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Hexcel Corporation

IndustrialsChemicals
Ticker HXLSTAMFORD, CTFiscal year ends DecemberBook value per share $17.29Diluted shares 76.6M

Hexcel Corporation (NYSE: HXL) makes advanced lightweight composite materials and structures for commercial aerospace, defense and space, transportation, and industrial applications. Its products include carbon fiber, fabrics and specialty reinforcements, prepregs, resins, structural adhesives, honeycomb core,… From the company’s description.

In fiscal 2025, Hexcel Corporation reported revenue of $1.89B, down 0.5% from fiscal 2024, and net income of $109.40M. Its operating margin was 9.1%, and operations generated $230.50M in cash. Over the twelve months to Sep 30, 2026, revenue was $2.02B.

Fiscal year 2025 · ends 12-31Changes are against fiscal 2024The amber dot is the latest twelve months, to 2026-09-30
Sales & profitability
$1.89BFY2025
−0.5% year over year
Last 12 mo $2.02B
9.06%FY2025
−0.7 percentage points
Last 12 mo 12.21%
$109.40MFY2025
−17.2% year over year
Last 12 mo $171.50M
8.75%FY2025
+0.1 percentage points
Cash & financing
$230.50MFY2025
−20.5% year over year
Last 12 mo $296.60M
$157.20MFY2025
−22.5% year over year
Last 12 mo $209.80M
0.79FY2025
Was 0.46× a year earlier
Last 12 mo 0.71
80.0MFY2025
−3.6% year over year
Last 12 mo 76.6M

Margins and return on equity change in ; everything else in percent. Fewer shares and less debt are shown plainly, not as bad news — it depends what you make of buybacks. Dotted labels explain each measure. is shown separately from the annual figures.

What Hexcel Corporation does

In the company’s own words

Hexcel Corporation (NYSE: HXL) makes advanced lightweight composite materials and structures for commercial aerospace, defense and space, transportation, and industrial applications. Its products include carbon fiber, fabrics and specialty reinforcements, prepregs, resins, structural adhesives, honeycomb core, pultruded profiles, engineered composite structures, and radio-frequency interference-control materials. Customers include aircraft and engine manufacturers, defense contractors, and industrial producers. Hexcel operates two reportable segments: Composite Materials, which generated $1.516 billion, or about 80% of net sales, in 2025, and Engineered Products, which generated $377.7 million, or about 20%. Commercial aerospace represented 61% of 2025 net sales, with the remainder in Defense, Space & Other. The company serves customers through manufacturing facilities, sales offices, and representatives across the Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, India, and Africa. Hexcel employed 5,563 full-time employees and contract workers as of December 31, 2025. Its major product brands include HexTow, HexForce, HexPly, HexFlow, HexBond, and HexWeb. Its website is www.hexcel.com.

Company details
Sector
Industrials
Industry (SIC)
Chemicals
Headquarters
STAMFORD, CT
Fiscal year end
December
CIK
717605
SIC
2821

Financial performance, year by year

Fiscal 2013–2025 · USD
$-235.57M$471.14M$1.18B$1.88B$2.59B2013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025Last 12 moLast 12 monthsLast 12 months

The full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow for each of these years — every figure traceable to its filing — is on the Financials tab with a free account.

Ownership

Who owns Hexcel Corporation — and what changed

Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30

445
funds hold it
1 of 35
superinvestors hold it
$3.41B
held by funds, at market
46.2%
of shares held by funds
3
bond issues held by funds

Superinvestors in Hexcel Corporation · what they did last quarter

Tom GaynerUNCHANGED
Markel Group (Markel-Gayner)
0.1%of 13F portfolio

Share of each manager’s reported 13F portfolio. Change is in shares held, since the previous quarter.

Largest fund holders · Hexcel Corporation’s weight in each

iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF
IJH · iShares Trust
0.21%of fund net assets
VANGUARD TOTAL STOCK MARKET INDEX FUND
VTI · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.01%of fund net assets
T. Rowe Price Mid-Cap Value Fund, Inc.
TRMCX · T. ROWE PRICE MID-CAP VALUE FUND, INC.
1.44%of fund net assets
2.81%of fund net assets
VANGUARD SMALL-CAP INDEX FUND
VB · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.09%of fund net assets

Fund ownership is a floor, not a census — pensions, insurers and people holding shares directly are not visible here.

Hexcel Corporation’s bonds, as funds hold them

Funds report holding 3 issues of Hexcel Corporation’s debt, $264.30M at market value — what funds hold, not the company’s total debt. Weighted-average coupon 5.18%, maturing 2027 to 2035.

Fund ownership counts N-PORT filers only, so it is a floor rather than a census — pensions, insurers and direct holders are not visible here, and the remainder is not “held by individuals”.

Fund ownership is a subset of institutional 13F ownership — the two describe overlapping populations and must not be added together.

Every fund and institutional holder, quarter by quarter, is on the Ownership tab with a free account.

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