GEC vs. COB, QQ, BOE, CHG, SNR, AVON, CHRT, VEL, HARL, and AERO
Should you be buying General Electric stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of General Electric include Cobham (COB), QinetiQ Group (QQ), Boeing (BOE), Chemring Group (CHG), Senior (SNR), Avon Protection (AVON), Cohort (CHRT), Velocity Composites (VEL), Harland & Wolff Group (HARL), and Strat Aero (AERO). These companies are all part of the "aerospace & defense" industry.
Cobham (LON:COB) and General Electric (LON:GEC) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk and community ranking.
General Electric has higher revenue and earnings than Cobham. Cobham is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than General Electric, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Cobham had 7 more articles in the media than General Electric. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Cobham and 2 mentions for General Electric. General Electric's average media sentiment score of 0.07 beat Cobham's score of 0.03 indicating that Cobham is being referred to more favorably in the media.
General Electric has a net margin of 5.05% compared to General Electric's net margin of 0.00%. Cobham's return on equity of 13.64% beat General Electric's return on equity.
Cobham received 349 more outperform votes than General Electric when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.77% of users gave General Electric an outperform vote while only 41.93% of users gave Cobham an outperform vote.
77.0% of General Electric shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of General Electric shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
General Electric beats Cobham on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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