TDY vs. NOC, DRS, LHX, TXT, LDOS, HII, HEI, CW, ESLT, and FTAI
Should you be buying Teledyne Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Teledyne Technologies include Northrop Grumman (NOC), Leonardo DRS (DRS), L3Harris Technologies (LHX), Textron (TXT), Leidos (LDOS), Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), HEICO (HEI), Curtiss-Wright (CW), Elbit Systems (ESLT), and FTAI Aviation (FTAI). These companies are all part of the "aerospace" sector.
Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC) and Teledyne Technologies (NYSE:TDY) are both large-cap aerospace companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, valuation, community ranking and media sentiment.
83.4% of Northrop Grumman shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.6% of Teledyne Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Northrop Grumman shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Teledyne Technologies shares are held by company 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.
Teledyne Technologies has a net margin of 15.81% compared to Teledyne Technologies' net margin of 5.38%. Teledyne Technologies' return on equity of 24.09% beat Northrop Grumman's return on equity.
Northrop Grumman received 269 more outperform votes than Teledyne Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.43% of users gave Teledyne Technologies an outperform vote while only 62.39% of users gave Northrop Grumman an outperform vote.
Northrop Grumman has higher revenue and earnings than Teledyne Technologies. Teledyne Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Northrop Grumman, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Teledyne Technologies had 5 more articles in the media than Northrop Grumman. MarketBeat recorded 46 mentions for Teledyne Technologies and 41 mentions for Northrop Grumman. Teledyne Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Northrop Grumman's score of -0.08 indicating that Northrop Grumman is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Northrop Grumman currently has a consensus target price of $503.00, suggesting a potential upside of 4.69%. Teledyne Technologies has a consensus target price of $470.83, suggesting a potential upside of 25.68%. Given Northrop Grumman's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Teledyne Technologies is more favorable than Northrop Grumman.
Northrop Grumman has a beta of 0.35, meaning that its stock price is 65% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Teledyne Technologies has a beta of 1.02, meaning that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Teledyne Technologies beats Northrop Grumman on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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