Hensoldt's €10 Billion Goal Meets a Week of Divergent Analyst Calls
Published on 11/15/2026 at 05:10 | Editorial boerse-global.de
Hensoldt used its capital markets day to sketch out a far larger future than its current revenue base suggests, setting a €10 billion sales ambition for 2035 while reaffirming a €6 billion target for 2030. The defence electronics group also confirmed the 2026 guidance it had fleshed out the previous week alongside its nine-month figures: revenue of roughly €2.8 billion and an adjusted EBITDA margin of about 19.0%. On the order front, management expects a book-to-bill ratio at the upper end of the roughly 1.5x to 2.0x range.
The nine-month scorecard published a week earlier gives a sense of the momentum behind those ambitions. Order intake reached €3.56 billion in the first nine months of 2026, against revenue of €1.86 billion, while adjusted EBITDA came in at €281 million.
Two Banks, Two Directions
Analysts spent the week recalibrating their models, and they did not move in unison. Deutsche Bank Research trimmed its price target to €100 from €105 on Wednesday following an investor event, keeping its "Buy" rating intact. BofA Securities went the other way the same day, lifting its target to €98 from €96 and reiterating its buy recommendation.
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JPMorgan had already made its move on Tuesday, upgrading Hensoldt to "Overweight" from "Neutral" and raising its target to €105 from €100. Where Deutsche Bank cut its mark, JPMorgan paired a higher target with a better rating — a split verdict that leaves the stock covered bullishly across the board even as the individual numbers diverge.
Sector Pressure, Then a Late Rebound
The broader European defence complex traded under pressure on Friday, with ntv pointing to prospective peace talks in the Ukraine war as well as profit warnings from CSG and Rheinmetall. Hensoldt shares nonetheless finished the session up 1.1%.
Traders cited a longer-term concern for the sector as a whole: industry prospects could fade once ammunition stockpiles have been refilled and equipment modernised.
Mission Suite Takes Flight
On the operational side, Hensoldt and Dronamics on Tuesday demonstrated Hensoldt's mission suite for reconnaissance and airborne early warning aboard Dronamics' Black Swan drone. The integrated platform, which includes MDOcore, was put through its paces in flight and shown to potential end users, covering both the reconnaissance and early-warning functions of the suite.
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