DRS vs. TDY, NXT, NN, LUNR, IPAX, CODA, MIND, NOC, LHX, and GRMN
Should you be buying Leonardo DRS stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Leonardo DRS include Teledyne Technologies (TDY), Nextracker (NXT), NextNav (NN), Intuitive Machines (LUNR), Inflection Point Acquisition (IPAX), Coda Octopus Group (CODA), MIND Technology (MIND), Northrop Grumman (NOC), L3Harris Technologies (LHX), and Garmin (GRMN). These companies are all part of the "search & navigation equipment" industry.
Leonardo DRS (NASDAQ:DRS) and Teledyne Technologies (NYSE:TDY) are both aerospace companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking and earnings.
Teledyne Technologies has a net margin of 15.81% compared to Leonardo DRS's net margin of 6.28%. Teledyne Technologies' return on equity of 10.54% beat Leonardo DRS's return on equity.
Leonardo DRS has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Teledyne Technologies has a beta of 1.04, meaning that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
18.8% of Leonardo DRS shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.6% of Teledyne Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Leonardo DRS shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Teledyne Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Teledyne Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Leonardo DRS. Teledyne Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Leonardo DRS, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Leonardo DRS had 12 more articles in the media than Teledyne Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Leonardo DRS and 3 mentions for Teledyne Technologies. Teledyne Technologies' average media sentiment score of 1.54 beat Leonardo DRS's score of 0.27 indicating that Teledyne Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Teledyne Technologies received 367 more outperform votes than Leonardo DRS when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 78.57% of users gave Leonardo DRS an outperform vote while only 66.43% of users gave Teledyne Technologies an outperform vote.
Leonardo DRS currently has a consensus target price of $25.25, indicating a potential upside of 7.36%. Teledyne Technologies has a consensus target price of $470.83, indicating a potential upside of 19.79%. Given Teledyne Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Teledyne Technologies is more favorable than Leonardo DRS.
Summary
Teledyne Technologies beats Leonardo DRS on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding DRS and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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