Stock · HWM · Industrials
United States · Large Cap · listed since 1962 · Revenue 12 mo. $9.1B
Price as of 11/06/2026
Howmet Aerospace Inc. provides advanced engineered solutions for the aerospace and transportation industries in the United States, Japan, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Italy, Canada, Poland, China, and internationally.
Howmet Aerospace Inc. provides advanced engineered solutions for the aerospace and transportation industries in the United States, Japan, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Italy, Canada, Poland, China, and internationally. It operates through four segments: Engine Products, Fastening Systems, Engineered Structures, and Forged Wheels. The Engine Products segment offers airfoils and seamless rolled rings primarily for aircraft engines and industrial gas turbines; and rotating and structural parts. The Fastening Systems segment produces aerospace fastening systems, as well as commercial transportation, industrial, and other fasteners; and latches, bearings, fluid fittings, and installation tools. The Engineered Structures segment provides titanium ingots and mill products, aluminum and nickel forgings, and machined components and assemblies for aerospace and defense applications; and titanium forgings, extrusions, and forming and machining services for airframe, wing, aero-engine, and landing gear components. The Forged Wheels segment offers forged aluminum wheels and related products for heavy-duty trucks and commercial transportation markets. The company was formerly known as Arconic Inc. Howmet Aerospace Inc. was founded in 1888 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Summary
52.3 of 100
Mean of the six area values. Each area value is the mean of the stock's ranks among the companies in its sector. 50 is the middle of the sector, not a share of companies beaten.
Analysis
What the price requires
If free cash flow stays at €1.3B (2025), it supports €14.3B. The remaining €54.4B of the market value assume it grows 21.9% a year for 10 years and not at all afterwards.
Required FCF growth per year
21.9%
no growth afterwards
Price to operating cash flow 37.3×, within its usual range.
Middle half of 20 quarters: 25.2× to 44.1×, median 30.3×.
Measures only against its own past, not against what the company is worth. Price as of 11/06/2026.
with respect to the priced-in expectation
with respect to the priced-in expectation
No anomaly in the stored figures.
Since the last quarter
Q1 → Q2 2026
4 more unchanged: EBIT margin, FCF margin, Shares outstanding, Return on equity
Derivation
Each area value is the average of its metrics' ranks within the sector (0 to 100, 50 is the middle). For metrics where lower is better, the rank is mirrored. The overall value is the average of the area values.
Price as of 11/06/2026.
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on equity | 28.17% | 13.10% | Rank 86 |
| Return on capital (Greenblatt) | 46.29% | 19.33% | Rank 79 |
| EBIT margin | 25.81% | 11.28% | Rank 90 |
| FCF margin | 17.34% | 8.50% | Rank 87 |
| Gross margin | 30.74% | 28.98% | Rank 55 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth, 1 year | 11.06% | 5.15% | Rank 82 |
| Earnings growth, 3 years per year | 49.39% | 8.01% | Rank 90 |
| Earnings growth, 5 years per year | 50.53% | 12.89% | Rank 95 |
| Sustainable growth (ROE × retained earnings) | 5.49% | 4.02% | Rank 63 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earnings yield | 1.80% | 4.42% | Rank 8 |
| FCF yield | 1.87% | 3.98% | Rank 23 |
| EV/saleslower is better | 9.56 | 2.08 | Rank 5 |
| EV/EBITlower is better | 37.02 | 19.47 | Rank 11 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share price, 1 year | −9.56% | −0.01% | Rank 34 |
| Share price, 6 months | −23.45% | −1.43% | Rank 17 |
| Share price, 3 months | −21.86% | 0.53% | Rank 8 |
| Distance from 52-week high | −29.67% | −16.36% | Rank 26 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accruals (Sloan)lower is better | 0.57% | 1.39% | Rank 56 |
| Change in share countlower is better | −0.98% | −0.44% | Rank 59 |
| Dividend streak in years | 5 | 5 | Rank 59 |
| Price reaction to results, market-adjusted | 5.56% | 0.27% | Rank 86 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equity ratio | 47.88% | 39.65% | Rank 65 |
| Net debt/EBITDAlower is better | 1.01 | 1.38 | Rank 58 |
| Debt to equitylower is better | 0.57 | 0.61 | Rank 55 |
| Volatility, 1 yearlower is better | 36.05% | 32.95% | Rank 37 |
Ten years in figures
| Year | Revenue, $B | EBIT margin | FCF | Shares | Net debt, $B |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 12.4 | 9.8% | −$252.0M | 438M | 6.2 |
| 2017 | 13.0 | 10.6% | $105.0M | 451M | 4.7 |
| 2018 | 14.0 | 9.6% | −$551.0M | 503M | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 7.1 | 16.7% | −$180.0M | 463M | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 5.3 | 16.1% | −$258.0M | 439M | 3.6 |
| 2021 | 5.0 | 17.4% | $250.0M | 435M | 3.6 |
| 2022 | 5.7 | 18.3% | $540.0M | 421M | 3.4 |
| 2023 | 6.6 | 18.8% | $682.0M | 416M | 3.2 |
| 2024 | 7.4 | 22.5% | $977.0M | 410M | 2.9 |
| 2025 | 8.3 | 25.8% | $1.4B | 406M | 2.3 |
4 of 7 StockScorer Score rules met · How the score is built
Howmet Aerospace Inc mainly meets criteria in the Profitability category. Result from 18 strategies checked.
Howmet Aerospace Inc is rated here with the StockScorer Score strategy, the flagship rule set. It compares return and cash-flow metrics with the median of the company's own sector and checks growth and price trend.
4 of 7 rules met
6 of 11 points
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Selected fundamental metrics for Howmet Aerospace Inc.
| Metric | Stock | Sector |
|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio | 55.4 | 22.5 |
| P/B ratio | 15.6 | 2.9 |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 28.2% | 13.1% |
| Equity ratio | 47.9% | 39.7% |
| Debt-to-equity (D/E) | 0.57 | 0.61 |
| Dividend yield | 0.2% | 2.0% |
How comparable stocks in the same sector score in the StockScorer model.
| Symbol | Company | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| HWM | Howmet Aerospace Incthis page | |
| NOC | Northrop Grumman Corporation | Low4.5 |
| TDG | Transdigm Group Incorporated | Low4.5 |
| GD | General Dynamics Corporation | Low4.5 |
| HONA | Honeywell Aerospace Inc | locked |
| LHX | L3Harris Technologies Inc | locked |
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