CW vs. HEI, TDY, TXT, HII, AVAV, HXL, SPR, KTOS, AIR, and TGI
Should you be buying Curtiss-Wright stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Curtiss-Wright include HEICO (HEI), Teledyne Technologies (TDY), Textron (TXT), Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), AeroVironment (AVAV), Hexcel (HXL), Spirit AeroSystems (SPR), Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (KTOS), AAR (AIR), and Triumph Group (TGI). These companies are all part of the "aerospace & defense" industry.
HEICO (NYSE:HEI) and Curtiss-Wright (NYSE:CW) are both large-cap aerospace companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and valuation.
HEICO presently has a consensus price target of $226.00, indicating a potential upside of 0.94%. Curtiss-Wright has a consensus price target of $302.50, indicating a potential upside of 11.58%. Given HEICO's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Curtiss-Wright is more favorable than HEICO.
27.1% of HEICO shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.7% of Curtiss-Wright shares are held by institutional investors. 8.1% of HEICO shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Curtiss-Wright shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Curtiss-Wright has a net margin of 12.78% compared to Curtiss-Wright's net margin of 12.62%. HEICO's return on equity of 16.79% beat Curtiss-Wright's return on equity.
HEICO has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Curtiss-Wright has a beta of 1.22, indicating that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
HEICO pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Curtiss-Wright pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. HEICO pays out 6.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Curtiss-Wright pays out 8.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Curtiss-Wright has increased its dividend for 8 consecutive years. Curtiss-Wright is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
HEICO has higher revenue and earnings than Curtiss-Wright. Curtiss-Wright is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HEICO, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, HEICO had 3 more articles in the media than Curtiss-Wright. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for HEICO and 6 mentions for Curtiss-Wright. Curtiss-Wright's average media sentiment score of 1.06 beat HEICO's score of 0.73 indicating that HEICO is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Curtiss-Wright received 79 more outperform votes than HEICO when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.80% of users gave HEICO an outperform vote while only 65.90% of users gave Curtiss-Wright an outperform vote.
Summary
HEICO beats Curtiss-Wright on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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