Is the price fair?
What HWM's price assumes
Howmet Aerospace trades at 58.0× earnings against 41.8× for the median Aerospace & Defense name, more expensive than its own group.
58.0
Trailing P/E · Aerospace & Defense median 41.8 · 1.39× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 10.8
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q1
- Free cash flow yield
- 1.6%
Free cash flow yield · Aerospace & Defense median 2.5%
- Growth the price implies
- +21%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +21% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +46% a year over the last three.
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- Price / book2026-Q1
- 16.8
- EV / EBIT2026-Q1
- 41.0
- EV / sales2026-Q1
- 10.9
- Industrials median P/E346 names
- 29.9
- Aerospace & Defense median P/E50 names
- 41.8
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $1.79B
- Market capitalisation
- $111.1B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +14%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +46%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $150.98 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $169.68 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $223.56 |
| 52-week range | $170.73 – $292.71 |
| Today | $269.33 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Aerospace & Defense
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