RTX vs. LMT, BA, GD, TDG, NOC, LHX, HEI, TATT, SIF, and LDOS
Should you be buying RTX stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of RTX include Lockheed Martin (LMT), Boeing (BA), General Dynamics (GD), TransDigm Group (TDG), Northrop Grumman (NOC), L3Harris Technologies (LHX), HEICO (HEI), TAT Technologies (TATT), SIFCO Industries (SIF), and Leidos (LDOS). These companies are all part of the "aerospace" sector.
Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) and RTX (NYSE:RTX) are both large-cap aerospace companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings and profitability.
74.2% of Lockheed Martin shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.5% of RTX shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Lockheed Martin shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of RTX shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Lockheed Martin has higher revenue and earnings than RTX. Lockheed Martin is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RTX, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lockheed Martin received 654 more outperform votes than RTX when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.87% of users gave Lockheed Martin an outperform vote while only 55.79% of users gave RTX an outperform vote.
Lockheed Martin pays an annual dividend of $12.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. RTX pays an annual dividend of $2.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Lockheed Martin pays out 46.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. RTX pays out 98.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Lockheed Martin has raised its dividend for 21 consecutive years and RTX has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years. Lockheed Martin is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Lockheed Martin currently has a consensus target price of $485.40, suggesting a potential upside of 4.12%. RTX has a consensus target price of $98.33, suggesting a potential downside of 5.61%. Given RTX's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Lockheed Martin is more favorable than RTX.
Lockheed Martin has a net margin of 9.73% compared to Lockheed Martin's net margin of 4.90%. RTX's return on equity of 85.96% beat Lockheed Martin's return on equity.
Lockheed Martin has a beta of 0.46, suggesting that its stock price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, RTX has a beta of 0.84, suggesting that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Lockheed Martin had 4 more articles in the media than RTX. MarketBeat recorded 47 mentions for Lockheed Martin and 43 mentions for RTX. RTX's average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Lockheed Martin's score of 0.50 indicating that Lockheed Martin is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Lockheed Martin beats RTX on 16 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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