European Growth Leaders 2026

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Annual rank94

France · Industrials

LISI

Designs and manufactures fastening solutions and components for aerospace and automotive industries.

+23%revenue growth
FY2022–FY2025
+145%net-income growth
FY2022–FY2025
+182%stock return
FY2022–FY2025
+27%2026 stock return
current context only

Company profile

Small engineered components with demanding jobs in aircraft and vehicles

LISI makes components that are physically small but carry demanding loads in aircraft and vehicles. Its two continuing divisions combine aerospace fasteners, structural and engine parts with automotive threaded fasteners, clips and safety components. The interest lies in the manufacturing depth behind them: forging, machining, coatings, additive manufacturing, plastic injection and automated inspection. A completed 2025 portfolio refocus means the former medical division must be understood separately from today's group.

Aerospace fasteners

Named hardware, defined applications and dated programme evidence

HI-LOK and HI-LITE pins, STARLITE nuts, HI-KOTE coatings and OPTIBLIND one-sided blind fasteners illustrate the range. MONADLOCK is a reusable beam-locked panel fastener, not a lockbolt. LISI links its broader know-how to aircraft and engine programmes, but each product-to-programme claim needs its own evidence: the Boeing extension dates from 2021, while the issuer's latest results deck separately records more recent agreement renewals.

Structures and engines

From wing-box fittings to compressor blades and flying printed parts

The structural range covers wing boxes, fuselages, doors, pylons and nacelles; engine work spans blades, vanes, discs, blisks, impellers, gears, rings and housings. Equipment parts serve wheels, brakes, actuation, landing gear, tanks and environmental-control systems. LAAM, a wholly owned LISI AEROSPACE entity, adds metal additive manufacturing, with named flying applications and a dated Airbus A350 serial-part selection.

Automotive systems

Fasten, route and absorb loads across a modern vehicle

Threaded and clipped parts reach engines, gearboxes, seats, bodywork, trim, cables and tubes. Safety components include parking-brake screw-and-nut systems, hydraulic connectors and bleed screws, produced through cold forging, precision machining and high-speed control. A 2026 cable-channel resource shows how the portfolio is adapting to high-voltage batteries, motors, driver-assistance systems and the greater wiring density of connected electric vehicles.

Footprint and refocus

Two current divisions after the medical-business sale

The current group reports 38 production sites across 14 countries and more than 9,600 employees, split between Aerospace and Automotive. Its operating agenda combines capacity, higher-value products, LISI Boost, automation, digital tools and customer-linked innovation. LISI sold the entire operating medical division on 31 October 2025; it became Precera Medical, while LISI retained only a 9.988% minority interest in the acquisition holding company.

Current 2026 update

What has changed in 2026?

H1 2026 · 23 July 2026

H1 2026latest official update
4company-specific highlights
+27%2026 stock return · context only

Revenue

H1 revenue increased 5.7% to EUR 942.9 million.

H1 2026 · EUR 942.9m · +5.7%

EBIT

H1 EBIT increased 22.8% to EUR 106.2 million and the current operating margin rose to 11.3% from 9.7%.

H1 2026 · EUR 106.2m · +22.8%

Free cash flow

H1 operating free cash flow turned positive at EUR 5.9 million from a EUR 14.3 million outflow a year earlier.

H1 2026 · EUR 5.9m

Automotive production headwind

LISI Automotive faced lower global production among major customers and temporary effects from the Puiseux-Pontoise industrial reorganisation.

H1 2026

Annual record

Ranking history

Future editions add rows; they do not rewrite the 2026 record.

EditionMeasurement periodRankRevenue growthNet-income growthStock return
2026FY2022–FY202594+23%+145%+182%