Compare Stocks: HXL, CW, HWM, and RTX

Comparative Price Performance Over Time

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
CW Curtiss-Wright	$567.61 -0.9%	$691.72	$481.70 ▼ $808.16	$20.95B	0.84	296,838 shs	52,805 shs
HWM Howmet Aerospace	$234.56 +1.3%	$274.48	$179.62 ▼ $310.00	$94.00B	1.19	2.69 million shs	2.04 million shs
HXL Hexcel	$90.48 -0.9%	$100.16	$60.26 ▼ $111.74	$6.85B	1.05	1.11 million shs	123,416 shs
RTX RTX	$198.28 -0.3%	$208.36	$151.65 ▼ $226.88	$267.66B	0.29	5.49 million shs	623,945 shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
CW Curtiss-Wright	+1.03%	-0.78%	-17.12%	-20.74%	+18.31%
HWM Howmet Aerospace	-11.28%	-9.66%	-18.45%	-7.67%	+28.44%
HXL Hexcel	-0.83%	-0.95%	-11.65%	-0.41%	+41.63%
RTX RTX	-0.99%	-2.97%	-10.88%	+11.98%	+29.10%

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
CW Curtiss-Wright	$567.61 -0.9%	$691.72	$481.70 ▼ $808.16	$20.95B	0.84	296,838 shs	52,805 shs
HWM Howmet Aerospace	$234.56 +1.3%	$274.48	$179.62 ▼ $310.00	$94.00B	1.19	2.69 million shs	2.04 million shs
HXL Hexcel	$90.48 -0.9%	$100.16	$60.26 ▼ $111.74	$6.85B	1.05	1.11 million shs	123,416 shs
RTX RTX	$198.28 -0.3%	$208.36	$151.65 ▼ $226.88	$267.66B	0.29	5.49 million shs	623,945 shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
CW Curtiss-Wright	+1.03%	-0.78%	-17.12%	-20.74%	+18.31%
HWM Howmet Aerospace	-11.28%	-9.66%	-18.45%	-7.67%	+28.44%
HXL Hexcel	-0.83%	-0.95%	-11.65%	-0.41%	+41.63%
RTX RTX	-0.99%	-2.97%	-10.88%	+11.98%	+29.10%

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
CW Curtiss-Wright	2.43	Hold	$765.71	34.90% Upside
HWM Howmet Aerospace	2.95	Moderate Buy	$316.22	34.82% Upside
HXL Hexcel	2.27	Hold	$107.18	18.46% Upside
RTX RTX	2.71	Moderate Buy	$228.59	15.28% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest HXL, CW, HWM, and RTX Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
9/4/2026	CW Curtiss-Wright	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Downgrade	Buy (B) ➝ Buy (B-)
9/2/2026	CW Curtiss-Wright	Piper Sandler Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Neutral	$665.00
9/2/2026	CW Curtiss-Wright	Piper Sandler Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Neutral	$665.00
9/1/2026	HWM Howmet Aerospace	Citigroup Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Buy
8/25/2026	RTX RTX	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Buy (B-) ➝ Buy (B)
8/24/2026	HWM Howmet Aerospace	Sanford C. Bernstein Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Outperform	$318.00 ➝ $328.00
8/21/2026	CW Curtiss-Wright	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Buy (B-) ➝ Buy (B)
8/19/2026	HWM Howmet Aerospace	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Buy (B-) ➝ Buy (B)
8/12/2026	CW Curtiss-Wright	Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Set Price Target		$801.00
8/12/2026	HWM Howmet Aerospace	Citigroup Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Buy
8/12/2026	HWM Howmet Aerospace	Zacks Research Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Hold ➝ Strong-Buy

(Data available from 9/9/2023 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Compare Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
CW Curtiss-Wright	$3.50B	5.99	$16.91 per share	33.57	$68.71 per share	8.26
HWM Howmet Aerospace	$8.25B	11.37	$4.09 per share	57.40	$13.31 per share	17.62
HXL Hexcel	$1.98B	3.46	$3.41 per share	26.51	$16.49 per share	5.49
RTX RTX	$88.60B	3.02	$9.50 per share	20.88	$49.99 per share	3.97

