AIR vs. HII, HXL, AVAV, SPR, KTOS, TGI, ATRO, NPK, SYPR, and HON
Should you be buying AAR stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AAR include Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), Hexcel (HXL), AeroVironment (AVAV), Spirit AeroSystems (SPR), Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (KTOS), Triumph Group (TGI), Astronics (ATRO), National Presto Industries (NPK), Sypris Solutions (SYPR), and Honeywell International (HON). These companies are all part of the "aerospace & defense" industry.
Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) and AAR (NYSE:AIR) are both mid-cap aerospace companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, risk and analyst recommendations.
90.5% of Huntington Ingalls Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.7% of AAR shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Huntington Ingalls Industries shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.3% of AAR shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Huntington Ingalls Industries has higher revenue and earnings than AAR. Huntington Ingalls Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AAR, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Huntington Ingalls Industries currently has a consensus target price of $278.00, suggesting a potential upside of 9.84%. AAR has a consensus target price of $82.50, suggesting a potential upside of 16.26%. Given Huntington Ingalls Industries' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe AAR is more favorable than Huntington Ingalls Industries.
Huntington Ingalls Industries has a net margin of 6.09% compared to Huntington Ingalls Industries' net margin of 2.73%. AAR's return on equity of 18.08% beat Huntington Ingalls Industries' return on equity.
In the previous week, Huntington Ingalls Industries had 11 more articles in the media than AAR. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Huntington Ingalls Industries and 6 mentions for AAR. AAR's average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat Huntington Ingalls Industries' score of 0.45 indicating that Huntington Ingalls Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Huntington Ingalls Industries received 151 more outperform votes than AAR when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.78% of users gave AAR an outperform vote while only 59.23% of users gave Huntington Ingalls Industries an outperform vote.
Huntington Ingalls Industries has a beta of 0.6, meaning that its stock price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AAR has a beta of 1.6, meaning that its stock price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Huntington Ingalls Industries and AAR tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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