Hexcel Financial Ratios
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Hexcel ratio analysis
Hexcel earned a net margin of 5.8% in FY 2025, down from 6.9% a year earlier. Gross margin was 23.0% compared with a median of 24.7% over the prior 9 years. Return on equity reached 8.7%, meaning Hexcel generated 0.09 dollars of profit for every dollar of shareholders' equity.
Debt-to-equity stood at 0.79 versus 0.46 the year before, and the current ratio was 2.26. At the end of FY 2025, HXL traded at 56.1 times earnings; across the 10 fiscal years shown, its year-end P/E ranged from 18.7 to 272.6, with a median of 39.6. Valuation ratios use the closing share price on each fiscal year-end date and diluted shares from the income statement; profitability and leverage ratios use reported annual figures. Current valuation multiples are on the statistics page.
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Hexcel financial ratios (annual)
| Ratio | FY 2025 | FY 2024 | FY 2023 | FY 2022 | FY 2021 | FY 2020 | FY 2019 | FY 2018 | FY 2017 | FY 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio (at fiscal year end) | 56.12 | 39.64 | 59.48 | 39.50 | 272.63 | 127.61 | 21.22 | 18.72 | 20.02 | 19.41 |
| Price / sales | 3.23 | 2.73 | 3.49 | 3.15 | 3.29 | 2.70 | 2.73 | 2.34 | 2.84 | 2.38 |
| Price / book | 4.89 | 3.39 | 3.63 | 3.20 | 2.93 | 2.69 | 4.45 | 3.87 | 3.75 | 3.83 |
| Gross margin | 23.0% | 24.7% | 24.2% | 22.6% | 18.9% | 16.0% | 27.2% | 26.5% | 28.0% | 28.2% |
| Operating margin | 9.1% | 9.8% | 12.0% | 11.1% | 3.9% | 0.9% | 18.0% | 17.0% | 17.8% | 18.0% |
| Net margin | 5.8% | 6.9% | 5.9% | 8.0% | 1.2% | 2.1% | 13.0% | 12.6% | 14.4% | 12.5% |
| Free cash flow margin | 8.3% | 10.7% | 8.3% | 6.1% | 9.3% | 14.2% | 12.2% | 10.8% | 7.6% | 3.7% |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 8.7% | 8.6% | 6.2% | 8.1% | 1.1% | 2.1% | 21.2% | 20.9% | 19.0% | 20.1% |
| Return on assets (ROA) | 4.0% | 4.8% | 3.6% | 4.5% | 0.6% | 1.1% | 9.8% | 9.8% | 10.2% | 10.4% |
| Debt / equity | 0.79 | 0.46 | 0.41 | 0.47 | 0.55 | 0.61 | 0.73 | 0.72 | 0.54 | 0.55 |
| Current ratio | 2.26 | 2.21 | 2.74 | 2.23 | 2.49 | 2.93 | 2.19 | 2.07 | 2.51 | 2.23 |
| Revenue growth | -0.5% | 6.4% | 13.4% | 19.1% | -11.8% | -36.2% | 7.6% | 10.9% | -1.5% | 7.7% |
| EPS growth | -13.8% | 28.2% | -16.8% | 684.2% | -50.0% | -89.4% | 14.8% | 0.6% | 16.6% | 8.6% |