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HEICO Corporation

Strong FundamentalsStrong FundamentalsRevenue growing 25% YoY at strong marginsStreet coverage with positive forward estimatesQuiet on X (0 mentions/wk)
$HEI-A·$49B·Aerospace & Defense·Industrials
$249.30-1.9%YTD-1.2%1Y-1.1%
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HEHEI-A
$HEI-AHEICO Corporation
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AI verdict & sentimentAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Today's AI verdict on what's driving $HEI-A, plus how loud the X conversation is and which way it's leaning.

AI analysis

TickerTalks’ read on the fundamentals and what’s driving the move.

Proven numbersWinding up for a moveAI verdict · as of 2026-07-13

Trading in a tight range and building pressure — a move looks likely soon, but the direction isn't clear yet.

HEICO Class A at 68th percentile — the aerospace-electronics compounder growing 25% at 24% margins.

HEICO Corporation Class A is the specialty-aerospace-parts company whose Flight Support Group and Electronic Technologies Group serve commercial aviation and defense markets. The Class A shares are essentially flat YTD but the underlying business is executing exceptionally well.

Where the setup is:

  • Growth is genuinely accelerating: Q1 revenue grew 25.3% year over year to $1.38B with 23.5% operating margins — for aerospace-electronics, those are best-in-class margins, and 25% growth reflects both the aftermarket-parts cycle plus specific defense-electronics wins.
  • The valuation is at premium but justified: at 58.5x trailing earnings and 9.4x sales, HEI-A is priced at premium — that reflects real growth-plus-margin durability, but leaves limited multiple-expansion headroom.
  • The tape is coiled: 68th-percentile 52-week range, 6.9% above the 50-day moving average, 5.2% above the 200-day — that pattern reflects healthy institutional accumulation with light volume.

August 25 earnings needs Flight Support Group revenue growth to hold above 20% AND commentary on Electronic Technologies Group backlog to break the coil upward; a soft FSG print or a widened ETG margin miss is what would flip the setup into cooling. Aerospace electronics at real growth is a durable compounder; HEICO Class A is one of the specific ways to express it.

What to watch: August 25 earnings — Flight Support Group revenue growth (needs above 20%), Electronic Technologies Group backlog, and operating-margin trajectory.

On the calendar: 2026-08-25 — Q3 FY26 earnings

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What it does

Plain-English summary of the business — what they sell and how they make money.

Makes FAA-approved aircraft replacement parts and niche defense electronics, undercutting OEM pricing in aerospace aftermarket.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Where Aerospace & Defense sits in its cycle right now — and what that implies for $HEI-A.

Aerospace & Defense · Industrials

No material change from last week — institutions now mark RKLB, LUNR, and RDW against SPCX's $1.

What this means for $HEI-A

Partial — Makes FAA-approved aircraft replacement parts and niche defense electronics, undercutting OEM pricing in aerospace aftermarket; this segment overlaps with the defense budget expansion and space commercialization but is not the dominant revenue driver.

Top industry ETF

$ITAiShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF
+9.1%YTD
+21.4%1Y

Fundamentals & catalyst

Profitability, valuation, and the next earnings event — at a glance, with rule-of-thumb signals.

Key ratios

P/E
58.5How much investors are paying per dollar of profit the company actually earned in the last 12 months. Lower means the stock looks cheaper relative to earnings.~15–25 is typical for the S&P 500; high-growth names trade 30+; hyper-growth or speculative can be 100+ or negative.
ROIC
10.9%What percentage return the business earns on every dollar of capital (equity + debt) deployed in operations. The cleanest measure of business quality.Above ~15% is high-quality; consistently above 25% suggests a real moat. Below the company's cost of capital is value-destroying.
Op margin
23.5%Operating profit (after sales, marketing, R&D, and overhead but before interest and taxes) as a percentage of revenue. The clearest view of how well the underlying business is run.Mature business above 20% is healthy; software businesses can run 30%+; commodity / retail businesses operate in single digits.
FCF yield
2.0%Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capex) divided by the company's market cap. The cash-on-cash return you'd get owning the whole business at today's price.Above ~5% is attractive; below ~2% means you're paying up for growth. Capital-light businesses (software) run higher than capital-heavy ones (utilities).
P/S
9.4Same idea as P/E but per dollar of revenue. Useful for companies that aren't profitable yet, where P/E is meaningless.Under ~2 is cheap; software / SaaS often runs 8–15; well above 20 implies the market is pricing in very high future growth.
ROE
17.8%Net income as a percentage of shareholders' equity. Similar to ROIC but counts only the equity side.Above 20% is strong, but can be inflated by leverage — a heavily indebted company can show high ROE with weak underlying ROIC.
Gross margin
40.1%Revenue minus the direct cost of producing what was sold, as a percentage of revenue. The first read on whether the product is structurally profitable.Software / SaaS is typically 70%+; consumer goods 30–50%; commodity / hardware businesses can be under 20%.
D/E
0.5Total debt divided by shareholders' equity. Measures how much the business runs on borrowed money versus owner capital.Under 1 is conservative; 1–2 is typical for mature businesses; over 2 is leveraged and more sensitive to interest rates.

