Insights on Howmet Aerospace From Our Analysts

By Ken Smith • Thursday, September 25 10:08 • Permanent Link

Howmet Aerospace logged a -0.4% change during today's morning session, and is now trading at a price of $189.43 per share. The S&P 500 index moved -1.0%. HWM's trading volume is 233,386 compared to the stock's average volume of 2,972,222.

Howmet Aerospace trades -7.89% away from its average analyst target price of $205.66 per share. The 18 analysts following the stock have set target prices ranging from $189.0 to $225.0, and on average have given Howmet Aerospace a rating of buy.

Anyone interested in buying HWM should be aware of the facts below:

Howmet Aerospace's current price is 613.5% above its Graham number of $26.55, which implies that at its current valuation it does not offer a margin of safety
Howmet Aerospace has moved 91.6% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 15.5%
Based on its trailing earnings per share of 3.42, Howmet Aerospace has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 55.4 while the S&P 500 average is 29.3
HWM has a forward P/E ratio of 59.8 based on its forward 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $3.17 per share
Its Price to Book (P/B) ratio is 15.35 compared to its sector average of 2.89
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.
Based in Pittsburgh, the company has 23,930 full time employees and a market cap of $76.36 Billion. Howmet Aerospace currently returns an annual dividend yield of 0.2%.

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