QQ vs. AXON, COB, BOE, CHG, GEC, SNR, CHRT, AVON, VEL, and HARL
Should you be buying QinetiQ Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of QinetiQ Group include Axon Enterprise (AXON), Cobham (COB), Boeing (BOE), Chemring Group (CHG), General Electric (GEC), Senior (SNR), Cohort (CHRT), Avon Protection (AVON), Velocity Composites (VEL), and Harland & Wolff Group (HARL). These companies are all part of the "aerospace & defense" industry.
QinetiQ Group vs. Its Competitors
QinetiQ Group (LON:QQ) and Axon Enterprise (LON:AXON) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, media sentiment, dividends and valuation.
In the previous week, QinetiQ Group and QinetiQ Group both had 5 articles in the media. QinetiQ Group's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat Axon Enterprise's score of 0.28 indicating that QinetiQ Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
59.5% of QinetiQ Group shares are held by institutional investors. 12.1% of QinetiQ Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
QinetiQ Group presently has a consensus price target of GBX 558.33, suggesting a potential upside of 8.20%. Given QinetiQ Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe QinetiQ Group is more favorable than Axon Enterprise.
QinetiQ Group has higher revenue and earnings than Axon Enterprise.
QinetiQ Group received 385 more outperform votes than Axon Enterprise when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.46% of users gave QinetiQ Group an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Axon Enterprise an outperform vote.
QinetiQ Group has a net margin of 7.03% compared to Axon Enterprise's net margin of 0.00%. QinetiQ Group's return on equity of 14.98% beat Axon Enterprise's return on equity.
Summary
QinetiQ Group beats Axon Enterprise on 12 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (LON:QQ) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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