RGR vs. AIR, MATW, TPC, PBI, VLRS, YELL, TBI, HTZ, HURN, and SXI
Should you be buying Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. include AAR (AIR), Matthews International (MATW), Tutor Perini (TPC), Pitney Bowes (PBI), Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación (VLRS), Yellow (YELL), TrueBlue (TBI), Hertz Global (HTZ), Huron Consulting Group (HURN), and Standex International (SXI).
Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. (NYSE:RGR) and AAR (NYSE:AIR) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. has a beta of 0.31, meaning that its stock price is 69% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AAR has a beta of 1.6, meaning that its stock price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500.
AAR has a consensus price target of $81.25, suggesting a potential upside of 14.34%. Given AAR's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe AAR is more favorable than Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc..
Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. has a net margin of 8.87% compared to AAR's net margin of 2.73%. Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc.'s return on equity of 14.59% beat AAR's return on equity.
In the previous week, AAR had 1 more articles in the media than Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc.. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for AAR and 4 mentions for Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc.. Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc.'s average media sentiment score of 0.38 beat AAR's score of -0.02 indicating that Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. is being referred to more favorably in the media.
64.0% of Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.7% of AAR shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.5% of Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.3% of AAR shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
AAR received 1 more outperform votes than Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.85% of users gave Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. an outperform vote while only 60.63% of users gave AAR an outperform vote.
AAR has higher revenue and earnings than Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc.. Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AAR, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
AAR beats Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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