HII vs. CW, ESLT, FTAI, CAE, HXL, DRS, MOG.B, AVAV, SPR, and TXT
Should you be buying Huntington Ingalls Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Huntington Ingalls Industries include Curtiss-Wright (CW), Elbit Systems (ESLT), FTAI Aviation (FTAI), CAE (CAE), Hexcel (HXL), Leonardo DRS (DRS), Moog (MOG.B), AeroVironment (AVAV), Spirit AeroSystems (SPR), and Textron (TXT). These companies are all part of the "aerospace" sector.
Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) and Curtiss-Wright (NYSE:CW) are both large-cap aerospace companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, valuation and earnings.
Huntington Ingalls Industries has a beta of 0.6, meaning that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Curtiss-Wright has a beta of 1.18, meaning that its share price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Huntington Ingalls Industries pays an annual dividend of $5.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Curtiss-Wright pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Huntington Ingalls Industries pays out 29.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Curtiss-Wright pays out 8.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Huntington Ingalls Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Curtiss-Wright. Huntington Ingalls Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Curtiss-Wright, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Huntington Ingalls Industries presently has a consensus target price of $267.33, indicating a potential upside of 4.59%. Curtiss-Wright has a consensus target price of $277.00, indicating a potential downside of 0.43%. Given Huntington Ingalls Industries' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Huntington Ingalls Industries is more favorable than Curtiss-Wright.
In the previous week, Huntington Ingalls Industries had 3 more articles in the media than Curtiss-Wright. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Huntington Ingalls Industries and 8 mentions for Curtiss-Wright. Curtiss-Wright's average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat Huntington Ingalls Industries' score of 0.70 indicating that Curtiss-Wright is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Curtiss-Wright received 93 more outperform votes than Huntington Ingalls Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.90% of users gave Curtiss-Wright an outperform vote while only 59.18% of users gave Huntington Ingalls Industries an outperform vote.
90.5% of Huntington Ingalls Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.7% of Curtiss-Wright shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Huntington Ingalls Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Curtiss-Wright shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Curtiss-Wright has a net margin of 12.78% compared to Huntington Ingalls Industries' net margin of 6.09%. Huntington Ingalls Industries' return on equity of 18.08% beat Curtiss-Wright's return on equity.
Summary
Curtiss-Wright beats Huntington Ingalls Industries on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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