GE to Acquire Consolidated Precision Products for $11.75 Billion, Pressuring Howmet Aerospace

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GE Aerospace has agreed to acquire Consolidated Precision Products for about $11.75 billion, a deal that initially sent Howmet Aerospace shares down roughly 10% as investors weighed the prospect of GE relying less on outside suppliers. Howmet CEO John Plant said he is comfortable with the deal and remains confident in the company's ability to grow, pointing instead to the challenge of expanding capacity fast enough to meet soaring demand from commercial aircraft production, defense activity, the aftermarket and turbine components used in data centers. GE expects airfoil demand to rise by more than 30% through 2030, and Plant has said the scale of the required capital expansion is itself testing the company. The main risk for Howmet is GE's increasing vertical integration, which could shift high-margin engine business toward CPP and intensify competition, while customer-concentration exposure to GE remains a longer-term headwind. Howmet has also indicated it intends to revisit longer-term revenue targets after previously saying revenue could potentially double from 2025 levels within three to five years.

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GE Aerospace agrees to acquire Consolidated Precision Products for ~$11.75 billion, expanding its vertical integration

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GE's acquisition of CPP increases vertical integration and could shift high-margin engine business away from Howmet, intensifying competition

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Consolidated Precision Products is being acquired by GE Aerospace for about $11.75 billion

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