Hexcel Corp (NYSE:HXL) shares, rose in value on Friday, December 13, with the stock price down by -0.22% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $63.75.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $63.89, falling within a range of $63.18 and $64.4. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 1.298 whereas the PE ratio was 48.83 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $77.09, and the low was $57.50. On the whole, HXL has fluctuated by 4.00% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Hexcel Corp currently standing at about $5.16 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for in January. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 0.60, with its dividend yield at 0.94%.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 1.91B, with a low estimate of 447M and a high estimate of 522.26M. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 480.94M.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that HXL’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 50% Buy on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 50% Sell while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a Hold.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 3.60, with the price of HXL currently trading nearly 2.47% and 3.48% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 56.56, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 2.58% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 2.40%. Furthermore, Hexcel Corp (HXL)’s beta value is 1.31, and its average true range (ATR) is 1.56.
A comparison of Hexcel Corp (HXL) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. HXL showed an intraday change of -0.22% in last session, and over the past year, it shrunk by -13.51%%.
Data on historical trading for Hexcel Corp (NYSE:HXL) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 0.82 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 792.27K. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 81.00 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 0.75% of Hexcel Corp’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 95.92% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 2.81 million shares as on 2024-11-29, resulting in a short ratio of 3.53. According to the data, the short interest in Hexcel Corp (HXL) stood at 393.00 of shares outstanding as of 2024-11-29; the number of short shares registered in 2024-10-31 reached 2.14 million. The stock has fallen by -13.56% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the HXL stock heading into the next quarter.
