Is Howmet Aerospace Inc (NYSE: HWM) Proving The Doubters Wrong?

Howmet Aerospace Inc (HWM) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $148.03, with 4.82 million shares of worth about $713.25 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 44.59% during that period and on May 01, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 6.82%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 405.43M shares, out of which, 399.60M shares are available for trading.

Stock saw a price change of 10.89% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 12.33%. Year-to-date (YTD), HWM shares are showing a performance of 35.35% which increased to 120.58% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $66.37 but also hit the highest price of $140.55 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Howmet Aerospace Inc shares is 2.99 million. The stock is currently trading 16.20% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 14.61% for SMA50 and it goes to 32.00% higher than SMA200.

Howmet Aerospace Inc (NYSE: HWM) currently have 405.43M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 93.01% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $59.87B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.37. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 52.65, while it has posted earnings per share of $2.81 in the same period. Its PEG reads 2.66 and has Quick Ratio of 0.98 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.76. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for HWM, volatility over the week remained 2.89% while standing at 4.89% over the month.

Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 22.56% while it is estimated to increase by 20.20% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 19.76% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 22.24% made by the stock over the past 5-years.

Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Wells Fargo on April 15, 2025 offering an Equal weight rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $118 to it. On October 24, 2024, KeyBanc Capital Markets Downgrade their recommendations, while on October 08, 2024, Susquehanna Initiated their ratings for the stock with a price target of $120. Stock get a Buy rating from BTIG Research on June 26, 2024.

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