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Honeywell International Inc.

$HON·$72B·Conglomerates·Industrials
$226.33+1.6%YTD+15.7%1Y-4.5%
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HOHON
$HONHoneywell International Inc.
$226.33+1.57%781 posts+7%
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Today's AI verdict on what's driving $HON, 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 2026-07-17

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

Industrial conglomerate at bottom of 52-week range post-spin with Q2 earnings in one week.

Honeywell is a diversified industrial technology conglomerate — Aerospace Technologies (recently spun off as HONA), Performance Materials & Technology, Industrial Automation, Safety & Productivity Solutions. The stock has spent most of 2026 as a spin-off-driven re-rating story, with the completed Aerospace spin the defining strategic act.

What's happening at the fundamentals:

  • Growth has been decelerating: Q1 revenue down 6.9% YoY (heavily impacted by the pending Aerospace spin), and the four-quarter growth stack is 8-9% before the spin distortion — the ex-Aerospace base rate is low-single digits.
  • Margins are healthy: gross margin 37%, operating margin 15% — a well-run industrial-services business at scale.
  • The June 29 spin was significant: Aerospace Technologies now trades as HONA, plus Euro-denominated debt issuances refunded the balance sheet — this is exactly the type of portfolio-simplification move an active CEO (Vimal Kapur) does to unlock the sum-of-parts.
  • Guidance was reaffirmed and doubled mechanically: HON reaffirmed FY26 revenue guide of $19.9-20.2B (in line with consensus $20.28B) and doubled 2026 EPS guide to $7.90-8.30 from $3.95-4.15 — the doubling is purely mechanical from the 1-for-2 reverse split, not a fundamental change.
  • Insider action is heavy — but it's award activity: $20M+ of officer stock awards on July 1 (including Vimal Kapur's $4.3M grant) — the RSU cycle, not selling.
  • Position confirms the reset: 13.7% of the 52-week range as the market digests the post-spin economics.

The forward view: the July 23 Q2 print is the referee. A beat plus commentary that stand-alone Honeywell (ex-Aerospace) can deliver mid-single-digit growth is what restarts the coil upward. What keeps it stuck: another sub-3% ex-Aerospace growth quarter with margin softness. What breaks it: a specific Process Automation share-loss headline that reinforces the July 15 'Losing Grip in Process Automation' framing.

Agrees with X sentimentThe bullish X read on the mechanical EPS-doubling and Vimal Kapur's portfolio-simplification thesis is directionally right. Our take agrees, and adds that the July 23 print is the referee for whether ex-Aerospace HON deserves the current multiple.

What to watch: July 23 Q2 earnings, especially the ex-Aerospace organic growth rate; a specific Process Automation share-loss headline would break the coil the wrong way.

On the calendar: 2026-07-23 — Q2 2026 earnings

X sentiment

What the X crowd is saying right now — descriptive, summarised from the day’s posts.

Bullish sentiment6 posts analyzed · as of 2026-07-15

Honeywell chatter is bullish post-spin execution. HON reaffirmed FY26 revenue guidance of $19.9-20.2B vs consensus $20.28B and doubled 2026 EPS guide to $7.90-8.30 from $3.95-4.15 (purely mechanical from 1-for-2 reverse split cutting shares to 317M). Sales stay $19.9-20.2B and FCF near $2B - no fundamental change. Community frames HON portfolio simplification as the defining strategic act of Vimal Kapur's tenure. HON Aerospace ($HONA) was the focus of Nov/Dec spinoff spotlight. Community broadly long.

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What it does

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

Diversified industrial and tech company making avionics, building automation, process controls, and specialty materials.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Where Conglomerates sits in its cycle right now — and what that implies for $HON.

Conglomerates · Industrials

No material change from last week — the June 29 separation of Aerospace from Process Controls and Industrial Automation is the sum-of-the-parts re-rating thesis executing in real time.

What this means for $HON

Partial — Diversified industrial and tech company making avionics, building automation, process controls, and specialty materials; the Emerson Electric aerospace/process controls separation unlocking segment value creates tailwinds for one product line, not the full operation.

Top industry ETF

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Fundamentals & catalyst

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

Key ratios

P/E
33.1How 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
8.2%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
14.9%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
3.1%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
3.7Same 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
23.6%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
36.9%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
1.6Total 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 2026Apr 23, 2026$2.58$2.43+6.2%
Q4 2025Feb 5, 2026$5.18$5.08+2.0%
Q3 2025Oct 23, 2025$2.82$2.56+10.2%
Q2 2025Jul 24, 2025$4.92$5.32-7.5%
Next earningsThu, Jul 23·consensus EPS $1.80

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q1 FY26$9.1B-6.9%38.7%9.7%$1.29$-873.0M
Q4 FY25$6.9B-32.0%36.1%10.4%$0.46$1.1B
Q3 FY25$10.4B+7.0%34.1%16.9%$2.87$2.9B
Q2 FY25$10.4B+8.1%38.9%20.4%$2.46$1.0B

