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Howmet Aerospace Inc. (HWM)

NYSE / Industrials / Industrial - Machinery

Share price

219.75 USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026

Market capitalisation

87.64B USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026
Market data
Oct 15, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2025, filed Feb 12, 2026
Ratios computed
Oct 15, 2026
Filed years
10, FY2016 to FY2025
Four kinds of sourceSEC filingCompany statementMarket dataComputedWhat each means
SEC filingFiled with the SEC
Read from a statement the company filed with the SEC, with the form, fiscal year, filing date and accession beside it.
Company statementCompany statement
What the company says about itself in a filing: an 8-K item, the auditor, its own segment names.
Market dataMarket data
Prices, market value and what analysts publish, with the date they are as of.
ComputedComputed by ValueScreener
Worked out by us from the other three, with the inputs and the formula one press away. A score is a research output, not a rating or a recommendation.
Reading

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Overview

What the business is, what it costs, and how it reads on four questions.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Four questions, at a glance

Quality

Return on invested capital, after tax

21.4% Computed

From the FY2025 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

58.91x Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

1.6% Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2016 Revenue: 12.39B USDFY2016 Net income: -941.0M USDFY2017 Revenue: 12.96B USDFY2017 Net income: -74.0M USDFY2018 Revenue: 6.78B USDFY2018 Net income: 642.0M USDFY2019 Revenue: 7.10B USDFY2019 Net income: 470.0M USDFY2020 Revenue: 5.26B USDFY2020 Net income: 261.0M USDFY2021 Revenue: 4.97B USDFY2021 Net income: 258.0M USDFY2022 Revenue: 5.66B USDFY2022 Net income: 469.0M USDFY2023 Revenue: 6.64B USDFY2023 Net income: 765.0M USDFY2024 Revenue: 7.43B USDFY2024 Net income: 1.16B USDFY2025 Revenue: 8.25B USDFY2025 Net income: 1.51B USD
Revenue Net income10 filed fiscal years, from the annual reports; the table in Filings names each document.
Named tests met
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The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it cheap

Price to earnings is 58.91x at the close of 2026-10-15 on FY2025 figures; the lines are 15.00x (Graham's defensive ceiling) and, by market convention, 10.00x, 25.00x and 40.00x, and this sits above the highest.

Today, against the Industrial - Machinery industry (52 companies), 58.91x sits at the 91st percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 20.30x to 38.40x.

Is it good

Return on invested capital was 21.4% in FY2025, in the band labelled "Exceptional" (20.0% and above), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data, suggesting returns on the capital in the business well above the usual cost of that capital.

Today, against the Industrial - Machinery industry (44 companies), 21.4% sits at the 93rd percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 6.3% to 14.9%.

Is it safe

Interest coverage was 11.62x in FY2025, in the band labelled "Comfortable" (6.00x and above), on lines anchored on Damodaran's interest-coverage table, suggesting an interest bill operating profit covers many times over.

Year by year against peers
Whether Howmet Aerospace Inc.'s return on invested capital stayed above the median of the Industrial - Machinery industry, year by year. (FY2023 to FY2025, 3 fiscal years of Howmet Aerospace Inc. with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way Howmet Aerospace Inc.'s return on equity has moved, and how steadily. (FY2016 to FY2025, 10 filed years of Howmet Aerospace Inc.)
What could explain it
What in Howmet Aerospace Inc.'s filed statements could explain the movements. (10 readings drawn from the statement lines Howmet Aerospace Inc. filed)
What to check next
What to check next on Howmet Aerospace Inc., and where in its filings. (4 questions for Howmet Aerospace Inc.)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on Howmet Aerospace Inc.'s returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (15 of sixteen figures read for Howmet Aerospace Inc.)

These are HWM’s filed figures. The research desk says what they mean, against peers and its own years, with what to check next.

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What changed

The newest filing, what it moved, and when the next one is due.

SEC filingCompany statement

The newest accounts on file are the FY2025 annual report: 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, accession 0000004281-26-000012.

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Quality

The returns the business earns on its capital, and the margins behind them.

SEC filingComputed

Howmet Aerospace Inc: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Return on invested capital, after tax21.4% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000004281-26-000012
Return on equity28.2% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000004281-26-000012
Return on capital employed, pre-tax21.8% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000004281-26-000012
Return on assets13.5% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000004281-26-000012
Gross margin
Why n/a

Our archived statements for this filer carry no gross profit line, so there is nothing to compute a gross margin from and trace back to source. That may be because the filer presents no cost of revenue, or because we have not captured the concept. We do not guess which.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000004281-26-000012
Operating margin24.8% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000004281-26-000012
Net margin18.3% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000004281-26-000012
HWM 18.3%
PH 17.0%ETN 14.9%ITW 19.1%DOV 13.5%NDSN 17.4%
13.5%19.1%
Net margin: HWM against the 5 companies named under Valuation context, each as filed for its own latest year. Placement only: no average is drawn.

