diff --git a/baseline-export-bench.txt b/baseline-export-bench.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..938246b4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/baseline-export-bench.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+ÔùÅ Validation Warning:
+
+  Unknown option "reporters" with value ["default"] was found.
+  This is probably a typing mistake. Fixing it will remove this message.
+
+  Configuration Documentation:
+  https://jestjs.io/docs/configuration
+
+  console.log
+    [Export Management > Export detection] should detect exports x 56,768 ops/sec ┬▒2.09% (48553 runs sampled)
+
+      at Object.<anonymous> (tools/tinybench-utils.ts:1323:17)
+
+  console.log
+    [Export Management > Export addition] should add exports x 61,458 ops/sec ┬▒1.81% (54844 runs sampled)
+
+      at Object.<anonymous> (tools/tinybench-utils.ts:1323:17)
+
+  console.log
+    [Export Management > Export removal] should remove exports x 56,077 ops/sec ┬▒1.82% (50026 runs sampled)
+
+      at Object.<anonymous> (tools/tinybench-utils.ts:1323:17)
+
+PASS benchmarks packages/workspace/src/generators/move-file/benchmarks/export-management.bench.ts
+  Export Management
+    Export detection
+       should detect exports (25 ms)
+    Export addition
+       should add exports (1 ms)
+    Export removal
+       should remove exports
+
+Test Suites: 1 passed, 1 total
+Tests:       3 passed, 3 total
+Snapshots:   0 total
+Time:        4.658 s, estimated 5 s
+Ran all test suites matching /export-management/i.
diff --git a/packages/workspace/src/generators/move-file/export-management/index-exports-cache.ts b/packages/workspace/src/generators/move-file/export-management/index-exports-cache.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b62b1f47
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/workspace/src/generators/move-file/export-management/index-exports-cache.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+import type { Tree } from '@nx/devkit';
+import { treeReadCache } from '../tree-cache';
+
+/**
+ * Cached export information for index (entrypoint) files to avoid reparsing.
+ */
+export interface IndexExports {
+  exports: Set<string>; // direct exports (file paths without extension)
+  reexports: Set<string>; // re-exported modules (file paths without extension)
+}
+
+interface CachedIndexExports extends IndexExports {
+  content: string; // content snapshot used to build this cache entry
+}
+
+// Internal cache keyed by normalized index file path
+const indexExportsCache = new Map<string, CachedIndexExports>();
+
+/** Clears all cached index export data. */
+export function clearIndexExportsCache(): void {
+  indexExportsCache.clear();
+}
+
+/** Invalidates a single index file from the cache (e.g., after write). */
+export function invalidateIndexExportsCacheEntry(indexPath: string): void {
+  indexExportsCache.delete(indexPath);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Get (and cache) export info for an index/entrypoint file.
+ * Lightweight regex based extraction – sufficient for current export patterns.
+ */
+export function getIndexExports(tree: Tree, indexPath: string): IndexExports {
+  const content = treeReadCache.read(tree, indexPath, 'utf-8') || '';
+
+  const cached = indexExportsCache.get(indexPath);
+  if (cached && cached.content === content) return cached;
+
+  const exports = new Set<string>(); // local exports (currently none parsed)
+  const reexports = new Set<string>(); // export ... from / export * from specifiers
+
+  // Match: export * from './path';  OR export { ... } from './path'; OR export {default as X} from './path';
+  const reExportPattern =
+    /export\s+(?:\*|\{[^}]+\})\s+from\s+['"](\.\.?\/[^'";]+)['"];?/g;
+  // Match: export * from './path'; specially capture star exports for potential future distinction
+  // Simple capture group for path without extension processing here
+
+  let match: RegExpExecArray | null;
+  while ((match = reExportPattern.exec(content))) {
+    const spec = match[1];
+    reexports.add(spec);
+  }
+
+  // Note: We do NOT add reexports to the exports set to avoid conflating concepts.
+  // exports holds normalized local export specifiers (if/when we add direct export collection logic).
+  // For current patterns (only re-exports), exports remains empty; callers may consult reexports directly.
+  // Future enhancement: parse local declarations (e.g. export { foo, bar }; without 'from').
+
+  const result: CachedIndexExports = { exports, reexports, content };
+  indexExportsCache.set(indexPath, result);
+  return result;
+}
diff --git a/packages/workspace/src/generators/move-file/export-management/is-file-exported.ts b/packages/workspace/src/generators/move-file/export-management/is-file-exported.ts
index 5d842ca6..7c911da9 100644
--- a/packages/workspace/src/generators/move-file/export-management/is-file-exported.ts
+++ b/packages/workspace/src/generators/move-file/export-management/is-file-exported.ts
@@ -2,8 +2,9 @@ import type { Tree } from '@nx/devkit';
 import type { ProjectConfiguration } from '@nx/devkit';
 import { getProjectEntryPointPaths } from '../project-analysis/get-project-entry-point-paths';
 import { removeSourceFileExtension } from '../path-utils/remove-source-file-extension';
-import { escapeRegex } from '../security-utils/escape-regex';
+
 import { treeReadCache } from '../tree-cache';
+import { getIndexExports } from './index-exports-cache';
 
