QQ vs. COB, BOE, GEC, CHG, SNR, AVON, CHRT, VEL, HARL, and AERO
Should you be buying QinetiQ Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of QinetiQ Group include Cobham (COB), Boeing (BOE), General Electric (GEC), 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.
QinetiQ Group vs.
QinetiQ Group (LON:QQ) and Cobham (LON:COB) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability and community ranking.
59.5% of QinetiQ Group shares are held by institutional investors. 12.1% of QinetiQ Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
QinetiQ Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Cobham. Cobham is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than QinetiQ Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
QinetiQ Group has a net margin of 7.03% compared to Cobham's net margin of 0.00%. QinetiQ Group's return on equity of 14.98% beat Cobham's return on equity.
Cobham received 26 more outperform votes than QinetiQ Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 54.34% of users gave QinetiQ Group an outperform vote while only 41.93% of users gave Cobham an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Cobham had 2 more articles in the media than QinetiQ Group. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Cobham and 4 mentions for QinetiQ Group. QinetiQ Group's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat Cobham's score of 0.25 indicating that QinetiQ Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
QinetiQ Group currently has a consensus price target of GBX 545, indicating a potential upside of 19.41%. Given QinetiQ Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe QinetiQ Group is more favorable than Cobham.
Summary
QinetiQ Group beats Cobham on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:QQ) was last updated on 3/4/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
