GEC vs. COB, QQ, BOE, CHG, SNR, AVON, CHRT, VEL, HARL, and AERO
Should you be buying General Electric stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of General Electric include Cobham (COB), QinetiQ Group (QQ), Boeing (BOE), Chemring Group (CHG), Senior (SNR), Avon Protection (AVON), Cohort (CHRT), Velocity Composites (VEL), Harland & Wolff Group (HARL), and Strat Aero (AERO). These companies are all part of the "aerospace & defense" industry.
General Electric (LON:GEC) and Cobham (LON:COB) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends and risk.
General Electric has a net margin of 5.05% compared to Cobham's net margin of 0.00%. General Electric's return on equity of 13.64% beat Cobham's return on equity.
Cobham received 349 more outperform votes than General Electric when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.77% of users gave General Electric an outperform vote while only 41.93% of users gave Cobham an outperform vote.
77.0% of General Electric shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of General Electric shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
General Electric has higher revenue and earnings than Cobham. Cobham is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than General Electric, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Cobham had 7 more articles in the media than General Electric. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Cobham and 2 mentions for General Electric. Cobham's average media sentiment score of 0.07 beat General Electric's score of 0.03 indicating that Cobham is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
General Electric beats Cobham on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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