing pattern
Aerospace Product and Parts Manufacturing
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now17%
- End of 202734%
- End of 202843%
- End of 203046%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 50%
- Becomes checking a model's work 42%
- Handed over with lighter checks 4%
Woodward states approximately 10,200 full-time members at October 31, 2025, 30% outside the United States, across Aerospace and Industrial segments with no count by segment, so the aircraft fuel and actuation systems and the industrial engine controls take their revenue shares (c).
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 17% now, 34% at the end of 2027, 43% at the end of 2028, 46% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 46% desk work, 13% people work and 40% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 50% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 42% becomes checking a model's work and 4% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
10,200 employees as of October 31, 2025 (stated). The filing states approximately 30% of full-time members outside the United States (70% in the U.S.), mostly in Germany, Poland and China.
The filing: “As of October 31, 2025, we employed approximately 10,200 full-time members of which approximately 30% were located outside of the United States, with the majority of such members located in Germany, Poland, and China.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Aerospace Product and Parts Manufacturing | 61% | The Aerospace segment, fuel systems, actuation and controls for aircraft and defense, is 61% of revenue and the filing counts no employees by segment beyond its union members, so it takes that share by revenue (c). |
| Engine, Turbine, and Power Transmission Equipment Manufacturing | 39% | The Industrial segment, fuel injection and control systems for industrial engines and turbines including the L'Orange business in Germany, is 39% of revenue with no employee count, so it takes that share by revenue (c). |
What the filing says about the workforce: In the United States about 13% of the full-time workforce are union members, all in Aerospace (about 825 under the MPC contract that expired in October 2025 and 500 under the IAM agreement); in Germany about 12%, all in Industrial, under IG Metall (about 1,200); average tenure 10 years.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Aerospace Product and Parts Manufacturing, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Boeing (BA, 182,000 employees)17% now, 44% by 2028
- RTX (RTX, 180,000 employees)17% now, 45% by 2028
- Lockheed Martin (LMT, 123,000 employees)17% now, 48% by 2028
- Honeywell International Inc. (HON, 101,000 employees)18% now, 46% by 2028
- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NOC, 95,000 employees)17% now, 47% by 2028
- GE Aerospace (GE, 57,000 employees)17% now, 46% by 2028
- Textron Inc. (TXT, 34,000 employees)16% now, 42% by 2028
- Howmet Aerospace Inc. (HWM, 25,430 employees)18% now, 41% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
1 sentences in the filing name AI. The one sentence names threat actors' increasing use of AI among the evolving techniques of cyber attacks on defense suppliers.
- “There are many different techniques used to obtain unauthorized access to systems and data, and such techniques continue to evolve and become more sophisticated, including the increasing use by threat actors of artificial intelligence, and the adversaries are becoming more advanced, including nation-states and actors sponsored by or affiliated with nation-states, which target us and other defen...”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20230median 1
- Fiscal 20240median 4
- Fiscal 20251median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-30 | 10,200 | 2025-11-25 | 10-K |
| 2024-09-30 | 9,300 | 2024-11-26 | 10-K |
| 2023-09-30 | 8,800 | 2023-11-17 | 10-K |
| 2022-09-30 | 8,300 | 2022-11-18 | 10-K |
| 2021-09-30 | 7,200 | 2021-11-19 | 10-K |
| 2020-09-30 | 7,100 | 2020-11-20 | 10-K |
| 2019-09-30 | 9,000 | 2019-11-25 | 10-K |
| 2018-09-30 | 8,300 | 2018-11-13 | 10-K |
| 2017-09-30 | 6,900 | 2017-11-13 | 10-K |
| 2016-09-30 | 6,800 | 2016-11-16 | 10-K |
| 2015-09-30 | 6,900 | 2015-11-12 | 10-K |
| 2014-09-30 | 6,700 | 2014-11-12 | 10-K |
| 2013-09-30 | 6,750 | 2013-11-14 | 10-K |
| 2012-09-30 | 6,600 | 2012-11-15 | 10-K |
| 2011-09-30 | 6,200 | 2011-11-16 | 10-K |
| 2010-09-30 | 5,452 | 2010-11-18 | 10-K |
| 2009-09-30 | 5,660 | 2009-11-20 | 10-K |
| 2008-09-30 | 5,823 | 2008-11-20 | 10-K |
| 2007-09-30 | 4,248 | 2007-11-29 | 10-K |
| 2006-09-30 | 3,700 | 2006-11-30 | 10-K |
| 2005-09-30 | 3,500 | 2005-11-30 | 10-K |
| 2004-09-30 | 3,384 | 2004-12-09 | 10-K |
| 2003-09-30 | 3,209 | 2003-12-10 | 10-K |
| 2002-09-30 | 3,329 | 2002-12-09 | 10-K |
| 2001-09-30 | 3,654 | 2001-12-12 | 10-K405 |
| 2000-09-30 | 3,311 | 2000-12-22 | 10-K |
| 1999-09-30 | 3,765 | 1999-12-23 | 10-K |
| 1998-09-30 | 440 | 1998-12-23 | 10-K |
| 1997-09-30 | not read | 1997-12-24 | 10-K |
| 1996-09-30 | not read | 1996-12-23 | 10-K |
| 1995-09-30 | not read | 1995-12-22 | 10-K |
| 1994-09-30 | not read | 1994-12-29 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- No count by segment: the two shares are by revenue (c); the data service's segment table is for fiscal 2024.
- The count is as of October 31, 2025, a month after the fiscal year end.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001193125-25-296204, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of Woodward, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 17% now and 43% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Woodward, Inc.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Woodward, Inc. employ?
- 10,200 as of October 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending September 30, 2025 states. About 70% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Woodward, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Aerospace Product and Parts Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 46% desk work, 13% people work and 40% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Woodward, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 1 sentence in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 0 and 1 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 19, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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