Is the price fair?
What HXL's price assumes
Hexcel Corporation trades at 60.5× earnings against 39.5× for the median Aerospace & Defense name, more expensive than its own group.
60.5
Trailing P/E · Aerospace & Defense median 39.5 · 1.53× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 3.20
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q1
- Free cash flow yield
- 2.8%
Free cash flow yield · Aerospace & Defense median 2.6%
- Growth the price implies
- +13%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +13% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +29% a year over the last three.
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- Price / book2026-Q1
- 4.89
- EV / EBIT2026-Q1
- 38.6
- EV / sales2026-Q1
- 3.68
- Industrials median P/E351 names
- 29.0
- Aerospace & Defense median P/E50 names
- 39.5
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $206M
- Market capitalisation
- $7.26B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +5.6%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +29%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $28.87 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $57.09 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $73.41 |
| 52-week range | $60.34 – $110.35 |
| Today | $91.32 |
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
Ranks #29 of 33 by Smart Score