NOC vs. TDY, LHX, TDG, GD, BA, HEI, LMT, LDOS, RTX, and DRS
Should you be buying Northrop Grumman stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Northrop Grumman include Teledyne Technologies (TDY), L3Harris Technologies (LHX), TransDigm Group (TDG), General Dynamics (GD), Boeing (BA), HEICO (HEI), Lockheed Martin (LMT), Leidos (LDOS), RTX (RTX), and Leonardo DRS (DRS). These companies are all part of the "aerospace" sector.
Teledyne Technologies (NYSE:TDY) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC) are both large-cap aerospace companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends and valuation.
Northrop Grumman received 269 more outperform votes than Teledyne Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.43% of users gave Teledyne Technologies an outperform vote while only 62.33% of users gave Northrop Grumman an outperform vote.
Teledyne Technologies presently has a consensus target price of $470.83, suggesting a potential upside of 15.85%. Northrop Grumman has a consensus target price of $514.33, suggesting a potential upside of 9.38%. Given Northrop Grumman's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Teledyne Technologies is more favorable than Northrop Grumman.
91.6% of Teledyne Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.4% of Northrop Grumman shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.1% of Teledyne Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Northrop Grumman shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Teledyne Technologies has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Northrop Grumman has a beta of 0.34, indicating that its stock price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Teledyne Technologies has a net margin of 15.81% compared to Teledyne Technologies' net margin of 5.38%. Teledyne Technologies' return on equity of 24.09% beat Northrop Grumman's return on equity.
Northrop Grumman has higher revenue and earnings than Teledyne Technologies. Teledyne Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Northrop Grumman, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Northrop Grumman had 7 more articles in the media than Teledyne Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Northrop Grumman and 15 mentions for Teledyne Technologies. Northrop Grumman's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Teledyne Technologies' score of 0.51 indicating that Teledyne Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Teledyne Technologies beats Northrop Grumman on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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