Howmet Aerospace Inc (HWM) Is A Great Bargain Stock To Take A Look At

Howmet Aerospace Inc (NYSE:HWM) has a beta value of 1.44 and has seen 0.8 million shares traded in the recent trading session. The company, currently valued at $27.84B, closed the recent trade at $67.86 per share which meant it gained $0.69 on the day or 1.03% during that session. The HWM stock price is -2.49% off its 52-week high price of $69.55 and 42.18% above the 52-week low of $39.24. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 4.6 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 3.23 million shares.

Howmet Aerospace Inc (NYSE:HWM) trade information

Sporting 1.03% in the green today, the stock has traded in the green over the last five days, when the HWM stock price touched $67.86 or saw a rise of 0.01%. Year-to-date, Howmet Aerospace Inc shares have moved 25.39%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change 3.40%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of Howmet Aerospace Inc (NYSE:HWM) have changed 7.53%. Short interest in the company has seen 4.99 million shares shorted with days to cover at 1.55.

Howmet Aerospace Inc (HWM) estimates and forecasts

Figures show that Howmet Aerospace Inc shares have outperformed across the wider relevant industry. The company’s shares have gained 44.02% over the past 6 months, with this year growth rate of 17.93%, compared to 8.70% for the industry. Other than that, the company has, however, increased its growth outlook for the 2024 fiscal year revenue. Growth estimates for the current quarter are 23.80% and 22.70% for the next quarter. Revenue growth from the last financial year stood is estimated to be 7.90%.

16 analysts offering their estimates for the company have set an average revenue estimate of $1.74 billion for the current quarter. 16 have an estimated revenue figure of $1.78 billion for the next quarter concluding in Jun 2024. Year-ago sales stood $1.49 billion and $1.65 billion respectively for this quarter and the next, and analysts expect sales will grow by 16.90% for the current quarter and 7.70% for the next.

If we evaluate the company’s growth over the last 5-year and for the next 5-year period, we find that annual earnings growth was 7.22% over the past 5 years. Earnings growth for 2024 is a modest 20.01% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to increase by 19.49%.

HWM Dividends

Howmet Aerospace Inc is expected to release its next earnings report between April 30 and May 06 this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue. The forward dividend is 0.18 at a share yield of 0.27%. The company’s dividend yield has gone up over the past 12 months.

Howmet Aerospace Inc (NYSE:HWM)’s Major holders

Insiders own 1.16% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 92.89% with a share float percentage of 93.98%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with Howmet Aerospace Inc having a total of 944 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are Vanguard Group Inc with over 45.25 million shares worth more than $3.06 billion. As of Dec 30, 2023, Vanguard Group Inc held 11.03% of shares outstanding.

The other major institutional holder is Blackrock Inc., with the holding of over 36.31 million shares as of Dec 30, 2023. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $2.46 billion and represent 8.85% of shares outstanding.

Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Vanguard 500 Index Fund. As of Dec 30, 2023, the former fund manager holds about 3.16% shares in the company for having 12.95 million shares of worth $877.24 million while later fund manager owns 9.55 million shares of worth $647.09 million as of Dec 30, 2023, which makes it owner of about 2.33% of company’s outstanding stock.