HEI vs. TDY, TXT, LDOS, LHX, HII, CW, ESLT, FTAI, TDG, and NOC
Should you be buying HEICO stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HEICO include Teledyne Technologies (TDY), Textron (TXT), Leidos (LDOS), L3Harris Technologies (LHX), Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), Curtiss-Wright (CW), Elbit Systems (ESLT), FTAI Aviation (FTAI), TransDigm Group (TDG), and Northrop Grumman (NOC). These companies are all part of the "aerospace" sector.
Teledyne Technologies (NYSE:TDY) and HEICO (NYSE:HEI) are both large-cap aerospace companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, valuation, community ranking, risk, media sentiment, profitability and institutional ownership.
Teledyne Technologies has a beta of 1.02, indicating that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HEICO has a beta of 1.16, indicating that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
HEICO received 110 more outperform votes than Teledyne Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.67% of users gave HEICO an outperform vote while only 66.43% of users gave Teledyne Technologies an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Teledyne Technologies had 39 more articles in the media than HEICO. MarketBeat recorded 44 mentions for Teledyne Technologies and 5 mentions for HEICO. Teledyne Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.16 beat HEICO's score of -0.09 indicating that HEICO is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Teledyne Technologies presently has a consensus price target of $470.83, suggesting a potential upside of 22.64%. HEICO has a consensus price target of $204.50, suggesting a potential downside of 1.27%. Given HEICO's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Teledyne Technologies is more favorable than HEICO.
91.6% of Teledyne Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.1% of HEICO shares are held by institutional investors. 1.9% of Teledyne Technologies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.1% of HEICO shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Teledyne Technologies has a net margin of 15.81% compared to Teledyne Technologies' net margin of 13.11%. Teledyne Technologies' return on equity of 14.35% beat HEICO's return on equity.
Teledyne Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than HEICO. Teledyne Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HEICO, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
HEICO beats Teledyne Technologies on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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