Compare Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
CW Curtiss-Wright	$484.23M	$14.53	39.04	33.19	2.56	14.81%	20.49%	10.19%	11/4/2026 (Estimated)
HWM Howmet Aerospace	$1.51B	$4.64	50.63	37.71	2.34	20.52%	33.91%	15.11%	10/29/2026 (Estimated)
HXL Hexcel	$109.40M	$1.99	45.52	26.46	1.31	7.76%	12.34%	6.08%	10/28/2026 (Estimated)
RTX RTX	$6.73B	$5.68	34.96	25.55	2.59	8.28%	13.99%	5.51%	10/20/2026 (Estimated)

Latest HXL, CW, HWM, and RTX Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
8/6/2026	Q2 2026	CW Curtiss-Wright	$3.62	$3.72	+$0.10	$4.07	$926.17 million	$924.01 million
8/6/2026	Q2 2026	HWM Howmet Aerospace	$1.24	$1.33	+$0.09	$1.33	$2.43 billion	$2.55 billion
7/29/2026	Q2 2026	HXL Hexcel	$0.5740	$0.66	+$0.0860	$0.64	$528.08 million	$529.30 million
7/23/2026	Q2 2026	RTX RTX	$1.66	$1.89	+$0.23	$1.57	$22.89 billion	$24.71 billion

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	5-Year Annualized Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
CW Curtiss-Wright	$1.04	0.18%	+6.46%	7.16%	8 Years
HWM Howmet Aerospace	$0.56	0.24%	-34.93%	12.07%	5 Years
HXL Hexcel	$0.72	0.80%	+31.95%	36.18%	3 Years
RTX RTX	$2.92	1.47%	-41.03%	51.41%	5 Years

Latest HXL, CW, HWM, and RTX Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
6/26/2026	RTX RTX	quarterly	$0.73	1.31%	8/14/2026	8/14/2026	9/3/2026
7/27/2026	HWM Howmet Aerospace	quarterly	$0.14	0.2%	8/7/2026	8/7/2026	8/25/2026
7/29/2026	HXL Hexcel	quarterly	$0.18	0.72%	8/10/2026	8/10/2026	8/17/2026

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
CW Curtiss-Wright	0.27	1.60	1.12
HWM Howmet Aerospace	0.71	1.82	0.87
HXL Hexcel	0.74	2.43	1.37
RTX RTX	0.47	1.01	0.78

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
CW Curtiss-Wright	82.71%
HWM Howmet Aerospace	90.46%
HXL Hexcel	95.47%
RTX RTX	86.50%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
CW Curtiss-Wright	0.51%
HWM Howmet Aerospace	0.85%
HXL Hexcel	1.84%
RTX RTX	0.10%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
CW Curtiss-Wright	9,100	36.93 million	36.75 million	Optionable
HWM Howmet Aerospace	25,430	400.11 million	396.71 million	Optionable
HXL Hexcel	5,563	75.62 million	74.23 million	Optionable
RTX RTX	180,000	1.35 billion	1.35 billion	Optionable

HXL, CW, HWM, and RTX Headlines

Recent News About These Companies

Integrated Wealth Concepts LLC Purchases 77,120 Shares of RTX Corporation $RTX

4 hours ago | marketbeat.com

Maven Securities LTD Purchases 28,501 Shares of RTX Corporation $RTX

September 9 at 5:51 AM | marketbeat.com

VIRGINIA RETIREMENT SYSTEMS ET Al Invests $8.54 Million in RTX Corporation $RTX

September 9 at 5:12 AM | marketbeat.com

RTX Corporation $RTX Shares Sold by Baird Financial Group Inc.

