HEXCEL CORP /DE/
At today's price, HEXCEL CORP /DE/ (HXL) is priced for today's economics sustained for ~10.3 years. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
• Hexcel makes the carbon-fiber and composite materials that go into aircraft wings and fuselages, and roughly 61% of its 2025 sales came from commercial aerospace, which ties its fortunes directly to Boeing and Airbus build rates [Source: Hexcel FY2025 10-K, accession 0001193125-26-046377]. • The defining risk is operating leverage cutting both ways: trailing operating margin is only 9.5% and net debt sits at about five times operating income, so the recovery is real but the balance sheet leave
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453 institutional managers reported holding HXL in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. 73 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Vanguard Group, T. Rowe Price, among others. On the short side, 4.7M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 6% of shares outstanding (6.3 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
HXL has cut its share count 9.8% over the past five years, spending $736.60M on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has for 4 years running, raised 3 years straight; the current rate is $70.95 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $138.00M in dividends and $736.60M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at HXL over the trailing three years: 2024: 8 buys totaling $3.21M. 14 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
HXL's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-19 | -4.4% | -13.4% |
| 2022-02-10 | -6.2% | +2.8% |
| 2022-04-26 | +1.2% | -7.1% |
| 2022-07-26 | +1.4% | -9.3% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
HXL's latest 8-K filings: 2026-05-28 (items 1.02); 2026-05-15 (items 5.02, 5.07, 8.01, 9.01); 2026-04-30 (items 8.01, 9.01); 2026-04-22 (items 2.02, 7.01, 8.01, 9.01); 2026-04-01 (items 1.01, 1.02, 2.03, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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