HEI vs. BA, LMT, GD, TDG, NOC, TDY, TXT, CW, HII, and AVAV
Should you be buying HEICO stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HEICO include Boeing (BA), Lockheed Martin (LMT), General Dynamics (GD), TransDigm Group (TDG), Northrop Grumman (NOC), Teledyne Technologies (TDY), Textron (TXT), Curtiss-Wright (CW), Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), and AeroVironment (AVAV). These companies are all part of the "aerospace & defense" industry.
HEICO (NYSE:HEI) and Boeing (NYSE:BA) are both large-cap aerospace companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
HEICO currently has a consensus price target of $226.00, indicating a potential upside of 1.56%. Boeing has a consensus price target of $220.33, indicating a potential upside of 15.82%. Given Boeing's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Boeing is more favorable than HEICO.
Boeing received 1522 more outperform votes than HEICO when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.11% of users gave Boeing an outperform vote while only 66.80% of users gave HEICO an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Boeing had 57 more articles in the media than HEICO. MarketBeat recorded 73 mentions for Boeing and 16 mentions for HEICO. HEICO's average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat Boeing's score of 0.16 indicating that HEICO is being referred to more favorably in the media.
HEICO has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Boeing has a beta of 1.55, indicating that its share price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500.
HEICO has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Boeing. Boeing is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HEICO, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
HEICO has a net margin of 12.62% compared to Boeing's net margin of -2.81%. HEICO's return on equity of 14.26% beat Boeing's return on equity.
27.1% of HEICO shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.8% of Boeing shares are held by institutional investors. 8.1% of HEICO shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Boeing shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
HEICO beats Boeing on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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