LDOS vs. TDY, TXT, HEI, CW, HII, ESLT, FTAI, CAE, HXL, and DRS
Should you be buying Leidos stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Leidos include Teledyne Technologies (TDY), Textron (TXT), HEICO (HEI), Curtiss-Wright (CW), Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), Elbit Systems (ESLT), FTAI Aviation (FTAI), CAE (CAE), Hexcel (HXL), and Leonardo DRS (DRS). These companies are all part of the "aerospace" sector.
Teledyne Technologies (NYSE:TDY) and Leidos (NYSE:LDOS) are both large-cap aerospace companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, profitability, dividends, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
91.6% of Teledyne Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.1% of Leidos shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.1% of Teledyne Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Leidos shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Teledyne Technologies currently has a consensus target price of $470.83, indicating a potential upside of 15.85%. Leidos has a consensus target price of $145.67, indicating a potential downside of 2.02%. Given Leidos' higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Teledyne Technologies is more favorable than Leidos.
Leidos received 265 more outperform votes than Teledyne Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.43% of users gave Teledyne Technologies an outperform vote while only 63.98% of users gave Leidos an outperform vote.
Teledyne Technologies has a net margin of 15.81% compared to Teledyne Technologies' net margin of 2.04%. Teledyne Technologies' return on equity of 25.66% beat Leidos' return on equity.
Teledyne Technologies has a beta of 1.04, suggesting that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Leidos has a beta of 0.66, suggesting that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Teledyne Technologies had 2 more articles in the media than Leidos. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Teledyne Technologies and 12 mentions for Leidos. Teledyne Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Leidos' score of 0.76 indicating that Leidos is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Teledyne Technologies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Leidos. Teledyne Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Leidos, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Teledyne Technologies beats Leidos on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding LDOS 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 NYSE 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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