Huntington Ingalls stock analysis
Huntington Ingalls (HI4) Stock Price & Analysis
HI4 Stock Chart & Stats
- Day’s Range
- CHF 249.24 - CHF 254.03
- 52-Week Range
- CHF 212.60 - CHF 270.05
- Previous Close
- CHF 249.24
- Volume
- N/A
- Average Volume (3M)
- 1
- Market Cap
- CHF 10.20B
- Enterprise Value
- CHF 13.12B
- Total Cash (Recent Filing)
- CHF 387.00M
- Total Debt (Recent Filing)
- CHF 2.93B
- Price to Earnings (P/E)
- 16.9
- Beta
- 0.18
- Next Earnings
- Feb 11, 2027 (Est.)
- EPS Estimate
- 4.3
- Next Dividend Ex-Date
- N/A
- Dividend Yield
- 1.84%
Bulls Say, Bears Say
Bulls Say
Backlog Visibility
Contract coverage through 2030 provides unusually strong revenue visibility for the shipbuilding business and reduces reliance on near-term award timing. This backlog supports workforce and capacity planning, helps sustain multi-year utilization, and gives management a clearer foundation for improving margins and cash generation.
Mission Technologies Growth
Large awards in maritime autonomy, unmanned vehicles, and enterprise AI broaden HII’s growth beyond traditional shipbuilding. The company’s established REMUS installed base and expanding production capacity can support repeat demand, stronger strategic positioning, and potentially attractive margins in mission technologies.
Improving Balance Sheet
Lower leverage and a larger equity base strengthen HII’s financial resilience and increase flexibility for capital investment, program execution, and shareholder returns. Improved capitalization also reduces balance-sheet pressure while the company manages complex, long-duration contracts with significant cash and schedule demands.
Bears Say
Margin Compression
Profitability remains positive, but lower net margins leave less room to absorb cost overruns, schedule disruption, or unfavorable contract adjustments. Sustained margin pressure could limit earnings growth even if revenue expands, making execution discipline and the planned recovery toward higher shipbuilding returns especially important.
Uneven Cash Conversion
Volatile operating cash flow makes internally generated funding less predictable despite the recent free-cash-flow rebound. Uneven conversion from earnings can complicate investment and debt planning, particularly because shipbuilding requires substantial working capital and cash timing can vary across long-term contract milestones.
Ingalls Execution Pressure
Ingalls’ slower-than-targeted throughput indicates that workforce expansion has not yet fully translated into production gains. Continued labor recovery and simultaneous testing of multiple ships could prolong execution pressure, delay efficiency benefits, and weigh on segment margins if schedules or costs remain difficult to control.
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Company Description
Huntington Ingalls
Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. (HII) stands as a prominent American enterprise specializing in the comprehensive lifecycle management of military vessels, encompassing their design, construction, modernization, and maintenance. The company's diverse operations are segmented into three core divisions: Ingalls Shipbuilding, Newport News Shipbuilding, and Technical Solutions. HII is a primary builder of non-nuclear ships, delivering amphibious assault ships, expeditionary warfare vessels, surface combatants, and national security cutters to both the U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard. Furthermore, it plays a critical role in providing nuclear-powered ships, including aircraft carriers and submarines, along with essential associated services such as refueling, extensive overhauls, and inactivation procedures. Beyond direct shipbuilding, Huntington Ingalls Industries offers specialized naval nuclear support services, covering the full spectrum from design and construction to maintenance and disposal for active U.S. Navy nuclear fleets, in addition to maintaining nuclear reactor prototypes. Its broader technical and support portfolio includes life-cycle sustainment services for the U.S. Navy fleet and other maritime clients; sophisticated information technology and mission-specific solutions for defense, intelligence, and federal civilian agencies; nuclear facility management, operational support, and environmental remediation services for various government bodies and private sector entities; comprehensive defense and federal solutions; and the development of cutting-edge unmanned systems. Established in 1886, Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. is headquartered in Newport News, Virginia.
- Sector
- Industrials
- Industry
- Aerospace & Defense
- CEO
- Christopher Douglas Kastner
- Employees
- 46,000
- Website
- www.hii.com
- Address
- 4101 Washington Avenue, Newport News, VA, 23607, US
Huntington Ingalls (HI4) Earnings & Revenues
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HI4 Earnings Call
Earnings Call SentimentPositive
The call was strongly positive, marked by record quarterly revenue and earnings, $32.4 billion of awards, a record $86.2 billion backlog, raised shipbuilding revenue guidance, improved Mission Technologies margins, strong cash generation and multiple strategic program wins. The principal challenges were slower labor recovery and weaker surface-combatant performance at Ingalls, throughput running below the prior 15% target, lower global security volumes and unusually large Newport News contract adjustments. Overall, the positive operational, financial and backlog trends significantly outweighed the stated challenges.
View all CH:HI4 earnings summariesHI4 Net sales Breakdown
- 24.66% Ingalls
- 52.12% Newport News
- 24.38% Mission Technologies
- -1.16% Intersegment eliminations
HI4 Stock 12 Month Forecast
Average Price Target
Technical Analysis
Overall Consensus
| Indicator | Bullish | Neutral | Bearish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall Consensus | 11 | 5 | 2 |
| Technical Analysis | 3 | 5 | 2 |
| Moving Averages | 8 | 0 | 0 |










