ESLT vs. SPR, CW, HII, FTAI, CAE, DRS, HXL, MOG.B, AVAV, and KTOS
Should you be buying Elbit Systems stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Elbit Systems include Spirit AeroSystems (SPR), Curtiss-Wright (CW), Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), FTAI Aviation (FTAI), CAE (CAE), Leonardo DRS (DRS), Hexcel (HXL), Moog (MOG.B), AeroVironment (AVAV), and Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (KTOS). These companies are all part of the "aerospace" sector.
Spirit AeroSystems (NYSE:SPR) and Elbit Systems (NASDAQ:ESLT) are both mid-cap aerospace companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Elbit Systems has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Spirit AeroSystems. Spirit AeroSystems is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Elbit Systems, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Spirit AeroSystems has a beta of 1.79, meaning that its share price is 79% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Elbit Systems has a beta of 0.54, meaning that its share price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500.
93.6% of Spirit AeroSystems shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.9% of Elbit Systems shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Spirit AeroSystems shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Elbit Systems shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Spirit AeroSystems currently has a consensus target price of $31.39, suggesting a potential downside of 4.54%. Given Elbit Systems' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Spirit AeroSystems is more favorable than Elbit Systems.
In the previous week, Spirit AeroSystems had 6 more articles in the media than Elbit Systems. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Spirit AeroSystems and 9 mentions for Elbit Systems. Spirit AeroSystems' average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Elbit Systems' score of 0.15 indicating that Elbit Systems is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Elbit Systems has a net margin of 3.60% compared to Elbit Systems' net margin of -10.47%. Spirit AeroSystems' return on equity of 10.16% beat Elbit Systems' return on equity.
Spirit AeroSystems received 542 more outperform votes than Elbit Systems when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.48% of users gave Elbit Systems an outperform vote while only 64.92% of users gave Spirit AeroSystems an outperform vote.
Summary
Elbit Systems beats Spirit AeroSystems on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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