Loar Holdings Inc.: management transactions · United States · SEC (Form 4)

About Loar Holdings Inc.

Loar Holdings Inc. (NYSE: LOAR) is a U.S.-based industrial company headquartered in White Plains, New York, in the United States. The group operates in the defense and aerospace space, with a highly specialized focus on niche components used across commercial aircraft, military platforms, and related aerospace systems. For French-speaking investors, Loar stands out not because of scale alone, but because of the technical quality of its product portfolio, its strong brand set, and its exposure to end markets that tend to be structurally resilient over time. Founded in 2012, Loar was built through a focused buy-and-build strategy: acquire small to mid-sized businesses with deep technical expertise, then integrate them into a broader industrial platform. That approach has enabled the company to assemble a diversified set of capabilities around critical, hard-to-substitute products that are embedded in aerospace programs. In April 2024, Loar Holdings was converted into a Delaware corporation and took its current public-company form, while remaining listed on the NYSE under the ticker LOAR. The company’s core business is the design, manufacture, and sale of niche aerospace and defense components. Its portfolio includes mechanically engineered devices for aircraft interiors, latching and securing mechanisms, brushless fans and motors, control and onboard equipment solutions, and other mission-critical parts used by OEMs, Tier One suppliers, and aftermarket customers. Loar emphasizes a portfolio of proprietary products, with some solutions installed on in-production aircraft programs, which supports recurring demand and commercial visibility. From a competitive standpoint, Loar occupies an attractive niche. It is not a prime contractor or a broad-based aerospace conglomerate; instead, it is a specialist supplier with established relationships across leading aerospace and defense OEMs and Tier One manufacturers worldwide. Its differentiation comes from engineering know-how, reliability, on-time delivery, and the ability to serve highly technical applications within critical supply chains. This specialization can support attractive economics, but it also means the company remains exposed to customer concentration and the cyclicality of aerospace production schedules. Geographically, Loar is primarily present in the United States, but also has a meaningful footprint in the United Kingdom and continental Europe following acquisitions. In 2025, the company completed the acquisition of LMB Fans & Motors in France, and in January 2026 it closed the acquisition of Harper Engineering Company in the Seattle area, further expanding its industrial base and product capabilities. These recent transactions reinforce Loar’s active consolidation strategy in specialized aerospace components and help broaden its end-market reach.