September 9 at 3:27 AM | marketbeat.com

DLSS 5 Gets Tested On Apple’s M5 Pro Using Unofficial Experimental Layer, Massively Boosting Image Quality But At The Expense Of 10x The Latency Of An RTX 5050

September 8 at 10:22 PM | wccftech.comW

GeForce RTX 5070 reportedly getting second GPU variant based on GB203

September 8 at 10:22 PM | videocardz.comV

NVIDIA Could Launch a New RTX 5070 With a Bigger GB203 GPU

September 8 at 10:22 PM | msn.com

Allworth Financial LP Trims Stock Position in RTX Corporation $RTX

September 8 at 7:11 PM | marketbeat.com

Arizona State Retirement System Has $70.86 Million Stock Holdings in RTX Corporation $RTX

September 8 at 7:04 PM | marketbeat.com

HP Launches OmniBook Ultra 16 And OmniBook X 14 With NVIDIA RTX Spark

September 8 at 5:21 PM | pulse2.comP

Save $580 Off the ASUS ROG Zephyrus G16 RTX 5090 Laptop, the Ultimate Mobile AI and Gaming Platform

September 8 at 5:21 PM | ign.comI

The Thin and Light Gigabyte AERO X16 16" RTX 5070 Gaming Laptop Drops to $1,340 at Best Buy

September 8 at 5:21 PM | ign.comI

Chinese Mini-PC features mobile GeForce RTX 5090 24GB and desktop Ryzen 9 9950X3D

September 8 at 5:21 PM | videocardz.comV

Modders send NVIDIA a message: no artificial gimping, RTX 30 GPUs can run DLSS Multi Frame Generation

September 8 at 5:21 PM | videocardz.comV

New GeForce RTX 5070 version coming with larger GB203 die

September 8 at 5:21 PM | tweaktown.comT

Nvidia’s RTX Spark could be the future of laptops. That’s exactly why I’d wait

September 8 at 5:21 PM | msn.com

Service Center Disposes Of RTX 4090 Even After The User Chose “Repair/Replacement”, Offering Only A Refund For The Card

September 8 at 12:21 PM | wccftech.comW

Can Chinook Modernization Strengthen RTX's Defense Growth?

September 8 at 12:21 PM | finance.yahoo.com

Can Chinook Modernization Strengthen RTX's Defense Growth?

September 8 at 11:46 AM | zacks.com

Anchor Capital Advisors LLC Sells 7,564 Shares of RTX Corporation $RTX

September 8 at 3:06 AM | marketbeat.com

Why RTX Spark’s half‑frame trick might actually matter

September 8 at 1:28 AM | msn.com

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HXL, CW, HWM, and RTX Company Descriptions

Curtiss-Wright NYSE:CW

$567.61 -5.10 (-0.89%)

As of 11:35 AM Eastern

Curtiss-Wright Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides engineered products, solutions, and services mainly to aerospace and defense, commercial power, process, and industrial markets worldwide. It operates through three segments: Aerospace & Industrial, Defense Electronics, and Naval & Power. The Aerospace & Industrial segment offers industrial and specialty vehicle products, such as power management electronics, traction inverters, transmission shifters, and control systems; sensors, controls, and electro-mechanical actuation components used on commercial and military aircraft; and surface technology services including shot peening, laser peening, and engineered coatings. The Defense Electronics segment provides commercial off-the-shelf embedded computing board-level modules and processing equipment, data acquisition and flight test instrumentation equipment, integrated subsystems, instrumentation and control systems, tactical communications solutions; and electronic stabilization products, and weapons handling systems; avionics and electronics; flight test equipment; and aircraft data management solutions. The Naval & Power segment offers main coolant pumps, power-dense compact motors, generators, steam turbines, valves, and secondary propulsion systems; energy absorbers, retractable hook cable systems, net-stanchion systems and mobile systems to support fixed land-based arresting systems; hardware, valves, fastening systems, specialized containment doors, airlock hatches, and spent fuel management products; reactor coolant pumps and control rod drive mechanisms for commercial nuclear power plants, as well as various nuclear reactor technologies. This segment furnishes severe-service valve technologies and services, heat exchanger repair, and piping test and isolation products, and offers ship repair and maintenance for the U.S. navy. Curtiss-Wright Corporation was incorporated in 1929 and is headquartered in Davidson, North Carolina.

