RTX vs. HON, HEI, TATT, SIF, LMT, BA, GD, TDG, NOC, and LHX
Should you be buying RTX stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of RTX include Honeywell International (HON), HEICO (HEI), TAT Technologies (TATT), SIFCO Industries (SIF), Lockheed Martin (LMT), Boeing (BA), General Dynamics (GD), TransDigm Group (TDG), Northrop Grumman (NOC), and L3Harris Technologies (LHX).
RTX (NYSE:RTX) and Honeywell International (NASDAQ:HON) are both large-cap aerospace companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation and institutional ownership.
Honeywell International received 1075 more outperform votes than RTX when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.61% of users gave Honeywell International an outperform vote while only 55.79% of users gave RTX an outperform vote.
In the previous week, RTX had 22 more articles in the media than Honeywell International. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for RTX and 10 mentions for Honeywell International. Honeywell International's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat RTX's score of 0.40 indicating that Honeywell International is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
RTX has a beta of 0.84, meaning that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Honeywell International has a beta of 1.02, meaning that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
86.5% of RTX shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.9% of Honeywell International shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of RTX shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Honeywell International shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
RTX pays an annual dividend of $2.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Honeywell International pays an annual dividend of $4.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. RTX pays out 98.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Honeywell International pays out 50.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
RTX currently has a consensus target price of $98.33, suggesting a potential downside of 8.79%. Honeywell International has a consensus target price of $215.71, suggesting a potential upside of 6.69%. Given Honeywell International's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Honeywell International is more favorable than RTX.
Honeywell International has a net margin of 15.52% compared to RTX's net margin of 4.90%. Honeywell International's return on equity of 35.88% beat RTX's return on equity.
Honeywell International has lower revenue, but higher earnings than RTX. Honeywell International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RTX, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Honeywell International beats RTX on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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