TDG vs. HON, BA, LMT, GD, NOC, HEI, TDY, TXT, CW, and HII
Should you be buying TransDigm Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TransDigm Group include Honeywell International (HON), Boeing (BA), Lockheed Martin (LMT), General Dynamics (GD), Northrop Grumman (NOC), HEICO (HEI), Teledyne Technologies (TDY), Textron (TXT), Curtiss-Wright (CW), and Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII). These companies are all part of the "aerospace & defense" industry.
Honeywell International (NASDAQ:HON) and TransDigm Group (NYSE:TDG) are both large-cap multi-sector conglomerates companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and earnings.
75.9% of Honeywell International shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.8% of TransDigm Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Honeywell International shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.0% of TransDigm Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Honeywell International has a beta of 1.03, indicating that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TransDigm Group has a beta of 1.39, indicating that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Honeywell International presently has a consensus target price of $220.38, indicating a potential upside of 5.55%. TransDigm Group has a consensus target price of $1,371.19, indicating a potential upside of 4.69%. Given TransDigm Group's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Honeywell International is more favorable than TransDigm Group.
In the previous week, Honeywell International had 9 more articles in the media than TransDigm Group. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Honeywell International and 14 mentions for TransDigm Group. Honeywell International's average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat TransDigm Group's score of 0.59 indicating that TransDigm Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Honeywell International has higher revenue and earnings than TransDigm Group. Honeywell International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TransDigm Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
TransDigm Group has a net margin of 21.22% compared to TransDigm Group's net margin of 15.52%. TransDigm Group's return on equity of 35.88% beat Honeywell International's return on equity.
Honeywell International received 386 more outperform votes than TransDigm Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.58% of users gave Honeywell International an outperform vote while only 68.50% of users gave TransDigm Group an outperform vote.
Summary
TransDigm Group beats Honeywell International on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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