HII vs. HEI, TDY, TXT, CW, HXL, AVAV, SPR, KTOS, AIR, and TGI
Should you be buying Huntington Ingalls Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Huntington Ingalls Industries include HEICO (HEI), Teledyne Technologies (TDY), Textron (TXT), Curtiss-Wright (CW), 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.
Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) and HEICO (NYSE:HEI) are both aerospace companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk and media sentiment.
Huntington Ingalls Industries pays an annual dividend of $5.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. HEICO pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Huntington Ingalls Industries pays out 29.3% 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.
90.5% of Huntington Ingalls Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.1% of HEICO shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Huntington Ingalls Industries shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.1% of HEICO shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
HEICO received 13 more outperform votes than Huntington Ingalls Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.80% of users gave HEICO an outperform vote while only 59.23% of users gave Huntington Ingalls Industries an outperform vote.
Huntington Ingalls Industries has higher revenue and earnings than HEICO. Huntington Ingalls Industries 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 4 more articles in the media than Huntington Ingalls Industries. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for HEICO and 11 mentions for Huntington Ingalls Industries. HEICO's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat Huntington Ingalls Industries' score of 0.71 indicating that HEICO is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Huntington Ingalls Industries has a beta of 0.6, suggesting that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HEICO has a beta of 1.11, suggesting that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.
HEICO has a net margin of 12.62% compared to Huntington Ingalls Industries' net margin of 6.09%. Huntington Ingalls Industries' return on equity of 18.08% beat HEICO's return on equity.
Huntington Ingalls Industries currently has a consensus price target of $278.00, suggesting a potential upside of 11.96%. HEICO has a consensus price target of $216.33, suggesting a potential upside of 1.52%. Given Huntington Ingalls Industries' higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Huntington Ingalls Industries is more favorable than HEICO.
Summary
HEICO beats Huntington Ingalls Industries on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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