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Park Aerospace (PKE) Competitors

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$13.45
-0.16 (-1.18%)
(As of 11/4/2024 ET)

PKE vs. MEI, NEON, KTCC, TRMB, JBL, FN, PLXS, SANM, IPGP, and TTMI

Should you be buying Park Aerospace stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Park Aerospace include Methode Electronics (MEI), Neonode (NEON), Key Tronic (KTCC), Trimble (TRMB), Jabil (JBL), Fabrinet (FN), Plexus (PLXS), Sanmina (SANM), IPG Photonics (IPGP), and TTM Technologies (TTMI). These companies are all part of the "electronic manufacturing services" industry.

Park Aerospace vs.

Park Aerospace (NYSE:PKE) and Methode Electronics (NYSE:MEI) are both small-cap aerospace companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.

In the previous week, Methode Electronics had 1 more articles in the media than Park Aerospace. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Methode Electronics and 0 mentions for Park Aerospace. Park Aerospace's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Methode Electronics'average media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
Park Aerospace Neutral
Methode Electronics Neutral

Methode Electronics has a consensus price target of $14.00, suggesting a potential upside of 53.01%. Given Methode Electronics' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Methode Electronics is more favorable than Park Aerospace.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Park Aerospace
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
N/A
Methode Electronics
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

Park Aerospace has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Methode Electronics. Methode Electronics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Park Aerospace, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Park Aerospace$58.65M4.58$7.47M$0.3439.56
Methode Electronics$1.11B0.29-$123.30M-$4.03-2.27

Park Aerospace has a net margin of 11.82% compared to Methode Electronics' net margin of -13.15%. Park Aerospace's return on equity of 6.61% beat Methode Electronics' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Park Aerospace11.82% 6.61% 5.74%
Methode Electronics -13.15%-3.50%-1.94%

77.8% of Park Aerospace shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.5% of Methode Electronics shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.6% of Park Aerospace shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Methode Electronics shares are owned 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.

Park Aerospace pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Methode Electronics pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.1%. Park Aerospace pays out 147.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Methode Electronics pays out -13.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Methode Electronics is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Methode Electronics received 262 more outperform votes than Park Aerospace when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.55% of users gave Methode Electronics an outperform vote while only 60.26% of users gave Park Aerospace an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Park AerospaceOutperform Votes
229
60.26%
Underperform Votes
151
39.74%
Methode ElectronicsOutperform Votes
491
62.55%
Underperform Votes
294
37.45%

Park Aerospace has a beta of 0.38, indicating that its stock price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Methode Electronics has a beta of 0.76, indicating that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Methode Electronics beats Park Aerospace on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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PKE vs. The Competition

MetricPark AerospaceAircraft parts & equipment IndustryAerospace SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$268.49M$8.26B$18.12B$19.29B
Dividend Yield3.70%2.22%1.25%3.57%
P/E Ratio39.5621.4224.1941.98
Price / Sales4.588.1914.1117.67
Price / Cash29.2123.7324.8520.54
Price / Book2.445.515.205.27
Net Income$7.47M$81.96M$459.37M$982.74M
7 Day Performance-5.88%-2.30%-2.95%1.69%
1 Month Performance1.43%-2.16%-0.23%1.42%
1 Year Performance-9.37%14.65%32.11%23.30%

Park Aerospace Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PKE
Park Aerospace
0.9578 of 5 stars
$13.45
-1.2%
N/A-8.3%$268.49M$58.65M39.56123
MEI
Methode Electronics
3.1347 of 5 stars
$9.16
+1.4%
$14.00
+52.8%
-62.5%$322.80M$1.11B-2.277,500
NEON
Neonode
3.1172 of 5 stars
$6.84
-7.1%
$16.50
+141.2%
+422.0%$105.82M$4.45M-9.5050
KTCC
Key Tronic
1.2429 of 5 stars
$6.03
flat
N/A+52.3%$64.88M$559.40M-75.384,122Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
TRMB
Trimble
4.195 of 5 stars
$61.31
+0.2%
$68.40
+11.6%
+44.3%$14.97B$3.71B10.0212,700Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Upgrade
JBL
Jabil
3.6764 of 5 stars
$127.30
-0.3%
$143.50
+12.7%
-0.6%$14.36B$28.88B11.55236,000Insider Selling
FN
Fabrinet
2.6223 of 5 stars
$239.61
-1.2%
$248.50
+3.7%
+49.2%$8.69B$2.88B29.5814,213News Coverage
Positive News
PLXS
Plexus
3.8411 of 5 stars
$148.09
+0.7%
$133.50
-9.9%
+48.4%$4.03B$3.96B36.9325,000
SANM
Sanmina
3.9131 of 5 stars
$72.80
+2.0%
$62.33
-14.4%
+33.7%$3.98B$8.94B18.8634,000News Coverage
IPGP
IPG Photonics
3.8337 of 5 stars
$80.57
-2.1%
$93.50
+16.0%
-10.5%$3.48B$1.04B-23.226,180Earnings Report
Analyst Revision
TTMI
TTM Technologies
4.4866 of 5 stars
$22.60
+2.3%
$25.31
+12.0%
+50.9%$2.30B$2.23B34.2415,800Gap Up

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This page (NYSE:PKE) was last updated on 11/4/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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