HWM vs. OTIS, PWR, PHM, LEN, NVR, WY, ROL, DHI, WSO, and EME
Should you be buying Howmet Aerospace stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Howmet Aerospace include Otis Worldwide (OTIS), Quanta Services (PWR), PulteGroup (PHM), Lennar (LEN), NVR (NVR), Weyerhaeuser (WY), Rollins (ROL), D.R. Horton (DHI), Watsco (WSO), and EMCOR Group (EME). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Otis Worldwide (NYSE:OTIS) and Howmet Aerospace (NYSE:HWM) are both large-cap construction companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, valuation and community ranking.
Otis Worldwide pays an annual dividend of $1.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Howmet Aerospace pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Otis Worldwide pays out 45.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Howmet Aerospace pays out 9.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Otis Worldwide has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years and Howmet Aerospace has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Otis Worldwide is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Howmet Aerospace has a net margin of 12.53% compared to Howmet Aerospace's net margin of 9.99%. Otis Worldwide's return on equity of 21.33% beat Howmet Aerospace's return on equity.
Howmet Aerospace received 73 more outperform votes than Otis Worldwide when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.83% of users gave Howmet Aerospace an outperform vote while only 22.50% of users gave Otis Worldwide an outperform vote.
Otis Worldwide has a beta of 1.03, suggesting that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Howmet Aerospace has a beta of 1.41, suggesting that its stock price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Otis Worldwide had 1 more articles in the media than Howmet Aerospace. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Otis Worldwide and 10 mentions for Howmet Aerospace. Otis Worldwide's average media sentiment score of 1.06 beat Howmet Aerospace's score of 0.42 indicating that Howmet Aerospace is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Otis Worldwide currently has a consensus price target of $97.71, indicating a potential upside of 0.07%. Howmet Aerospace has a consensus price target of $75.00, indicating a potential downside of 12.06%. Given Howmet Aerospace's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Otis Worldwide is more favorable than Howmet Aerospace.
Otis Worldwide has higher revenue and earnings than Howmet Aerospace. Otis Worldwide is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Howmet Aerospace, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
88.0% of Otis Worldwide shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.5% of Howmet Aerospace shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Otis Worldwide shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Howmet Aerospace shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Howmet Aerospace beats Otis Worldwide on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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