PKE vs. ATRO, DCO, EH, ASLE, RDW, SPIR, SPCE, BAER, EVTL, and VTSI
Should you be buying Park Aerospace stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Park Aerospace include Astronics (ATRO), Ducommun (DCO), EHang (EH), AerSale (ASLE), Redwire (RDW), Spire Global (SPIR), Virgin Galactic (SPCE), Bridger Aerospace Group (BAER), Vertical Aerospace (EVTL), and VirTra (VTSI). These companies are all part of the "aerospace" sector.
Astronics (NASDAQ:ATRO) and Park Aerospace (NYSE:PKE) are both small-cap aerospace companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends and community ranking.
In the previous week, Park Aerospace had 1 more articles in the media than Astronics. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Park Aerospace and 2 mentions for Astronics. Astronics' average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat Park Aerospace's score of 0.30 indicating that Park Aerospace is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
56.7% of Astronics shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.8% of Park Aerospace shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.8% of Astronics shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 10.9% of Park Aerospace shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Park Aerospace has a net margin of 17.87% compared to Park Aerospace's net margin of -3.83%. Astronics' return on equity of 6.44% beat Park Aerospace's return on equity.
Astronics has a beta of 1.62, suggesting that its share price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Park Aerospace has a beta of 0.45, suggesting that its share price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Astronics currently has a consensus target price of $21.00, suggesting a potential upside of 23.31%. Given Park Aerospace's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Astronics is more favorable than Park Aerospace.
Astronics received 170 more outperform votes than Park Aerospace when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.84% of users gave Astronics an outperform vote while only 60.37% of users gave Park Aerospace an outperform vote.
Park Aerospace has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Astronics. Astronics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Park Aerospace, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Park Aerospace beats Astronics on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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