HXL Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Hexcel | NYSE:HXL)

Founded in 1948, Hexcel designs and manufactures a range of highly engineered composite fibers, fabrics, resins, and structures for use primarily in the commercial aerospace and defense markets. These are lighter than metal and perform under rigorous conditions in aircraft frames, wings, engine nacelles, and other structures and subassemblies. The company's name derives from the six-sided honeycomb structures that lend many of its products their light weight and rigidity. Hexcel's biggest customers are Airbus (40% of 2024 sales) and Boeing (15% of 2024 sales; 25% before the pandemic) and their respective subcontractors.

Hexcel trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol HXL.

As of July 24, 2026, HXL stock price climbed to $110.28 with 726,099 million shares trading.

HXL has a beta of 0.93, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. HXL has a correlation of 0.14 to the broad based SPY ETF.

HXL has a market cap of $8.32 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

Last quarter Hexcel reported $502 million in Revenue and $.59 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $16 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.16.

In the last 3 years, HXL traded as high as $111.01 and as low as $45.28.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that HXL belongs to (by Net Assets): IJH, VTI, XAR, VB, VBK.

HXL has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +78.0% while the SPY ETF gained +17.7%. HXL has also outperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning +23.6% and +11.2%, respectively, while the SPY returned +3.8% and -2.1%, respectively.

HXL support price is $107.80 and resistance is $111.99 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that HXL shares will trade within this expected range on the day.