HRX vs. MAL, BBD.A, MDA, CGY, DBM, WJX, ALC, AND, GDI, and BDI
Should you be buying Héroux-Devtek stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Héroux-Devtek include Magellan Aerospace (MAL), Bombardier (BBD.A), MDA (MDA), Calian Group (CGY), Doman Building Materials Group (DBM), Wajax (WJX), Algoma Central (ALC), Andlauer Healthcare Group (AND), GDI Integrated Facility Services (GDI), and Black Diamond Group (BDI). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Magellan Aerospace (TSE:MAL) and Héroux-Devtek (TSE:HRX) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, valuation and community ranking.
Héroux-Devtek received 133 more outperform votes than Magellan Aerospace when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.93% of users gave Magellan Aerospace an outperform vote while only 70.47% of users gave Héroux-Devtek an outperform vote.
Magellan Aerospace has a beta of 1.11, indicating that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Héroux-Devtek has a beta of 1.63, indicating that its stock price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Magellan Aerospace had 2 more articles in the media than Héroux-Devtek. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Magellan Aerospace and 1 mentions for Héroux-Devtek. Magellan Aerospace's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Héroux-Devtek's score of 0.59 indicating that Héroux-Devtek is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
2.8% of Magellan Aerospace shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.9% of Héroux-Devtek shares are owned by institutional investors. 79.3% of Magellan Aerospace shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.1% of Héroux-Devtek shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Héroux-Devtek has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Magellan Aerospace. Héroux-Devtek is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Magellan Aerospace, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Héroux-Devtek has a net margin of 3.97% compared to Héroux-Devtek's net margin of 1.31%. Magellan Aerospace's return on equity of 6.05% beat Héroux-Devtek's return on equity.
Magellan Aerospace presently has a consensus target price of C$16.00, indicating a potential upside of 103.82%. Héroux-Devtek has a consensus target price of C$24.13, indicating a potential upside of 20.26%. Given Héroux-Devtek's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Magellan Aerospace is more favorable than Héroux-Devtek.
Summary
Héroux-Devtek beats Magellan Aerospace on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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