Howmet Aerospace Inc. (HWM) earnings on May 7, 2026
More Howmet Aerospace Inc. earnings
Prior outlook: Optimistic Outcome: Accurate
The stock price increased after the company reported better-than-expected earnings and sales. They also raised their future financial outlook, leading to a solid gain.
HWM price around the earnings
269.00
Change: +4.9%
2026-05-07, 23:59 UTC
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Prior thesis
Prior outlook: Optimistic Outcome: Accurate
- Thesis published
Optimistic outlook, the price may climb.
Experts are very optimistic because the company recently beat expectations for earnings and sales. They also significantly increased their financial forecasts for the future, building on a strong history of profitable quarters.
Context analyzed before publication
- Summary
- Downtrending stock with strong earnings history.
- Reasoning
- The stock is in a downtrend and underperforming the market, though it has a strong history of meeting or exceeding earnings expectations. Analysts are giving mixed contexts, indicating a cautious scenario.
- Playbook
- The stock is approaching support levels. The mixed analyst ratings suggest a neutral scenario.
- Trend
- Downtrend approaching support.
Analysts
Drivers
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Analysts
Neutral
Analyst ratings are mixed, with no clear consensus or strong upgrade context.
Evidence
- Analysts covering the stock
- 21
- Average price target
- 280.65
- Lowest price target
- 240
- Highest price target
- 315
- Upside to price target
- 10.1%
- Quarterly earnings growth
- 18.5%
- Revenue growth
- 14.6%
- Forward EPS
- 5.62
- Trailing EPS
- 3.71
- Analyst moves in the last 60 days
- 4
- Strong buy: 4
- Buy: 16
- Hold: 3
- Sell: 0
- Strong sell: 0
- Strong buy
- 4
- Buy
- 16
- Hold
- 3
- Sell
- 0
- Strong sell
- 0
- April 2, 2026 · Citigroup: Maintains rating (Buy → Buy)
- April 1, 2026 · Wells Fargo: Initiates coverage (Equal-Weight)
- March 17, 2026 · BTIG: Reiterates rating (Buy → Buy)
- March 11, 2026 · RBC Capital: Maintains rating (Outperform → Outperform)
News and sentiment
Evidence
Sentiment
- Sentiment
- Constructive
- Mention volume
- Low
- Normalized volume
- 33%
News
Sources (2)
- If You Invested $1000 In Howmet Aerospace Stock 5 Years Ago, You Would Have This Much Today — Benzinga
- Here's How Much You Would Have Made Owning Howmet Aerospace Stock In The Last 5 Years — Benzinga
Technicals
Drivers
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Technical
Negative
The stock is underperforming the market and is nearing a support level.
Evidence
- Average true range (ATR)
- 2.9%
- Distance to 52-week high
- -4.6%
- 14-day change (14d)
- -0.3%
- 30-day change
- +5.5%
- 30-day relative strength
- -6.5%
- Benchmark change
- +12.1%
- Nearest support
- 220.62
- Nearest resistance
- 259.68
- Volume accumulation ratio
- 0.96
Trends
Evidence
- Average earnings surprise
- +7.1%
- February 12, 2026: actual EPS 1.05 vs estimate 0.97 (surprise +8.7%)
- October 30, 2025: actual EPS 0.95 vs estimate 0.91 (surprise +4.7%)
- July 31, 2025: actual EPS 0.91 vs estimate 0.87 (surprise +4.2%)
- May 1, 2025: actual EPS 0.86 vs estimate 0.78 (surprise +10.7%)
Expected move
Drivers
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Past earnings
Positive
The company has a strong recent record of beating earnings expectations historically.
There is no implied-move data available for this event.
Reactions over its last 19 earnings
- Median move
- 4.7%
- 75th percentile move
- 6.8%
- 90th percentile move
- 12.8%
- Up / down moves
- 12 / 7
- Average up move
- +6.8%
- Average down move
- -3.0%
Monitoring and close
What Howmet Aerospace Inc. reported
There is no monitoring data available for this event.
Pre-market second reading after the results
There is no second reading available for this event.
How the stock reacted
- Outcome
- Accurate
- Consolidated
- +6.3%
- Max favorable move (MFE)
- 13.1%
- Max adverse move (MAE)
- 0%