Hexcel (HXL) Stock Price, News & Analysis

14 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Hexcel in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 7 hold ratings and 5 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" HXL shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in HXL, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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14 analysts have issued 12 month price objectives for Hexcel's shares. Their HXL share price targets range from $65.00 to $90.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $76.50 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 20.4% from the stock's current price.
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Hexcel's stock was trading at $73.75 on January 1st, 2024. Since then, HXL stock has decreased by 13.8% and is now trading at $63.54.
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Hexcel saw a decrease in short interest in March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 1,760,000 shares, a decrease of 7.4% from the March 15th total of 1,900,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 760,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.3 days. Approximately 2.1% of the company's stock are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, July 22nd 2024.
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Hexcel Co. (NYSE:HXL) posted its quarterly earnings data on Monday, April, 22nd. The aerospace company reported $0.44 EPS for the quarter, hitting analysts' consensus estimates of $0.44. The aerospace company earned $472.30 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $468.93 million. Hexcel had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 9.31% and a net margin of 5.91%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 3.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the company posted $0.50 EPS.

Hexcel announced a quarterly dividend on Monday, April 22nd. Investors of record on Friday, May 3rd will be paid a dividend of $0.15 per share on Friday, May 10th. This represents a $0.60 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.94%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, May 2nd.
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Hexcel (NYSE:HXL) pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.97%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 2 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 48.39%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, HXL will have a dividend payout ratio of 20.48% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Hexcel (NYSE:HXL) stock in their portfolio include Gabelli Commercial Aerospace & Defense ETF (GCAD), ProShares Smart Materials ETF (TINT), SPDR S&P Kensho Final Frontiers ETF (ROKT), SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense ETF (XAR), First Trust Indxx Aerospace & Defense ETF (MISL), Touchstone Climate Transition ETF (HEAT), First Trust Global Wind Energy ETF (FAN) and SPDR Kensho Future Security ETF (FITE).

Hexcel issued an update on its FY24 earnings guidance on Monday, April, 22nd. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $2.10-$2.30 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.21. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.925-$2.025 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.97 billion.

52 employees have rated Hexcel Chief Executive Officer Nick L. Stanage on Glassdoor.com. Nick L. Stanage has an approval rating of 91% among the company's employees. This puts Nick L. Stanage in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Hexcel investors own include KAZ Minerals (KAZ), Petra Diamonds (PDL), AT&T (T), Cisco Systems (CSCO), NVIDIA (NVDA), Pfizer (PFE), QUALCOMM (QCOM), Micron Technology (MU) and Alibaba Group (BABA).

Hexcel's stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Leeward Investments LLC MA (0.41%), Speece Thorson Capital Group Inc. (0.21%), Weybosset Research & Management LLC (0.21%), Raymond James & Associates (0.13%), Fifth Third Bancorp (0.06%) and Amalgamated Bank (0.06%). Insiders that own company stock include Gail E Lehman, Gina Fitzsimons, Marilyn Minus, Nick L Stanage, Robert George Hennemuth and Thierry Merlot.
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