Howmet Aerospace Inc. (HWM)

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Howmet Aerospace Inc.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Howmet Aerospace Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $12 billion in fiscal 2016 to $8.3 billion in fiscal 2025, down 4.4% a year; it rose in 6 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 62% from fiscal 2017 to fiscal 2021; net income was positive in 8 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Howmet Aerospace Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 1.2% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 36% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 3 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-06 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Howmet Aerospace Inc. earned about 28 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 52 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 1.0% over the year (the filed statements).

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Howmet Aerospace Inc.'s standing among 28 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $8.3 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 13% by size; a net margin of 18.3% ranks in the top 6%; revenue growth of 13.4% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 16% (its annual reports).

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Howmet Aerospace Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Plant, John C (Executive Chairman & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2019-02-19, 7.7 years (top 30% of its family); the 14 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 6.6 years (top 36%); 6 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 14 people in charge now (bottom 46%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Howmet Aerospace Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $742 million against debt of $3.0 billion leaves -20.6% of its assets as net cash, bottom 25% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 17.3% of revenue (top 2%); research spending of 0.4% of revenue (bottom 21%) (its annual report).

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Howmet Aerospace Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 13.4% a year over the last three filed years against -4.4% over all 10, speeding up (top 5% of its family); the newest year grew 11.1% (top 37%); research spending grew 5% a year (top 22%); capital spending grew 32.9% a year (top 12%) (its annual reports). Howmet Aerospace Inc. reported 4 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Engine Products at $4.3 billion (52%), Fastening Systems at $1.7 billion (21%), Engineered Structures at $1.1 billion (14%), and 1 more; 3 of 4 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Howmet Aerospace Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $8.3 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 3% below the $8.5 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 21% of its family); net income of $1.5 billion against a prior three-year average of $796 million (top 20%); a net margin of 18.3% against 11.8% before (top 10%) (its annual reports).