CW vs. HEI, TDY, TXT, HII, HXL, AVAV, 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), Hexcel (HXL), AeroVironment (AVAV), Spirit AeroSystems (SPR), Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (KTOS), AAR (AIR), and Triumph Group (TGI). These companies are all part of the "aerospace & defense" industry.
Curtiss-Wright (NYSE:CW) and HEICO (NYSE:HEI) are both large-cap aerospace companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, dividends, community ranking, earnings and risk.
Curtiss-Wright presently has a consensus target price of $302.50, suggesting a potential upside of 6.96%. HEICO has a consensus target price of $220.33, suggesting a potential downside of 0.65%. Given Curtiss-Wright's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Curtiss-Wright is more favorable than HEICO.
82.7% of Curtiss-Wright shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.1% of HEICO shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Curtiss-Wright shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.1% of HEICO shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Curtiss-Wright has a beta of 1.18, indicating that its share price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HEICO has a beta of 1.11, indicating that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Curtiss-Wright received 79 more outperform votes than HEICO when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.89% of users gave HEICO an outperform vote while only 65.90% of users gave Curtiss-Wright an outperform vote.
In the previous week, HEICO had 17 more articles in the media than Curtiss-Wright. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for HEICO and 11 mentions for Curtiss-Wright. HEICO's average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat Curtiss-Wright's score of 0.56 indicating that HEICO is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Curtiss-Wright has a net margin of 12.78% compared to HEICO's net margin of 12.62%. Curtiss-Wright's return on equity of 16.79% beat HEICO's return on equity.
Curtiss-Wright pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. HEICO pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Curtiss-Wright pays out 8.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. HEICO pays out 6.3% 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.
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.
Summary
HEICO beats Curtiss-Wright on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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