ATRO vs. AIR, TGI, NPK, SYPR, HON, BA, LMT, TDG, GD, and NOC
Should you be buying Astronics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Astronics include AAR (AIR), Triumph Group (TGI), National Presto Industries (NPK), Sypris Solutions (SYPR), Honeywell International (HON), Boeing (BA), Lockheed Martin (LMT), TransDigm Group (TDG), General Dynamics (GD), and Northrop Grumman (NOC). These companies are all part of the "aerospace & defense" industry.
Astronics vs.
AAR (NYSE:AIR) and Astronics (NASDAQ:ATRO) are both aerospace companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings and analyst recommendations.
AAR has higher revenue and earnings than Astronics. Astronics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AAR, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
90.7% of AAR shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.7% of Astronics shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.1% of AAR shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.9% of Astronics shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
AAR presently has a consensus price target of $81.50, suggesting a potential upside of 16.85%. Astronics has a consensus price target of $23.00, suggesting a potential downside of 13.21%. Given AAR's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe AAR is more favorable than Astronics.
In the previous week, AAR and AAR both had 9 articles in the media. Astronics' average media sentiment score of 1.18 beat AAR's score of 0.83 indicating that Astronics is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
AAR has a net margin of 0.41% compared to Astronics' net margin of -0.82%. AAR's return on equity of 10.46% beat Astronics' return on equity.
Astronics received 65 more outperform votes than AAR when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.15% of users gave Astronics an outperform vote while only 60.69% of users gave AAR an outperform vote.
AAR has a beta of 1.58, indicating that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Astronics has a beta of 1.74, indicating that its stock price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
AAR beats Astronics on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:ATRO) was last updated on 3/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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