Howmet Aerospace Inc.

How has the stock done?

Change in closing price from the first day shown, or with Price the closing price itself. Prices: Yahoo Finance, to Nov 12, 2026. Dashed lines: the days the company released earnings (its SEC 8-K filings); EPS estimates: Yahoo Finance. The stock's move after a release runs from the last close before its day to the close the day after (or five days after), so a release before the open counts like one after the close.

Is the business growing?

In the fiscal year to Dec 2025, Aerospace - Commercial was 52% and Aerospace - Defense was 17% of revenue; Commercial Transportation fell from 21% in the fiscal year to Dec 2023.

In the fiscal year to Dec 2025, United States was 53% and France was 8% of revenue; United States rose from 49% in the fiscal year to Dec 2023.

Quarters: Howmet Aerospace Inc.'s SEC filings, named by the month they end. Fiscal years: Howmet Aerospace Inc.'s annual reports to the SEC.

How it makes money

Of every $100 in revenue, $18.3 ends up as net income. Net margin rose from 8.3% to 18.3% over the past 3 years.

Each margin is that line of the income statement divided by revenue. Fiscal year: Howmet Aerospace Inc.'s annual reports to the SEC.

Customers and suppliers

In its latest annual report Howmet Aerospace sells to RTX, GE Aerospace, Boeing; it names no suppliers.

 

HWMHowmet Aerospace

Customers

GE Aerospace GE 11%

RTX RTX 11%

Boeing BA

Their customers

Genworth GNWfrom GE Aerospace

Airbus AIR.PAfrom GE Aerospace, RTX

U.S. governmentfrom RTX, Boeing

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Howmet Aerospace's 10-Q for the quarter to Mar 2026 gives two customers' shares of its revenue: General Electric Company (14%) and RTX Corporation (10%).

From Howmet Aerospace Inc.'s 10-Q and 10-K filings (XBRL): each customer whose share of revenue a filing tags, under the filing's own label, so “Customer A” in one filing can be another company in the next; a later filing's figures for a period replace an earlier one's.

Partners

Alcoa USA AACross-licenses patents, know-how, and trade secrets

Changes since the previous annual report (10-K filed Feb 14, 2025)

GE Aerospace GECustomer, share of revenue10% → 11%RTX RTXCustomer, share of revenue10% → 11%

Only the companies Howmet Aerospace names in its 10-K filed Feb 12, 2026 (SEC). The supply chain joins the latest annual reports of the companies on it and the 8-Ks they filed since: a link shows when either side's report names the other, so it grows as more reports are read. Hover a name for the filing's own words.

Is it expensive?

P/E of 43.7x, above the peer median of 32.2x, so it needs earnings to keep growing to hold up.

Priced 36% above the peer median of 32.2x.

At 43.7× trailing earnings HWM is inside the middle of its range since Jan 2022; the median is 44.1×.

Closing price over diluted earnings per share of the last four reported quarters, as known on each day (a quarter counts 35 days after it ends). From SEC filings; earnings per share adjusted for splits.

What analysts expect

The average analyst price target is $296, 33% above the current price; 91% of 22 analysts rate it a buy; earnings beat estimates in all of the last 4 quarters.

Buy or Strong Buy: 20 analysts (91%). Sell or Strong Sell: 0.

Over the past year the average of the analysts' latest price targets went from $220.82 to $292.00 (+32%), while HWM went from $201.30 to $223.11 (+11%). In the past three months targets were raised once and cut 8 times. 1 upgrade and no downgrades over the year; the latest: Keybanc moved it to Overweight from Sector Weight on Nov 3, 2026.

The day after each of these reports the stock moved +8.4% (Dec 2025, beat); +5.5% (Mar 2026, beat); −3.3% (Jun 2026, beat); +2.1% (Sep 2026, beat).

For the quarter ending Dec 2026, analysts expect adjusted earnings of $1.50 a share, 43% more than the $1.05 of a year earlier, and revenue of $2.8B, up 27% on a year earlier. For the fiscal year ending Dec 2027, they expect adjusted earnings of $6.65 a share, 21% more than the year before's estimate of $5.50, and revenue of $11.7B, up 13% on the year before's estimate.

Targets, ratings and earnings estimates: Yahoo Finance. Rating and target changes: Yahoo Finance's list of upgrades and downgrades. The average target on each day is the average of every listed firm's latest target set in the 180 days before it, so it counts fewer analysts than the average target above, and the band is the middle half of those targets (a quarter of the firms are above it, a quarter below); a target set before a stock split is divided by the split. Expected figures: the average of the analysts' estimates (Yahoo Finance). Their EPS is adjusted, as analysts estimate it, so it is set against the adjusted EPS Yahoo reports for the same quarters, not the GAAP EPS of the growth and valuation sections; revenue against the SEC filings. No change is given against a quarter whose reported EPS was more than 50% off its own estimate (often a one-off gain or charge), nor against a year that counts one. Each estimate is pinned to its fiscal period by the report date or the period's end, and one that cannot be is left out.

Where the cash goes

Generated $1.9B in free cash flow over the year, of which $1.5B went back to shareholders (dividends plus buybacks), leaving $430M in the company.

Howmet Aerospace had 400M diluted shares in the quarter ended Sep 2026, 1.2% fewer than a year earlier, and 1.4% fewer each year on average since Jun 2020. It spent $1.3B on buybacks over the last four quarters. Over the last four quarters its earnings per share rose 43.5% and its net income rose 41.6%: fewer shares added about 2 points.

Free cash flow: operating cash flow minus capital spending on property, plant and equipment, from SEC filings, for the last 4 quarters and by quarter. Shares: each quarter's diluted weighted average as filed with the SEC, since the stock's listing and its latest split.

Financial health

Current ratio 2.1, no pressure to repay short-term debt; debt-to-equity 0.6, debt is moderate.

Latest fiscal year balance sheet. Source: Yahoo Finance.

Who holds it

In the filings of 2 members of Congress and 7 funds whose copy leaves HWM out (on the exchange, not in the app yet): Tom Kean Jr., Polen Capital Management, Norges Bank, Swiss National Bank, Mirae Asset Global Investments, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and 3 more.

What did the funds Hunch tracks do?

Of the 83 funds whose 13F filings Hunch reads, 12 held HWM at the end of their latest quarter (for most, Q2 2026). Over that quarter 7 added shares, 4 cut and 1 bought new. The largest of them is Norges Bank, 7.90M shares worth $2.1B at Jun 30, 2026, 9.8% fewer than at Dec 31, 2025.

From the 13F filings of the 83 funds Hunch tracks, not of every institution: each fund's shares of HWM at its latest quarter end against the quarter before, as filed (long positions only, options left out), the quarter before put on the latest quarter's share count across a split. A fund files 45 days after its quarter ends, so some have a newer quarter than others. Value is at the quarter end. Norges Bank filed its 13F for Q1 2026 confidentially, with no holdings made public, so its row compares Q2 2026 with Q4 2025.

Are insiders buying or selling?

Officers and directors sold $22.9M of HWM on the open market in the 12 months to Nov 12, 2026; none bought. The largest was Neil Edward Marchuk (EVP, CAO), who sold $22.7M in 2 sales.

From the Form 4s filed with the SEC about Howmet Aerospace Inc. (27 in the 12 months): purchases (code P) and sales (code S) on the open market by its officers and directors, at the price each filing gives (often an average of the day's trades). A sale is a 10b5-1 sale when its filing says it was made under such a plan, set up in advance. Not counted: 28 other transactions (grants and shares withheld for tax).

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