Loar (LOAR) Competitors

Loar (NYSE:LOAR) and Elbit Systems (NASDAQ:ESLT) are both aerospace companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, valuation and risk.

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of LOAR or ESLT?

17.9% of Elbit Systems shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Elbit Systems shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Is LOAR or ESLT more profitable?

Elbit Systems has a net margin of 4.00% compared to Loar's net margin of 0.00%. Elbit Systems' return on equity of 11.34% beat Loar's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Loar	N/A	N/A	N/A
Elbit Systems	4.00%	11.34%	3.31%

Do analysts prefer LOAR or ESLT?

Loar presently has a consensus price target of $84.00, indicating a potential downside of 12.85%. Given Loar's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Loar is more favorable than Elbit Systems.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Loar	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
Elbit Systems	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Does the media prefer LOAR or ESLT?

In the previous week, Loar had 7 more articles in the media than Elbit Systems. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Loar and 6 mentions for Elbit Systems. Elbit Systems' average media sentiment score of 1.60 beat Loar's score of 0.94 indicating that Elbit Systems is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Loar	7 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	5 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Elbit Systems	6 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community favor LOAR or ESLT?

Elbit Systems received 312 more outperform votes than Loar when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.43% of users gave Loar an outperform vote while only 65.98% of users gave Elbit Systems an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Loar	Outperform Votes 10 71.43%	Underperform Votes 4 28.57%
Elbit Systems	Outperform Votes 322 65.98%	Underperform Votes 166 34.02%

Which has higher valuation and earnings, LOAR or ESLT?

Elbit Systems has higher revenue and earnings than Loar. Elbit Systems is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Loar, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Loar	$402.82M	22.39	$22.45M	$0.24	401.62
Elbit Systems	$6.83B	2.45	$215.13M	$7.18	52.33

Summary

Elbit Systems beats Loar on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.