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Financial strength

What it owes against what it owns, and whether it can meet what falls due.

SEC filingComputedCompany statement

Howmet Aerospace Inc: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Debt to equity0.60 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000004281-26-000012
Current ratio2.13 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000004281-26-000012
Quick ratio1.09 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000004281-26-000012
Interest coverage11.62x ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000004281-26-000012
Altman Z-score11.26 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000004281-26-000012
Net debt2.47B ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000004281-26-000012
Total assets 11.18BTotal liabilities 5.83BShareholders' equity 5.35BOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What Howmet Aerospace Inc owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2025, from the balance sheet it filed (10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000004281-26-000012).

Howmet Aerospace Inc: balance sheet position
Total assets11.18B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026
Total liabilities5.83B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026
Shareholders' equity5.35B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026
Cash742.0M FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026
Total debt3.21B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026
Net debt2.47B
Current ratio2.13
Debt to equity0.60

Read from the filed balance sheet for each year, with the income statement of the same year supplying operating profit where a ratio needs it. Nothing here is a view on whether this company is sound.

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Valuation context

What the market charges for it, against its own record and companies like it.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Howmet Aerospace Inc: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings58.91x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000004281-26-000012
P/E on trailing twelve months46.88x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book16.67x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000004281-26-000012
Price to sales10.81x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000004281-26-000012
Enterprise value to EBIT44.81x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000004281-26-000012
Enterprise value to EBITDA39.37x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000004281-26-000012
Price to earnings over growth1.16 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000004281-26-000012
Diluted earnings per share3.71 USD FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000004281-26-000012
Graham number33.26 USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000004281-26-000012

We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value HWM on your own assumptions in the DCF workbench, starting from the filed figures.

Its own record, and companies like it

Valuation

What the market charges for Howmet Aerospace Inc today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.

Howmet Aerospace Inc: valuation
Share price219.75 USD
Market capitalisation87.64B USD
Enterprise value to EBITDA39.37x
Graham number33.26 USD
Diluted earnings per share, FY20253.71 USD

Price to earnings on trailing twelve months, a different basis from the fiscal-year P/E above, since Aug 2, 2017: low 9.42x, median 39.92x, high 210.18x, latest 46.88x. 2,065 trading days with a meaningful ratio, 248 more on a loss and left out. Each close over the trailing twelve months of earnings as known that day: a quarter counts from the day it was filed.

Companies like Howmet Aerospace Inc

  1. Parker-Hannifin Corporation (PH)Market cap 121.30B USD
  2. Eaton Corporation plc (ETN)Market cap 156.30B USD
  3. Illinois Tool Works Inc. (ITW)Market cap 77.23B USD
  4. Dover Corporation (DOV)Market cap 26.14B USD
  5. Nordson Corporation (NDSN)Market cap 18.31B USD

Same industry (Industrial - Machinery) and size band (Large, 10B to 200B), nearest in market value, net margin and current ratio. Each of those counts equally, by how many of the companies considered sit between the two on it. Closest first: the order is likeness and nothing else.

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Cash generation

Whether profit arrives as cash, and what is paid back to shareholders.

SEC filingComputed

Howmet Aerospace Inc: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield1.6% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000004281-26-000012
Free cash flow1.43B USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000004281-26-000012
Free cash flow margin17.3% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000004281-26-000012
Dividend yield0.2% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000004281-26-000012
Payout ratio12.0% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000004281-26-000012
FY2016 Free cash flow: -1.03B USDFY2016 Net income: -941.0M USDFY2017 Free cash flow: -635.0M USDFY2017 Net income: -74.0M USDFY2018 Free cash flow: -551.0M USDFY2018 Net income: 642.0M USDFY2019 Free cash flow: -180.0M USDFY2019 Net income: 470.0M USDFY2020 Free cash flow: -258.0M USDFY2020 Net income: 261.0M USDFY2021 Free cash flow: 250.0M USDFY2021 Net income: 258.0M USDFY2022 Free cash flow: 540.0M USDFY2022 Net income: 469.0M USDFY2023 Free cash flow: 682.0M USDFY2023 Net income: 765.0M USDFY2024 Free cash flow: 977.0M USDFY2024 Net income: 1.16B USDFY2025 Free cash flow: 1.43B USDFY2025 Net income: 1.51B USD
Free cash flow Net incomeProfit that arrives as cash stands level with net income; a gap year after year is worth reading about.

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Filings

Every figure, the year it is for and the document it was read from.

SEC filingMarket data

The filed figures

Computed from the accounts this company filed with the SEC and, in a ratio with a price in it, the last close, dated on this page. Every filed figure below carries the fiscal year and the filing date its accounts were read from, and every blank carries the reason it is blank. Nothing here is a view on this company.

