DCO vs. EH, ATRO, PKE, LUNR, TGI, SPCE, ASLE, ACHR, KAMN, and RDW
Should you be buying Ducommun stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ducommun include EHang (EH), Astronics (ATRO), Park Aerospace (PKE), Intuitive Machines (LUNR), Triumph Group (TGI), Virgin Galactic (SPCE), AerSale (ASLE), Archer Aviation (ACHR), Kaman (KAMN), and Redwire (RDW). These companies are all part of the "aerospace" sector.
Ducommun (NYSE:DCO) and EHang (NASDAQ:EH) are both small-cap aerospace companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, profitability, valuation, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking and institutional ownership.
92.2% of Ducommun shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.0% of EHang shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.8% of Ducommun shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 39.6% of EHang shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Ducommun currently has a consensus price target of $62.80, suggesting a potential upside of 16.04%. EHang has a consensus price target of $30.50, suggesting a potential upside of 74.49%. Given EHang's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe EHang is more favorable than Ducommun.
Ducommun has higher revenue and earnings than EHang. EHang is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ducommun, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ducommun received 600 more outperform votes than EHang when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.73% of users gave EHang an outperform vote while only 67.49% of users gave Ducommun an outperform vote.
In the previous week, EHang had 3 more articles in the media than Ducommun. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for EHang and 6 mentions for Ducommun. EHang's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Ducommun's score of 0.41 indicating that EHang is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ducommun has a net margin of 2.10% compared to EHang's net margin of -257.09%. Ducommun's return on equity of 5.94% beat EHang's return on equity.
Ducommun has a beta of 1.28, meaning that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, EHang has a beta of 1.04, meaning that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Ducommun beats EHang on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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