DCO vs. EH, ATRO, PKE, AIRI, PRZO, TDG, ESLT, LOAR, SPR, and KTOS
Should you be buying Ducommun stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ducommun include EHang (EH), Astronics (ATRO), Park Aerospace (PKE), Air Industries Group (AIRI), ParaZero Technologies (PRZO), TransDigm Group (TDG), Elbit Systems (ESLT), Loar (LOAR), Spirit AeroSystems (SPR), and Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (KTOS). These companies are all part of the "aerospace" sector.
EHang (NASDAQ:EH) and Ducommun (NYSE:DCO) are both small-cap aerospace companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, valuation, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Ducommun received 600 more outperform votes than EHang when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.43% of users gave EHang an outperform vote while only 67.45% of users gave Ducommun an outperform vote.
94.0% of EHang shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.2% of Ducommun shares are held by institutional investors. 39.6% of EHang shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.8% of Ducommun shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Ducommun has a net margin of 2.29% compared to Ducommun's net margin of -176.72%. EHang's return on equity of 6.06% beat Ducommun's return on equity.
EHang presently has a consensus price target of $29.00, suggesting a potential upside of 70.89%. Ducommun has a consensus price target of $65.20, suggesting a potential upside of 12.07%. Given Ducommun's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe EHang is more favorable than Ducommun.
Ducommun has higher revenue and earnings than EHang. EHang is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ducommun, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
EHang has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ducommun has a beta of 1.26, indicating that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, EHang had 2 more articles in the media than Ducommun. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for EHang and 4 mentions for Ducommun. EHang's average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat Ducommun's score of 0.38 indicating that Ducommun is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Ducommun beats EHang on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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