RTX vs. BA, LMT, 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 Boeing (BA), Lockheed Martin (LMT), 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.
RTX (NYSE:RTX) and Boeing (NYSE:BA) are both large-cap aerospace companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, community ranking, earnings, valuation and media sentiment.
In the previous week, Boeing had 44 more articles in the media than RTX. MarketBeat recorded 75 mentions for Boeing and 31 mentions for RTX. RTX's average media sentiment score of 0.48 beat Boeing's score of -0.20 indicating that RTX is being referred to more favorably in the media.
86.5% of RTX shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.8% of Boeing shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of RTX shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Boeing shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
RTX presently has a consensus price target of $98.33, suggesting a potential downside of 7.31%. Boeing has a consensus price target of $221.24, suggesting a potential upside of 26.30%. Given Boeing's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Boeing is more favorable than RTX.
RTX has a beta of 0.84, indicating that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Boeing has a beta of 1.54, indicating that its stock price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500.
RTX has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Boeing. Boeing is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RTX, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
RTX has a net margin of 4.90% compared to Boeing's net margin of -2.81%. RTX's return on equity of 10.81% beat Boeing's return on equity.
Boeing received 1905 more outperform votes than RTX when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.07% of users gave Boeing an outperform vote while only 55.79% of users gave RTX an outperform vote.
Summary
RTX and Boeing tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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