Howmet Aerospace NYSE:HWM

$234.56 +3.03 (+1.31%)

As of 11:35 AM Eastern

Howmet Aerospace Inc. provides advanced engineered solutions for the aerospace and transportation industries in the United States, Japan, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Italy, Canada, Poland, China, and internationally. It operates through four segments: Engine Products, Fastening Systems, Engineered Structures, and Forged Wheels. The Engine Products segment offers airfoils and seamless rolled rings primarily for aircraft engines and industrial gas turbines; and rotating and structural parts. The Fastening Systems segment produces aerospace fastening systems, as well as commercial transportation, industrial, and other fasteners; and latches, bearings, fluid fittings, and installation tools. The Engineered Structures segment provides titanium ingots and mill products, aluminum and nickel forgings, and machined components and assemblies for aerospace and defense applications; and titanium forgings, extrusions, and forming and machining services for airframe, wing, aero-engine, and landing gear components. The Forged Wheels segment offers forged aluminum wheels and related products for heavy-duty trucks and commercial transportation markets. The company was formerly known as Arconic Inc. Howmet Aerospace Inc. was founded in 1888 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Hexcel NYSE:HXL

$90.48 -0.80 (-0.88%)

As of 11:35 AM Eastern

Hexcel Corporation develops, manufactures, and markets carbon fibers, structural reinforcements, honeycomb structures, resins, and composite materials and parts for use in commercial aerospace, space and defense, and industrial applications. It operates through two segments, Composite Materials and Engineered Products. The Composite Materials segment manufactures and markets fabrics, multi-axials, specialty reinforcements, prepregs and other fiber-reinforced matrix materials, structural adhesives, molding compounds, tooling materials, polyurethane systems, and laminates that are used in military and commercial aircraft, wind turbine blades, recreational products, and other industrial applications, as well as in automotive, marine, and rail transportation. The Engineered Products segment manufactures and markets aircraft structures and finished aircraft components, including wing to body fairings, wing panels, flight deck panels, door liners, rotorcraft blades, spars, and tip caps; and aircraft structural sub-components and semi-finished components used in rotorcraft blades, engine nacelles, and aircraft surfaces, such as flaps, wings, elevators, and fairings; and RF interference control products for military and aerospace applications. This segment also provides interference control materials, structural composites, and services; dielectric absorber foams; magnetic absorbers; and thermoplastics for commercial and defense applications. The company sells its products directly through its managers, product managers, and sales personnel, as well as through independent distributors in the Americas, Europe, the Asia Pacific, India, and Africa. Hexcel Corporation was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut.

RTX NYSE:RTX

$198.28 -0.53 (-0.27%)

As of 11:35 AM Eastern

RTX Corporation, an aerospace and defense company, provides systems and services for the commercial, military, and government customers in the United States and internationally. It operates through three segments: Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon. The Collins Aerospace Systems segment offers aerospace and defense products, and aftermarket service solutions for civil and military aircraft manufacturers and commercial airlines, as well as regional, business, and general aviation, defense, and commercial space operations. This segment also designs, produces, and supports cabin interior, including oxygen systems, food and beverage preparation, storage and galley systems, and lavatory and wastewater management systems; battlespace, test and training range systems, crew escape systems, and simulation and training solutions; information management services; and aftermarket services that include spare parts, overhaul and repair, engineering and technical support, training and fleet management solutions, and asset and information management services. Its Pratt & Whitney segment supplies aircraft engines for commercial, military, business jet, and general aviation customers; and produces, sells, and services military and commercial auxiliary power units. The Raytheon segment provides defensive and offensive threat detection, tracking, and mitigation capabilities for U.S., foreign government, and commercial customers. The company was formerly known as Raytheon Technologies Corporation and changed its name to RTX Corporation in July 2023. RTX Corporation was incorporated in 1934 and is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.

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