TDY vs. NOC, DRS, LHX, LDOS, TXT, CW, HII, ESLT, HEI, and FTAI
Should you be buying Teledyne Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Teledyne Technologies include Northrop Grumman (NOC), Leonardo DRS (DRS), L3Harris Technologies (LHX), Leidos (LDOS), Textron (TXT), Curtiss-Wright (CW), Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), Elbit Systems (ESLT), HEICO (HEI), and FTAI Aviation (FTAI). These companies are all part of the "aerospace" sector.
Teledyne Technologies (NYSE:TDY) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC) are both large-cap aerospace companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, media sentiment, dividends and valuation.
In the previous week, Northrop Grumman had 6 more articles in the media than Teledyne Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Northrop Grumman and 15 mentions for Teledyne Technologies. Teledyne Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Northrop Grumman's score of 0.51 indicating that Teledyne Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
91.6% of Teledyne Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.4% of Northrop Grumman shares are held by institutional investors. 2.1% of Teledyne Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Northrop Grumman shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Teledyne Technologies has a beta of 1.04, meaning that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Northrop Grumman has a beta of 0.34, meaning that its stock price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Teledyne Technologies presently has a consensus price target of $470.83, suggesting a potential upside of 15.85%. Northrop Grumman has a consensus price target of $514.33, suggesting a potential upside of 9.38%. Given Teledyne Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Teledyne Technologies is more favorable than Northrop Grumman.
Northrop Grumman has higher revenue and earnings than Teledyne Technologies. Teledyne Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Northrop Grumman, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Northrop Grumman received 269 more outperform votes than Teledyne Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.43% of users gave Teledyne Technologies an outperform vote while only 62.33% of users gave Northrop Grumman an outperform vote.
Teledyne Technologies has a net margin of 15.81% compared to Northrop Grumman's net margin of 5.38%. Northrop Grumman's return on equity of 24.09% beat Teledyne Technologies' return on equity.
Summary
Teledyne Technologies beats Northrop Grumman on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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