Hexcel Corporation (HXL)

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Hexcel Corporation'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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Hexcel Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $2.0 billion in fiscal 2016 to $1.9 billion in fiscal 2025, down 0.6% a year; it rose in 5 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 44% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2021; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Hexcel Corporation's diluted share count shrank about 2.0% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 100% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 5 sales and 2 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-12, buying about $323 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Hexcel Corporation earned about 9 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 16 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 54 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 3.6% over the year (the filed statements).

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Hexcel Corporation's standing among 9 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $1.9 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 39% by size; a net margin of 5.8% ranks in the top 6%; revenue growth of 6.3% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 6% (its annual reports).

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Hexcel Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Gentile, Tom (Chairman, CEO and President, as filed), filing under that title since 2024-05-01, 2.5 years (top 50% of its family); the 18 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 3.8 years (bottom 17%); 12 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 18 people in charge now (bottom 28%; 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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Hexcel Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $71 million against debt of $993 million leaves -34.1% of its assets as net cash, bottom 6% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 8.3% of revenue (top 28%); a gross margin of 23% (top 44%); research spending of 3% of revenue (top 28%) (its annual report).

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Hexcel Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 6.3% a year over the last three filed years against -0.6% over all 10, speeding up (top 6% of its family); the newest year grew -0.5% (top 44%); research spending grew 7.2% a year (top 17%); capital spending grew -1.3% a year (top 39%) (its annual reports). Hexcel Corporation reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Composite Materials at $1.5 billion (80%), Engineered Products at $378 million (20%); 1 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Hexcel Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $1.9 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 9.4% below the $2.1 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 6% of its family); net income of $109 million against a prior three-year average of $121 million (top 6%); a net margin of 5.8% against 7% before (top 6%) (its annual reports).