PKE vs. MEI, NEON, KTCC, JBL, TRMB, FN, IPGP, SANM, PLXS, 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), Jabil (JBL), Trimble (TRMB), Fabrinet (FN), IPG Photonics (IPGP), Sanmina (SANM), Plexus (PLXS), and TTM Technologies (TTMI). These companies are all part of the "electronic manufacturing services" industry.
Park Aerospace (NYSE:PKE) and Methode Electronics (NYSE:MEI) are both small-cap aerospace companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk and valuation.
77.8% of Park Aerospace shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.5% of Methode Electronics shares are held by institutional investors. 10.9% of Park Aerospace shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.8% of Methode Electronics shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Park Aerospace had 1 more articles in the media than Methode Electronics. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Park Aerospace and 4 mentions for Methode Electronics. Methode Electronics' average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat Park Aerospace's score of 0.40 indicating that Methode Electronics is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Park Aerospace pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Methode Electronics pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Park Aerospace pays out 106.4% 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 -34.1% 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.
Park Aerospace has a beta of 0.48, meaning that its share price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Methode Electronics has a beta of 0.84, meaning that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Methode Electronics has higher revenue and earnings than Park Aerospace. 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.
Park Aerospace has a net margin of 17.87% compared to Methode Electronics' net margin of -5.09%. Park Aerospace's return on equity of 6.44% beat Methode Electronics' return on equity.
Methode Electronics has a consensus price target of $18.67, indicating a potential upside of 58.46%. Given Methode Electronics' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Methode Electronics is more favorable than Park Aerospace.
Methode Electronics received 264 more outperform votes than Park Aerospace when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.71% of users gave Methode Electronics an outperform vote while only 60.37% of users gave Park Aerospace an outperform vote.
Summary
Methode Electronics beats Park Aerospace on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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