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Honeywell International Inc.
Rule-based classification of fundamentals against the sector. Not a price forecast and not investment advice.
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3 of 5 met · composite in line with peers
Business quality, valuation against the sector, and position in the 52-week range — whether they line up or not.
Stable quality
Profitability
3/4
Debt & liquidity
1/3
Efficiency
2/2
Capital efficiency tells a clear story here: ROIC runs at 21.8%, some +21% above the sector median, and operating margin of 21.7% sits +32% richer than the sector median — both pointing to a business that extracts more from its assets than most Industrials peers. The P/E of 13.2× is -56% below the sector median 29.7×, so the market is not pricing in a premium for that quality. Where the picture weakens is on the balance sheet and growth: Debt/EBITDA of 3.1× exceeds the sector median by +33%, and FCF growth year over year of -23.3% trails the sector median 1.0% by a wide margin. Consensus models a recovery in earnings, but the realized growth per SEC filings reads as weak — a gap the mixed beat-rate record does not fully resolve. The F-Score of 6/9 and composite of 47/100 reflect that split: solid profitability, strained health.
| Ticker | Name | F-Score | ROE | Revenue YoY | Op. margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BA | Boeing | 6/9 | 289% | +34% |
Quarter-by-quarter classification · a retrospective read by the current logic · not a price forecast
Rule-based classification of fundamentals against the sector. Not a price forecast and not investment advice. The method did not see these quarters in real time; this is the current logic applied to past reports.
The market prices in an earnings decline; analyst sentiment is steady; has mostly beaten consensus.
Price against next year's expected earnings. The forward P/E already carries analyst optimism — read it alongside the “Versus consensus” line.
A forward P/E below the current one means the market expects earnings to grow; above it, to fall. The historical growth is realized figures from SEC filings, not a forecast.
The three-month change in the share of positive analyst ratings. This is sentiment, not an earnings-estimate revision, and not a call to act.
When HON reports on October 21, 2026, track whether FCF growth recovers from its current 0.97% YoY figure toward the sector median. Also check whether the operating margin holds near 16.5% and whether Debt/EBITDA, already 33% above the sector median at 2.29×, moves in either direction after any portfolio restructuring charges.
Pull HON's latest 10-K on SEC EDGAR and focus on management's discussion of debt refinancing timelines given the elevated 2.29× Debt/EBITDA, and how they plan to sustain the 18.0% ROIC. The risk factors section should clarify what pressured free cash flow so sharply in the most recent period.
From the alphabetical industrials table in section 06, pick two or three companies and line up one metric — Debt/EBITDA or operating margin are useful starting points. HON's 16.5% operating margin sits 32% above the sector median, so seeing where your chosen peers fall gives a cleaner sense of where HON stands in context.
Steps you can check yourself, based on the figures in this brief.
Piotroski F-Score: nine binary tests of financial strength from the annual report. A ✓ marks a test passed, a dot (·) a test failed.
Over 4 years: -12%+2%+14%+4%
Over 4 years: 1.832.143.093.05
Over 4 years: +3%-7%+5%+8%
The context on the right shows how each figure compares with the sector median. The trend below tracks the change over recent fiscal years.
Beat consensus in 8 of 8 recent quarters — the company clears estimates regularly (consensus is often set conservatively).
Last quarter's EPS against consensus, plus the estimated date of the next report.
| 5% |
| CAT | Caterpillar | 6/9 | 44% | +4% | 16% |
| CSX | CSX | 4/9 | 23% | -3% | 32% |
| DE | Deere | 5/9 | 21% | -12% | — |
| EMR | Emerson Electric | 7/9 | 11% | +3% | — |
| ETN | Eaton | 6/9 | 22% | +10% | — |
| GD | General Dynamics | 8/9 | 18% | +10% | 10% |
| GE | GE Aerospace | 5/9 | 46% | +18% | — |
| HON | Honeywell International Inc. | 6/9 | 29% | +8% | 22% |
| ITW | Illinois Tool Works | 6/9 | 94% | +1% | 26% |
| LMT | Lockheed Martin | 6/9 | 77% | +6% | 10% |
| MMM | 3M | 5/9 | 76% | +2% | 19% |
| RTX | RTX | 7/9 | 11% | +10% | 10% |
| UNP | Union Pacific | 7/9 | 40% | +1% | 40% |
| UPS | UPS | 4/9 | 34% | -3% | 9% |
A sample of 15 companies in the sector including the target, alphabetical, unranked. Data from the latest SEC annual reports.
Rule-based classification of fundamentals against the sector. Not a price forecast and not investment advice.
A simplified retrospective read: no analyst forecast (not available historically); the source is the annual report as of the date, so neighbouring quarters can rest on the same data. Quarters with the same classification in a row are merged into one row — each row is one change in the read, not a separate quarter. One ticker is an illustration of the classification logic, not statistics. How we calculate →
The last few quarters are recent context, not a fixed rate. Consensus for near quarters is set low, so companies clear it routinely; over long horizons the forecasts run the other way, too high.
A description of what the market and analysts expect. Not a price forecast and not investment advice. Analyst forecasts run systematically optimistic over long horizons — read them with that discount.