diff --git a/xtable-core/src/main/java/org/apache/xtable/hudi/HudiFileStatsExtractor.java b/xtable-core/src/main/java/org/apache/xtable/hudi/HudiFileStatsExtractor.java
index 5a0b70cb9..14575e4ef 100644
--- a/xtable-core/src/main/java/org/apache/xtable/hudi/HudiFileStatsExtractor.java
+++ b/xtable-core/src/main/java/org/apache/xtable/hudi/HudiFileStatsExtractor.java
@@ -104,7 +104,11 @@ public Stream<InternalDataFile> addStatsToFiles(
 
   private Stream<InternalDataFile> computeColumnStatsFromParquetFooters(
       Stream<InternalDataFile> files, Map<String, InternalField> nameFieldMap) {
-    return files.map(
+    // Use the common ForkJoinPool for parquet footer reads; parallelism can be tuned via
+    // -Djava.util.concurrent.ForkJoinPool.common.parallelism.
+    return files
+        .parallel()
+        .map(
         file -> {
           HudiFileStats fileStats =
               computeColumnStatsForFile(new Path(file.getPhysicalPath()), nameFieldMap);
diff --git a/xtable-core/src/test/java/org/apache/xtable/hudi/TestHudiFileStatsExtractor.java b/xtable-core/src/test/java/org/apache/xtable/hudi/TestHudiFileStatsExtractor.java
index a18bb743d..70667299b 100644
--- a/xtable-core/src/test/java/org/apache/xtable/hudi/TestHudiFileStatsExtractor.java
+++ b/xtable-core/src/test/java/org/apache/xtable/hudi/TestHudiFileStatsExtractor.java
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+import java.util.stream.IntStream;
 import java.util.stream.Stream;
 
 import org.apache.avro.Conversions;
@@ -199,6 +200,50 @@ void columnStatsWithoutMetadataTable(@TempDir Path tempDir) throws IOException {
     validateOutput(output);
   }
 
+  @Test
+  void columnStatsWithoutMetadataTable_parallelFooterReadsAreThreadSafe(@TempDir Path tempDir)
+      throws IOException {
+    Path file = tempDir.resolve("tmp.parquet");
+    GenericData genericData = GenericData.get();
+    genericData.addLogicalTypeConversion(new Conversions.DecimalConversion());
+    try (ParquetWriter<GenericRecord> writer =
+        AvroParquetWriter.<GenericRecord>builder(
+                HadoopOutputFile.fromPath(
+                    new org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path(file.toUri()), configuration))
+            .withSchema(AVRO_SCHEMA)
+            .withDataModel(genericData)
+            .build()) {
+      for (GenericRecord record : getRecords()) {
+        writer.write(record);
+      }
+    }
+
+    HoodieTableMetaClient mockMetaClient = mock(HoodieTableMetaClient.class);
+    when(mockMetaClient.getHadoopConf()).thenReturn(configuration);
+    HudiFileStatsExtractor fileStatsExtractor = new HudiFileStatsExtractor(mockMetaClient);
+
+    List<InternalDataFile> inputFiles =
+        IntStream.range(0, 200)
+            .mapToObj(
+                i ->
+                    InternalDataFile.builder()
+                        .physicalPath(file.toString())
+                        .columnStats(Collections.emptyList())
+                        .fileFormat(FileFormat.APACHE_PARQUET)
+                        .lastModified(1234L)
+                        .fileSizeBytes(4321L)
+                        .recordCount(0)
+                        .build())
+            .collect(Collectors.toList());
+
+    List<InternalDataFile> output =
+        fileStatsExtractor.addStatsToFiles(null, inputFiles.stream(), schema).collect(Collectors.toList());
+
+    assertEquals(200, output.size());
+    assertTrue(output.stream().allMatch(fileWithStats -> fileWithStats.getRecordCount() == 2));
+    assertTrue(output.stream().allMatch(fileWithStats -> fileWithStats.getColumnStats().size() == 9));
+  }
+
   private void validateOutput(List<InternalDataFile> output) {
     assertEquals(1, output.size());
     InternalDataFile fileWithStats = output.get(0);