Past earnings

QuarterReportedActualEstimateSurprise
Q1 2026May 27, 2026$1.66$1.33+24.8%
Q4 2025Feb 25, 2026$1.35$1.28+5.5%
Q2 2025Aug 25, 2025$1.26$1.13+11.5%
Q1 2025May 26, 2025$1.12$1.02+9.8%
Next earningsTue, Aug 25·consensus EPS $1.49

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q2 FY26$1.4B+25.3%41.4%25.5%$1.68$273.9M
Q1 FY26$1.2B+14.4%38.6%22.1%$1.36$165.1M
Q4 FY25$1.2B+19.3%40.2%23.1%$1.35$268.5M
Q3 FY25$1.1B+15.7%39.8%23.1%$1.27$218.5M

Forward consensus

4-year forecast · up to 21 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$5.3B$5.1B – $5.4B$6.09$5.70 – $6.3220
FY27$5.8B$5.5B – $6.1B$6.86$6.42 – $7.1121
FY28$6.3B$6.0B – $6.5B$7.73$7.24 – $8.029
FY29$6.8B$6.5B – $7.0B$8.99$8.41 – $9.3212

Setup & momentum

Volume, range, and moving-average position — the technical setup driving short-term moves.

Right now

Vol vs 30dToday's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.0.3×Today's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.
52w rangeWhere the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.68%Where the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.
vs 50d MALatest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.+6.9%Latest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.
vs 200d MALatest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.+5.2%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatMid float · 123.9M shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today0.1% of floatToday's volume as a percent of the free float. Above 5% on a single day is unusually high turnover for the available share count.β1.035-year weekly beta vs the S&P 500. Above 1.5 means the stock typically moves more than the index; below 0.8 moves less.

Insider activity

Recent open-market buys and sells by officers and directors — flagged when multiple insiders cluster.

Recent transactions

SellJun 10Bradley K RowenChief Accounting Officer1.3K sh$320KSellApr 15Julie NeitzelDirector676 sh$151KBuyMar 4Nandakumar CheruvatathDirector4.1K sh$1000K
+ 8 other (4 awards · 2 gifts · 1 inkind · 1 exempt) in window

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SEC filings

Material 8-K, 13D, S-3, and 424B5 events from the last 180 days — the filings that actually move the price.

Recent material filings

8-KMaterial agreementJun 178-K — Item 1.01: Material agreement
AI summary

HEICO Corporation (NYSE: HEI / HEI.A) entered a material definitive agreement (Item 1.01) on June 11, 2026. The terms, counterparty, and deal type are in the exhibit not included in the excerpt. HEICO regularly makes tuck-in acquisitions of FAA-approved aircraft parts businesses; an Item 1.01 filing is consistent with a new acquisition agreement or credit facility amendment. Without the body, the materiality and deal size are unknown — HEICO's acquisition history suggests this could range from a small bolt-on to a more substantial deal.

8-KShareholder voteMar 178-K — Item 5.07: Shareholder vote
3New insider — initial holdingsFeb 23
+ 15 other (6 13Gs · 2 10-Qs · 2 earnings 8-Ks · 2 proxys) in window

Recent news

Latest headlines from major outlets, sourced and timestamped — context for whatever just moved.

Zacks Industry Outlook HEICO, Axon and AARzacks.com·20d agoHEICO: Ebitda To Continue Compounding At A Healthy Paceseekingalpha.com·22d agoHEICO Corporation Increases Cash Dividend By 8%accessnewswire.com·29d agoHEICO Corporation Increases Credit Facility to $2.2 Billionaccessnewswire.com·32d agoHEICO vs. Textron: Which Industrials Stock Is a Better Buy in 2026?fool.com·33d ago

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