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$ in Millions
 12 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2025
Nov. 24, 2025
Mar. 31, 2025
Cover [Abstract]      
Document Type 10-K    
Document Annual Report true    
Document Period End Date Sep. 30, 2025    
Document Transition Report false    
Entity File Number 001-39265    
Entity Registrant Name WOODWARD, INC.    
Entity Incorporation, State or Country Code DE    
Entity Tax Identification Number 36-1984010    
Entity Address, Address Line One 1081 Woodward Way    
Entity Address, City or Town Fort Collins    
Entity Address, State or Province CO    
Entity Address, Postal Zip Code 80524    
City Area Code 970    
Local Phone Number 482-5811    
Title of 12(b) Security Common Stock, par value $0.001455 per share    
Trading Symbol WWD    
Security Exchange Name NASDAQ    
Entity Current Reporting Status Yes    
Entity Interactive Data Current Yes    
Entity Filer Category Large Accelerated Filer    
Entity Small Business false    
Entity Emerging Growth Company false    
Document Financial Statement Error Correction [Flag] false    
Entity Shell Company false    
Entity Public Float     $ 7,090
Entity Common Stock, Shares Outstanding   59,868,975  
Amendment Flag false    
Entity Central Index Key 0000108312    
Document Fiscal Period Focus FY    
Current Fiscal Year End Date --09-30    
Entity Well-known Seasoned Issuer Yes    
Entity Voluntary Filers No    
Document Fiscal Year Focus 2025    
ICFR Auditor Attestation Flag true    
Documents Incorporated by Reference

Portions of our proxy statement for the Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held virtually on January 28, 2026, are incorporated by reference into Part III of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, to the extent indicated.

    
Auditor Name DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP    
Auditor Location Denver, Colorado    
Auditor Firm ID 34    
Auditor Opinion [Text Block]

Opinions on the Financial Statements and Internal Control over Financial Reporting

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Woodward, Inc. and subsidiaries (the "Company") as of September 30, 2025 and 2024, the related consolidated statements of earnings, comprehensive earnings, cash flows, and stockholders' equity, for each of the three years in the period ended September 30, 2025, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the "financial statements"). We also have audited the Company's internal control over financial reporting as of September 30, 2025, based on criteria established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO).

In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of September 30, 2025 and 2024, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended September 30, 2025, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. Also, in our opinion, the Company maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of September 30, 2025, based on criteria established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework (2013) issued by COSO.

Basis for Opinions

The Company's management is responsible for these financial statements, for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting, and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, included in the accompanying Management's Annual Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements and an opinion on the Company's internal control over financial reporting based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud, and whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects.

Our audits of the financial statements included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures to respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. Our audit of internal control over financial reporting included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, and testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk. Our audits also included performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinions.

Definition and Limitations of Internal Control over Financial Reporting

A company's internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company's internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and

directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company's assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

Critical Audit Matter

The critical audit matter communicated below is a matter arising from the current-period audit of the financial statements that was communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that (1) relates to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of critical audit matters does not alter in any way our opinion on the financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matter below, providing a separate opinion on the critical audit matter or on the accounts or disclosures to which it relates.

Point in time and over time revenue recognition and material rights and costs to fulfill a contract – Refer to Notes 1 and 3 to the financial statements

Critical Audit Matter Description

The Company recognizes revenue for performance obligations within a customer contract when control of the associated product or service is transferred to the customer. The Company also identifies and measures material rights associated with consideration it receives from customers for funded research and development activities related to long-term supply contracts.

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Performance obligations are satisfied and revenue is recognized over time if: (i) the customer receives the benefits as Woodward performs work, (ii) if the customer controls the asset as it is being enhanced, or (iii) if the product being produced for the customer has no alternative use to Woodward and Woodward has an enforceable right to payment with a profit. For products being produced for the customer that have no alternative use to Woodward and Woodward has an enforceable right to payment with a profit, and where the products are substantially the same and have the same pattern of transfer to the customer, revenue is recognized as a series of distinct products. Revenue is recognized at a point in time if the conditions above are not met. Revenue recognized over time and at a point in time was $1,937,766 and $1,629,298, respectively, for the year ended September 30, 2025.
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Customers sometimes pay consideration to Woodward for product engineering and development activities that do not result in the immediate transfer of distinct products or services to the customer. There is an implicit assumption that without the customer making such advance payments to Woodward, Woodward’s future sales of products or services to the customer would be at a higher selling price; therefore, such payments create a “material right” to the customer that effectively gives the customer an option to acquire future products or services, at a discount, that are dependent upon the product engineering and development. Material rights are recorded as contract liabilities and will be recognized when control of the related products or services are transferred to the customer. Deferred revenue from material rights related to engineering and development funding as of September 30, 2025 were $7,353 within Accrued liabilities and $199,465 in Other liabilities.

We identified both the determination of whether to recognize revenue at a point in time or over time as well as the identification and measurement of material rights associated with funded research and development activities as a critical audit matter because of the significant judgments and assumptions management makes related to alternative use, the enforceable right to payment, and the identification and measurement of material rights. This required a high degree of auditor judgment and an increased extent of effort to evaluate the appropriateness of management’s classification of revenue as point in time or over time and identification and measurement of material rights.

How the Critical Audit Matter Was Addressed in the Audit

Our audit procedures related to the classification of revenue and identification of material rights included the following, among others:

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We tested the effectiveness of controls over alternative use, enforceable right to payment, and the application of those conclusions to customer sales orders.
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We tested the effectiveness of controls over the identification and subsequent monitoring of material rights.
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We tested that alternative use and enforceable right to payment were appropriately applied to determine that revenue was classified properly.
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We tested balances identified as material rights by inspecting contracts, source documents, and payment support to determine that balances were appropriately measured, accounted for, and disclosed as material rights.