Huntington Ingalls Industriesvs.Howmet Aerospace
HII vs HWM · both in Military platforms, part of the Defense, security & space value chain: Aircraft, ships and vehicles, the physical platforms defense systems are built on.
Howmet Aerospace is about 8.7× larger than Huntington Ingalls Industries by market cap; Huntington Ingalls Industries trades at the lower P/E (19.4 vs 59.9); year to date, Howmet Aerospace leads (+28.4% vs −13.4%).
Side by side
| HII | HWM | |
|---|---|---|
| Market cap | $12.8B | $112B |
| Price | $291.15 | $264.04 |
| Today | −1.2% | +0.3% |
| Return YTD | −13.4% | +28.4% |
| Return 1Y | +9.1% | +54.0% |
| P/E | 19.4 | 59.9 |
| P/S | 1.0 | 12.3 |
| P/B | 2.4 | 19.6 |
Data as of 2026-08-26 · updates daily after U.S. close
The two companies
Huntington Ingalls IndustriesHII
Aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines for the US Navy, built at the country's biggest military shipyard, with a technology and services arm alongside.
Full HII profile →Howmet AerospaceHWM
Turbine blades come out of Howmet's precision casting lines, along with aerospace fasteners and titanium structures. GE, RTX and Boeing all depend on them.
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