Forward consensus

5-year forecast · up to 15 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$39.4B$38.8B – $39.8B$10.72$10.71 – $10.7313
FY27$41.6B$40.5B – $42.6B$11.33$9.69 – $12.2112
FY28$44.0B$43.9B – $44.0B$12.92$12.21 – $13.6115
FY29$46.2B$45.2B – $47.5B$14.15$13.75 – $14.7011
FY30$49.5B$48.4B – $50.9B$15.65$15.21 – $16.267

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.0.5×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.14%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.-4.5%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.+3.2%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatHigh float · 300.4M shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today0.8% 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.β0.935-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

SellMar 2James E CurrierCEO2.2K sh$548KSellMar 2Kenneth J WestCEO873 sh$212K
+ 47 other (21 awards · 19 exempts · 7 inkinds) 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

3New insider — initial holdingsJul 63
AI summary

Jennifer J. Reilly, SVP and CHRO of Honeywell International Inc. (HON), filed a Form 3 as of July 1, 2026 disclosing direct ownership of 5 shares, 159.304 shares in a 401k, stock options on 30,716 shares at exercise prices of $188.85–$246.30, and RSUs covering 8,957 shares vesting 2026–2029. Routine administrative Form 3 for a newly-reporting senior executive.

8-KMaterial agreementJun 298-K — Item 1.01: Material agreement · Item 2.01: Acquisition completed · Item 2.02: Earnings release · Item 3.03 · Item 5.02: Officer or director change · Item 5.03: Charter amendment · Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD
AI summary

Honeywell International filed a major 8-K covering the spin-off of its Aerospace Technologies business and concurrent Euro-denominated debt issuances: 3.375% Notes due 2030, a 0.75% term loan due 2032, 3.75% Notes due 2032, 4.125% Notes due 2034, and 3.75% Notes due 2036. This is a transformative corporate separation event for one of the largest U.S. industrials, combined with a significant multi-tranche Euro debt capital raise.

8-KOfficer or director changeJun 158-K — Item 5.02: Officer or director change · Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD · Item 8.01: Other event
AI summary

Honeywell International Inc. (HON) filed an 8-K on June 15, 2026 covering officer/director changes (Item 5.02), a Reg FD disclosure (Item 7.01), and other events (Item 8.01). Body unavailable — excerpt cuts off before the specific personnel change details and Reg FD substance are disclosed.

3New insider — initial holdingsJun 113
AI summary

Honeywell International Inc. filed a Form 3 as a 10%+ owner of Honeywell Aerospace Inc. (ticker HONA) as of June 11, 2026, reporting its initial beneficial ownership of HONA securities following the aerospace unit's separation into a standalone public company. No specific share count is detailed in the available excerpt beyond confirming the 10% owner / Director relationship. This is a routine post-spin initial-ownership filing by the parent entity, establishing the regulatory ownership record for the newly public Honeywell Aerospace subsidiary.

8-KPress release / Reg FDJun 58-K — Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD · Item 8.01: Other event
AI summary

HON (HON) disclosed its addition to Nasdaq Stock Market LLC 3 under 8-K Item 8.01 (other events). Index inclusions are significant because they trigger automatic buying from passive index funds and ETFs that track the benchmark, often resulting in increased share price and trading volume. Index providers typically announce additions in advance of the effective rebalancing date, giving institutions time to adjust their holdings. The event increases HON's institutional ownership base and enhances its market visibility and liquidity profile.

3New insider — initial holdingsJun 43
AI summary

Honeywell International Inc filed a Form 3 with the SEC, disclosing initial beneficial ownership of HON securities. This filing is required under Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act within 10 days of becoming a reporting person (officer, director, or 10%+ holder). The filing reports 4 shares of common stock. Form 3 filings establish a baseline ownership record for subsequent Form 4 (changes) and Form 5 (annual) filings, providing transparency into insider positions at HON.

3New insider — initial holdingsJun 33
AI summary

A new insider filed a Form 3 with the SEC, disclosing initial beneficial ownership of HON securities. This filing is required under Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act within 10 days of becoming a reporting person (officer, director, or 10%+ holder). The filing reports 4 shares of common stock. Form 3 filings establish a baseline ownership record for subsequent Form 4 (changes) and Form 5 (annual) filings, providing transparency into insider positions at HON.

8-KOfficer or director changeJun 28-K — Item 5.02: Officer or director change · Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD
AI summary

Honeywell appointed Jillian Evanko (CEO of Duravant, formerly President/CEO of Chart Industries) as an independent director effective June 1, 2026, joining the Audit Committee; she will stand for election at the 2027 annual meeting. Routine board addition bringing industrial operations expertise.

+ 25 other (5 8-Ks · 4 proxys · 2 11-Ks · 2 13Gs) in window

Recent news

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

Honeywell International Inc. (HON) Rises As Market Takes a Dip: Key Factszacks.com·16h agoEarnings Preview: Honeywell International Inc. (HON) Q2 Earnings Expected to Declinezacks.com·1d agoHoneywell Losing Grip in Process Automation: What's Impeding Its Growth?zacks.com·2d agoThe Physical AI Proof Points Are Suddenly Everywhereinvestorplace.com·3d agoHoneywell Q2 Preview: Not Going To Lose The Discount That Easilyseekingalpha.com·4d ago

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