 /**
  * Checks if a file is exported from the project's entrypoint.
@@ -31,7 +32,6 @@ export function isFileExported(
   const indexPaths = getProjectEntryPointPaths(tree, project);
 
   const fileWithoutExt = removeSourceFileExtension(file);
-  const escapedFile = escapeRegex(fileWithoutExt);
 
   return indexPaths.some((indexPath) => {
     if (!cachedTreeExists(tree, indexPath)) {
@@ -41,12 +41,10 @@ export function isFileExported(
     if (!content) {
       return false;
     }
-    // Support: export ... from "path"
-    // Support: export * from "path"
-    // Support: export { Something } from "path"
-    const exportPattern = new RegExp(
-      `export\\s+(?:\\*|\\{[^}]+\\}|.+)\\s+from\\s+['"]\\.?\\.?/.*${escapedFile}['"]`,
-    );
-    return exportPattern.test(content);
+    // Use cached export analysis for index file
+    const indexExports = getIndexExports(tree, indexPath);
+    // Compare against file path without extension (as stored)
+    // Since local exports are not yet collected, rely on reexports for detection.
+    return indexExports.reexports.has(`./${fileWithoutExt}`);
   });
 }
diff --git a/updated-export-bench.txt b/updated-export-bench.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d3a43755
--- /dev/null
+++ b/updated-export-bench.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+ÔùÅ Validation Warning:
+
+  Unknown option "reporters" with value ["default"] was found.
+  This is probably a typing mistake. Fixing it will remove this message.
+
+  Configuration Documentation:
+  https://jestjs.io/docs/configuration
+
+  console.log
+    [Export Management > Export detection] should detect exports x 62,156 ops/sec ┬▒1.66% (55877 runs sampled)
+
+      at Object.<anonymous> (tools/tinybench-utils.ts:1323:17)
+
+  console.log
+    [Export Management > Export addition] should add exports x 61,446 ops/sec ┬▒1.30% (54407 runs sampled)
+
+      at Object.<anonymous> (tools/tinybench-utils.ts:1323:17)
+
+  console.log
+    [Export Management > Export removal] should remove exports x 62,213 ops/sec ┬▒4.02% (56818 runs sampled)
+
+      at Object.<anonymous> (tools/tinybench-utils.ts:1323:17)
+
+PASS benchmarks packages/workspace/src/generators/move-file/benchmarks/export-management.bench.ts
+  Export Management
+    Export detection
+       should detect exports (13 ms)
+    Export addition
+       should add exports (1 ms)
+    Export removal
+       should remove exports (1 ms)
+
+Test Suites: 1 passed, 1 total
+Tests:       3 passed, 3 total
+Snapshots:   0 total
+Time:        4.375 s, estimated 5 s
+Ran all test suites matching /export-management/i.