Howmet Aerospace Inc.: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
58.91xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
16.67xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
44.81xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
1.6%FY2025Oct 15, 2026
21.4%FY2025Feb 12, 2026
0.2%FY2025Oct 15, 2026
0.60FY2025Feb 12, 2026
2.13FY2025Feb 12, 2026
10.81xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
1.16FY2025Oct 15, 2026
11.26FY2025Oct 15, 2026
-2.45FY2025Feb 12, 2026
7/9FY2025Feb 12, 2026

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2025, the newest full year on file. 10 filed fiscal years on record, FY2016 to FY2025, from SEC EDGAR. Prices as of Oct 15, 2026. Ratios recomputed Oct 15, 2026. Two facts, because a recompute is not a fresh quote.

The year and the filing date name the statement each figure’s accounts are read from, and they stand even where the figure itself could not be computed: the line beneath a blank says what that statement did not carry. A figure’s name opens its formula and the filings behind it; a statement that names no SEC filing has no filing date, and reads n/a.

Ten years of filed figures, year by year

Ten years of filed figures

10 filed fiscal years, FY2016 to FY2025, read from the annual reports Howmet Aerospace Inc filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in USD, as filed.

Howmet Aerospace Inc: revenue, earnings, free cash flow and returns, by fiscal year, with the filing each year was read from
YearRevenueOperating incomeNet incomeEPS, dilutedFree cash flowOperating marginReturn on equityFiling
FY20258.25B2.05B1.51B3.711.43B24.8%28.2%10-K, Feb 12, 20260000004281-26-000012
FY20247.43B1.63B1.16B2.81977.0M22.0%25.4%10-K, Feb 14, 20250000004281-25-000011
FY20236.64B1.20B765.0M1.83682.0M18.1%18.9%10-K, Feb 13, 20240000004281-24-000007
FY20225.66B919.0M469.0M1.11540.0M16.2%13.0%10-K, Feb 14, 20230000004281-23-000004
FY20214.97B748.0M258.0M0.59250.0M15.0%7.3%10-K, Feb 14, 20220000004281-22-000004
FY20205.26B626.0M261.0M0.48-258.0M11.9%7.3%10-K, Feb 16, 20210000004281-21-000049
FY20197.10B579.0M470.0M1.03-180.0M8.2%10.2%10-K, Feb 27, 20200000004281-20-000038
FY20186.78B775.0M642.0M1.30-551.0M11.4%11.5%10-K, Feb 21, 20190000004281-19-000031
FY201712.96B480.0M-74.0M-0.28-635.0M3.7%-1.5%10-K, Feb 26, 20180000004281-18-000042
FY201612.39B954.0M-941.0M-2.31-1.03B7.7%-18.4%10-K, Feb 28, 20170001193125-17-062657
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: -4.4%
  • Earnings: Earnings was not positive in both 2016 and 2025, so a compound rate across the window is not defined. Both figures are in the table.
  • Earnings per share: Earnings per share was not positive in both 2016 and 2025, so a compound rate across the window is not defined. Both figures are in the table.
  • Free cash flow: Free cash flow was not positive in both 2016 and 2025, so a compound rate across the window is not defined. Both figures are in the table.

Every figure in this section is a line of a filed annual statement or a ratio of two of them. Nothing here is estimated or smoothed. Earnings per share filed before a share split are put on today's share count, and say so. Nothing here is a verdict on the company.

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Risks and guardrails

The accounting screens, the published tests, and the lines you can set to be told.

ComputedCompany statement

Howmet Aerospace Inc: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-2.45 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000004281-26-000012
Piotroski F-score7/9 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026, 0000004281-26-000012
Named tests met3 of 30 Computed
Beta1.38 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 3 met, 27 not met, 0 we could not complete. Counts, never a score: a single figure would have to decide that meeting one investor’s criteria and meeting another’s are worth the same.

Which tests, by name(all 30)
Meets
ROIC at or above WACC; High return on tangibles; Cash-covered dividend
Does not
Defensive investor (Benjamin Graham); Deep value; Large cap, low P/E; Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); High F-score, low P/B (Joseph Piotroski); Three forensic scores; Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); High returns and growth; Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx); EV/EBITDA and coverage; High yield, low payout; Dividends and buybacks; Low beta, profitable; Near the 52-week low; Z-score and coverage (Edward Altman); Two thirds of NCAV (Benjamin Graham); P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); High returns, low debt; Owner earnings yield; Low P/S, rising earnings (James O'Shaughnessy); Book or below, low debt (Walter Schloss); Tangible book or below; Cash-flow yield and ROIC; Clean books, high ROIC; Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman); Cheapest quarter on P/B (David Dreman); Low P/E, growth, yield (John Neff)
Figures we could not read(1)
  • Gross Margin: Our archived statements for this filer carry no gross profit line, so there is nothing to compute a gross margin from and trace back to source. That may be because the filer presents no cost of revenue, or because we have not captured the concept. We do not guess which.

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Declared positions

Whether anybody here owns this company.

Positions declared by the founder: no holding in any company shown here, as of October 3, 2026.

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What to do with what you have read.

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  • One figure could not be read on this company: Gross Margin.

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